How much did THE RUSH FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2023?

Education$506kHousing & Shelter$253kHuman Services$34kArts & Culture$26kPhilanthropy$20kHealth$4kInternational$1kYouth Development$1kCommunity Improvement$1kOther$202k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

cancerscholarship

2019

—

2020

child

2021

—

2022

cureindianapolischildren's

2023

children'sindianapolis

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k8 grants · $12k
$10k–50k1 grant · $20k
$50k–250k2 grants · $105k

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COLLIER COUNTY$55,000
OAKS ACADEMY$50,000
ST LUKES UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$19,810
INDIANAPOLIS COLTS FOUNDATION INC$4,000
ARTIS NAPLES$2,500
NAPLES TAKE A SOLDIER FISHING INC$2,000
BRIGHTLANE LEARNING$1,000
CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF INDIANAPOLIS$1,000
CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF NAPLES$600
WHEELER MISSION$500
PEYTON MANNING CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$200

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 8%. 94% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.0M · 20 repeat orgs$45k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.

20 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2023, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.0M

$43k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%

+33%

Still filing today

80%

45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureHealthHousing & ShelterOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

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HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COLLIER COUNTY
7× · 2017–2023 · $250k · revenue +71%
TO
THE OAKS ACADEMY
4× · 2017–2023 · $205k · revenue +60%
AN
ARTIS NAPLES
5× · 2017–2023 · $13k · revenue +3%

Funded once

JH
Jefferson High School
one grant, 2017 · $7k
IH
Indy Hub Foundation Inc
one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -7%
EI
ELEVATE INDY
one grant, 2018 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

University of Indianapolis

The mission of the University of Indianapolis is to prepare its graduates for effective membership in the societies in which they live and serve, and for excellence and leadership in their lives.

Education

Indiana University Health Bloomington Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health

Indiana Repertory Theatre Inc

Rooted in the heart of Indiana, Indiana Repertory Theatre is committed to building a vital, vibrant, and informed community through the transformational power of live theatre. The IRT produces inclusive, top-quality, professional theatre…

Arts & Culture

Indiana Sports Corporation

To perform charitable, educational and similar exempt purposes by fostering amateur sports competitions in central indiana.

Recreation & Sports

Indiana Chamber of Commerce Foundation Inc

The foundation conducts studies, produces reports, and establishes initiatives to generate solutions to enhance indiana's economic future and quality of life.

Education

Indiana Regional Medical Center

To serve the healthcare needs of every life we touch with compassion, respect, and dignity.

Health

Indiana University Health Ball Memorial Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health

Independent Colleges of Indiana Inc

Further independent higher education. ici operates as the collective voice for excellence and choice in higher education for all students. see continuation on attachment 1.

Education

Indianapolis Neighborhood Housing Partnership Inc

to create affordable housing solutions for people with low and moderate incomes, and collaborate to enhance the quality of life in Indianapolis neighborhoods.

Housing & Shelter

Indiana University Research & Technology

The indiana university research and technology corporation (iurtc) serves indiana university, the state of indiana, and the nation through creation and application of the university developed technologies and services, and the expanded…

Education

Aspire Indiana Inc

Aspire indiana, inc is a comprehensive community health center primarily serving boone, hamilton, marion, and madison counties.

Health

Community Foundation of Northwest Indiana Inc

Provides support for activities of the affiliated hospitals to engage in the betterment of the general health of the communities served within northwest indiana.

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Indianapolis Colts Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Reading Hospital. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/36

the rest of the field

3,688/41,959

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

35 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

35/35

Grantees still filing

28/35

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Education$506,250Housing & Shelter$252,500Other$204,635Human Services$34,470Arts & Culture$26,368Philanthropy$20,100Health$3,800

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Indianapolis Foundation IncIN25.5× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Hamilton County Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Collier Community Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Bill and Linda Stavropoulos Family · The Forest Fund Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation THE RUSH FOUNDATION INC funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

9get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Naples Take a Soldier fishing.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~47 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 464731427 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Naples Take a Soldier fishing, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 47 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 8% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Rush Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Rush Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE RUSH FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

35 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Rush Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph

THE RUSH FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

35 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Rush Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph