Pennsylvania · Private foundation
The Rust Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $381k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 109
- Grants FY2025
- 94
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 86 to 112
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 26
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations The Rust Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $93k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 106 | $373k | 37% |
| FY2024 | 94 | $304k | 30% |
| FY2023 | 86 | $301k | 44% |
| FY2022 | 100 | $419k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 112 | $315k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Andrews Episcopal Church | $131,500 | 4 | n/a |
| The Ellis School | $73,500 | 5 | 0% |
| The New Canaan Country School Incorporated | $48,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Calvary Episcopal Church | $46,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Drake University | $42,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Woodberry Forest School | $41,500 | 5 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $38,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Chatham University | $34,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Carnegie Institute | $31,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Carlow University | $28,500 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 153 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 102 recipients with no EIN on record ($563k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Rust Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Hillman Family Foundations · The Pittsburgh Foundation · The Double Eagle Foundation 4191-06-43 · The Burke Foundation · The Burke Family Foundation · The Grable Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Peter C Dozzi Family Foundation Aka Eugene Dozzi Charitable Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · The Simpson Family Foundation U/A Dtd 10/19/1999 · Poise Foundation
How this is measured
About The Rust Foundation
- How much does The Rust Foundation give?
- The Rust Foundation reported 109 grants totaling $381,252 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 86 and 112 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does The Rust Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (18%), Religion (13%), Health (4%).
- Who are The Rust Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: St Andrews Episcopal Church ($132k), The Ellis School ($74k), The New Canaan Country School Incorporated ($48k).
- Does The Rust Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Rust Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Rust Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hillman Family Foundations, The Pittsburgh Foundation, The Double Eagle Foundation 4191-06-43.
- Where is The Rust Foundation based?
- The Rust Foundation is based in PA.
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