· Public charity
United Way of Rusk County Inc
Conducts an annual fundraising campaign in rusk county, texas then allocates the funds to publicly known qualified charitable organizations that serve the people of rusk county
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 8 grants below total $79,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $117,250 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $38,250 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k4 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $49k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HENDERSON FOOD PANTRY | $16,000 |
| CROSSROADS FAMILY CARE | $13,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $10,000 |
| RUSK-PANOLA CO CHILD ADVOCACY | $10,000 |
| SON SHINE LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRI | $9,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $7,500 |
| CHRISTIAN WOMENS JOB CORP | $7,500 |
| RC CHILD WELFARE BOARD | $6,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–19, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
8 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2022, 0 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- MEMT ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC2× · 2019–2022 · $31k · revenue +25%
- HFHENDERSON FOOD BANK2× · 2019–2022 · $27k · revenue +41%
- RCRUSK COUNTY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC2× · 2019–2022 · $22k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- WCWOMENS CENTER OF EAST TEXAS INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $8k · revenue +33%
- RCRUSK COUNTY FRIENDS HELPING FRIENDSone grant, 2019 · $6k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The Crisis Center of Russell County was organized to provide assistance and temporary housing to victims of domestic abuse through secured temporary housing and education with job placement to transition them back into society. In…
To help women and children in recovery from violence, oppression and homelessness in rice county. to provide affordable housing in a safe, supportive and healing environment as a transition into a new beginning.
The Rusk Chamber of Commerce is organized to advance the general welfare and prosperity of the Rusk area so that its citizens and all areas of its business community shall prosper.
Effective prosecution of child abuses, providing therapy and education for the abused, and providing a safe haven for the abused.
Crisis intervention for rape victims
Battered women's shelter
Provide a community owned and operated shelter for a safe haven from domestic violence for women and their children in beaufort county, nc. provide counseling and guidance to allow these women to make decisions about their future.
To provide services designed to meet the physical, social, and emotional needs of domestic violence and sexual assault victims by providing for immediate, short, and long-term needs.
Provide meals, clothing, counseling, referrals, spiritual guidance and shelter to anyone in need without charge
House women with trauma, addiction
To supply emergency, temporary help for those in the community who find themselves in need of food, clothing, or other physical needs.
Hutchinson county crisis center is a community based nonprofit agency committed to ending the cycle of domestic violence and sexual assault by providing safe residence for victims and their children, legal advocacy, interactive listening,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rusk County Child Welfare Board Inc and the most unlike its peers is Henderson Food Bank. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 10 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds MT ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC ↗
- Who funds HENDERSON FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SON SHINE LIGHT HOUSE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds RUSK COUNTY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF PALESTINE INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN WOMENS JOB CORPS OF RUSK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF RUSK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds RUSK COUNTY CHILD WELFARE BOARD INC ↗
- Who funds WOMENS CENTER OF EAST TEXAS INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: East Texas Communities Foundation · Bess L Rayford Foundation · Henderson Memorial Hospital Foundation · The Tj & Laverne Plunkett Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 organization United Way of Rusk County 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. 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.
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