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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

$117k
Granted FY2022
8
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2022.

Food & Nutrition$45kHuman Services$37kCrime & Legal$36kHealth$31kEmployment$18kYouth Development$17k
02FY2022 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $79,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $117,250 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $38,250 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k4 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $49k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$207k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HENDERSON FOOD PANTRY$16,000
CROSSROADS FAMILY CARE$13,000
RUSK-PANOLA CO CHILD ADVOCACY$10,000
MEALS ON WHEELS$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%WOMENS CENTER OF EAST TX INC: $8k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$169k · 8 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2022, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
2

Total granted

$169k
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+33%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’22
Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • ME
    MT ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC
    2× · 2019–2022 · $31k · revenue +25%
  • HF
    HENDERSON FOOD BANK
    2× · 2019–2022 · $27k · revenue +41%
  • RC
    RUSK COUNTY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC
    2× · 2019–2022 · $22k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • WC
    WOMENS CENTER OF EAST TEXAS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $8k · revenue +33%
  • RC
    RUSK COUNTY FRIENDS HELPING FRIENDS
    one grant, 2019 · $6k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Crisis Center of Russell County

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…

Public Safety & Disaster
2
Ruth's House of Hope

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.

Housing & Shelter
3
Rusk Chamber of Commerce

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.

—
4
Robertson County Child Advocacy Cen

Effective prosecution of child abuses, providing therapy and education for the abused, and providing a safe haven for the abused.

Crime & Legal
5
Rape Crisis Center of Robeson County

Crisis intervention for rape victims

Health
6
Women's Crisis Center

Battered women's shelter

—
7
Ruths House

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.

Crime & Legal
8
Eastland County Crisis Center Inc

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.

Human Services
9
Christian Care

Provide meals, clothing, counseling, referrals, spiritual guidance and shelter to anyone in need without charge

Housing & Shelter
10
Rubies Womens Group Inc

House women with trauma, addiction

Religion
11
Rusk Cares-the Good Samaritan

To supply emergency, temporary help for those in the community who find themselves in need of food, clothing, or other physical needs.

—
12
Hutchinson County Crisis Center Inc

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,…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rusk County Child Welfare Board Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MT ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC: $31,000 · HealthMT ENTERPRISE COMMU…HENDERSON FOOD BANK: $27,000 · Food & NutritionHENDERSON FOOD B…MEALS ON WHEELS OF PALESTINE INC: $18,000 · OtherMEALS ON WHEEL…RUSK COUNTY FRIENDS HELPING FRIENDS: $6,000 · OtherRUSK COUNTY FR…SON SHINE LIGHT HOUSE MINISTRIES: $23,000 · Housing & ShelterSON SHINE LIGH…RUSK COUNTY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $22,000 · Crime & LegalRUSK COUNTY C…RUSK COUNTY CHILD WELFARE BOARD INC: $13,500 · Human ServicesRUSK COUNTY C…WOMENS CENTER OF EAST TEXAS INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesWOMENS CENTER…CHRISTIAN WOMENS JOB CORPS OF RUSK COUNTY: $17,500 · Civil RightsCHRISTIAN …BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF RUSK COUNTY: $16,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND G…
Health$31,000Food & Nutrition$27,000Other$24,000Housing & Shelter$23,000Crime & Legal$22,000Human Services$21,000Civil Rights$17,500Youth Development$16,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMT ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC: $31,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHENDERSON FOOD BANK: $27,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetSON SHINE LIGHT HOUSE MINISTRIES: $23,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetRUSK COUNTY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $22,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF PALESTINE INC: $18,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCHRISTIAN WOMENS JOB CORPS OF RUSK COUNTY: $17,500 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF RUSK COUNTY: $16,500 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetRUSK COUNTY CHILD WELFARE BOARD INC: $13,500 over 2y, 16% of budgetWOMENS CENTER OF EAST TEXAS INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

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.

East Texas Communitie…Bess L Rayford Founda…Henderson Memorial Ho…The Tj & Laverne Plun…Amazonsmile Foundation
East Texas Communities FoundationTX17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: East Texas Communities Foundation · Bess L Rayford Foundation · Henderson Memorial Hospital Foundation · The Tj & Laverne Plunkett Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization United Way of Rusk County Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Rusk County Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    Find your warmest path to United Way of Rusk County Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 10 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $122k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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