Minnesota · Nonprofit
RURAL ADVANTAGE
RURAL ADVANTAGE (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $300,037 to it, the largest being THE SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($300,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
RURAL ADVANTAGE receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $300k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,117 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Juanita E Schmeeckle Charitable Trustlocal
- Farm Aid Incportfolio match
- Appalachian Sustainable Developmentportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $300k → $16.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of RURAL ADVANTAGE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
RURAL ADVANTAGE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
RURAL ADVANTAGE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $37 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Juanita E Schmeeckle Charitable TrustlocalMN · funds 13 organizations near you
- Farm Aid Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Appalachian Sustainable Developmentportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Blooming Prairie Fdn Inc Investment Agyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pennsylvania Certified Organicportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Center for Rural Affairsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Assn of State Departments of Agriculture Research Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Farmers Union Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- UNFI Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Florida Certified Organic Growers and Consumers Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agricultureportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Minnesota Corn Growers Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like RURAL ADVANTAGE
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RURAL ADVANTAGE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds RURAL ADVANTAGE?
- RURAL ADVANTAGE (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $300,037 to it, the largest being THE SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($300,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RURAL ADVANTAGE have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $300,037 in grants to RURAL ADVANTAGE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RURAL ADVANTAGE?
- THE SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RURAL ADVANTAGE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2023–2023), and the filings of 2funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing