Texas · Nonprofit
RURAL ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE LEAGUE INC
RURAL ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE LEAGUE INC (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,049,876 to it, the largest being Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas Inc ($2,592,648). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $10M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $3.0M
- Net assets
- $6.6M
What Rural Economic Assistance League Inc does
Mission
REAL, Inc. was established in 1973 to provide health & welfare programs to eligible individuals in Alice, TX and neighboring communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Provided health and welfare service including Home Health Care, Adult Protective Services, and Community Based Alternatives, which provides an alternative to placement in nursing facilities.
$1,861,743 spent25% of program spendingUnder HUD guidelines, provided 5 housing projects for the elderly and disabled. Housing projects are located in Alice, TX, Premont, TX, San Diego, TX and Freer, TX.
$1,021,643 spent14% of program spendingProvided various services including: nursing, physical rehabilitative, nutritional, social recreation and educational services to certain needy individuals at 2 different activity centers located in Alice and Benavides. Transportation to and from the centers is provided. The activity centers are operated under the guidelines of Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services.
$487,172 spent7% of program spendingProvided transportation for the economically disadvantaged and minorities in the following Texas counties: Jim Wells, Brooks and Nueces.
$3,950,753 spent54% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,321,311.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $5.2M to $7.0M (+35%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 88% · 2018 83% · 2019 54% · 2020 65% · 2021 67% · 2022 58% · 2023 70% · 2024 56%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
65% of RURAL ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE LEAGUE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Gloria Ramos
Executive Director
Board chair
J C Perez
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $1.1M → $99k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE LEAGUE INC’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 ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE LEAGUE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund RURAL ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE LEAGUE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 99% · 2019 98% · 2020 60% · 2021 69% · 2022 100% · 2023 92% — diversifying over time.
“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
97% of RURAL ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE LEAGUE INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $123k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is 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.
Against its field
RURAL ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE LEAGUE INC's revenue grew 31% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,288 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding RURAL ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE LEAGUE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $812k on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$812k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like RURAL ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE LEAGUE INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RURAL ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE LEAGUE INC: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds RURAL ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE LEAGUE INC?
- RURAL ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE LEAGUE INC (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,049,876 to it, the largest being Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas Inc ($2,592,648). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RURAL ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE LEAGUE INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $3,049,876 in grants to RURAL ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE LEAGUE INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RURAL ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE LEAGUE INC?
- Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas Inc is the largest funder on record, with $2,592,648 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RURAL ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE LEAGUE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 7 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing