Illinois · Nonprofit
RURAL HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION
RURAL HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION (Illinois) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,397,639 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($3,219,556). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2017
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $3.4M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Rural Home Missionary Association does
Mission
Strengthen and support faith-based churches in rural and isolated locations with personnel and other assistance
As stated on its FY2017 Form 990.
Program
Establish and strengthen churches in small-town america by providing pastoral and other needed assistance.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $11k → $11k.
8 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION’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 HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% of grant income and the top three 98%; 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: 2017 100% · 2018 90% · 2019 52% · 2020 97% · 2021 100% · 2022 89% · 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.
How long its funders stay
40% of RURAL HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
RURAL HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $174k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 states 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 HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,206 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,206 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2017
Organizations like RURAL HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds RURAL HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION?
- RURAL HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION (Illinois) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,397,639 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($3,219,556). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RURAL HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $3,397,639 in grants to RURAL HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RURAL HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,219,556 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RURAL HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2017 (financials across 2017–2017), and the filings of 11 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