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RURAL MINDS INC

RURAL MINDS INC (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $7,500 to it, the largest being SCENTSY FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($7,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$297k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$8k
Net assets
$187k
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Rural Minds Inc does

Mission

To serve as the informed voice for mental health in rural america and to provide mental health information and resources. The organization's vision is a rural america where there's no more stigma, silence, or suffering around mental illness.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Rural minds is confronting mental illness in rural america. Recognizing that self-reliance and a do-it-yourself mindset are common among many people who live in rural america, rural minds partners with individuals and organizations to help empower rural residents with information and resources to become part of the solution to improving mental health and preventing suicide in their communities.(continued on schedule o)collaboration is key for rural minds in our work to confront the mental health challenges in rural america and eliminate the stigma, suffering, and silence surrounding mental illness. The rural minds partnership council brings together leaders of companies and organizations in the biopharma and agricultural industries who are partnering with rural minds to support educational initiatives that address the mental health challenges in rural communities across the country.highlights of progress:- developed the rural mental health resilience program in collaboration with the national grange and introduced the program at the annual national grange convention. The rural mental health resilience program provides a toolkit with free mental health information and resources to…

    $231,749 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $231,749.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.

100 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($173k) Expenses 100 ($95k) Net assets 100 ($119k)2024 Revenue 172 ($297k) Expenses 284 ($271k) Net assets 156 ($187k)
20232024
Revenue (172)Expenses (284)Net assets (156)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $161k to $187k (+16%).

$161k
$187k
20232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of RURAL MINDS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,893 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$78k
’23
$26k
’24
8.3
months of
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

Chuck Strand

Executive director

Board chair

Jeffrey A Winton

Founder and chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'24*
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of RURAL MINDS 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.

Where its funders are

RURAL MINDS INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 1 state in all.

ID

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

RURAL MINDS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,754 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin9% · above the median
Months of reserve8.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)72% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like RURAL MINDS 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 Illinois

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 9%Fundraising 5%

Governance

3
board members
67%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Jeff Winton Associates LLC · partnership

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds RURAL MINDS INC?
RURAL MINDS INC (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $7,500 to it, the largest being SCENTSY FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($7,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does RURAL MINDS INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $7,500 in grants to RURAL MINDS INC.
Who is the largest funder of RURAL MINDS INC?
SCENTSY FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $7,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RURAL MINDS INC 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 1 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