Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
RUSH PHILANTHROPIC ARTS FOUNDATION INC
RUSH PHILANTHROPIC ARTS FOUNDATION INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $300,557 to it, the largest being PLEDGELING FOUNDATION ($87,227). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
RUSH PHILANTHROPIC ARTS FOUNDATION INC's revenue fell 89% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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.
- Blavatnik Family Foundationshared funders
- The Leon Smith Polk Foundation Incportfolio match
- Burning Man Projectportfolio match
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.
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 15% · 2018 12% · 2019 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of RUSH PHILANTHROPIC ARTS FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 9 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $67k → $46k.
4 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 RUSH PHILANTHROPIC ARTS FOUNDATION 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
RUSH PHILANTHROPIC ARTS FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
51% 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 RUSH PHILANTHROPIC ARTS FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 50% · 2019 100% · 2020 62% · 2021 97% · 2022 78% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
8% of RUSH PHILANTHROPIC ARTS FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 19% 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
51% of RUSH PHILANTHROPIC ARTS FOUNDATION INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $146k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 8 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $154k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
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. Your 16 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Blavatnik Family Foundationshared fundersNY · backs 54 organizations that share your funders
- The Leon Smith Polk Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Burning Man Projectportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cec Artslink Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mid-America Arts Allianceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Wilhelm Family Foundation Co Cascade Wilhelmportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Brooklyn Arts Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Phillip & Edith Leonian Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mediathe Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rush County Community Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Teiger Foundationportfolio 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 RUSH PHILANTHROPIC ARTS FOUNDATION INC
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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 RUSH PHILANTHROPIC ARTS FOUNDATION 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 RUSH PHILANTHROPIC ARTS FOUNDATION INC?
- RUSH PHILANTHROPIC ARTS FOUNDATION INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $300,557 to it, the largest being PLEDGELING FOUNDATION ($87,227). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does RUSH PHILANTHROPIC ARTS FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $300,557 in grants to RUSH PHILANTHROPIC ARTS FOUNDATION INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RUSH PHILANTHROPIC ARTS FOUNDATION INC?
- PLEDGELING FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $87,227 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RUSH PHILANTHROPIC ARTS FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 16funders 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