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RUSS BUS INC

RUSS BUS INC (Arkansas) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $235,896 to it, the largest being River Valley United Way Inc ($111,250). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$393k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$236k
Net assets
$745k
6/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%
01What it does

What Russ Bus Inc does

Mission

Homeless and emergency assistance

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The organization provides assistance to homeless and those at risk of being homeless.

    $339,316 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $339,316.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($180k) Expenses 100 ($155k) Net assets 100 ($143k)2018 Revenue 187 ($337k) Expenses 94 ($146k) Net assets 234 ($334k)2019 Revenue 128 ($230k) Expenses 112 ($174k) Net assets 272 ($389k)2020 Revenue 144 ($259k) Expenses 148 ($230k) Net assets 293 ($419k)2021 Revenue 271 ($488k) Expenses 176 ($273k) Net assets 443 ($633k)2022 Revenue 219 ($393k) Expenses 224 ($348k) Net assets 475 ($679k)2023 Revenue 200 ($359k) Expenses 223 ($347k) Net assets 484 ($692k)2024 Revenue 218 ($393k) Expenses 219 ($339k) Net assets 522 ($745k)
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Revenue (218)Expenses (219)Net assets (522)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 2020 to 2021, from $486k to $1.2M (+155%).

$203k
$394k
$459k
$486k
$1.2M
$1.3M
$1.3M
$1.3M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

85% of RUSS BUS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,870 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$25k
’17
$191k
’18
$55k
’19
$29k
’20
$215k
’21
$46k
’22
$13k
’23
$54k
’24
6.1
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

Fred Teague

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed45555887
Joined·+2+0+0+1+3+0+0
No longer listed·1001001
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $18k → $28k.

3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 RUSS BUS 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

RUSS BUS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

86% 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 RUSS BUS INC.

47%
largest funder
73%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 71% · 2019 47% · 2020 62% · 2021 63% · 2022 54% · 2023 53% — 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.

How long its funders stay

38% of RUSS BUS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

77% of RUSS BUS INC's grant income comes from Arkansas funders.

MN
MO
VA
AR
TN

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Arkansas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $62k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

RUSS BUS INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin14% · above the median
Months of reserve6.1mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like RUSS BUS 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 Arkansas

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

AR

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RUSS BUS 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 RUSS BUS INC?
RUSS BUS INC (Arkansas) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $235,896 to it, the largest being River Valley United Way Inc ($111,250). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does RUSS BUS INC have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $235,896 in grants to RUSS BUS INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of RUSS BUS INC?
River Valley United Way Inc is the largest funder on record, with $111,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RUSS BUS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arkansas. 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 10 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