Missouri · Nonprofit
THE RAINBOW NETWORK INC
THE RAINBOW NETWORK INC (Missouri) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $916,410 to it, the largest being ALDEN BUERGE IRR TR FBO RAINBOW NTW ($223,186). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $916k
- Net assets
- $2.8M
What The Rainbow Network Inc does
Mission
To share in the love of jesus christ by partnering with rural communities in healthcare, education, economic development, and housing. The work is focused in remote locations where people are living in dirt- floor shacks, where there is a lack of sanitation, clean water, and medical care, and where educational and economic development opportunities are limited.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The organization builds simple concrete homes with a secure wood or metal door and a cement floor to prevent parasites. These houses are built 25 at a time and provided to recipient families for the cost of building supplies financed with no interest over a 10-25 year period. Community participation is essential to the rainbow network's housing model and reflects the organization's roots in habitat for humanity. The pride and empowerment built through this model transfers into responsibility and lifelong benefits for homeowners and their children. The organization operates in 91 rural communities, partnering with nearly 45,000 people in a hand-up fashion. Construction was completed on 75 homes which were supplemented with potable water and latrines.
$282,591 spent$88,062 earned by the program16% of program spendingThe organization provides education for primary and secondary students in private homes or community buildings that also serve as schoolhouses. More than 7,000 children received reinforement classes in core subjects and nearly 1000 students received a high school education.
$340,656 spent19% of program spendingProfessional healthcare does not exist in most of the communities where the organization operates. The organization's goal is to provide at least basic medical services needed to relieve pain and suffering, plus keep the population healthy and free of treatable diseases. It offers support to those with special medical needs that are beyond basic medical care, not only arranging for the care, but also all the costs associated with the special treatment and/or hospital needed to treat the ailment, surgery or rehabilitation. Over 15,000 medical patients were treated and 2 million meals were served.
$246,604 spent14% of program spendingThe organization's economic development program provides education, training, and start up materials for individuals who want to open and run a small business of their own. Over 200 families were trained and helped start a small home or community-based business.
$894,524 spent51% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,764,375.
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 $741k to $2.3M (+211%).
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.
87% of THE RAINBOW NETWORK INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% 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.
Board chair
Stacie Williams
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $85k → $71k.
9 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 THE RAINBOW NETWORK INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 17 of 18 funders by total. 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
THE RAINBOW NETWORK INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% 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
54% 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 THE RAINBOW NETWORK INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 26% · 2019 40% · 2020 81% · 2021 57% · 2022 27% · 2023 61% — 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
46% of THE RAINBOW NETWORK INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
53% of THE RAINBOW NETWORK 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 $430k that is directly attributable, 54% of it comes from funders outside Missouri, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $486k 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
THE RAINBOW NETWORK INC receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $916k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,121 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like THE RAINBOW NETWORK 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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE RAINBOW NETWORK INC?
- THE RAINBOW NETWORK INC (Missouri) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $916,410 to it, the largest being ALDEN BUERGE IRR TR FBO RAINBOW NTW ($223,186). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE RAINBOW NETWORK INC have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $916,410 in grants to THE RAINBOW NETWORK INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE RAINBOW NETWORK INC?
- ALDEN BUERGE IRR TR FBO RAINBOW NTW is the largest funder on record, with $223,186 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE RAINBOW NETWORK INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 18 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