Rural Community Assistance Corporation
West Sacramento, CA · EIN 94-2512284. Reported 139 grants totalling $15.2M to 74 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Rural Community Assistance Corporation, the IRS classifies it under community improvement rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE S200) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 74 distinct organizations, with 39% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 58% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $28,370. Half of what it reported fell between $13,540 and $57,063; the smallest was $5,101 and the largest $5,988,628. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Various Others | West Sacramento, CA | $5,988,628 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Various Others Wout Loan #s | West Sacramento, CA | $3,116,443 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Lake Morena Views Mut Co | Campo, CA | $612,907 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Community Housing Council of Fresno | Fresno, CA | $511,635 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| La Jolla Band of Luiseno Indi | Pauma Valley, CA | $419,771 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Ventura County Community Development Corporation | Oxnard, CA | $329,127 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Housing Solutions of Northern Arizona Inc | Flagstaff, AZ | $308,385 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Hawaiian Community Assets Inc | Honolulu, HI | $296,076 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| W Arizona Council of Gov | Yuma, AZ | $249,392 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Access | Medford, OR | $222,638 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Lutheran Social Services of Southern California | Orange, CA | $208,124 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Inland Fair Housing and Mediation Board | Ontario, CA | $184,515 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Nanakuli Housing Corporation | Honolulu, HI | $180,904 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Homesfund | Durango, CO | $171,283 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| National Affordable Housing Network Incorporated | Butte, MT | $152,728 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Comite De Bienestar Inc | San Luis, AZ | $152,469 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Earth Island Institute Inc | Berkeley, CA | $132,917 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Neighborhood Nonprofit Housing Corporation | Logan, UT | $129,305 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Parlier Unified School Distri | Parlier, CA | $104,442 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Community in Action | Ontario, OR | $97,194 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Lake Morenas Oak Shores Mutual Water Company Inc | Campo, CA | $91,612 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Self Help Enterprises | Visalia, CA | $91,376 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Willamette Partnership | Portland, OR | $90,813 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Companies for Causes | Washington, DC | $80,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| University of Oregon | Eugene, OR | $69,769 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| N Circle Indian Housing Auth | Ukiah, CA | $66,706 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Blue Sky Sustainable Living Center | New Cuyama, CA | $63,527 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Plenty Doors Community Development Corporation | Crow Agency, MT | $62,790 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Opportunity Link | Havre, MT | $60,296 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Startup Tucson | Tucson, AZ | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mother Lode Job Training | West Sacramento, CA | $52,246 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Housing America Corporation | Somerton, AZ | $50,876 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Local First Arizona Foundation | Phoenix, AZ | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| New Mexico Community Capital | Albuquerque, NM | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Greater Raton Econ Dev Corp | Raton, NM | $40,363 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Copper Rvr Basin Reg Hou Auth | Geyserville, CA | $38,917 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Hoy Recovery Program Inc | Espanola, NM | $36,806 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Logan County Economic Development Corporation | Sterling, CO | $34,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Golden Feather Union Element | Oroville, CA | $29,720 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Rio Arriba County | Espanola, NM | $29,180 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Santa Fe Community Housing Tr | Santa Fe, NM | $27,570 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Homestead Community Development Corporation | Honolulu, HI | $27,032 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Native American Development Corporation | Billings, MT | $24,586 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Cheyenne River Housing Auth | Eagle Butte, SD | $24,280 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Washoe Development Corp | Miden, NV | $20,876 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Samaritan House Inc | Kalispell, MT | $19,711 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Lake County Community Housing | Ronan, MT | $19,670 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Kings Canyon Unified Sch Dist | Reedley, CA | $19,064 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Opportunities Industrialization Center of Washington | Yakima, WA | $18,918 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Nye Cty Health & Human Svc | Tonopah, NV | $18,605 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Marysville Joint Unified Sch | Marsville, CA | $18,122 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Carolyn E Wylie Center for Children Youth & Families | Riverside, CA | $16,667 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Eastern Sierra Community Housing Inc | Mammoth Lakes, CA | $16,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Hopesource | Ellensburg, WA | $16,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Northwest Montana Human Resources Inc | Kalispell, MT | $16,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Fdn for Little Co Revitaliza | Springerville, AZ | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Pueblo Unido Cdc | La Quinta, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Yurok Alliance for Northern California Housing | Klamath, CA | $13,755 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Klamath Trinity Resour Con | Hoopa, CA | $11,238 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Shiprock Community Development Corporation | Shiprock, NM | $10,800 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Quite Oaks Moble Home Park | Temecula, CA | $10,475 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Chawanakee Unified School Dis | Oneals, CA | $10,290 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hawaii Community Lending Inc | Honolulu, HI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Snowy Mountain Development Corporation | Lewistown, MT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Village of Hatch | Hatch, NM | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Collaborative Visions | Mora, NM | $9,999 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Robinson Rancheria Citizens B | Upper Lake, CA | $9,940 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Utah Dine Bikeyah | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $9,786 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Plumas Cty Comm DC & Ha | Quincy, CA | $9,360 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Peninsula Housing Authority | Port Angeles, WA | $9,062 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| California Coalition for Rural Housing Project | Sacramento, CA | $8,628 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Southeast Idaho Council of Governments | Pocatello, ID | $8,344 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Washoe Tribe of Nevada and Ca | Miden, NV | $7,417 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Community Action Team Incorporated of | St Helens, OR | $5,248 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
34 of 74 (46%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Various Others
Various Others w/out loan #s - Various Others Wout Loan #s
Dispersed to borrows w/out loan # - Lake Morena Views Mut Co
Improve Nitrate Treatment System - Lake Morena Views Mut Co Nv
Nitrate Treatment System Imps - Earth Island
Assist rural disadvantaged comm. - Opportunity Link Inc
Employee hiring and retaining
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 41 of 74 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 44 | $1,719,755 | $25,567 |
| 2021 | 28 | $2,855,870 | $48,135 |
| 2022 | 33 | $2,816,665 | $18,923 |
| 2023 | 34 | $7,823,033 | $39,298 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
80% of its giving went to organizations in California. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $28,370 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Rural Community Assistance Corporation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 30 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 4 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 3120 Freeboard Drive 201, West Sacramento, CA, 95691.
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