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Rush County Community Foundation Inc

Rushville, IN · EIN 35-1835950. Reported 115 grants totalling $11.2M to 39 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

39organizations funded
$10,422median reported grant
$11.2Mgranted, 2021-2024
69%of grantees funded again the next year
59%of dollars to its largest recipient

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:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Rush County Community Foundation Inc, the IRS classifies it as a community foundation (NTEE T31).
  2. How spread out its giving is. 39 distinct organizations, with 59% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
  3. How much its list changes. 69% 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 $10,422. Half of what it reported fell between $7,875 and $15,136; the smallest was $5,041 and the largest $6,602,772. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
43 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
55 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
14 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
1 grant
$250,000 Or More
2 grants

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.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Rec Building Holding CorporationRushville, IN$6,602,772112024
Rushville Parks & RecreationRushville, IN$3,075,883942024
Rchs Activities FundRushville, IN$211,6311742024
Boys & Girls Club of Rush Co in IncRushville, IN$189,993442024
St Paul's United Methodist ChurchRushville, IN$135,560442024
Rushville Public LibraryRushville, IN$116,682442024
Glenwood Volunteer Fire Department IncGlenwood, IN$57,735222023
Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana IncIndianapolis, IN$55,000442024
Rush County Senior Citizens Services IncRushville, IN$49,073442024
Rush County Humane Society IncRushville, IN$48,466442024
Rushville St Marys Catholic School Foundation IncRushville, IN$44,779442024
Main Street Christian ChurchRushville, IN$41,487442024
Open Resource IncRushville, IN$40,190222023
Trustees of Purdue UniversityRushville, IN$33,125332024
Milroy Community Food Pantry IncMilroy, IN$32,500332024
Rush County Community AssistanceRushville, IN$32,500332024
Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks of the USARushville, IN$31,712442024
Rush County Association for Retarded Citizens IncRushville, IN$30,893442024
Psi Iota Xi SororityRushville, IN$30,209222023
Clean Green RushRushville, IN$30,000112024
Girls Incorporated of Shelbyville Shelby CountyShelbyville, IN$27,500332024
East Hill Cemetery Company of RushvilleRushville, IN$27,452222024
Manilla Fire Department IncManilla, IN$22,000222023
Rush County Historical SocietyRushville, IN$21,491442024
American LegionRushville, IN$18,690112024
Milroy Economic DevelopmentcorporationMilroy, IN$18,117222024
Rush Memorial HospitalRushville, IN$17,299222024
Rush Memorial Hospital Foundation IncRushville, IN$16,889222022
St Mary Catholic Church Rushville IncRushville, IN$15,846332024
Rushville Township Volunteer Fire DepartmentRushville, IN$15,750112024
Imagine-Nation Rush IncRushville, IN$11,200112021
Heart of Rushville-a Main Street ProgramRushville, IN$11,133222023
International Association of Lions Clubs 9721 CarthageCarthage, IN$10,575112024
Posey Township Volunteer Fire Department IncArlington, IN$10,422112023
Childrens Bureau IncIndianapolis, IN$10,000112024
Porch of RecoveryRushville, IN$10,000112023
Henry Henley Public LibraryCarthage, IN$7,875112021
Soulmedic Media Group IncFort Wayne, IN$6,568112023
Rush County Sheriff's OfficeRushville, IN$5,100112023

27 of 39 (69%) 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.

It also reported 4 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

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.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 18 of 39 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.

Community Improvement
3 orgs
Youth Development
3 orgs
Public Safety & Disaster Relief
3 orgs
Human Services
3 orgs
Animal Welfare
1 org
Education
1 org
Public & Societal Benefit
1 org
Health Care
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202122$299,548$10,113
202228$359,128$10,140
202333$3,443,589$10,288
202432$7,071,832$11,129

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

Rushville, IN
$10.9M
Indianapolis, IN
$65K
Glenwood, IN
$58K
Milroy, IN
$51K
Shelbyville, IN
$28K
Manilla, IN
$22K
Carthage, IN
$18K
Arlington, IN
$10K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

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How to approach this grantmaker

  1. 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.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,422 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Indiana.
  4. 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.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Rush County Community Foundation Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 27 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 5 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: 117 N Main St, Rushville, IN, 46173.

EIN 35-1835950 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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