Harry L Rust & Helen M Rust Charitable
Kansas City, MO · EIN 43-6929733. Reported 70 grants totalling $1,242,000 to 56 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Harry L Rust & Helen M Rust Charitable did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $20,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $15,000 and $20,000; the smallest was $2,000 and the largest $25,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Insight Housing | Berkeley, CA | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Durham Literacy Center Inc | Durham, NC | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Harvesters-the Community Food Network | Kansas City, MO | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Shawnee Mission Meals on Wheels | Overland Park, KS | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Habitat for Humanity of Kansas City | Kansas City, MO | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Metropolitan Lutheran Ministry | Kansas City, MO | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Levelup Kids Inc | Kansas City, MO | $37,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| East Bay Community Law Center | Berkeley, CA | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Inspirica Inc | Stamford, CT | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| The Alameda County Community Food Bank | Oakland, CA | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| American National Red Cross (greater Kansas City) | Kansas City, MO | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Book Harvest | Durham, NC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Camp Claire Inc | Old Lyme, CT | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Catholic Charities of Kc-St Joseph Inc | Kansas City, MO | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Contra Costa Crisis Center | Walnut Creek, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| First Place for Youth | Oakland, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Monument Crisis Center | Concord, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Nourish Bridgeport Inc | Bridgeport, CT | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Loved Twice | Kansas City, MO | $24,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Carolina Public Press | Ashville, NC | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Children Rising Inc | Oakland, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Childrens Mercy Hospital | Kansas City, MO | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Connecticut Institute for Refugees and Immigrants | Bridgeport, CT | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cornerstones of Care | Kansas City, MO | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| El Futuro | Durham, NC | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano | Fairfield, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Fred Finch Youth Center | Oakland, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Kansas City Dream Center Co | Kansas City, KS | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mercy Learning Center of Bridgeport Incorporated | Bridgeport, CT | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Person to Person Inc | Darien, CT | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Planned Parenthood Great Plains | Overland Park, KS | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Student U | Durham, NC | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Friends of the Oakland Public Library | Oakland, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Adam J Lewis Academy Inc | Bridgeport, CT | $18,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cornerstone Community Developement | Ford Heights, IL | $18,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Forget Me Not Children Services | West Santa Rosa, CA | $17,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| A Safe Place | Oakland, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| American Journalism Project | Washington, DC | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Bay Area Urban Debate Commission | Oakland, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Bay Area Young Survivors Bays Inc | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Jefferson City | Jefferson City, MO | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture | Columbia, MO | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cornerstones of Care Ozanam Campus | Kansas City, MO | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Cycles of Change | Oakland, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Kc Common Good Inc | Kansas City, MO | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Kidznotes | Durham, NC | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Lend a Hand Foundation | Oakland, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mercy Learning Center | Kansas City, MO | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Minddrive Incorporated | Kansas City, MO | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Samuel U Rodgers Health Center Inc | Kansas City, MO | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Berkeley Chess School | Berkeley, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Saint Lukes Foundation | Kansas City, MO | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Wildwood Outdoor Education Center Inc | Lacygne, KS | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Notre Dame De Sion School | Kansas City, MO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Orinda Network for Education | Orinda, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Piedmont Educational Foundation | Piedmont, CA | $8,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
12 of 56 (21%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 6%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Book Harvest
WITH LITERACY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL - Contra Costa Crisis Center
HOMELESS FOLLOW-UP PROJECT - Monument Crisis Center
FEEDING LOW-INCOME FAMILIES - Durham Literacy Center Inc
DURHAM LITERACY CENTER COLLEGE AND CAREER READINESS PROGRAM - Insight Housing
USED AT THE DISCRETION OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OR TRUSTEES AS THEY SEE FIT FOR OPERATIONS - Loved Twice
WAREHOUSE RENTAL & PURCHASE OF 15,000 GARMETS OF BABY CLOTHING FOR NEWBORNS-IN-NEED
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 51 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 6 | $82,000 | $15,000 |
| 2022 | 18 | $286,000 | $15,000 |
| 2023 | 14 | $270,000 | $20,000 |
| 2024 | 17 | $292,000 | $20,000 |
| 2025 | 15 | $312,000 | $20,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
32% of its giving went to organizations in Missouri. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $20,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Missouri.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Harry L Rust & Helen M Rust Charitable's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: Rustcommerce Co-Ttees 1000 Walnut, Kansas City, MO, 64106. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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