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Edgar B Rouse Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$149k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212024.

Education$233kPublic Safety & Disaster$160kHuman Services$72kReligion$50kHealth$42kRecreation & Sports$37kFood & Nutrition$18k
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $82k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW COVENANT SCHOOL$50,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS - HISTORIC VA CHAPTER$25,000
HUNTER CLASSICAL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$20,000
NATIONAL D-DAY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION$17,000
LYNCHBURG FREE CLINIC OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA$10,000
FOREST VOLUNTEER FIRE CO$10,000
PATRICK HENRY FAMILY SERVICES$7,000
MIRIAM HOUSE$5,500
ROTARY CLUB OF FOREST FOUNDATION - FIELD OF HONOR$2,500
BALTIMORE EDUCATION SCHOLARSHIP TRUST$2,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Patrick Henry Family Services: $9k → 20%PATRICK HENRY FAMILY SERVICES: $7k → 20%Patrick Henry Family Services: $5k → 20%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$594k · 17 repeat orgs$18k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
2

Total granted

$594k
$8k

Still filing today

47%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • HC
    HUNTER CLASSICAL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
    4× · 2021–2024 · $60k · revenue +672%
  • ND
    NATIONAL D-DAY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $34k · revenue +19%
  • FC
    FREE CLINIC OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $27k · revenue +72%

Funded once

  • AC
    American Cancer Society - JMU
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • FL
    Forest Lacrosse Club
    one grant, 2022 · $3k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Lynchburg Daily Bread Inc

Provision of food for the needy

Food & Nutrition
2
Free Clinic of Franklin County Inc

The free clinic of franklin county, inc is founded on the belief that everyone should have access to quality, affordable, primary health care regardless of their socio-economic or insurance status.

3
Peninsula Institute for Community Health

Providing medical and dental care to indigent patients.

Health
4
Frederick County Crisis Pregnancy C

The mission of the organization is: to provide pregnancy-related medical services including sonograms (medical clinic staffed by female board certified obgyn).

Health
5
James Barry Robinson Institute

The Barry Robinson Center offers programs to improve the lives of children and their families.

Human Services
6
Caring Hearts Free Clinic of Patrick County Inc

To provide free, non-judgmental, quality healthcare to those in need by using a solid base of culturally diverse community resources.

Health
7
SeniorNavigatorcom

SeniorNavigator and its family of websites are national models for aging, disability and veteran information. By combining online assistance with a network of community-based centers, the websites bring over 26,000 community resources,…

Community Improvement
8
Regents School of Charlottesville Inc

Regents' mission is to provide a classical and christian education, founded upon and informed by a biblical worldview, that equips our students to know, love, and practice that which is true, good, and the beautiful and challenges them to…

Education
9
Free Clinic of Powhatan Inc

Building a healthier community one person at a time

Health
10
Virginia Lutheran Homes Inc

Providing life-enriching services that promote well-being and build community.

11
The Baker Center for Women Incorporated

The Baker Center for Womens mission is to provide support to the women of Hampton Roads by offering a safe transitional housing alternative and equip women with the resources needed to support their overall wellness to self-sufficiency.

Housing & Shelter
12
Lynchburg Covenant Fellowship Incorporated

Provision of safe and affordable housing.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Free Clinic of Central Virginia Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hunter Classical Christian School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 20 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NEW COVENANT SCHOOL — $150,000 · OtherNEW COVENANT SCHOOLAMERICAN RED CROSS - HISTORIC VA CHAPTER — $80,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS - HISTORIC VA CHAPTERGLEENING FOR THE WORLD - W VA RELIEF — $57,000 · OtherGLEENING FOR THE WORLD - W VA RELIEFNOTRE DAME PREPARATORY SCHOOL — $40,000 · OtherNOTRE DAME PREPARATORY SCHOOLCathedral of Mary Our Queen — $26,000 · OtherCathedral of Mary Our QueenSalvation Army — $20,000 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS INC — $18,000 · Other+7 more — $62,000 · Other+7 moreHUNTER CLASSICAL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — $60,000 · EducationHUNTER CLASS…BALTIMORE EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP TRUST — $7,000 · EducationBALTIMORE ED…FREE CLINIC OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC — $27,000 · HealthBlue Ridge Pregnancy Center Inc — $10,000 · HealthNATIONAL D-DAY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $34,000 · Recreation & SportsPATRICK HENRY FAMILY SERVICES INC — $21,000 · Human Services
Other$453,000Education$67,000Health$37,000Recreation & Sports$34,000Human Services$21,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHUNTER CLASSICAL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — $60,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetNATIONAL D-DAY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $34,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFREE CLINIC OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC — $27,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetPATRICK HENRY FAMILY SERVICES INC — $21,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC — $18,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBlue Ridge Pregnancy Center Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMILLER HOME OF LYNCHBURG VIRGINIA — $9,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetBALTIMORE EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP TRUST — $7,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds HUNTER CLASSICAL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
  • Who funds NATIONAL D-DAY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds FREE CLINIC OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC
  • Who funds PATRICK HENRY FAMILY SERVICES INC
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC
  • Who funds Blue Ridge Pregnancy Center Inc
  • Who funds MILLER HOME OF LYNCHBURG VIRGINIA
  • Who funds BALTIMORE EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP TRUST

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Greater Lynchburg Community FoundationVA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation · Foster Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Edgar B Rouse Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Edgar B Rouse Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Edgar B Rouse Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 20 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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