Virginia · Private foundation
Rouse-Bottom Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $225k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 35
- Grants FY2025
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $17,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 30 to 44
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Rouse-Bottom Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 35 | $225k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 30 | $176k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 36 | $135k | 31% |
| FY2022 | 38 | $136k | 8% |
| FY2021 | 38 | $147k | 24% |
| FY2020 | 44 | $140k | 16% |
| FY2019 | 39 | $118k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 43 | $134k | 23% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia Living Museum Inc | $65,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Virginia Symphony Orchestra | $60,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc | $55,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Virginia Arts Festival Inc | $52,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Washington and Lee University | $48,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Operation Smile Inc | $47,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Edmarc Inc | $46,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia | $42,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Virginia Peninsula Foodbank | $42,500 | 6 | 0% |
| The Mariners' Museum | $41,500 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 39 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 52 recipients with no EIN on record ($493k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Rouse-Bottom Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Townebank Foundation · Hampton Roads Community Foundation · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · Peninsula Community Foundation of Virginia Inc · Sentara Health · Abbitt Family Foundation · Patricia and Douglas Perry Foundation DBA The Perry Family Foundation · Randolph D Rouse Foundation Inc · Langley for Families - the Foundation of Lfcu · Tidewater Jewish Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Rouse-Bottom Foundation
- How much does Rouse-Bottom Foundation give?
- Rouse-Bottom Foundation reported 35 grants totaling $225,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 44 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Rouse-Bottom Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (46%), Education (16%), Health (9%).
- Who are Rouse-Bottom Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Virginia Living Museum Inc ($65k), Virginia Symphony Orchestra ($60k), Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc ($55k).
- Does Rouse-Bottom Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Rouse-Bottom Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Rouse-Bottom Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation, Townebank Foundation, Hampton Roads Community Foundation.
- Where is Rouse-Bottom Foundation based?
- Rouse-Bottom Foundation is based in VA.
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