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Rouse-Bottom Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k25 grants · $123k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $12,000 |
| WILLIAM & MARY UNIVERSITY ADVANCEMENT | $10,500 |
| USO OF HAMPTON ROADS | $10,000 |
| CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUND INC | $10,000 |
| EDMARC HOSPICE FOR CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY VA CHAPTER | $9,000 |
| VIRGINIA LIVING MUSEUM | $8,000 |
| OPERATION SMILE | $7,500 |
| VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL | $7,500 |
| HOSPICE HOUSE OF HAMPTON ROADS | $7,000 |
| PAMUNKEY INDIAN MUSEUM | $7,000 |
| COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG FOUNDATION | $6,500 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB VIRGINIA PENINSULA | $6,000 |
| WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY | $6,000 |
| VIRGINIA PENINSULA FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
64 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
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
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
- VLVIRGINIA LIVING MUSEUM INC8× · 2017–2024 · $55k · revenue +19%
- VSVIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA8× · 2017–2024 · $54k · revenue +18%
- TVTHE VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL INC6× · 2017–2024 · $45k · revenue +113%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $6k
- VIVIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE VIMSone grant, 2021 · $6k
- VIVIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE FDNone grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue -53%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The virginia association of museums is a statewide network serving the museum community. the association's mission statement is "the virginia association of museums helps our museum community succeed".
The mission of washington heritage museums is to preserve, promote and maintain its five 18th century properties in fredericksburg, virginia and develop dynamic educational resources and programs to engage and inspire the intrest of…
The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…
The mission of the american civil war museum collection is to serve as the preeminent world center for the display, study, interpretation, commemoration, and preservation of the history and artifacts of the confederate states of america.
To connect people to the marine environment, inspiring a more sustainable future. we aspire to be a driver in conservation, education, tourism, and sustainability, leading the charge to save wildlife and their ecosystems.
History is not the past; it is the story we tell about the past. every person in albemarle county and the city of charlottesville has a unique and powerful story to tell. through collecting, preserving, and interpreting the history of our…
To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…
The virginia museum of transportation preserves and interprets the heritage of all modes o across the commonwealth of va for the benefit of present and future generations, while supplementing its collections with significant national and…
The mission of the society is to promote an interst in the broad spectrum of history with emphasis on that of western virginia; to collect, preserve, interpret and make available materials relating to that history; to sponsor research and…
Virginia wesleyan university is a fully accredited liberal arts, united-methodist related institution founded in 1961.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Gloucester County Friends of the Library. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 54 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 38 of the 86 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 VIRGINIA LIVING MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds THE VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds Washington and Lee University ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARINERS' MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds EDMARC INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF VA ANTIQUITIES ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA PENINSULA FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds FOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds JAMESTOWN-YORKTOWN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Colonial Williamsburg Foundation ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA FINE ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE HOUSE OF HAMPTON ROADS INC ↗
- Who funds SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE HAMPTON HISTORY MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA OPERA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE VIRGINIA AIR & SPACE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE VIRGINIA COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds THE WATERMEN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA STAGE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
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.
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
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 Rouse-Bottom Foundation 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.
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
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.
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