Does Rouse Family Charitable Trust Aka the Willard G Rouse III Memorial Tr 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 Family Charitable Trust Aka the Willard G Rouse III Memorial Tr?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Eastern Bank Foundation, The William Penn Foundation, Chubb Charitable Foundation.

Foundation Dossiers

Pennsylvania · Private foundation

Rouse Family Charitable Trust Aka the Willard G Rouse III Memorial Tr

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.

$127k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 14
Grants FY2025: 12
Organizations funded FY2024: 17%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $5,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $54,000
Organizations funded a year: 9 to 19; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 7
Total assets, FY2025: $1.4M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Rouse Family Charitable Trust Aka the Willard G Rouse III Memorial Tr funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEnvironmentInternationalFood & NutritionAnimalsArts & CultureOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	13	$112k	31%
FY2024	12	$105k	17%
FY2023	16	$98k	31%
FY2022	9	$95k	44%
FY2021	10	$108k	30%
FY2020	14	$85k	57%
FY2019	15	$99k	27%
FY2018	19	$98k	58%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Animals$489kEnvironment$124kEducation$100kInternational$54kHousing & Shelter$38kFood & Nutrition$37kHuman Services$25kYouth Development$22kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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
Lewa Wildlife Conservancy USA	$435,500	9	2%
Mothers Out Front Inc	$70,000	8	1%
Project Home	$28,000	6	0%
Reading Terminal Market Corporation	$20,000	1	0%
Amboseli Trust for Elephants	$20,000	2	2%
Save The Children Federation Inc	$20,000	4	0%
Warrior Canine Connection Inc	$15,000	2	0%
World Central Kitchen Inc	$15,000	3	0%
Speak for the Trees Inc	$14,000	3	5%
William Trippley Youth Development Ftd	$13,500	5	5%

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All grantees of Rouse Family Charitable Trust Aka the Willard G Rouse III Memorial Tr by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Lewa Wildlife Conservancy USA	$435,500	9	2%
Mothers Out Front Inc	$70,000	8	1%
Project Home	$28,000	6	0%
Reading Terminal Market Corporation	$20,000	1	0%
Amboseli Trust for Elephants	$20,000	2	2%
Save The Children Federation Inc	$20,000	4	0%
Warrior Canine Connection Inc	$15,000	2	0%
World Central Kitchen Inc	$15,000	3	0%
Speak for the Trees Inc	$14,000	3	5%
William Trippley Youth Development Ftd	$13,500	5	5%
The Boma Project Inc	$12,000	3	0%
Chester County Food Bank	$11,000	3	0%
Girls on the Run Philadelphia	$9,000	3	2%
Sustainable Business Education Initiative Inc	$9,000	3	1%
Wildlife Conservation Network Inc	$8,000	2	0%
Brookline Food Pantry Inc	$5,000	2	0%
Brookline Arts Center	$5,000	1	n/a
Wildlife Guardians	$5,000	3	0%
Writers Without Margins Inc	$3,000	1	3%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc	$3,000	1	0%
Inside Out Studio Inc	$3,000	1	5%
Finding Shelter Inc	$3,000	3	1%
Bear Yuba Land Trust	$2,500	1	0%
Seacoast Womens Giving Circle	$2,500	1	1%
Broad Street Ministry	$1,000	1	0%
The Animal Medical Center	$1,000	1	0%
Metropolitan Area Neighborhood Nutrition Alliance	$1,000	1	0%
Walnut Street Theatre Corporation	$500	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($162k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Rouse Family Charitable Trust Aka the Willard G Rouse III Memorial Tr supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.

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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.

Eastern Bank FoundationMA14.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured

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

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About Rouse Family Charitable Trust Aka the Willard G Rouse III Memorial Tr

How much does Rouse Family Charitable Trust Aka the Willard G Rouse III Memorial Tr give?: Rouse Family Charitable Trust Aka the Willard G Rouse III Memorial Tr reported 14 grants totaling $127,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Rouse Family Charitable Trust Aka the Willard G Rouse III Memorial Tr fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (50%), Environment (13%), Education (10%).
Who are Rouse Family Charitable Trust Aka the Willard G Rouse III Memorial Tr's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Lewa Wildlife Conservancy USA ($436k), Mothers Out Front Inc ($70k), Project Home ($28k).
Does Rouse Family Charitable Trust Aka the Willard G Rouse III Memorial Tr fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Rouse Family Charitable Trust Aka the Willard G Rouse III Memorial Tr 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 Family Charitable Trust Aka the Willard G Rouse III Memorial Tr?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Eastern Bank Foundation, The William Penn Foundation, Chubb Charitable Foundation.
Where is Rouse Family Charitable Trust Aka the Willard G Rouse III Memorial Tr based?: Rouse Family Charitable Trust Aka the Willard G Rouse III Memorial Tr is based in PA.