· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $54k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEWA WILDLIFE CONSERVANCY | $54,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $15,000 |
| MOTHERS OUT FRONT | $10,000 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN | $5,000 |
| CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF | $5,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CANADIAN | $5,000 |
| PAWS | $5,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CHESTER PA | $5,000 |
| BROOKLINE ARTS CENTER | $5,000 |
| PROJECT HOME | $3,000 |
| WILLIAM TRIPPLEY YOUTH DEV FOUND | $2,500 |
| SEACOAST WOMENS GIVING CIRCLE | $2,500 |
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 (FY18–25, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 68% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against -16% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- LWLewa Wildlife Conservancy USA9× · 2017–2025 · $436k · revenue +49%
- ATAMBOSELI TRUST FOR ELEPHANTS2× · 2017–2018 · $20k · revenue +369%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC3× · 2023–2025 · $15k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- FCFOCUSED CONSERVATION SOLUTIONSone grant, 2019 · $30k
- RTREADING TERMINAL MARKET CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +36%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…
Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
As america's first animal shelter, founded in 1869, women's humane society dba women's animal center (wac), assists people in the community, saves the lives of animals, and improves the health of pets through its shelter and adoptions…
The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…
Visit philadelphia is our name and our mission. as the region's official tourism marketing agency, we build greater philadelphia's image, drive visitation and boost the economy.
Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
The washington humane society protects animals, supports families, and advocates for positive change to create a world where all animals can thrive. we enrich the humanity of our communities by promoting compassion and encouraging people…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Finding Shelter Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 20 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 13% 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.
31 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 56 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 Lewa Wildlife Conservancy USA ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds MOTHERS OUT FRONT INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOME ↗
- Who funds READING TERMINAL MARKET CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds AMBOSELI TRUST FOR ELEPHANTS ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds SPEAK FOR THE TREES INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM TRIPPLEY YOUTH DEVELOPMENT FTD ↗
- Who funds THE BOMA PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS EDUCATION INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Brookline Arts Center ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE GUARDIANS ↗
- Who funds BROOKLINE FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds WRITERS WITHOUT MARGINS INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
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: 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
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 Family Charitable Trust Aka the Willard G Rouse III Memorial Tr 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Warrior Canine Connection Inc — 5% of income from government
- Speak for the Trees Inc — 2% of income from government
- Brookline Arts Center — 2% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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.