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.

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

Rouse Family Charitable Trust Aka the Willard G Rouse III Memorial Tr at a glance

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

Q: 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%).

Q: 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).

Q: 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.

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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$54k

Largest

01What it funds

0191% classified

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

02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k11 grants · $48k
$10k–50k2 grants · $25k
$50k–250k1 grant · $54k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.4M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
LEWA WILDLIFE CONSERVANCY	$54,000
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA	$15,000
MOTHERS OUT FRONT	$10,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CANADIAN	$5,000
PAWS	$5,000
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF	$5,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CHESTER PA	$5,000
CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK	$5,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN	$5,000
SAVE THE CHILDREN	$5,000
BROOKLINE ARTS CENTER	$5,000
PROJECT HOME	$3,000
SEACOAST WOMENS GIVING CIRCLE	$2,500
WILLIAM TRIPPLEY YOUTH DEV FOUND	$2,500

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

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

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

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

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$778k · 27 repeat orgs$120k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against -16% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$778k

$102k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%

-16%

Still filing today

63%

41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentInternationalArts & 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.

Backed again, and grew

LW
Lewa Wildlife Conservancy USA
9× · 2017–2025 · $436k · revenue +49%
AT
AMBOSELI TRUST FOR ELEPHANTS
2× · 2017–2018 · $20k · revenue +369%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
3× · 2023–2025 · $15k · revenue +36%

Funded once

FC
FOCUSED CONSERVATION SOLUTIONS
one grant, 2019 · $30k
RT
READING TERMINAL MARKET CORPORATIONgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +36%
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2021 · $5k

How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Worldwide Vets Incorporated

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,…

Animals

Food & Water Watch

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…

Food & Nutrition

The Water Research Foundation

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…

Environment

World Resources Institute

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…

International

Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International

Women's Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc

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…

Animals

Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

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…

Environment

Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation

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.

Community Improvement

Wildearth Guardians

Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.

Unclassified

Public Media Nj Inc

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

Arts & Culture

Washington Humane Society

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…

Animals

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

31/31

Grantees still filing

20/31

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Animals$472,500Other$196,500Education$95,500Environment$86,500Human Services$47,000International$47,000Philanthropy$37,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Rouse Family Charitable Trust Aka the Willard G Rouse III Memorial Tr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rouse Family Charitable Trust Aka the Willard G Rouse III Memorial Tr. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home