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Rouse Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DIRECT RELIEF | $6,000 |
| CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA | $4,800 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION INC | $4,200 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA INC | $3,200 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $3,000 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION INC | $3,000 |
| ONE ACRE FUND | $2,700 |
| AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION | $2,700 |
| NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION | $2,700 |
| HUNGER FREE AMERICA | $2,600 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA INC | $2,500 |
| COLA-COURTE OREILLES LAKES ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
| ALLIANCE FOR THE GREAT LAKES | $2,100 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $2,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% of your 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.
25 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 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
- CRCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $62k · revenue +43%
DIRECT RELIEF8× · 2018–2025 · $42k · revenue +94%- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $37k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- DRDIRECT RELIEF - US HEADQUARTERSone grant, 2017 · $4k
- CCCOLA COURTE OREILLES FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $3k
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.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…
RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.
Crisis group works to prevent and resolve deadly conflict around the world by informing and influencing the perceptions and actions of policymakers and other key conflict actors. to this end, we endeavour to talk to all sides and provide…
Water for people exists to develop high quality water and sanitation, accessible to all, and sustained by strong communities, businesses, and governments, working in ten countries; guatemala, honduras, tanzania, peru, bolivia, uganda,…
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…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Forest Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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 41 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.
23 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. 23 of the 27 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 CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ONE ACRE FUND ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUNGER FREE AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR THE GREAT LAKES ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds COURTE OREILLES LAKES ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Against Malaria Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds ADOPT-A-CLASSROOM INC ↗
- Who funds CLEAN WATER FUND ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds ORGANIZATION FOR AUTISM RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds MINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Rouse Family 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Americares Foundation 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.
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