How much does Rouse Family Foundation give?

Rouse Family Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $57,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Rouse Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (31%), Health (22%), Education (16%).

Who are Rouse Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Cancer Research Institute Inc ($62k), Direct Relief ($42k), American Heart Association Inc ($37k).

Does Rouse Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Rouse Family Foundation 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.

Where is Rouse Family Foundation based?

Rouse Family Foundation is based in MN.

Rouse Family Foundation

Rouse Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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.

$58k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$6k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$148kHealth$106kEducation$77kEnvironment$74kAnimals$23kFood & Nutrition$19kCrime & Legal$9kYouth Development$7kOther$0

02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,600

Median grant

States reached

$1.1M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION	$2,700
AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION	$2,700
HUNGER FREE AMERICA	$2,600
COLA-COURTE OREILLES LAKES ASSOCIATION	$2,500
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA INC	$2,500
ALLIANCE FOR THE GREAT LAKES	$2,100
SAMARITAN'S PURSE	$2,000

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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% of its 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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$472k · 25 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else

25 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$472k

$7k

Still filing today

92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalHealthEnvironmentEducationAnimalsRecreation & SportsOther

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

CR
CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $62k · revenue +43%
DIRECT RELIEF
8× · 2018–2025 · $42k · revenue +94%
AH
American Heart Association Inc
9× · 2017–2025 · $37k · revenue +33%

Funded once

DR
DIRECT RELIEF - US HEADQUARTERS
one grant, 2017 · $4k
CC
COLA COURTE OREILLES FOUNDATION
one grant, 2020 · $3k

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.

Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment

Observer Research Foundation America

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…

International

Rainforest Alliance Inc

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.

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Actionaid Usa

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…

Social Science

American Water Works Association

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.

Public Benefit

American Association for the Advancement of Science

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,…

Science & Tech

Rainforest Alliance Holding Inc

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.

Environment

International Crisis Group

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…

International

Water for People

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,…

International

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

Rainforest Trust

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

International

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Forest Foundation; 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.

04the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 27 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)

23/23

Grantees still filing

20/23

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

International$123,700Health$115,700Other$127,200Education$35,900Environment$30,100Animals$23,113Recreation & Sports$23,100

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Rouse Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rouse Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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

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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