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The Rouse Family Foundation at a glance

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The 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.

$205k
Granted FY2021
9
Grants FY2021
4
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Health$793kReligion$407kEducation$351kPhilanthropy$133kHuman Services$101kYouth Development$45kPublic Safety & Disaster$15kArts & Culture$10kOther$0
02FY2021 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k3 grants · $4k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $76k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $125k
$20,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$3k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HIGHLAND PARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$75,000
LEES-MCRAE COLLEGE INCORPORATED$50,000
H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE$25,000
HIGH COUNTRY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC$21,000
SENIOR CITIZENS OF GREATER DALLAS INC$20,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE COASTAL PLAIN INC$10,000
MOMMIES IN NEED INC$1,500
CHILDRENS HOSPITAL COLORADO$1,000
LEES-MCRAE COLLEGE INCORPORATED$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $5k → 14%MOMMIES IN NEED INC: $2k → 14%MOMMIES IN NEED INC: $1k → 14%MOMMIES IN NEED INC: $2k → 14%MOMMIES IN NEED INC: $1k → 14%BEVP: $500 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 10 repeat orgs$708k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2021, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
20

Total granted

$1.2M
$707k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+68%
+82%

Still filing today

50%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
EducationHealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsEmploymentOther
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

  • LC
    LEES-MCRAE COLLEGE INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $272k · revenue +25%
  • HL
    H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC
    3× · 2018–2021 · $226k · revenue +68%
  • TH
    The High Country Charitable Foundation
    5× · 2017–2021 · $80k · revenue +129%

Funded once

  • GC
    GREENE COUNTY
    one grant, 2019 · $200k
  • HL
    H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER & RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $188k · revenue +96%
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS CENTER FOR BRAI
    one grant, 2018 · $175k
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.

1
Dallas Citizens Council

To lead and serve in the moments that matter the most for the people of dallas.

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2
Holy Cross Hospital Inc

We, holy cross hospital and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. holy cross hospital is a member of trinity health.

Health
3
Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council

The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.

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4
America's Essential Hospitals

America's essential hospitals champions excellence in health care for all, regardless of social or economic circumstance, and advances the work of hospitals and health systems committed to ensuring access to care and optimal health for…

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5
Medical Center of Central Georgia Inc

To enhance the health status of those we serve in partnership with medical staff and other community organizations by providing wellness services, health education, training, and access to safe high quality health care services.

Health
6
Hospice & Palliative Care Charlotte Region

Our mission is to relieve suffering and improve the quality and dignity of life through compassionate hospice care at the end of life, palliative care for those with advanced illness, and through community education.

Human Services
7
Conway Hospital Community Services

Conway hospital community services provides outpatient health care services to horry county and the surrounding community in conjunction with conway hospital, inc., a non-profit acute care hospital system.

Health
8
Four County Comprehensive Mental Health Center Inc

Dedicated to holistic care given with compassion, respect, acceptance and hope. achieving emotional well being and independence.

Health
9
University of Florida Health Corporation

UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…

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10
Memorial Hermann Medical Group

Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…

Health
11
Health Care Without Harm

The mission of health care without harm (hcwh) is to transform health care worldwide so that it reduces its environmental footprint, becomes a community anchor for sustainability and a leader in the global movement for environmental health…

Environment
12
Cook Children's Medical Center

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Charles a Cannon Jr Memorial Hospital Inc; the most unlike its peers is Bevp Birds Eye View Project. 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

21 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. 21 of the 31 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/21
Grantees still filing
17/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HIGHLAND PARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $399,999 · OtherHIGHLAND PARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCHGREENE COUNTY: $200,000 · OtherGREENE COUNTYTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS CENTER FOR BRAI: $175,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS CENTER FOR BRAITHE UNIV OF TEXAS AT DALLAS CTR FOR BRAIN HEALTH: $75,000 · OtherTHE UNIV OF TEXAS AT DALLAS CTR FOR BRAIN HEALTHSENIOR CITIZENS OF GREATER DALLAS INC: $72,500 · OtherSENIOR CITIZENS OF GREATER DALLAS INCDALLAS FOUNDATION A TX NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $55,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE COASTAL PLAIN: $45,000 · Other+7 more: $56,000 · OtherH LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $225,500 · HealthH LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENT…H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER & RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $187,500 · HealthH LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENT…+2 more: $2,000 · HealthLEES-MCRAE COLLEGE INC: $271,500 · EducationLEES-MCRAE COLLE…+3 more: $4,500 · EducationThe High Country Charitable Foundation: $79,750 · PhilanthropyTHE BROTHERS' PROJECT INC: $5,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $500 · PhilanthropyAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 · Human ServicesMOMMIES IN NEED: $5,000 · Human ServicesBEVP Birds Eye View Project: $500 · Human ServicesGREENE COUNTY INTERFAITH VOLUNTEERS: $10,000 · Public Safety & DisasterJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF DALLAS: $2,500 · Recreation & SportsAVERY ASSOCIATION FOR EXCEPTIONAL CITIZENS: $1,000 · Employment
Other$1,078,499Health$415,000Education$276,000Philanthropy$85,250Human Services$10,500Public Safety & Disaster$10,000Recreation & Sports$2,500Employment$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLEES-MCRAE COLLEGE INC: $271,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetH LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $225,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetH LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER & RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $187,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe High Country Charitable Foundation: $79,750 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetSENIOR CITIZENS OF GREATER DALLAS INC: $72,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE COASTAL PLAIN: $45,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetGREENE COUNTY INTERFAITH VOLUNTEERS: $10,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetTHE BROTHERS' PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOMMIES IN NEED: $5,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetDALLAS 24 HOUR CLUB INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICA CAN DBA TEXANS CAN: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF DALLAS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHorse Helpers Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTEXAS WOMANS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAVERY ASSOCIATION FOR EXCEPTIONAL CITIZENS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLES A CANNON JR MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Hillcrest FoundationEnterprise Holdings F…Communities Foundatio…Texas Instruments Fou…Raymond James Charita…Duke Energy FoundationThe Bank of America C…The Blackbaud Giving …American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…
Hillcrest FoundationTX13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hillcrest Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Duke Energy Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get 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 · 0–25%
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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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