· Private foundation
The Rouse Family Foundation Inc
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k50 grants · $188k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $113k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $37,000 |
| HOLISTIC LIFE FOUNDATION | $20,250 |
| GOAT IN THE ROAD | $15,000 |
| ADVOCATES FOR THE WEST | $10,500 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CANADIAN LAND T | $10,000 |
| JUDGE WILLIAMS CENTER FOR EDUCATION | $10,000 |
| CHESAPEAKE CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK | $10,000 |
| CONSERVATION LANDS FOUNDATION | $9,000 |
| LIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATION | $9,000 |
| UNITED PALESTINIAN APPEAL | $8,750 |
| AMERICAN BIRD CONSERVANCY | $7,000 |
| BLUE WATER BALTIMORE | $7,000 |
| CHESAPEAKE BAY JOURNAL MEDIA INC | $7,000 |
| GRAND CANYON TRUST | $6,500 |
| CHESAPEAKE LEGAL ALLIANCE | $6,500 |
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 (FY20–25, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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 +33% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
85 repeat relationships — 48 still active in FY2025, 37 since wound down; 9 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
- HLHOLISTIC LIFE FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $110k · revenue +6%
- CLConservation Lands Foundation6× · 2020–2025 · $63k · revenue +62%
- AFADVOCATES FOR THE WEST INC6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +97%
Funded once
- LFLSU FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +67%
- JAJUDGE ALEXANDER WILLIAMS JR CENTER FOR EDU JUSTICE AND ETHICS UMDone grant, 2020 · $10k
- LCLIVING CLASSROOM CAPITAL CAMPAIGNone grant, 2021 · $9k
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.
Washington wild protects and restores wild lands and waters in washington state through advocacy, education and civic engagement.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
The mission of wildcoast is to conserve coastal and marine ecosystems and address climate change through natural solutions. our staff is dedicated to conserving threatened and endangered coastlines and wildlife in california and mexico.…
The Center for Environmental Law & Policy is a statewide organization whose mission is to protect, preserve and restore Washington's waters through education, advocacy, policy reform, and public interest litigation.
Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.
To partner with individuals and organizations to access, organize, and share data that inspires action that restores our environment.
Western rivers conservancy's mission is to protect outstanding river ecosystems in the western united states. continued on schedule o.we acquire land to conserve critical habitat, provide public access for compatible use and enjoyment, and…
Potomac conservancy safeguards the land and waters of the potomac river and its tributaries and connects people to this national treasure.
Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.
Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…
Nedc's mission is to work toward a future in which the pacific northwest leads the nation in developing, implementing & enforcing strong laws and regulations that protect the environment & human health, and where our governments &…
Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chesapeake Legal Alliance Inc and the most unlike its peers is Judge Alexander Williams Jr Center for Education Justice & Eth. 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 25 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
76 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. 76 of the 148 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 HOLISTIC LIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Conservation Lands Foundation ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR THE WEST INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds IDAHO CONSERVATION LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE WATER BALTIMORE ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE LEGAL ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds SHORERIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds ANNE ARUNDEL CONFLICT RESOLUTION INC ↗
- Who funds PIVOT WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds WATERKEEPERS CHESAPEAKE INC ↗
- Who funds American Bird Conservancy ↗
- Who funds THE GRAND CANYON TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN VISIONARY ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds CHOOSE 180 ↗
- Who funds Columbia Riverkeeper ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds ECOFLIGHT ↗
- Who funds THE COMPOUND INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CANADIAN CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds CHILD FIRST AUTHORITY INC ↗
- Who funds JUDGE ALEXANDER WILLIAMS JR CENTER FOR EDUCATION JUSTICE & ETH ↗
- Who funds FARM ALLIANCE OF BALTIMORE 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: The Abell Foundation Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · Patagoniaorg · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Clayton Baker Trust · The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment Inc · The Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · The Morris Goldseker Foundation of Maryland Inc · Kentfields Foundation · The Bunting Family 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 The Rouse Family Foundation Inc 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.
- Paul's Place Inc — 29% of income from government
- Anne Arundel Conflict Resolution Inc — 26% of income from government
- Intersection of Change Inc — 20% of income from government
- Arundel Rivers Federation Inc — 19% of income from government
- Shorerivers Inc — 13% of income from government
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc — 11% of income from government
- The American Visionary Art Museum Inc — 6% of income from government
- Baltimore Clayworks Inc — 5% of income from government
- Baltimore Museum of Art — 4% of income from government
- Columbia Riverkeeper — 1% of income from government
- Holistic Life 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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