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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.

$301k
Granted FY2025still arriving
57
Grants FY2025still arriving
15
States reached
$37k
Largest
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Environment$749kArts & Culture$165kEducation$151kYouth Development$97kFood & Nutrition$94kAnimals$84kCrime & Legal$72kCivil Rights$51kOther$0
02FY2025 · 57 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k50 grants · $188k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $113k
$4,500
Median grant
15
States reached
$6.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$37,000
HOLISTIC LIFE FOUNDATION$20,250
GOAT IN THE ROAD$15,000
ADVOCATES FOR THE WEST$10,500
CHESAPEAKE CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK$10,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CANADIAN LAND T$10,000
JUDGE WILLIAMS CENTER FOR EDUCATION$10,000
LIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATION$9,000
CONSERVATION LANDS FOUNDATION$9,000
UNITED PALESTINIAN APPEAL$8,750
CHESAPEAKE BAY JOURNAL MEDIA INC$7,000
AMERICAN BIRD CONSERVANCY$7,000
BLUE WATER BALTIMORE$7,000
CHESAPEAKE LEGAL ALLIANCE$6,500
GRAND CANYON TRUST$6,500
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%YOUNG CENTER: $500 → 14%CHILD FIRST AUTHORITY: $10k → 19%CHILD FIRST AUTHORITY: $5k → 19%CHILD FIRST AUTHORITY: $2k → 19%CHILD FIRST AUTHORITY: $3k → 19%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
IL
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
NC
DC
LA
AL
TX
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 85 repeat orgs$186k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

85
54

Total granted

$1.8M
$160k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
0%

Still filing today

58%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentArts & CultureAnimalsHealthYouth DevelopmentEducationOther
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

  • HL
    HOLISTIC LIFE FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $110k · revenue +6%
  • CL
    Conservation Lands Foundation
    6× · 2020–2025 · $63k · revenue +62%
  • AF
    ADVOCATES FOR THE WEST INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +97%

Funded once

  • JA
    JUDGE ALEXANDER WILLIAMS JR CENTER FOR EDU JUSTICE AND ETHICS UMD
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • LF
    LSU FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +67%
  • LC
    LIVING CLASSROOM CAPITAL CAMPAIGN
    one grant, 2021 · $9k
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
Washington Wild

Washington wild protects and restores wild lands and waters in washington state through advocacy, education and civic engagement.

Animals
2
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
3
Wildcoast

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.…

Environment
4
Center for Environmental Law & Policy

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.

Environment
5
Wildearth Guardians

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

Unclassified
6
The Commons Inc

To partner with individuals and organizations to access, organize, and share data that inspires action that restores our environment.

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7
Western Rivers Conservancy

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…

Environment
8
The Potomac Conservancy Inc

Potomac conservancy safeguards the land and waters of the potomac river and its tributaries and connects people to this national treasure.

Environment
9
National Association of Clean Water Agencies

Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.

—
10
Cascadia Wildlands

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…

Environment
11
Northwest Environmental Defense Center

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 &…

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12
Greater Yellowstone Coalition

Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chesapeake Legal Alliance Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

76 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. 76 of the 148 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
73/76
Grantees still filing
46/76
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $240,250 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIDAHO CONSERVATION LEAGUE INC: $51,500 · OtherGOAT IN THE ROAD: $42,500 · Other+95 more: $792,375 · Other+95 moreConservation Lands Foundation: $62,500 · EnvironmentConservation Lands FoundationADVOCATES FOR THE WEST INC: $60,000 · EnvironmentADVOCATES FOR THE WEST INCCHESAPEAKE CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK INC: $60,000 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAKE CLIMATE ACTION NET…BLUE WATER BALTIMORE: $48,500 · EnvironmentBLUE WATER BALTIMORECHESAPEAKE LEGAL ALLIANCE INC: $37,000 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAKE LEGAL ALLIANCE INCSHORERIVERS INC: $36,500 · EnvironmentSHORERIVERS INCWATERKEEPERS CHESAPEAKE INC: $32,500 · EnvironmentWATERKEEPERS CHESAPEAKE INCTHE GRAND CANYON TRUST INC: $29,000 · EnvironmentTHE GRAND CANYON TRUST INCColumbia Riverkeeper: $24,500 · EnvironmentNEW MEXICO ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $24,000 · EnvironmentECOFLIGHT: $23,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN FRIENDS OF CANADIAN CONSERVATION: $22,500 · Environment+14 more: $66,250 · Environment+14 moreHOLISTIC LIFE FOUNDATION INC: $109,625 · Youth DevelopmentCHOOSE 180: $28,550 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ANNAPOLIS & ANNE ARUNDEL: $15,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $1,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHE AMERICAN VISIONARY ART MUSEUM INC: $29,000 · Arts & CultureTHE COMPOUND INC: $22,500 · Arts & CultureCREATIVE ALLIANCE INC: $8,500 · Arts & Culture516 Arts: $6,000 · Arts & CultureBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $5,500 · Arts & CultureBALTIMORE CLAYWORKS INC: $4,000 · Arts & CultureBALTIMORE PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION: $4,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $5,750 · Arts & CulturePIVOT WORKS INC: $33,000 · InternationalUNITED PALESTINIAN APPEAL INC: $8,750 · InternationalAmerican Bird Conservancy: $32,000 · AnimalsIdaho Humane Society Inc: $3,000 · AnimalsCENTER FOR A HUMANE ECONOMY INC: $2,000 · Animals+2 more: $2,250 · AnimalsANNE ARUNDEL CONFLICT RESOLUTION INC: $35,500 · Community Improvement+1 more: $450 · Community Improvement
Other$1,126,625Environment$526,250Youth Development$154,675Arts & Culture$85,250International$41,750Animals$39,250Community Improvement$35,950

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 budgetHOLISTIC LIFE FOUNDATION INC: $109,625 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetConservation Lands Foundation: $62,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetADVOCATES FOR THE WEST INC: $60,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCHESAPEAKE CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK INC: $60,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetIDAHO CONSERVATION LEAGUE INC: $51,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetBLUE WATER BALTIMORE: $48,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCHESAPEAKE LEGAL ALLIANCE INC: $37,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetSHORERIVERS INC: $36,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetANNE ARUNDEL CONFLICT RESOLUTION INC: $35,500 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetPIVOT WORKS INC: $33,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWATERKEEPERS CHESAPEAKE INC: $32,500 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetAmerican Bird Conservancy: $32,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN VISIONARY ART MUSEUM INC: $29,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GRAND CANYON TRUST INC: $29,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHOOSE 180: $28,550 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetColumbia Riverkeeper: $24,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetNEW MEXICO ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $24,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetECOFLIGHT: $23,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTHE COMPOUND INC: $22,500 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF CANADIAN CONSERVATION: $22,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCHILD FIRST AUTHORITY INC: $20,300 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetJUDGE ALEXANDER WILLIAMS JR CENTER FOR EDUCATION JUSTICE & ETH: $20,000 over 2y, 49% of budgetFARM ALLIANCE OF BALTIMORE INC: $18,750 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ANNAPOLIS & ANNE ARUNDEL: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAnne Arundel County Watershed Stewards Academy Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTUBMAN CENTER FOR HEALTH & FREEDOM: $12,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRED WOLF COALITION: $11,250 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetTHE PEREGRINE FUND INC: $10,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLSU FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARBORETUM FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCREATIVE ALLIANCE INC: $8,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBAY JOURNAL MEDIA INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetINTERSECTION OF CHANGE INC: $6,125 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCreative City Public Charter School Foundation Inc: $6,125 over 1y, 0.1% of budget516 Arts: $6,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPAUL'S PLACE INC: $6,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMULTIPLIER: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR WHALE RESEARCH: $5,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetREDSIDE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetIDAHO OUTFITTERS & GUIDE ASSOC INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetHOMELESS PERSONS REPRESENTATION PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBALTIMORE CLAYWORKS INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBALTIMORE PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN HOUSES INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGrand Canyon River Guides Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetARUNDEL RIVERS FEDERATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW MEXICO CHILD ADVOCACY NETWORKS: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

  • 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 AMERICAN VISIONARY ART MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds THE GRAND CANYON TRUST 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 ↗

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.

The Abell Foundation IncMD37× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
20report 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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Find your warmest path to The Rouse Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 148 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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