· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
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
How this is measured
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
- JAJUDGE ALEXANDER WILLIAMS JR CENTER FOR EDU JUSTICE AND ETHICS UMDone grant, 2020 · $10k
- LFLSU FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +67%
- LCLIVING CLASSROOM CAPITAL CAMPAIGNone 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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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.
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
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.
- 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
How this is measured
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