Funding search · EIN 526074744 · Upperco, MD

The Rouse Family Foundation

Name: The Rouse Family Foundation grants, 2022–2025
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

246
grants reported: $1.4M
total given: 2022–2025
filing years: $5,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2025. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

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Funding pattern

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Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Transit Choices4 grants · $157,250
Holistic Life Foundation4 grants · $69,625
Goat in the Road4 grants · $42,500
Conservation Lands Foundation4 grants · $42,000
Advocates for the West4 grants · $40,000
Chesapeake Climate Action Network4 grants · $40,000
Chesapeake Bay Journal Media4 grants · $34,000
Blue Water Baltimore4 grants · $32,000
American Friends of Canadian Land T3 grants · $31,600
Judge Williams Center for Education3 grants · $30,000

Giving over time

$385,250

2022

$367,700

2023

$315,000

2024

$301,000

2025

Grant history

The 100 largest of 246 grants.

$46,750
Transit Choices · Baltimore, MD · 2022
Unrestricted
$37,000
Transit Choices · Baltimore, MD · 2025
Unrestricted
$37,000
Transit Choices · Baltimore, MD · 2023
Unrestricted
$36,500
Transit Choices · Baltimore, MD · 2024
Unrestricted
$21,750
Holistic Life Foundation · Baltimore, MD · 2024
Unrestricted
$20,250
Holistic Life Foundation · Baltimore, MD · 2025
Unrestricted
$19,250
Holistic Life Foundation · Baltimore, MD · 2023
Unrestricted
$15,000
Goat in the Road · Montgomery, AL · 2025
Unrestricted
$13,000
Conservation Lands Foundation · Durango, CO · 2023
Unrestricted
$11,500
American Friends of Canadian Land Trusts - for Magnetawan Watershed Land Tr · Bellingham, WA · 2022
Unrestricted
$11,100
American Friends of Canadian Land T · Bellingham, WA · 2024
Unrestricted
$11,000
Conservation Lands Foundation · Durango, CO · 2022
Unrestricted
$10,500
Advocates for the West · Boise, ID · 2025
Unrestricted
$10,500
American Friends of Canadian Land T · Bellingham, WA · 2023
Unrestricted
$10,000
American Friends of Canadian Land T · Bellingham, WA · 2025
Unrestricted
$10,000
Chesapeake Climate Action Network · Takoma Park, MD · 2025
Unrestricted
$10,000
Judge Williams Center for Education · College Park, MD · 2025
Unrestricted
$10,000
Audubon Mid-Atlantic · Baltimore, MD · 2024
Unrestricted
$10,000
Chesapeake Climate Action Network · Takoma Park, MD · 2024
Unrestricted
$10,000
Judge Williams Center for Education · College Park, MD · 2024
Unrestricted
$10,000
New Mexico Environmental Law Ctr · Albuquerque, NM · 2024
Unrestricted
$10,000
Advocates for the West · Boise, ID · 2023
Unrestricted
$10,000
Audubon Mid-Atlantic · Baltimore, MD · 2023
Unrestricted
$10,000
Blue Water Baltimore · Baltimore, MD · 2023
Unrestricted
$10,000
Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center · Annapolis, MD · 2023
Unrestricted
$10,000
Chesapeake Bay Journal Media · Seven Valleys, PA · 2023
Unrestricted
$10,000
Chesapeake Climate Action Network · Takoma Park, MD · 2023
Unrestricted
$10,000
Child First Authority · Baltimore, MD · 2023
Unrestricted
$10,000
Farm Alliance of Baltimore · Baltimore, MD · 2023
Unrestricted
$10,000
Idaho Conservation League · Boise, ID · 2023
Unrestricted
$10,000
Judge Williams Center for Education · College Park, MD · 2023
Unrestricted
$10,000
Living Classrooms Foundation · Baltimore, MD · 2023
Unrestricted
$10,000
North Avenue Mission · Baltimore, MD · 2023
Unrestricted
$10,000
Shorerivers · Easton, MD · 2023
Unrestricted
$10,000
Waterkeeper Chesapeake · Takoma Park, MD · 2023
Unrestricted
$10,000
Advocates for the West · Boise, ID · 2022
Unrestricted
$10,000
Anne Arundel Conflict Resolution · Annapolis, MD · 2022
Unrestricted
$10,000
Blue Water Baltimore · Baltimore, MD · 2022
Unrestricted
$10,000
Chesapeake Bay Journal Media · Seven Valleys, PA · 2022
Unrestricted
$10,000
Chesapeake Climate Action Network · Takoma Park, MD · 2022
Unrestricted
$10,000
Chesapeake Legal Alliance · Annapolis, MD · 2022
Unrestricted
$10,000
Choose 180 · Burien, WA · 2022
Unrestricted
$10,000
Idaho Conservation League · Boise, ID · 2022
Unrestricted
$10,000
Judge Alexander Williams Jr Center for Education Justice and Ethics · College Park, MD · 2022
Unrestricted
$10,000
Living Classrooms Foundation Robin Norton Memorial Fund · Baltimore, MD · 2022
Unrestricted
$10,000
Patterson Park Audubon Center · Baltimore, MD · 2022
Unrestricted
$9,500
Advocates for the West · Boise, ID · 2024
Unrestricted
$9,500
Goat in the Road · Montgomery, AL · 2024
Unrestricted
$9,500
Idaho Conservation League · Boise, ID · 2024
Unrestricted
$9,375
Goat in the Road · Montgomery, AL · 2022
Unrestricted
$9,000
Conservation Lands Foundation · Durango, CO · 2025
Unrestricted
$9,000
Living Classrooms Foundation · Baltimore, MD · 2025
Unrestricted
$9,000
Conservation Lands Foundation · Durango, CO · 2024
Unrestricted
$8,750
United Palestinian Appeal · Washington, DC · 2025
Unrestricted
$8,750
Farm Alliance of Baltimore · Baltimore, MD · 2022
Unrestricted
$8,650
Ghassan Abu Sittah Childrens Fund · 2024
Unrestricted
$8,625
Goat in the Road · Montgomery, AL · 2023
Unrestricted
$8,375
Holistic Life Foundation · Baltimore, MD · 2022
Unrestricted
$7,550
Choose 180 · Seattle, WA · 2023
Unrestricted
$7,500
Faith Crusade Montgomery Rescue Mission · Montgomery, AL · 2022
Unrestricted
$7,000
American Bird Conservancy · The Plains, VA · 2025
Unrestricted
$7,000
Blue Water Baltimore · Baltimore, MD · 2025
Unrestricted
$7,000
Chesapeake Bay Journal Media · Seven Valleys, PA · 2025
Unrestricted
$7,000
Chesapeake Bay Journal Media · Seven Valleys, PA · 2024
Unrestricted
$7,000
Pivot · Boston, MA · 2022
Unrestricted
$6,500
Chesapeake Legal Alliance · Annapolis, MD · 2025
Unrestricted
$6,500
Grand Canyon Trust · Flagstaff, AZ · 2025
Unrestricted
$6,500
Chesapeake Legal Alliance · Annapolis, MD · 2024
Unrestricted
$6,500
Living Classrooms Foundation · Baltimore, MD · 2024
Unrestricted
$6,125
13th Girl · Baltimore, MD · 2022
Unrestricted
$6,125
Creative City Public Charter School Fdn · Baltimore, MD · 2022
Unrestricted
$6,125
Intersection of Change · Baltimore, MD · 2022
Unrestricted
$6,000
Waverly Improvement Center · Baltimore, MD · 2025
Unrestricted
$6,000
Grand Canyon Trust · Flagstaff, AZ · 2024
Unrestricted
$6,000
Anne Arundel Conflict Resolution · Annapolis, MD · 2023
Unrestricted
$6,000
Chesapeake Legal Alliance · Annapolis, MD · 2023
Unrestricted
$6,000
Grand Canyon Trust · Flagstaff, AZ · 2023
Unrestricted
$6,000
New Mexico Environmental Law Ctr · Albuquerque, NM · 2023
Unrestricted
$6,000
Pivot · Randolph, MA · 2023
Unrestricted
$5,500
Audubon Mid-Atlantic · Baltimore, MD · 2025
Unrestricted
$5,500
Shorerivers · Easton, MD · 2025
Restricted
$5,500
Annapolis Area Ministries · Annapolis, MD · 2024
Unrestricted
$5,500
Anne Arundel Conflict Resolution · Annapolis, MD · 2024
Unrestricted
$5,500
Boys Girls Club of Annapolis · Annapolis, MD · 2024
Unrestricted
$5,500
Shorerivers · Easton, MD · 2024
Restricted
$5,500
Brown Memorial Tutoring Program · Baltimore, MD · 2023
Unrestricted
$5,500
Waverly Improvement Center · Baltimore, MD · 2023
Unrestricted
$5,500
Brown Memorial Tutoring Program · Baltimore, MD · 2022
Unrestricted
$5,500
Shore Rivers · Easton, MD · 2022
Unrestricted
$5,000
Annapolis Area Ministries · Annapolis, MD · 2025
Unrestricted
$5,000
Anne Arundel Watershed Academy · Millersville, MD · 2025
Unrestricted
$5,000
Boys Girls Club of Annapolis · Annapolis, MD · 2025
Unrestricted
$5,000
Central Area Motivation Program · Seattle, WA · 2025
Unrestricted
$5,000
Columbia Riverkeeper · Hood River, OR · 2025
Unrestricted
$5,000
Delaware Md Synod of the Evangelica · Catonsville, MD · 2025
Unrestricted
$5,000
Ecoflight · Aspen, CO · 2025
Unrestricted
$5,000
New Mexico Environmental Law Ctr · Albuquerque, NM · 2025
Unrestricted
$5,000
Pivot · Randolph, MA · 2025
Unrestricted
$5,000
Tubman Center for Health Freedom · Seattle, WA · 2025
Unrestricted
$5,000
American Bird Conservancy · The Plains, VA · 2024
Unrestricted

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Source: IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV, as filed by the foundation. These are grants already paid — a record of what this funder backs, not an open call.