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Bellevue Rotary Foundation

To promote community service and social welfare.

$120k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Food & Nutrition$122kHousing & Shelter$84kHealth$79kInternational$79kEducation$27kPublic Safety & Disaster$26kHuman Services$22kArts & Culture$18kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 14 grants below total $64,450 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $120,201 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $55,751 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HARVEST AGAINST HUNGER$9,950
THE SOPHIA WAY$5,800
ACRES OF DIAMONDS$5,000
KIDVANTAGE$5,000
PORCHLIGHT INC$5,000
SEATTLE HUMANE SOCIETY$5,000
KINDERING CENTER$5,000
KING COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM FOUNDATION$5,000
BACKPACK BRIGADE$4,500
THEATER33$3,000
UKRANIAN SCHOOL VYRIY$3,000
BELLEVUE SCHOOL DISTRICT$3,000
BELLEVUE FIRE FOUNDATION$2,700
ATWORK$2,500
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $57k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%LIFEWIRE: $3k → 9%THE SOPHIA WAY: $20k → 9%THE SOPHIA WAY: $10k → 9%THE SOPHIA WAY: $6k → 9%HOPELINK: $5k → 9%ATWORK: $3k → 9%KIDVANTAGE: $5k → 9%ISSAQUAH FOOD & CLOTHING BANK: $5k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Grants abroad, by region — $15k on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Sub-Saharan Africa$15k · 100% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: CENTER FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY AND APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY FOR THE ENVIRONMENT

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$237k · 10 repeat orgs$193k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
25

Total granted

$237k
$162k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+3%

Still filing today

100%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthPublic Safety & DisasterArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • TS
    THE SOPHIA WAY
    3× · 2021–2025 · $36k · revenue +3%
  • BM
    Backpack Meals for Kids
    3× · 2021–2024 · $26k · revenue +321%
  • AO
    Acres of Diamonds
    2× · 2020–2025 · $25k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • YE
    Youth Eastside Servicesgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +80%
  • TB
    THE BELLEVUE POLICE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $19k · revenue +267%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF YOUTH
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue -6%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Bike Works Seattle

Bike Works promotes the bicycle as a vehicle for change to empower youth and build resilient communities.

Recreation & Sports
2
Emergency Medical Services at the University of Washington
Health
3
Futurewise

Futurewise works throughout Washington state to encourage healthy, equitable and opportunity-rich communities, and to protect our most valuable farmlands, forests and water resources through wise land use policies and practices.

Environment
4
Re Sources

RE Sources mobilizes people of Northwest Washington to build just and thriving communities and to protect the land, water, and climate on which we all depend.

Environment
5
West Seattle Food Bank

West Seattle Food Bank strengthens the community through the power of neighbors helping neighbors, working to ensure all in our community have access to the essential necessities of living.

Food & Nutrition
6
We Heart Seattle

We Heart Seattle is an action-based, boots-on-the-ground movement that organizes trash cleanups in our public spaces and offers resources to those in need. Through our direct civic engagement we lead the way to a more compassionate and…

Community Improvement
7
House Our Neighbors

House Our Neighbors envisions a future where all people can afford to live and thrive in vibrant, cohesive, and climate resilient communities. To achieve this, we develop, advocate, and mobilize for policy to realize social housing for the…

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8
Economic Opportunity Institute

Equip the public and public decision-makers with the policy research and practical tools they need to embed the values of fairness, care, and opportunity into the foundations of Washington's economy.

Community Improvement
9
Renewal Food Bank

Renewal Food Bank provides food to needy and economically vulnerable individuals who live in Bellevue, Washington and surrounding communities

Human Services
10
Washington Bikes

Washington Bikes works to ensure that all who ride a bicycle in Washington have safe comfortable and convenient places to ride. Organization advocates for bicyclists rights and shapes policies.

Recreation & Sports
11
Eastside Legal Assistance Program

Eastside Legal Assistance Program (ELAP) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to making the legal system more accessible to those most in need by providing free or low-cost yet high quality civil legal services to low-income residents of…

Crime & Legal
12
Feeding Washington

Create a strong and effective statewide infrastructure that efficiently leverages resources to expand capacity in Washington State's Feeding America network.

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Overlake Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Ukrainian Cultural Center Toloka. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFood Banks and Emergency As…Faith-Based Healthcare Syst…Early Childhood Development…Live Performance Arts Organ…Youth Music Education & Per…Member-Based Social ClubsIndependent Early Childhood…Ethnic Cultural Heritage Or…International Development A…Affordable Housing Developm…Youth & Family Support Serv…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 31 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr15%9%5–10yr19%24%10–20yr19%21%20–35yr12%30%35–55yr12%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr15%3%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr19%17%20–35yr12%49%35–55yr12%12%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/44
the rest of the field
14%
1,719/12,695

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.

04the grantee network

42 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. 42 of the 44 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/42
Grantees still filing
25/42
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HARVEST AGAINST HUNGER — $59,850 · OtherHARVEST AGAINST HUNGERBackpack Meals for Kids — $26,000 · OtherBackpack Meals for KidsBELLEVUE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INC — $10,000 · OtherBELLEVUE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INCROTACARE INTERNATIONAL INC PUGET SOUND — $10,000 · OtherROTACARE INTERNATIONAL INC PUGET SOUNDBellevue Fire Department — $6,500 · OtherTHE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNTY — $15,200 · OtherTHE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNT…THEATRE33 — $7,750 · OtherThe Big Table — $10,000 · OtherThe Big Table+12 more — $37,000 · Other+12 moreAcres of Diamonds — $25,000 · HealthAcres of DiamondsOVERLAKE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $20,500 · HealthOVERLAKE HOSPITAL F…Youth Eastside Services — $20,000 · HealthYouth Eastside Serv…FRIENDS OF YOUTH — $15,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF YOUTHNAMI Eastside — $6,000 · HealthNAMI EastsideTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL — $76,740 · InternationalTHE ROTARY FOUNDA…THE SOPHIA WAY — $35,800 · Human ServicesTHE SOPHIA WAYHOPELINK — $15,000 · Human ServicesHOPELINKKIDVANTAGE — $5,000 · Human ServicesKIDVANTAGEISSAQUAH FOOD AND CLOTHING BANK — $5,000 · Human ServicesISSAQUAH FOOD …LifeWire — $3,300 · Human ServicesATWORK — $2,500 · Human ServicesJubilee REACH — $17,000 · EducationJubilee RE…King County Library System Foundation — $15,000 · EducationKing Count…Wisecamps — $4,500 · EducationWisecampsBELLEVUE COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $4,000 · EducationBELLEVUE C…Ukrainian Cultural Center Toloka — $3,000 · EducationUkrainian …Leadership Eastside A Washington Nonprofit Corporation — $2,530 · EducationPACIFIC MODEL UNITED NATIONS — $2,000 · EducationTHE BELLEVUE POLICE FOUNDATION — $19,100 · Public Safety & DisasterNO MORE UNDER — $4,500 · Public Safety & DisasterBELLEVUE FIRE FOUNDATION — $2,700 · Public Safety & DisasterCONGREGATIONS FOR THE HOMELESS — $15,000 · Housing & ShelterPORCHLIGHT INC — $5,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$182,300Health$86,500International$76,740Human Services$66,600Education$48,030Public Safety & Disaster$26,300Housing & Shelter$20,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL — $76,740 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHARVEST AGAINST HUNGER — $59,850 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SOPHIA WAY — $35,800 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBackpack Meals for Kids — $26,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetAcres of Diamonds — $25,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetOVERLAKE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $20,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYouth Eastside Services — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BELLEVUE POLICE FOUNDATION — $19,100 over 1y, 15% of budgetJubilee REACH — $17,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNTY — $15,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF YOUTH — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPELINK — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONGREGATIONS FOR THE HOMELESS — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKing County Library System Foundation — $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Big Table — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBELLEVUE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHEATRE33 — $7,750 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetNAMI Eastside — $6,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSPLASHFORWARD — $5,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetISSAQUAH FOOD AND CLOTHING BANK — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLAKE WASHINGTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetWisecamps — $4,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetNO MORE UNDER — $4,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBELLEVUE COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLifeWire — $3,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUkrainian Cultural Center Toloka — $3,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetBellevue Sunrise Rotary Foundation — $3,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetLeadership Eastside A Washington Nonprofit Corporation — $2,530 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHELPING OUR MINIATURE EQUINES — $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBridge Ministries Bridge Disability Ministries — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRAINIER ATHLETES — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetATWORK — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEASTSIDE HERITAGE CENTER — $2,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPACIFIC MODEL UNITED NATIONS — $2,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetATTAIN HOUSING — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF BELLEVUE BREAKFAST — $1,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budget
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.

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.

Puget Sound Energy Fo…Seattle FoundationThe Norcliffe Foundat…United Way of King Co…Liberty Mutual Founda…Aven FoundationMoccasin Lake Foundat…Byron & Alice Lockwoo…Thurston Charitable F…Ellison FoundationGlassybaby White Ligh…Kidvantage
Puget Sound Energy FoundationDE49.5× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Seattle Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · United Way of King County · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Aven Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Byron & Alice Lockwood Foundation · Thurston Charitable Foundation · Ellison Foundation · Glassybaby White Light Fund · Kidvantage

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 Bellevue Rotary Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 44 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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