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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 14 grants below total $64,450, the rows itemized in this filing. The $120,201 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $55,751 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
KING COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM FOUNDATION$5,000
PORCHLIGHT INC$5,000
SEATTLE HUMANE SOCIETY$5,000
KINDERING CENTER$5,000
KIDVANTAGE$5,000
BACKPACK BRIGADE$4,500
UKRANIAN SCHOOL VYRIY$3,000
THEATER33$3,000
BELLEVUE SCHOOL DISTRICT$3,000
BELLEVUE FIRE FOUNDATION$2,700
ATWORK$2,500
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 (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 its 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
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.

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

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. 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +3% for those 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
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

  • 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%
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
Emergency Medical Services at the University of Washington
Health
2
Bike Works Seattle

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

Recreation & Sports
3
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
4
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
5
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
6
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
7
Renewal Food Bank

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

Human Services
8
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
9
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
10
Recovery Cafe Skagit

Provide a safe, healing, and restorative community that empowers long-term transformation through human connection for those recovering from the trauma of homelessness, addictions, and mental health challenges.

Education
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
Nourish Pierce County

To provide food to individuals in need with compassion, dignity and respect. No one needing assistance is turned away.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bellevue Boys & Girls Clubs Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

42 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. 42 of the 44 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/42
Grantees still filing
24/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HARVEST AGAINST HUNGER: $59,850 · OtherHARVEST AGAINST HUNGERBackpack Meals for Kids: $26,000 · OtherBackpack Meals for KidsROTACARE INTERNATIONAL INC PUGET SOUND: $10,000 · OtherROTACARE INTERNATIONAL INC PUGET SOUNDBELLEVUE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INC: $10,000 · OtherBELLEVUE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INCBellevue 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 ServicesHOPELINKISSAQUAH FOOD AND CLOTHING BANK: $5,000 · Human ServicesISSAQUAH FOOD …KIDVANTAGE: $5,000 · Human ServicesKIDVANTAGELifeWire: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetKing County Library System Foundation: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCONGREGATIONS FOR THE HOMELESS: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOPELINK: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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 budgetISSAQUAH FOOD AND CLOTHING BANK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLAKE WASHINGTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSPLASHFORWARD: $5,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetWisecamps: $4,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetNO MORE UNDER: $4,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBACKPACK BRIGADE: $4,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBELLEVUE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLifeWire: $3,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBellevue Sunrise Rotary Foundation: $3,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetUkrainian Cultural Center Toloka: $3,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetLeadership Eastside A Washington Nonprofit Corporation: $2,530 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetATWORK: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAINIER ATHLETES: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBridge Ministries Bridge Disability Ministries: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHELPING OUR MINIATURE EQUINES: $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetEASTSIDE HERITAGE CENTER: $2,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPACIFIC MODEL UNITED NATIONS: $2,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF BELLEVUE BREAKFAST: $1,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetATTAIN HOUSING: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

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

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 Bellevue Rotary Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bellevue Rotary Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's 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
    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.

    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 44 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 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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