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Brookhaven Rotary Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$4k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$3k
Largest
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 2024.

Health$435kEducation$36kCommunity Improvement$5kPhilanthropy$4kYouth Development$3kFood & Nutrition$2kCivil Rights$2kArts & Culture$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$698
Median grant
1
States reached
$103k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GEORGIA ROTARY DISTRICTS CHARACTER$3,000
USO$698
VETERAN'S ADMINISTRATION$509
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 (FY21–21, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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%FERST READERS: $5k → 11%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.
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$464k · 7 repeat orgs$23k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
9

Total granted

$464k
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-35%
+14%

Still filing today

43%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
PhilanthropyArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentInternationalHuman ServicesHealthOther
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

  • SC
    SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $432k · revenue -320%
  • FF
    FERST FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2023 · $13k
  • GR
    GEORGIA ROTARY STUDENT PROGRAM
    2× · 2018–2019 · $11k · revenue -35%

Funded once

  • CK
    CROSS KEYS HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • FR
    FERST READERS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -7%
  • GL
    GEORGIA LAWS OF LIFE
    one grant, 2022 · $2k
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
Rotary International

Rotary international provides service to others, promotes integrity, and advances world understanding, goodwill, and peace through our fellowship of business, professional, and community leaders.

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2
Rotary International Club of Atlanta

Rotary Club of Atlanta (the "Club"), a nonprofit organization, was chartered by Rotary International ("RI") in 1913. The club promotes the advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of…

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3
Rotary Club of Seattle

The rotary club of seattle creates strong relationships, increases understanding, and serves critical community needs.

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4
American College of Radiology Association

The purpose of the association is the promotion of educational and professional association interests including but not limited to the promotion of the interests of radiology and the interests and study of the socioeconomic aspects of the…

Community Improvement
5
American Foreign Service Association

American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…

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6
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc

Embry-riddle is the world leader in aviation and aerospace higher education. its mission is to teach the science, practice and business of aviation and aerospace, preparing students for productive careers and leadership roles in business,…

Education
7
Madison Rotary Foundation

The mission of the madison rotary foundation is to work with the rotary club of madison to support its charitable activities, serve as a responsible steward of its resources, and ensure compliance with all regulations.

Community Improvement
8
Rotary 5950 Foundation

Providing services and assistance to people within the state of minnesota and throughout the world.

Philanthropy
9
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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10
American Association for Respiratory Care

Aarc's mission is to be the foremost professional association promoting respiratory therapists. the aarc advances professional excellence and science in the practice of repiratory therapy, serving the professional, patients, caregivers and…

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11
Rotary Club of Little Rock

The rotary club of little rock is a fellowship of diverse business, professional, and community leaders who actively strengthen the little rock and international communities through service, fellowship, and example.

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12
The Falcon Foundation

The mission of the falcon foundation is to further the opportunity for highly motivated, exceptional, young men and women to attend the united states air force academy through the award of falcon foundation scholarships at junior college…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shepherd Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Army Aviation Heritage Foundation and Flying Museum Inc. 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

8 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. 8 of the 19 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
3/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $432,240 · PhilanthropySHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INCFERST FOUNDATION: $13,003 · OtherCROSS KEYS HIGH SCHOOL: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $4,000 · OtherGEORGIA ROTARY DISTRICTS CHARACTER: $3,000 · OtherGEORGIA LAWS OF LIFE: $1,500 · OtherUSO: $1,344 · Other+6 more: $3,609 · OtherGEORGIA ROTARY STUDENT PROGRAM: $11,250 · InternationalTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $500 · InternationalFERST READERS INC: $5,040 · Human ServicesARMY AVIATION HERITAGE FOUNDATION AND FLYING MUSEUM INC: $1,400 · Arts & CultureSHEPHERD CENTER INC: $679 · HealthBoy Scouts of America 92 Atlanta Area Council: $500 · Youth Development
Philanthropy$432,240Other$36,456International$11,750Human Services$5,040Arts & Culture$1,400Health$679Youth Development$500

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 budgetGEORGIA ROTARY STUDENT PROGRAM: $11,250 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFERST READERS INC: $5,040 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetARMY AVIATION HERITAGE FOUNDATION AND FLYING MUSEUM INC: $1,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHEPHERD CENTER INC: $679 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoy Scouts of America 92 Atlanta Area Council: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKHAVEN ROTARY CLUB: $100 over 1y, 0.2% 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 SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GEORGIA ROTARY STUDENT PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds FERST READERS INC ↗
  • Who funds ARMY AVIATION HERITAGE FOUNDATION AND FLYING MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds Boy Scouts of America 92 Atlanta Area Council ↗
  • Who funds BROOKHAVEN ROTARY CLUB ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Brookhaven Rotary Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brookhaven Rotary Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    2report 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 19 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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