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Brookline Massachusetts Rotary Club at a glance

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Brookline Massachusetts Rotary Club

Single programs devoted to support local, national and international communities, individuals and charitable organizations.

$88k
Granted FY2017
7
Grants FY2017
2
States reached
$14k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of Brookline Massachusetts Rotary Club’s FY2024 grant dollars went to The Rotary Foundation Of Rotary International, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2017, the last year Brookline Massachusetts Rotary Club named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $67k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

5
’17
0
’18
0
’20
0
’21
0
’22
0
’23
0
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

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.

International$58kHuman Services$23kEducation$14kFood & Nutrition$9kPhilanthropy$7kHealth$6k
02FY2017 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $66,836, the rows itemized in this filing. The $88,473 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $21,637 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.

By grant size · FY2017

  • Under $10k5 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $27k
$8,648
Median grant
2
States reached
$42k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BROOKLINE EARLY EDUCATION PROGRAM$14,017
KIDS CLOTHES CLUB INC$13,004
BROOKLINE QUEZALGUAQUE SISTER CITY PROJECT INC$9,598
BROOKLINE FOOD PANTRY$8,648
THE ROTARY FOUNDATION$8,288
BROOKLINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC$7,281
BROOKLINE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC$6,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BROOKLINE QUEZALGUAQUE SISTER CITY PROJECT INC: $10k → 7%KIDS CLOTHES CLUB INC: $13k → 7%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 field
04the grantee network

6 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. 6 of the 7 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
5/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $58,467 · InternationalTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONALKIDS CLOTHES CLUB INC: $13,004 · Human ServicesKIDS CLOTHES CLUB INCBROOKLINE-QUEZALGUAQUE SISTER CITY PROJECT INC: $9,598 · Human ServicesBROOKLINE-QUEZALGUAQU…BROOKLINE EARLY EDUCATION PROGRAM PARENT-TEACHER ORGANIZATION: $14,017 · OtherBROOKLINE EARLY EDU…BROOKLINE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC DBA THE BROOKLINE CENTER: $6,000 · OtherBROOKLINE COMMUNITY…BROOKLINE FOOD PANTRY INC: $8,648 · Food & NutritionBROOKLINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $7,281 · Philanthropy
International$58,467Human Services$22,602Other$20,017Food & Nutrition$8,648Philanthropy$7,281

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: $58,467 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS CLOTHES CLUB INC: $13,004 over 1y, 18% of budgetBROOKLINE FOOD PANTRY INC: $8,648 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBROOKLINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $7,281 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBROOKLINE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC DBA THE BROOKLINE CENTER: $6,000 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.

Im Sister & Johnny Fo…Allen & Franka Charlu…The Hamilton Company …Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Im Sister & Johnny FoundationTX13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Im Sister & Johnny Foundation · Allen & Franka Charlupski Foundation · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 7 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 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $29k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2017, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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