· Public charity
Gig Harbor Rotary Charitable Fund
Through principles of "service above self" we stengthen our community by encouranging generosity and connecting people who care with causes that matter, paricularly in areas of education, community, vocational and youth.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $102,109 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $283,206 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $181,097 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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $10k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $92k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION | $33,457 |
| Individual grant recipient | $18,963 |
| GREAT PENINSULA CONSERVANCY | $16,501 |
| PACIFIC BALLROOM DANCE | $13,500 |
| MUSTARD SEED | $10,000 |
| HARBOR HISTORY MUSEUM | $9,688 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $54k) 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.
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 — $181k on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 3 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: WHEEL CHAIR PROJECT AND RACHEL PROJECT
Stated purpose: MOBILE CLINIC
Stated purpose: CLEFT PALATE AND RACHEL
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.
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.
4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $46k · revenue +14%- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2023–2024 · $42k
- TMTHE MUSTARD SEED PROJECT OF KEY PENINSULA2× · 2023–2024 · $35k · revenue +366%
Funded once
- GHGIG HARBOR CANOE KAYAK RACING TEAMone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +21%
- GHGIG HARBOR ROTARY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +467%
- KPKEY PENINSULA COMMUNITY SERVICESone grant, 2023 · $19k · revenue -15%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To create and sustain a community-supported nonprofit news organization that informs, educates and connects our community.
Serve the small business community and local development.
To advance the appreciation of soccer as a team sport on the gig harbor peninsula and to educate youth and adults to the benefits of the sport of soccer, to promote good sportsmenship and healthy athletic competition, and to generally…
Our programs develop local sailors at all skill levels and challenge them to achieve confidence and independence on the water.
To operate a local food bank and provide other aid as necessary to residents in financial need.
Educating students and communities about the connections between the ocean, inland waters, and economy of maine.
The baytown chamber of commerce is a business organization created to provide the leadership to enhance economic growth and a better quality of life for the baytown area.
Healthy peninsula mobilizes, supports and collaborates with community partners to improve the health of the towns of the blue hill peninsula, deer isle and stonington.
The port angeles waterfront center is a home for arts and events that brings people together and strengthens our community.
Key Peninsula News mission to reflect and connect the Key Peninsula Community as it evolves and grows.
The Greater Gig Harbor Foundation is a strategic community partner dedicated to strengthening the greater Gig Harbor and Key Peninsula region. GGHF brings people and resources together-leveraging research, expertise, partnerships,…
To cater to its members' needs & provide a place where members can socialize with peers. the club provides facilities such as a marina, golf course, tennis courts, & dining room
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gig Harbor Waterfront Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Pacific Ballroom Dance. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 11 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MUSTARD SEED PROJECT OF KEY PENINSULA ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC BALLROOM DANCE ↗
- Who funds GIG HARBOR CANOE KAYAK RACING TEAM ↗
- Who funds GIG HARBOR ROTARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KEY PENINSULA COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds GREAT PENINSULA CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds GIG HARBOR PENINSULA HISTORICAL SOC ↗
- Who funds GIG HARBOR WATERFRONT ALLIANCE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Meacham Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Gig Harbor Rotary Charitable Fund 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.
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.