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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.

$283k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$33k
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, FY2023 to 2024.

Human Services$54kEducation$52kYouth Development$42kArts & Culture$40kRecreation & Sports$25kPhilanthropy$25kEnvironment$17kCommunity Improvement$7k
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $102,109, the rows itemized in this filing. The $283,206 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $181,097 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $10k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $92k
$16,501
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%KEY PENINSULA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $19k → 9%MUSTARD SEED: $25k → 9%MUSTARD SEED: $10k → 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: $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.

Guatemla$128k · 71% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: WHEEL CHAIR PROJECT AND RACHEL PROJECT

Ukraine$43k · 23% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: MOBILE CLINIC

Philippines$10k · 6% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: CLEFT PALATE AND RACHEL

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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$154k · 4 repeat orgs$108k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
5

Total granted

$154k
$82k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+21%

Still filing today

75%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyArts & CultureEnvironmentOther
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

  • THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $46k · revenue +14%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2023–2024 · $42k
  • TM
    THE MUSTARD SEED PROJECT OF KEY PENINSULA
    2× · 2023–2024 · $35k · revenue +366%

Funded once

  • GH
    GIG HARBOR CANOE KAYAK RACING TEAM
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +21%
  • GH
    GIG HARBOR ROTARY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +467%
  • KP
    KEY PENINSULA COMMUNITY SERVICES
    one grant, 2023 · $19k · revenue -15%
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
Gig Harbor Now

To create and sustain a community-supported nonprofit news organization that informs, educates and connects our community.

Arts & Culture
2
Gig Harbor Chamber of Commerce

Serve the small business community and local development.

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3
Harbor Soccer Club

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…

Recreation & Sports
4
Gig Harbor Junior Sailing

Our programs develop local sailors at all skill levels and challenge them to achieve confidence and independence on the water.

Recreation & Sports
5
Gig Harbor Peninsula Fish

To operate a local food bank and provide other aid as necessary to residents in financial need.

Human Services
6
Herring Gut Coastal Science Center

Educating students and communities about the connections between the ocean, inland waters, and economy of maine.

Environment
7
Greater Baytown Chamber of Commerce

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.

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8
Healthy Peninsula

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.

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9
Port Angeles Waterfront Center Dba Field Arts & Events Hall

The port angeles waterfront center is a home for arts and events that brings people together and strengthens our community.

Arts & Culture
10
Key Peninsula News

Key Peninsula News mission to reflect and connect the Key Peninsula Community as it evolves and grows.

—
11
Greater Gig Harbor Foundation

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,…

Recreation & Sports
12
Gibson Island Club Inc

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

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gig Harbor Waterfront Alliance; 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.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 11 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION: $46,255 · OtherTHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $42,315 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPACIFIC BALLROOM DANCE: $30,000 · OtherPACIFIC BALLROOM DANCEGIG HARBOR PENINSULA HISTORICAL SOC: $9,688 · OtherGIG HARBOR PENINSULA HISTORICAL SOCPENINSULA SCHOOLD DISTRICT: $6,000 · OtherTHE MUSTARD SEED PROJECT OF KEY PENINSULA: $35,000 · Human ServicesTHE MUSTARD SEED PROJEC…KEY PENINSULA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $18,900 · Human ServicesKEY PENINSULA COMMUNITY…GIG HARBOR CANOE KAYAK RACING TEAM: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIG HARBOR…GIG HARBOR ROTARY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · PhilanthropyGIG HARBOR…GREAT PENINSULA CONSERVANCY: $16,501 · EnvironmentGIG HARBOR WATERFRONT ALLIANCE: $6,608 · Arts & Culture
Other$134,258Human Services$53,900Youth Development$25,000Philanthropy$25,000Environment$16,501Arts & Culture$6,608

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION: $46,255 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MUSTARD SEED PROJECT OF KEY PENINSULA: $35,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetPACIFIC BALLROOM DANCE: $30,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetGIG HARBOR CANOE KAYAK RACING TEAM: $25,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetGIG HARBOR ROTARY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetKEY PENINSULA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $18,900 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetGREAT PENINSULA CONSERVANCY: $16,501 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIG HARBOR PENINSULA HISTORICAL SOC: $9,688 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGIG HARBOR WATERFRONT ALLIANCE: $6,608 over 1y, 1.7% 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.

The Meacham FoundationFidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Meacham FoundationWA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Meacham 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 Gig Harbor Rotary Charitable Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gig Harbor Rotary Charitable Fund. 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%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 11 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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