· Public charity
Gig Harbor Rotary Foundation
Through principles of "service above self" we strengthen our community by encouraging generosity and connecting people who care with causes that matter, particularly 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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $78,467 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $416,302 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $337,835 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PENINSULA SCHOOL DISTRICT | $35,467 |
| THE MUSTARD SEED PROJECT OF KEY PENINSULA | $10,000 |
| TRA MEDICAL IMAGING FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| GIG HARBOR NOW | $5,000 |
| GIG HARBOR KIWANIS CLUB | $5,000 |
| WASHINGTON TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION | $5,000 |
| YMCA OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES | $5,000 |
| WASTE CONNECTIONS | $5,000 |
| OLYMPIC CIVIC SERVICES | $1,000 |
| PACIFIC BALLROOM DANCE | $1,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $15k) 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.
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.
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.
Through principles of "service above self" we strengthen our community by encouraging generosity and connecting people who care with causes that matter, particularly in areas of education, community, vocational and youth.
Serve the small business community and local development.
The harbor history museum inspires curiosity about local history and cultural traditions as they connect to the world around us.
The gig harbor waterfront alliance promotes economic vitality by maintaining a historic waterfront community that attracts diverse businesses and people through collaboration, outreach and activities.
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To establish a youth sports organization dedicated to teaching and developing the sport of canoe/kayak. the main emphasis of the program will be to provide learning that promotes safety, teamwork, and sportsmanship. the program will offer…
To provide services, educational opportunities, supplies, etc. to children and other disadvantaged groups of people in the community.
The SYC Foundation Supports a Broad range of educational, training and competitive endeavors. Strong support is always considered for programs for younger boaters engaged in sailing and rowing programs, grants to allow talented youth…
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,…
Provide grants to nonprofits in the local community and scholarships for local students.
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 Rotary Charitable Fund and the most unlike its peers is Young Men's Christian Association of Pierce and Kitsap Counties. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 13 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 GIG HARBOR ROTARY CHARITABLE FUND ↗
- Who funds SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF GIG HARBOR ↗
- Who funds THE MUSTARD SEED PROJECT OF KEY PENINSULA ↗
- Who funds TRA MEDICAL IMAGING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds KIWANIS CLUB OF GIG HARBOR GIG HARBOR ↗
- Who funds GIG HARBOR NOW ↗
- Who funds Washington Trust For Historic Preservation ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC BALLROOM DANCE ↗
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: Greater Tacoma Community Foundation · The Russell Family Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Foundation 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.