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La Jolla Golden Triangle Rotary Club Foundation at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

La Jolla Golden Triangle Rotary Club Foundation

To assist people in need

$241k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$69k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

International$364kCommunity Improvement$273kYouth Development$166kPhilanthropy$55kPublic Safety & Disaster$38kEducation$36kEnvironment$28kHuman Services$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $123,031, the rows itemized in this filing. The $240,734 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $117,703 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 · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $54k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $69k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$172k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LA JOLLA GOLDEN TRIANGLE RC$69,040
SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION$25,000
THE ROTARY FOUNDATION$17,991
QUENCH AND CONNECT$11,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%San Diego Police Northern Div: $31k → 11%Christina Welch Scholarships: $17k → 18%Rotary Intl Foundation: $142k → 14%SAN DIEGO POLICE NORTHERN DIV: $6k → 11%Rotary Intl Foundation: $113k → 14%Miramar Project co RickClark: $11k → 11%Rotary Intl Foundation: $49k → 14%SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%Rotary Intl Foundation: $19k → 14%Pendleton Proj co RickClark: $10k → 11%THE ROTARY FOUNDATION: $18k → 14%San Diego Foundation: $21k → 11%THE ROTARY FOUNDATION: $11k → 14%Pendleton Proj co Rick Clark: $8k → 11%San Diego Foundation: $9k → 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.

Grants abroad, by region: $109k on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 4 regions, $108k to organizations and $1k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

East Asia and the Pacific$74k · 68% · 2 grants · 1 person

Stated purpose: AFGHAN PROJECTS · AFGHAN YOUTH CONNEC · SCHOLARSHIP

Baja California$34k · 31% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: MEXICO PROJECTS

Sub-Saharan Africa$1k · 1% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: HEART SURGERIES

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$585 · 1% · 1 person

Stated purpose: SCHOLARSHIP

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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$437k · 3 repeat orgs$193k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
10

Total granted

$437k
$182k

Still filing today

33%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • RI
    ROTARY INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT 5340
    9× · 2017–2025 · $382k · revenue -5%
  • SD
    San Diego Police Northern Div
    2× · 2022–2023 · $38k
  • PP
    Pendleton Proj co RickClark
    2× · 2018–2020 · $18k

Funded once

  • LJ
    La Jolla Golden Triangle RC
    one grant, 2020 · $36k
  • MR
    Mayaguez Rotary Club
    one grant, 2018 · $30k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $28k
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
04the grantee network

4 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. 4 of the 16 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)
4/4
Grantees still filing
2/4
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROTARY INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT 5340: $381,591 · OtherROTARY INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT 5340San Diego Police Northern Div: $37,744 · OtherSan Diego Police Northern DivLa Jolla Golden Triangle RC: $35,500 · OtherLa Jolla Golden Triangle RCMayaguez Rotary Club: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $27,989 · Other+8 more: $106,063 · Other+8 moreTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $353,236 · InternationalTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNA…+1 more: $11,000 · InternationalTHE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $54,943 · Philanthropy
Other$618,887International$364,236Philanthropy$54,943

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 budgetROTARY INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT 5340: $381,591 over 9y, 17% of budgetTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $353,236 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $54,943 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetQUENCH AND CONNECT: $11,000 over 1y, 10% 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 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT 5340 ↗
  • Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds QUENCH AND CONNECT ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization La Jolla Golden Triangle Rotary Club Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from La Jolla Golden Triangle Rotary Club Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%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 · 0–10%
    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.
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    How do I get to La Jolla Golden Triangle Rotary Club Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to La Jolla Golden Triangle Rotary Club Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 16 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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