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Lansing Rotary Foundation

The mission of the rotary club of lansing foundation is to establish an enduring source of revenue where lansing rotarians may honor the club's creed of "service above self" by supporting charitable endeavors of importance with positive impact on our city, our nation, and our world.

$148k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$31k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Recreation & Sports$358kHuman Services$151kHousing & Shelter$102kFood & Nutrition$76kHealth$46kReligion$42kYouth Development$38kArts & Culture$31kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 8 grants below total $97,061 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $147,561 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $50,500 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 $10k2 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $81k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$702k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAPITAL REGION COMMUNITY FDN$30,556
MIKEY 23 FOUNDATION$10,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES IEC$10,000
WOLDUMAR NATURE ASSOCIATION$10,000
ALLEN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER$10,000
HAVEN HOUSE$10,000
CAPITAL AREA HOUSING PARTNERSHIP$9,705
GARDNER INTERNATIONAL MAGNET SCHOOL$6,800
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $136k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CRISTO REY COMMUNITY CENTER: $30k → 9%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN LANSING: $10k → 16%CRISTO REY: $10k → 9%YMCA of Metropolitan Lansing: $5k → 16%SOUTH LANSING COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $10k → 16%Child & Family Charities: $15k → 16%CHILD AND FAMILY CHARITIES: $10k → 16%CHILD AND FAMILY CHARITIES: $10k → 16%CHILD AND FAMILY CHARITIES: $6k → 16%THE DAVIES PROJECT: $10k → 16%ALLEN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $10k → 16%ALLEN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $10k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 11% of Lansing Rotary Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Lansing Rotary Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$311k · 11 repeat orgs$323k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +79% since the first grant, against -6% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
19

Total granted

$311k
$273k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+79%
-6%

Still filing today

73%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterArts & CultureHealthFood & NutritionEducationOther

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

  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY CAPITAL REGION INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $68k · revenue +119%
  • CA
    Child and Family Charities
    4× · 2017–2024 · $41k · revenue +200%
  • CC
    Catholic Charities of Ingham Eaton & Clinton Counties
    2× · 2020–2023 · $40k · revenue +243%

Funded once

  • GL
    GREATER LANSING FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -6%
  • AH
    ADVENT HOUSE MINISTRIES INC
    one grant, 2023 · $42k · revenue -33%
  • CA
    Capital Area United Way Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue -31%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Lincoln Behavioral Services

To provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…

Health
2
Shared Pregnancy Womens Center

To offer education, assistance and resources to women and families in the greater lansing area.

Civil Rights
3
Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County

Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County D/B/A Catholic Charities Washtenaw County provides diverse, holistic social services including adoption and pregnancy counseling, food and basic needs assistance, domestic and child abuse…

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4
Land Conservancy of West Michigan

Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…

Environment
5
Greater Lansing Destination Development Foundation
Community Improvement
6
Lansing Art Gallery & Education Center

The lansing art gallery & education center provides public awareness, education and enjoyment of the visual arts by promoting the work of michigan artists.

Arts & Culture
7
Mid Michigan Community Action Agency Inc

Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.

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8
Lakeshore Legal Aid

Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.

Crime & Legal
9
Lansing Promise

Lansing Promise helps students in gaining access to higher education through readiness and scholarships.

Education
10
Michigan Advocacy Program

To advance the safety, independence, and economic stability of those most affected by poverty, racism, and other structurally oppressive systems by increasing access to justice and working for systemic solutions.

Crime & Legal
11
Michigan Family Resources

Michigan Family Resources mission is to deliver holistic family-centered services to children that promote their well-being and development.

Education
12
Lansing Community Library

Public library

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Advent House Ministries Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rescue of Southern Sudan Village People. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%0%<5yr13%8%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr14%20%20–35yr16%32%35–55yr18%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr13%7%5–10yr20%6%10–20yr14%12%20–35yr16%65%35–55yr18%10%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/35
the rest of the field
10%
234/2,455

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 36 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/27
Grantees still filing
13/27
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CAPITAL REGION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $308,336 · PhilanthropyCAPITAL REGION COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONADVENT HOUSE MINISTRIES INC — $42,000 · OtherADVENT HOUSE MINISTRIES INCLANSING PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $37,009 · OtherLANSING PUBLIC SCHOOLSCapital Area United Way Inc — $30,000 · OtherCapital Area United Way IncTRI-COUNTY OFFICE ON AGING — $26,000 · OtherTRI-COUNTY OFFICE ON AGINGWKAR — $25,000 · OtherWKARJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MID-MICHIGAN — $20,000 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MID-MICHIGANMID-MICHIGAN RECOVERY SERVICES INC — $13,500 · OtherGARDNER INTERNATIONAL MAGNET SCHOOL — $12,533 · OtherRESCUE OF SOUTHERN SUDAN VILLAGE PEOPLE — $13,500 · Other+12 more — $98,522 · Other+12 moreChild and Family Charities — $41,000 · Human ServicesChild and Family…Catholic Charities of Ingham Eaton & Clinton Counties — $40,000 · Human ServicesCatholic Chariti…Allen Neighborhood Center — $20,000 · Human ServicesAllen Neighborho…Young Mens Christian Association of Lansing Michigan — $15,000 · Human ServicesYoung Mens Chris…SOUTH LANSING COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION — $10,000 · Human ServicesSOUTH LANSING CO…THE DAVIES PROJECT FOR MID MICHIGAN CHILDREN — $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE DAVIES PROJE…EVE - End Violent Encounters — $5,000 · Human ServicesHABITAT FOR HUMANITY CAPITAL REGION INC — $67,500 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FO…HAVEN HOUSE — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterHAVEN HOUS…CAPITAL AREA HOUSING PARTNERSHIP — $9,705 · Housing & ShelterCAPITAL AR…GREATER LANSING FOOD BANK — $50,000 · Food & NutritionARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER LANSING — $10,000 · Arts & CultureLANSING SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $10,000 · Arts & CultureBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LANSING — $17,500 · Youth Development
Philanthropy$308,336Other$318,064Human Services$141,000Housing & Shelter$87,205Food & Nutrition$50,000Arts & Culture$20,000Youth Development$17,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCAPITAL REGION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $308,336 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY CAPITAL REGION INC — $67,500 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetGREATER LANSING FOOD BANK — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetADVENT HOUSE MINISTRIES INC — $42,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetChild and Family Charities — $41,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCatholic Charities of Ingham Eaton & Clinton Counties — $40,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCapital Area United Way Inc — $30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAllen Neighborhood Center — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LANSING — $17,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetYoung Mens Christian Association of Lansing Michigan — $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMID-MICHIGAN RECOVERY SERVICES INC — $13,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetRESCUE OF SOUTHERN SUDAN VILLAGE PEOPLE — $13,500 over 2y, 52% of budgetSOUTH LANSING COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetLANSING AREA AIDS NETWORK — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSt Vincent Catholic Charities — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER LANSING — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHAVEN HOUSE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE DAVIES PROJECT FOR MID MICHIGAN CHILDREN — $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetLANSING SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHIGHFIELDS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAPITAL AREA HOUSING PARTNERSHIP — $9,705 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFirecracker Foundation — $7,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetReach Studio Art Center — $6,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE ARC SHIAWASSEE COUNTY INC — $5,022 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetEVE - End Violent Encounters — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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.

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.

Capital Region Commun…Desk Drawer FundJoe D Pentecost Found…Lansing Economic Area…Dart Foundation fka S…Re Olds FoundationJackson Charitable Fo…Community Foundation …United Way of South C…Comerica Charitable F…WK Kellogg FoundationCinnaire Corporation
Capital Region Community FoundationMI55.4× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Capital Region Community Foundation · Desk Drawer Fund · Joe D Pentecost Foundation · Lansing Economic Area Partnership · Dart Foundation fka Solid Waste Management Foundation · Re Olds Foundation · Jackson Charitable Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · United Way of South Central Michigan · Comerica Charitable Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Cinnaire Corporation

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 Lansing 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 36 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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