Michigan · Public charity
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 FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 56%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $97k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,556
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 9
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $702k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 56% of the organizations Lansing Rotary Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 75% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 7 | $67k | 71% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $120k | 56% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $150k | 63% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $41k | 80% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $56k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $90k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $20k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $65k | 100% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Habitat for Humanity Capital Region Inc | $67,500 | 3 | 3% |
| Greater Lansing Food Bank | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Advent House Ministries Inc | $42,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Child and Family Charities | $41,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Catholic Charities of Ingham Eaton & Clinton Counties | $40,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Lansing Public Schools | $37,009 | 4 | n/a |
| Capital Area United Way Inc | $30,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Tri-County Office on Aging | $26,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Wkar | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Allen Neighborhood Center | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 34 grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($13k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Lansing Rotary Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About Lansing Rotary Foundation
- How much does Lansing Rotary Foundation give?
- Lansing Rotary Foundation reported 8 itemized grants totaling $97,061, out of $147,561 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Lansing Rotary Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (38%), Human Services (16%), Housing & Shelter (11%).
- Who are Lansing Rotary Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Habitat for Humanity Capital Region Inc ($68k), Greater Lansing Food Bank ($50k), Advent House Ministries Inc ($42k).
- Does Lansing Rotary Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Lansing Rotary Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Capital Region Community Foundation, Desk Drawer Fund, Joe D Pentecost Foundation.
- Where is Lansing Rotary Foundation based?
- Lansing Rotary Foundation is based in MI.
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