California · Private foundation
Los Gatos Morning Rotary Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $70k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 78%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $4,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 25
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $482k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 78% of the organizations Los Gatos Morning Rotary Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 72% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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 | 14 | $70k | 71% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $69k | 78% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $71k | 62% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $159k | 70% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $82k | 75% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $89k | 72% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $74k | 41% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $54k | 50% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Valley Community Services of Santa Clara County Inc | $34,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Lighting for Literacy Inc | $32,198 | 3 | n/a |
| Los Gatos Museum Association | $29,950 | 5 | 2% |
| Rebuilding Together Silicon Valley | $28,350 | 4 | 0% |
| St Lukes Episcopal Church | $13,348 | 4 | n/a |
| Los Gatos United Methodist Church | $10,495 | 3 | n/a |
| Los Gatos Music and Arts Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Altadena Rotary Charities | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Razing the Bar | $10,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Montalvo Association | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 19 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Valley Community Services of Santa Clara County Inc | $34,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Lighting for Literacy Inc | $32,198 | 3 | n/a |
| Los Gatos Museum Association | $29,950 | 5 | 2% |
| Rebuilding Together Silicon Valley | $28,350 | 4 | 0% |
| St Lukes Episcopal Church | $13,348 | 4 | n/a |
| Los Gatos United Methodist Church | $10,495 | 3 | n/a |
| Los Gatos Music and Arts Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Altadena Rotary Charities | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Razing the Bar | $10,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Montalvo Association | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Art Docents of Los Gatos Inc | $6,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Rotacare Bay Area Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Girl Scouts of Northern California | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Pivotal Connections | $4,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sunwork Renewable Energy Projects | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Los Gatos Youth Park Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Saratoga Area Senior Coordinating Council | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Rise Against Hunger Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition | $350 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 102 recipients with no EIN on record ($516k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Los Gatos Morning Rotary Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · The Valley Foundation · Star One Credit Union · The Applied Materials Foundation · McNabb Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
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About Los Gatos Morning Rotary Charitable Foundation
- How much does Los Gatos Morning Rotary Charitable Foundation give?
- Los Gatos Morning Rotary Charitable Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $69,700 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Los Gatos Morning Rotary Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (27%), Education (17%), Arts & Culture (14%).
- Who are Los Gatos Morning Rotary Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: West Valley Community Services of Santa Clara County Inc ($35k), Lighting for Literacy Inc ($32k), Los Gatos Museum Association ($30k).
- Does Los Gatos Morning Rotary Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 78% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Los Gatos Morning Rotary Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Los Gatos Morning Rotary Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation.
- Where is Los Gatos Morning Rotary Charitable Foundation based?
- Los Gatos Morning Rotary Charitable Foundation is based in CA.
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