· Public charity
Los Gatos Rotary Charities Foundation
Organization's primary exempt purpose is to secure donations for other charitable organizations in furtherance of rotary's motto of service above self.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE ROTARY FOUNDATION | $48,311 |
| SEEING AGAIN GUATEMALA | $34,647 |
| BILL WILSON CENTER | $16,764 |
| LOS GATOS UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 38% of Los Gatos Rotary Charities Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 70% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 65%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LGLOS GATOS ROTARY CHARITIES FOUNDATION2× · 2024–2025 · $97k · revenue -23%
- BWBILL WILSON CENTER2× · 2024–2025 · $31k · revenue +19%
- IGIndividual grant recipient3× · 2018–2020 · $16k
Funded once
- LGLOS GATOS ROTARY SCHOLARSHIP FUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $52k
- LGLOS GATOS HS INTERACT CLUBone grant, 2018 · $32k
- GCGrande Center for Education and Economic Opportunityone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +15%
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.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Award grants to deserving non-profit organizations, and scholarships to worthy students in the greater santa rosa area.
Raise money for, and to distribute money to carefully qualified recipients.
Support charitable need within the greater Sanger community.
Engaging community at the intersection of art, history and education through innovative, locally connected and globally relevant exhibits, programs and experiences.
Service to the community and the world
Community & international service projects
The Laguna Beach Rotary Club Foundation provides grants to educational, civic and social service organizations.
Scholarships, educator awards, financial support of community organizations
To provide scholarships for worthy students and to provide educational grants for charitable organizations with financial needs.
How this is measured
7 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. 7 of the 18 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds LOS GATOS ROTARY CHARITIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BILL WILSON CENTER ↗
- Who funds Grande Center for Education and Economic Opportunity ↗
- Who funds LOS GATOS MORNING ROTARY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHELTERBOX USA INC ↗
- Who funds LOS GATOS ROTARY SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Los Gatos Rotary Charities Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Los Gatos Rotary Charities Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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