· Public charity
MetroBethesda Rotary Foundation Inc
To encourage membership education, fellowship, leadership and awareness and foster the ideal of service through vocational, community and international
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 3 grants below total $36,010 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $163,485 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $127,475 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $21k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Rotary International | $20,510 |
| Global Action on Gun Violence | $9,500 |
| SMGA | $6,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 92% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
3 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- RIROTARY INTERNATIONAL2× · 2023–2024 · $46k · revenue +19%
- STSalute to Military Golf Association Inc3× · 2022–2024 · $22k · revenue +33%
- KIKIDS IN NEED DISTRIBUTORS INC2× · 2022–2023 · $16k · revenue -14%
Funded once
- MRMetroBethesda Rotary Club Incone grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue -26%
- MCMontgomery County Public Schools Educational Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +296%
VITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +4%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Rotary is an organization of business and professional leaders united worldwide who provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world. The main objective of…
Silicon Valley Defense Group convenes experts in technology, investment, and government for discussions on how to better collaborate between the various groups. The comments and topics are then published on our website to help educate and…
Rotary Club of Atlanta (the "Club"), a nonprofit organization, was chartered by Rotary International ("RI") in 1913. The club promotes the advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of…
Encourage & foster community service via the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise, application of the ideal of service in each rotarians life and advance international understanding, goodwill and peace through a world…
Rotary International is a Civic Organization that devotes its net earnings to youth, education, leadership, community service, promotion of integrity, advancement of world understanding, goodwill and peace.
Encourage and foster professional standards of services.
Objective is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise. to encourage and foster: the development of acquaintance, high ethical standards in business and professions. the application of the ideal of…
The association is organized to promote in all ways the best interest and true spirit of the game of golf and its related activities and to organize tournaments.
The mission of the virginia state golf association is to promote the game of golf and serve the needs of golf in virginia.
To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.
Washington International Trade Association (WITA) is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to providing a neutral forum in the nations capital for the open & robust discussion of international trade policy & related issues.
Serving impoverished artisans and producers in the developing world by providing a fair income and employment for people of limited opportunity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rotary International and the most unlike its peers is Global Action On Gun Violence Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 9 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Salute to Military Golf Association Inc ↗
- Who funds KIDS IN NEED DISTRIBUTORS INC ↗
- Who funds MetroBethesda Rotary Club Inc ↗
- Who funds Montgomery County Public Schools Educational Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds VITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL ACTION ON GUN VIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds Reuniting After War ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 MetroBethesda Rotary Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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