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Maryland · 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

$163k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
3
Itemized grants FY2024
4
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$36k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$9,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$20,510
Organizations funded a year
4 to 6
FY2022 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$229k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations MetroBethesda Rotary Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 70% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving3$36k33%
FY20234$54k50%
FY20226$52kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

International$40kHealth$25kRecreation & Sports$22kEducation$17kFood & Nutrition$16kHuman Services$13kPublic Benefit$9k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Rotary International$45,98420%
Salute to Military Golf Association Inc$22,00031%
Kids in Need Distributors Inc$16,00023%
MetroBethesda Rotary Club Inc$12,500113%
Montgomery County Public Schools Educational Foundation Inc$10,00011%
Vital Voices Global Partnership Inc$10,00010%
Global Action on Gun Violence Inc$9,50011%
Reuniting After War$8,500113%
Afghanistan Youth Relief Foundation$7,2081n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget MetroBethesda Rotary Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRotary International: $45,984 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSalute to Military Golf Association Inc: $22,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetKids in Need Distributors Inc: $16,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetMetroBethesda Rotary Club Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 13% of budgetMontgomery County Public Schools Educational Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetVital Voices Global Partnership Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGlobal Action on Gun Violence Inc: $9,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetReuniting After War: $8,500 over 1y, 13% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

Amazonsmile Foundation
Amazonsmile FoundationWA1.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to MetroBethesda Rotary Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to MetroBethesda Rotary Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About MetroBethesda Rotary Foundation Inc

How much does MetroBethesda Rotary Foundation Inc give?
MetroBethesda Rotary Foundation Inc reported 3 itemized grants totaling $36,010, out of $163,485 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 6 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
What does MetroBethesda Rotary Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (28%), Health (18%), Recreation & Sports (16%).
Who are MetroBethesda Rotary Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: Rotary International ($46k), Salute to Military Golf Association Inc ($22k), Kids in Need Distributors Inc ($16k).
Does MetroBethesda Rotary Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as MetroBethesda Rotary Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is MetroBethesda Rotary Foundation Inc based?
MetroBethesda Rotary Foundation Inc is based in MD.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 9 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $153k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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