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MetroBethesda Rotary Foundation Inc at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

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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 FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$21k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $36,010, the rows itemized in this filing. The $163,485 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $127,475 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $21k
$9,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$229k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Rotary International$20,510
Global Action on Gun Violence$9,500
SMGA$6,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%Reunite after war: $9k → 11%Global Action on Gun Violence: $10k → 14%Afghan Youth Relief Program: $7k → 6%SMGA: $10k → 8%Georgetown Institute for Woman: $10k → 14%SMGA: $6k → 8%SMGA: $6k → 8%Montgomery County Schools: $10k → 8%KIND: $10k → 8%KIND: $6k → 8%MetroBethesda Rotary Club: $13k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$84k · 3 repeat orgs$58k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
5

Total granted

$84k
$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+46%

Still filing today

100%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23’24
Recreation & SportsPhilanthropyEducationInternationalPublic BenefitCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • RI
    ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
    2× · 2023–2024 · $46k · revenue +19%
  • ST
    Salute to Military Golf Association Inc
    3× · 2022–2024 · $22k · revenue +33%
  • KI
    KIDS IN NEED DISTRIBUTORS INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $16k · revenue -14%

Funded once

  • MR
    MetroBethesda Rotary Club Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue -26%
  • MC
    Montgomery County Public Schools Educational Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +296%
  • VITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +4%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Rotary International

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…

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2
Silicon Valley Defense Working Group Co

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…

Education
3
Rotary International Club of Atlanta

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…

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4
Rotary Club of San Diego

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…

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5
Rotary International

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.

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6
Rotary Club of Monterey

Encourage and foster professional standards of services.

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7
Rotary Club of Des Moines

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…

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8
Metropolitan Golf Association Inc

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.

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9
Virginia State Golf Association

The mission of the virginia state golf association is to promote the game of golf and serve the needs of golf in virginia.

Recreation & Sports
10
MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech
11
Washington Intl Trade Association

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.

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12
Global Gifts Inc

Serving impoverished artisans and producers in the developing world by providing a fair income and employment for people of limited opportunity.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rotary International; 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.
04the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 9 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $45,984 · OtherROTARY INTERNATIONALMetroBethesda Rotary Club Inc: $12,500 · OtherMetroBethesda Rotary Club IncAFGHANISTAN YOUTH RELIEF FOUNDATION: $7,208 · OtherAFGHANISTAN YOUTH RELIEF FOUNDATIONSalute to Military Golf Association Inc: $22,000 · Recreation & SportsSalute to Militar…KIDS IN NEED DISTRIBUTORS INC: $16,000 · PhilanthropyKIDS IN NEED…Montgomery County Public Schools Educational Foundation Inc: $10,000 · EducationVITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INC: $10,000 · InternationalGLOBAL ACTION ON GUN VIOLENCE INC: $9,500 · Civil RightsReuniting After War: $8,500 · Public Benefit
Other$65,692Recreation & Sports$22,000Philanthropy$16,000Education$10,000International$10,000Civil Rights$9,500Public Benefit$8,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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.

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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization MetroBethesda Rotary Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from MetroBethesda Rotary Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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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.

    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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