· Public charity
Mt Baker Rotary Foundation
The foundation focuses on supporting the local community and international humanitarian projects with other rotary host clubs.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $239,488 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $358,238 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $118,750 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $66k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $169k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRIDGES OF HOPE | $168,500 |
| PROJECT HOPECHRISTIIAN HOPE ASSOC | $17,000 |
| LYNDEN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| BOY SCOUT TROOP 4028 | $13,116 |
| LYNDEN JUNIOR LIVESTOCK SHOW AND AUCTION | $10,467 |
| LYNDEN COMMUNITY CENTERSENIOR CENTER | $10,000 |
| NOOKSACK VALLEY FOOD BANK | $5,405 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–21, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those 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.
11 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $169k 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
- CHChristian Hope Association7× · 2017–2025 · $153k · revenue +44%
- NWNORTHWEST WASHINGTON FAIR ASSOCIATION4× · 2017–2020 · $118k · revenue +66%
- LJLYNDEN JUNIOR LIVESTOCK SHOW AND AUCTION8× · 2017–2025 · $74k · revenue +105%
Funded once
- PFPARTNERS FOR SCHOOLSone grant, 2022 · $70k
- KKKornerstone Kids PSone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -104%
- SKSkookum Kidsgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $44k · revenue +53%
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.
Distribute food to those in need in the greater Lynnwood area.
Serving our community with healthy food and care.
The Lynden Heritage Foundation exists to provide Whatcom County Communities with a sense of identity and enhance local revenue through heritage tourism. The Lynden Heritage Foundation will achieve these goals by supporting educational…
Service and funding to various organizations throughout our community and worldwide.
To provide college scholarships to students from lynden high school.
Create a strong and effective statewide infrastructure that efficiently leverages resources to expand capacity in Washington State's Feeding America network.
FISH of Orchards, Inc. is an emergency food and clothing bank located in east Clark County, WA.
To strengthen hunger relief providers in WA State.
LCSNW partners with individuals, families and communities for health, justice and hope. LCSNW provides a wide variety of social services in Oregon, Washington and Idaho and serves people of all ages, cultures and faiths.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mt Baker Rotary Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Beacon for Life. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 25 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 One to One of Lynden ↗
- Who funds Christian Hope Association ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST WASHINGTON FAIR ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LYNDEN JUNIOR LIVESTOCK SHOW AND AUCTION ↗
- Who funds ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds LYNDEN COMMUNITYSENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds Kornerstone Kids PS ↗
- Who funds Skookum Kids ↗
- Who funds WHATCOM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LYNDEN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MT BAKER ROTARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ONLY 7 SECONDS ↗
- Who funds GREEN AND GOLD FOOTBALL CLUB ↗
- Who funds Nooksack Valley Food Bank Association ↗
- Who funds BEACON FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds Operation Warm Inc ↗
- Who funds TECHNIC TRAINING CENTER ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds Lynnwood Rotary Community Foundation ↗
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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Eleanor and Henry Jansen Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Dick Bedlington Family Foundation · Whatcom Community Foundation · Echo Foundation · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Mt Baker Rotary Foundation 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 or a single department — 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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