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Mt Baker Rotary Foundation

The foundation focuses on supporting the local community and international humanitarian projects with other rotary host clubs.

$358k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$169k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$321kPublic Benefit$242kRecreation & Sports$113kYouth Development$112kEducation$110kHealth$88kFood & Nutrition$75kArts & Culture$67kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $239,488, the rows itemized in this filing. The $358,238 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $118,750 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $66k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $169k
$13,116
Median grant
1
States reached
$896k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%PROJECT HOPE: $6k → 12%SKOOKUM KIDS: $44k → 12%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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$886k · 11 repeat orgs$433k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
11

Total granted

$886k
$264k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+54%

Still filing today

82%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $169k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • CH
    Christian Hope Association
    7× · 2017–2025 · $153k · revenue +44%
  • NW
    NORTHWEST WASHINGTON FAIR ASSOCIATION
    4× · 2017–2020 · $118k · revenue +66%
  • LJ
    LYNDEN JUNIOR LIVESTOCK SHOW AND AUCTION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $74k · revenue +105%

Funded once

  • PF
    PARTNERS FOR SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2022 · $70k
  • KK
    Kornerstone Kids PS
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -104%
  • SK
    Skookum Kidsgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $44k · revenue +61%
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
Lynnwood Food Bank

Distribute food to those in need in the greater Lynnwood area.

Food & Nutrition
2
Storehouse Food Bank

Serving our community with healthy food and care.

Food & Nutrition
3
Lynden Heritage Foundation

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…

Arts & Culture
4
Rotary Foundation of the South Puget Sound Rotary Club
Education
5
Puyallup Kiwanis Foundation
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6
New Hope Ranch
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7
The Rotary Club of Snoqualmie Valley

Service and funding to various organizations throughout our community and worldwide.

Human Services
8
Lynden Scholarship Foundation

To provide college scholarships to students from lynden high school.

Education
9
Feeding Washington

Create a strong and effective statewide infrastructure that efficiently leverages resources to expand capacity in Washington State's Feeding America network.

Food & Nutrition
10
F I S H of Orchards Inc

FISH of Orchards, Inc. is an emergency food and clothing bank located in east Clark County, WA.

Food & Nutrition
11
Washington Food Coalition

To strengthen hunger relief providers in WA State.

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12
Lutheran Community Services Northwest

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.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mt Baker Rotary Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 25 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
14/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF LYNDEN: $279,331 · OtherCITY OF LYNDENOne to One of Lynden: $168,500 · OtherOne to One of LyndenChristian Hope Association: $152,803 · OtherChristian Hope AssociationPARTNERS FOR SCHOOLS: $70,000 · OtherPARTNERS FOR SCHOOLSROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $53,945 · OtherROTARY INTERNATIONALNOOKSACK SCHOOL DISTRICT: $51,000 · OtherNOOKSACK SCHOOL DISTRICTKornerstone Kids PS: $50,000 · Other+8 more: $117,450 · Other+8 moreNORTHWEST WASHINGTON FAIR ASSOCIATION: $117,500 · Recreation & SportsNORTHWEST…WHATCOM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $42,000 · PhilanthropyMT BAKER ROTARY FOUNDATION: $33,201 · PhilanthropyLYNDEN JUNIOR LIVESTOCK SHOW AND AUCTION: $73,868 · Youth DevelopmentSkookum Kids: $43,750 · Human ServicesOperation Warm Inc: $10,500 · Human ServicesPROJECT HOPE INC: $5,705 · Human ServicesLYNDEN COMMUNITYSENIOR CENTER: $51,048 · Community ImprovementLYNDEN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $40,345 · ReligionLynnwood Rotary Community Foundation: $5,000 · Religion
Other$943,029Recreation & Sports$117,500Philanthropy$75,201Youth Development$73,868Human Services$59,955Community Improvement$51,048Religion$45,345

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChristian Hope Association: $152,803 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetNORTHWEST WASHINGTON FAIR ASSOCIATION: $117,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetLYNDEN JUNIOR LIVESTOCK SHOW AND AUCTION: $73,868 over 8y, 4.3% of budgetROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $53,945 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLYNDEN COMMUNITYSENIOR CENTER: $51,048 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetKornerstone Kids PS: $50,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetSkookum Kids: $43,750 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetWHATCOM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $42,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLYNDEN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $40,345 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMT BAKER ROTARY FOUNDATION: $33,201 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetGREEN AND GOLD FOOTBALL CLUB: $25,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetONLY 7 SECONDS: $25,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetNooksack Valley Food Bank Association: $19,688 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetBEACON FOR LIFE: $13,245 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetOperation Warm Inc: $10,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOPE INC: $5,705 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetLynnwood Rotary Community Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 7.5% 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Eleanor and Henry Jan…Puget Sound Energy Fo…Dick Bedlington Famil…Whatcom Community Fou…Echo FoundationThe Albertsons Compan…Natl Christian Charit…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Eleanor and Henry Jansen FoundationWA17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Mt Baker Rotary Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mt Baker Rotary Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Mt Baker Rotary Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Mt Baker Rotary Foundation 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 25 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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