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New York Rotary Foundation of the Rotary Club of New York at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

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New York Rotary Foundation of the Rotary Club of New York

Humanitarian programs fund the international rotary club and rotary district projects to improve the quality of life, providing healthcare, clean water, food, education, and other essential needs, primarily in the developing areas of the world.

$65k
Granted FY2023
3
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$28k
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 2023.

International$147kHealth$133kReligion$67kCommunity Improvement$45kHousing & Shelter$32kPublic Safety & Disaster$25kYouth Development$23kHuman Services$22kOther$0
02FY2023 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $62,352, the rows itemized in this filing. The $64,852 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,500 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 · FY2023

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $53k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRATERNITE NOTRE DAME$28,000
ROTARY INTERNATIONAL$25,000
VETERANS AFFAIRS CENTER FOR DEVELOP$9,352
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 (FY19–22, $69k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 64% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AFYA FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%LITTLE BROTHERS - FRIENDS OF THE EL: $7k → 14%LITTLE BROTHERS - FRIENDS OF THE EL: $6k → 14%WOMEN IN NEED: $7k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $25k → 17%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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$303k · 6 repeat orgs$199k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
10

Total granted

$303k
$190k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+21%

Still filing today

83%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthHuman ServicesInternationalPublic Safety & DisasterCommunity ImprovementEducationOther
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
    5× · 2017–2023 · $91k · revenue +32%
  • CC
    CHILDHOOD CANCER SOCIETY INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $80k · revenue +234% · 67% of their budget
  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF NEW YORK INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $33k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • CD
    COMPREHENSIVE DISASTER RELIEFgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $31k · revenue +208%
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +21%
  • TR
    The Rotary Club of Houston Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +129%
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
Global Health Corps Inc

The organization's mission is to develop a strong and diverse network of young changemakers to transform health systems. the organization envisions a world where every person lives a healthy, dignified life.

Health
2
Ronald McDonald House Charities New York Metro Inc

Our Mission is to provide essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.

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3
Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Greater Washongton Dc Inc

Ronald mcdonald house charities of greater washington, dc (rmhcdc) provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.

Health
4
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
5
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Charlotte Inc

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Charlotte (RMHC of GC) provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare. Charlotte is recognized as a leading destination…

Human Services
6
World Childhood Foundation Inc

The mission of the foundation is to inspire, promote, and develop solutions to end the sexual abuse and exploitation of children.

Human Services
7
Global Girls Global Women Inc

A 503C3 Organization design to equip suffering girls and women around the world by helping them gain access to quality healthcare, education and economic empowerment initiatives aimed to foster self-este

Recreation & Sports
8
Childrens House International

Children's house international provides ethical adoption services, child focused recruitment, and family support. we support disadvantaged children with humanitarian aid in countries worldwide.

—
9
Childfund Alliance

Childfund alliance is a global network of 11 child-focused development and humanitarian organizations working in more than 70 countries. we help nearly 30 million children and their families to overcome poverty and the underlying…

International
10
Children's Hospital

Organization's mission to improve health outcomes for children; be a leader in creating innovative solutions to pediatric healthcare problems; and excel in care, advocacy, research. as the nation's children's hospital, the mission of…

Health
11
Relief International Inc

Relief international (ri) partners with communities impacted by conflict, climate change, and disaster to save lives, build greater resilience, and promote long-term health and wellbeing of people in the communities that we serve. relief…

International
12
Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Jacksonville Inc

Ronald mcdonald house charities of jacksonville is a 501(c3) organization that supports the health and well-being of children by providing lodging, meals, transportation and a community of compassionate care to critically ill children and…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Afya Foundation of America Inc; the most unlike its peers is Comprehensive Disaster Relief. 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

14 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. 14 of the 17 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $90,810 · OtherROTARY INTERNATIONALFRATERNITE NOTRE DAME INC: $67,031 · OtherFRATERNITE NOTRE DAME INCROTARY CLUB OF MAYAGUEZ: $20,000 · OtherROTARY CLUB OF MAYAGUEZVETERANS AFFAIRS CENTER FOR DEVELOP: $9,352 · OtherCHILDHOOD CANCER SOCIETY INC: $80,000 · HealthCHILDHOOD CANCER SOCIETY INCRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF NEW YORK INC: $32,500 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF NEW YORK…GIFT OF LIFE INTERNATIONAL INC: $20,500 · HealthGIFT OF LIFE INTERNATIONAL INCGIRLS EDUCATIONAL AND MENTORING SERVICES INC: $15,000 · HealthGIRLS EDUCATIONAL AND MENTORING S…COVENANT HOUSE: $25,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSETHE AFYA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE AFYA FOUNDA…LITTLE BROTHERS - FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY: $12,500 · Human ServicesLITTLE BROTHERS…WOMEN IN NEED INC: $6,500 · Human ServicesWOMEN IN NEED I…COMPREHENSIVE DISASTER RELIEF: $30,738 · Public Safety & DisasterWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $25,000 · InternationalThe Rotary Club of Houston Foundation Inc: $25,000 · Community ImprovementTECHIE YOUTH CORP DBA TECHIE YOUTH: $10,000 · EducationBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $7,500 · Youth Development
Other$187,193Health$148,000Human Services$69,000Public Safety & Disaster$30,738International$25,000Community Improvement$25,000Education$10,000Youth Development$7,500

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 budgetROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $90,810 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDHOOD CANCER SOCIETY INC: $80,000 over 4y, 67% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF NEW YORK INC: $32,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMPREHENSIVE DISASTER RELIEF: $30,738 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Rotary Club of Houston Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AFYA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGIFT OF LIFE INTERNATIONAL INC: $20,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetGIRLS EDUCATIONAL AND MENTORING SERVICES INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLITTLE BROTHERS - FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY: $12,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTECHIE YOUTH CORP DBA TECHIE YOUTH: $10,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN IN NEED INC: $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA7.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 New York Rotary Foundation of the Rotary Club of New York funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from New York Rotary Foundation of the Rotary Club of New York. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%5%19%42%75%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
    2get no government money at all
    4report 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.
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    Find your warmest path to New York Rotary Foundation of the Rotary Club of New York 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 17 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 2023, released 2023. 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 $12k 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 FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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