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Portland Rotary Charitable Trust
The Portland Rotary Charitable Trust is the entity by which the rotary club of portland carries out its philanthropic activities in both the local and world communities servicing primarily the needs of youth.
- $317k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 88%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $138k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $12,180
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $56,676
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 14
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.1M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 88% of the organizations Portland Rotary Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 78% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 5 | $138k | 40% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $86k | 88% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $103k | 64% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $48k | 83% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $225k | 70% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $194k | 86% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $41k | 80% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $44k | 67% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morrison Child and Family Services | $194,553 | 3 | 0% |
| Numotion Foundation | $88,506 | 2 | 5% |
| Rotary Club of Portland | $55,000 | 1 | 29% |
| Warner Pacific University | $36,627 | 2 | 0% |
| Shelterbox USA Inc | $33,453 | 4 | 0% |
| Lake Oswego Rotary Foundation Inc | $28,180 | 2 | 5% |
| Cascade Pacific Council Boy Scouts of America | $26,191 | 3 | 0% |
| Raphael House of Portland | $23,265 | 3 | 1% |
| Rotary District 5100 Ye | $16,350 | 1 | n/a |
| The Boys & Girls Aid Society of Oregon | $16,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 49 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($77k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Portland Rotary Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 39 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Juan Young Trust · The Collins Foundation · The Jackson Foundation · Hoover Family Foundation · The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer Care Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · The Reser Family Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust
How this is measured
About Portland Rotary Charitable Trust
- How much does Portland Rotary Charitable Trust give?
- Portland Rotary Charitable Trust reported 5 itemized grants totaling $137,856, out of $316,864 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Portland Rotary Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (29%), International (12%), Education (12%).
- Who are Portland Rotary Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Morrison Child and Family Services ($195k), Numotion Foundation ($89k), Rotary Club of Portland ($55k).
- Does Portland Rotary Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 88% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Portland Rotary Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation, The Oregon Community Foundation, The Autzen Foundation.
- Where is Portland Rotary Charitable Trust based?
- Portland Rotary Charitable Trust is based in OR.
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