· Public charity
Prior Lake Rotary Foundation
Our mission is to enhance the quality of life for residents of the prior lake area and people throughout the world, through service, civic engagement, and meaningful partnerships.
Read this first · the figures below need context
53% of Prior Lake Rotary Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to The Rotary Foundation Of Rotary International, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Prior Lake Rotary Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 9 organizations, $166k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $165,520 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $317,512 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $151,992 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 · FY2023
- Under $10k7 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $119k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE ROTARY FOUNDATION | $46,000 |
| CITY OF PRIOR LAKE | $29,615 |
| PRIOR LAKE SNOWMOBILE ASSOCIATION | $11,764 |
| SCOTT COUNTY YOUNG LIFE | $11,360 |
| LAKER ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB | $10,073 |
| BEST FUTURE CENTER | $10,000 |
| REACHING OUR COMMUNITY'S KIDS | $8,745 |
| SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE | $8,000 |
| SOUTHERN VALLEY ALLIANCE | $7,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH | $7,000 |
| PRIOR LAKE-SAVAGE HOCKEY ASSOCIATIO | $5,490 |
| PATRONS OF THE ARTS AND ACTIVITIES | $5,378 |
| PRIOR LAKE PLAYERS | $5,095 |
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 (FY17–20, $92k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
13 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- LALAKER ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB INC5× · 2017–2023 · $102k · revenue +25%
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH3× · 2021–2024 · $26k · revenue +61%
- BFBEST FUTURE CENTER3× · 2020–2023 · $22k · revenue +106%
Funded once
- PLPRIOR LAKE-SAVAGE AREA SCHOOLS VEBA TRUSTgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $12k · revenue +48%
- AALIGHTone grant, 2022 · $11k · revenue +22%
- FOFriends of Chimboteone grant, 2018 · $10k
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.
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
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Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
To preserve and enhance the quality of life at home, with dignity and care.
To support the activities of junior achievement of northern indiana, inc.
Rock river valley blood center, in partnership with our community, is dedicated to providing safe, high value blood products and services to people in need.
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To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
Enhance the patient and family experience at upper valley medical center by raising community support for programs and services which help build healthy communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Venn Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Best Future Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 28 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 THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds LAKER ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH ↗
- Who funds VENN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PATRONS OF THE ARTS & ACTIVITIES ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH ↗
- Who funds BEST FUTURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds REACHING OUR COMMUNITYS KIDS ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN VALLEY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds EDEN PRAIRIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRIOR LAKE-SAVAGE HOCKEY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PRIOR LAKE-SAVAGE AREA SCHOOLS VEBA TRUST ↗
- Who funds ALIGHT ↗
- Who funds SCOTT CARVER DAKOTA CAP AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds Prior Lake Fire Relief Association ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL VILLAGE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds LOVE146 INC ↗
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: 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 Prior Lake 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.
- LOVE146 Inc — 49% of income from government
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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