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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.

$318k
Granted FY2023
13
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$46k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

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

3
’17
4
’18
3
’19
6
’20
1
’21
9
’22
9
’23
1
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

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 2024.

International$246kRecreation & Sports$141kPhilanthropy$125kHuman Services$120kYouth Development$67kEducation$63kPublic Benefit$45kCrime & Legal$24kOther$0
02FY2023 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $165,520, the rows itemized in this filing. The $317,512 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $151,992 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 $10k7 grants · $47k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $119k
$8,745
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH$7,000
SOUTHERN VALLEY ALLIANCE$7,000
PRIOR LAKE-SAVAGE HOCKEY ASSOCIATIO$5,490
PATRONS OF THE ARTS AND ACTIVITIES$5,378
PRIOR LAKE PLAYERS$5,095
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%The River Valley YMCA: $39k → 5%The River Valley YMCA: $24k → 5%The River Valley YMCA: $15k → 5%CAP Agency: $10k → 5%The River Valley YMCA: $5k → 5%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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$433k · 13 repeat orgs$97k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
9

Total granted

$433k
$74k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+48%

Still filing today

62%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalEducationHuman ServicesMembership BenefitRecreation & SportsCrime & LegalOther
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

  • LA
    LAKER ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB INC
    5× · 2017–2023 · $102k · revenue +25%
  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH
    3× · 2021–2024 · $26k · revenue +61%
  • BF
    BEST FUTURE CENTER
    3× · 2020–2023 · $22k · revenue +106%

Funded once

  • PL
    PRIOR LAKE-SAVAGE AREA SCHOOLS VEBA TRUSTgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $12k · revenue +48%
  • A
    ALIGHT
    one grant, 2022 · $11k · revenue +22%
  • FO
    Friends of Chimbote
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
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
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
2
Grand View University

Engages, equips and empowers learners to explore their vocations, fulfill their potential and serve the world.

Education
3
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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4
Veap Inc

VEAP is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, multi-service, human service organization with the mission of "Together, we create pathways to stronger, more hopeful, communities through access to healthy food, housing stability and supportive services."

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5
Lake Forest Academy

Lake forest academy strives to embody in its practices - and to cultivate in its students -excellence of character, scholarship, citizenship, and responsibility.

Education
6
Midwest Dairy Association

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.

—
7
Senior Life Resources Northwest

To preserve and enhance the quality of life at home, with dignity and care.

Human Services
8
Junior Achievement of Northern Indiana Foundation Inc

To support the activities of junior achievement of northern indiana, inc.

—
9
Northern Illinois Blood Bank Inc D/B/a Rock River Valley Blood Center

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.

Health
10
The Minneapolis Foundation

The foundation cultivates generosity by taking action on the greatest civic, social, and economic needs partnering with nonprofits, facilitating grantmaking, driving research and advocacy, and providing services to donors seeking to make a…

Philanthropy
11
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

—
12
Uvmc Foundation

Enhance the patient and family experience at upper valley medical center by raising community support for programs and services which help build healthy communities.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Venn Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
14/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $228,865 · InternationalTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTE…JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH: $26,000 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTHALIGHT: $11,000 · International+1 more: $6,000 · InternationalCITY OF PRIOR LAKE: $44,565 · OtherCITY OF PRIOR LAKEFRIENDS OF CHIMBOTE: $22,706 · OtherFRIENDS OF CHIMBOTEBEST FUTURE CENTER: $21,739 · OtherBEST FUTURE CENTERPRIOR LAKE SNOWMOBILE ASSOCIATION: $21,177 · OtherPRIOR LAKE SNOWMOBILE ASSOCIATI…SCOTT COUNTY YOUNG LIFE: $19,490 · OtherSCOTT COUNTY YOUNG LIFESOUTHERN VALLEY ALLIANCE: $14,643 · OtherSOUTHERN VALLEY ALLIANCESLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE: $13,100 · OtherSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACEEDEN PRAIRIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $12,826 · OtherEDEN PRAIRIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATI…SCOTT COUNTY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE: $10,000 · OtherFriends of Chimbote: $9,583 · OtherSCOTT COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE: $7,794 · OtherPRIOR LAKE-SAVAGE HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $12,120 · Other+4 more: $23,605 · Other+4 moreLAKER ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB INC: $102,031 · EducationLAKER ATHLETIC BOO…PATRONS OF THE ARTS & ACTIVITIES: $34,877 · EducationPATRONS OF THE ART…YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH: $82,650 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS C…SCOTT CARVER DAKOTA CAP AGENCY INC: $9,500 · Human ServicesSCOTT CARVER…VENN FOUNDATION: $80,000 · PhilanthropyVENN FOUND…PRIOR LAKE-SAVAGE AREA SCHOOLS VEBA TRUST: $12,000 · Membership BenefitPrior Lake Fire Relief Association: $7,355 · Membership BenefitREACHING OUR COMMUNITYS KIDS: $18,245 · Food & Nutrition
International$271,865Other$233,348Education$136,908Human Services$92,150Philanthropy$80,000Membership Benefit$19,355Food & Nutrition$18,245

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 budgetTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $228,865 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLAKER ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB INC: $102,031 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH: $82,650 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVENN FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPATRONS OF THE ARTS & ACTIVITIES: $34,877 over 4y, 8.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH: $26,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBEST FUTURE CENTER: $21,739 over 3y, 16% of budgetREACHING OUR COMMUNITYS KIDS: $18,245 over 2y, 14% of budgetSOUTHERN VALLEY ALLIANCE: $14,643 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetEDEN PRAIRIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $12,826 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetPRIOR LAKE-SAVAGE HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $12,120 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetALIGHT: $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCOTT CARVER DAKOTA CAP AGENCY INC: $9,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPrior Lake Fire Relief Association: $7,355 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetLOVE146 INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL VILLAGE CLINIC: $6,000 over 1y, 2.8% 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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO3.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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 Prior Lake Rotary Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Prior Lake Rotary Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 49%
  • LOVE146 Inc: 49% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get 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 · 0–60%
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

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How do I get to Prior Lake Rotary Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Prior Lake 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 28 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.

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