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Rotary Club of Arlington at a glance

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Rotary Club of Arlington

The Rotary Club of Arlington is a group of business-owners, professionals and community leaders dedicated to making our world and community stronger.

$139k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Philanthropy$200kHuman Services$138kFood & Nutrition$97kYouth Development$30kRecreation & Sports$27kCommunity Improvement$10kEnvironment$5kHousing & Shelter$5k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $50,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $139,400 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $89,400 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.
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$631k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Arlington Food Bank$25,000
Jensen Park Pump Track City of Arlington$15,000
Arlington Kids Kloset$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $210k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Mt Baker Rotary Club: $10k → 12%Stilly Valley Center: $41k → 9%Arlington Food Bank: $37k → 9%Arlington Food Bank: $25k → 9%Arlington Kids Kloset: $20k → 9%Arlington Kids Kloset: $18k → 9%Stillaguamish Senior Center: $15k → 9%A Christmas Wish Arlington Food Bank: $10k → 9%A Christmas Wish: $10k → 9%Arlington Kids Kloset: $10k → 9%Arlington Kids Kloset: $8k → 9%Arlington Kids Kloset: $8k → 9%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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$220k · 4 repeat orgs$92k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +62% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
6

Total granted

$220k
$77k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
0%

Still filing today

100%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesAnimalsYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • AK
    ARLINGTON KIDS KLOSET
    5× · 2020–2025 · $62k · revenue +62%
  • SV
    STILLY VALLEY CENTER
    2× · 2021–2024 · $56k · revenue +12%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY
    3× · 2020–2022 · $30k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • AH
    ARLINGTON HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUBgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $37k · revenue ×21
  • RI
    ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • TC
    Twin Cities Rotary Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -35%
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
Snohomish Community Food Bank

To provide food and services in a caring and dignified manner to neighbors in need

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2
The Rotary Club of Snoqualmie Valley

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

Human Services
3
Arc of Snohomish County

To serve individuals with developmental disabilities and their families

—
4
Emergency Medical Services Council

Support for Emergency Medical Services EMS providers in Snohomish County, Washington.

Health
5
Arlington Rebounders Club

Booster Club for AHSchool Basketball.

Recreation & Sports
6
Christmas House

Christmas House is a 100% volunteer, non-profit organization in Everett, Washington that provides an opportunity for qualifying, low-income, Snohomish County parents to receive free holiday gifts for their children age infant 18 yrs old.…

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7
Arlington Food Assistance Center

To provide dignified access to free groceries for qualified families in Arlington, VA and surrounding counties.

Food & Nutrition
8
Exchange Club of Spokane Foundation

Prevention of child abuse

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9
Snoqualmie Valley Food Bank

Our mission is to provide food and key resources to help our neighbors and community thrive. we lead the effort to feed, educated and advocate ending hunger in the snoqualmie valley and beyond.

Food & Nutrition
10
Rotary Foundation of the South Puget Sound Rotary Club
Education
11
South Kitsap Soccer Club

Youth soccer club

Recreation & Sports
12
Sammamish Kiwanis Foundation

Our club is organized to support children and youth in our community.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Clubs of Snohomish County; the most unlike its peers is Cocoon House. 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

10 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. 10 of the 12 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ARLINGTON COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $72,000 · Human ServicesARLINGTON COMMUNITY FOOD BANKARLINGTON KIDS KLOSET: $62,355 · Human ServicesARLINGTON KIDS KLOSETSTILLY VALLEY CENTER: $56,052 · Human ServicesSTILLY VALLEY CENTERTwin Cities Rotary Foundation: $10,000 · Human ServicesA CHRISTMAS WISH: $10,000 · Human ServicesCommunity Foundation of Snohomish County: $199,500 · PhilanthropyCommunity Foundation of Snohomish CountyARLINGTON HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUB: $36,714 · OtherARLINGTON HIG…CITY OF ARLINGTON: $15,000 · OtherCITY OF ARLIN…ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 · OtherROTARY INTERN…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentSPCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $5,316 · AnimalsCOCOON HOUSE: $5,000 · Housing & Shelter
Human Services$210,407Philanthropy$199,500Other$61,714Youth Development$30,000Animals$5,316Housing & Shelter$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCommunity Foundation of Snohomish County: $199,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetARLINGTON COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $72,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetARLINGTON KIDS KLOSET: $62,355 over 5y, 10% of budgetSTILLY VALLEY CENTER: $56,052 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetA CHRISTMAS WISH: $10,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetSPCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $5,316 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOCOON HOUSE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Community Foundation …Credit Unions in the …The Nysether Family F…Leland J & Dorothy H …American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation of Snohomish CountyWA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Snohomish County · Credit Unions in the State of Washington · The Nysether Family Foundation · Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation · 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 Rotary Club of Arlington funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rotary Club of Arlington. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 Rotary Club of Arlington?

    Find your warmest path to Rotary Club of Arlington 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 12 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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