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Rotary Club of Charles Town Charitable Foundation

To provide goods and services and to raise funds for local community charities.

$96k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$17k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Philanthropy$53kFood & Nutrition$48kHuman Services$34kRecreation & Sports$17kYouth Development$15kAnimals$10kEducation$6k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $47,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $96,291 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $49,291 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.
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$47k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY$17,000
JEFFERSON CO COMMUNITY MINISTRIES$10,000
MEALS ON WHEELS$10,000
HORSES FOR HEARTS$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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 3% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%SCHOLASTIC INC: $6k → 14%JEFFERSON CO COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $10k → 9%UNITED WAY: $17k → 11%MEALS ON WHEELS: $10k → 9%UNITED WAY: $16k → 11%JEFFERSON CO COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $10k → 9%HORSES FOR HEARTS: $10k → 11%MEALS ON WHEELS: $10k → 9%UNITED WAY: $7k → 11%MEALS ON WHEELS: $10k → 9%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $15k → 11%MEALS ON WHEELS: $10k → 9%EASTERN WV COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $7k → 11%MEALS ON WHEELS: $8k → 9%EASTERN WV COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $6k → 11%JEFFERSON CO COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $8k → 9%JEFFERSON MEMORIAL PARK: $7k → 9%JEFFERSON CO COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $6k → 9%JEFFERSON COUNTY PARKS & REC: $10k → 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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$121k · 3 repeat orgs$47k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
4

Total granted

$121k
$37k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+78%
+94%

Still filing today

100%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
PhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentAnimalsOther
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

  • MO
    MEALS ON WHEELS OF JEFFERSON COUNTY INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $48k · revenue +78%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF THE EASTERN PANHANDLE
    3× · 2023–2025 · $40k · revenue -7%
  • JC
    JEFFERSON COUNTY COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC
    4× · 2018–2025 · $34k · revenue +133%

Funded once

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE EASTERN PANHANDLE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +94%
  • JC
    JEFFERSON COUNTY PARKS & RECREATION COMMISSION INC
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • JM
    JEFFERSON MEMORIAL PARK
    one grant, 2018 · $7k
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
04the grantee network

6 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. 6 of the 9 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
5/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MEALS ON WHEELS OF JEFFERSON COUNTY INC: $47,500 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS OF JEFFERSON COUNTY INCJEFFERSON COUNTY COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $33,794 · OtherJEFFERSON COUNTY COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INCJEFFERSON COUNTY PARKS & RECREATION COMMISSION INC: $10,000 · OtherJEFFERSON COUNTY PARKS & RECREATION COMMISSION INCJEFFERSON MEMORIAL PARK: $6,884 · OtherJEFFERSON MEMORIAL PARKSCHOLASTIC INC: $5,520 · OtherUNITED WAY OF THE EASTERN PANHANDLE: $39,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF THE EASTERN PANHAN…EASTERN WEST VIRGINIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $13,000 · PhilanthropyEASTERN WEST VIRGINIA COMMUNITY …BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE EASTERN PANHANDLE INC: $14,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GI…HORSES WITH HEARTS INC: $10,000 · Animals
Other$103,698Philanthropy$52,500Youth Development$14,500Animals$10,000

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 budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF JEFFERSON COUNTY INC: $47,500 over 5y, 8.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE EASTERN PANHANDLE: $39,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetJEFFERSON COUNTY COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $33,794 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE EASTERN PANHANDLE INC: $14,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetEASTERN WEST VIRGINIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $13,000 over 2y, 0.3% 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.

Roy and Gwen Steeley Foundation IncDE17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Roy and Gwen Steeley Foundation Inc · Eastern West Virginia Community Foundation · United Way of the Eastern Panhandle · Bowles Rice Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · 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 Charles Town Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rotary Club of Charles Town Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 9 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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