· Public charity
Rotary Club of Lake Minnetonka- Excelsior Inc
Rotary is a worldwide organization of business and professional leaders that provide humanitarian service.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 20 grants below total $232,806 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $246,192 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $13,386 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $177k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE OPEN HANDS FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| ICA FOOD SHELF | $25,000 |
| BOUNTIFUL BASKETS FOOD SHELF | $17,500 |
| LIVIN FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| MANO A MANO INTERNATIONAL | $14,456 |
| MANY HANDS MANY MEALS | $12,500 |
| AFRICA CLASSROOM CONNECTION | $12,000 |
| PARK NICOLLET FOUNDATION | $10,850 |
| EXCELSIOR CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $10,000 |
| WESTONKA COMMUNITY FOOD SHELF | $10,000 |
| BRICKS TO BREAD | $10,000 |
| TREE HOUSE | $10,000 |
| RESOURCE WEST | $8,500 |
| WE CAN | $8,000 |
| WAKIMI FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $226k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 63% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +7% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k 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
- MAMANO A MANO INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS4× · 2022–2025 · $76k · revenue +21%
- WFWAKAMI FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2025 · $57k · revenue +75%
- ICINTERCONGREGATION COMMUNITIES ASSOCIATION INC3× · 2023–2025 · $55k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- CFCOMMUNITY FOR THE COMMONSone grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue -73%
- EREXCELSIOR ROTARY CLUBone grant, 2021 · $20k
- EHELI HART FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Open Hands Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Wakami Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 21 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 13% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
28 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. 28 of the 35 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 SO-HI COMMUNITY PARK ↗
- Who funds MANO A MANO INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds WAKAMI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERCONGREGATION COMMUNITIES ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN HANDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIVIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOR THE COMMONS ↗
- Who funds AFRICA CLASSROOM CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds WESTERN COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds MANY HANDS MANY MEALS ↗
- Who funds HIS HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARK NICOLLET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRICKS TO BREAD INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds TREEHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds The Humanity Alliance ↗
- Who funds BOUNTIFUL BASKET FOOD SHELF OF EASTERN CARVER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Resourcewest ↗
- Who funds YOUTH FRONTIERS INC ↗
- Who funds ELI HART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EXCELSIOR-LAKE MINNETONKA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds YOUTH INVESTMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Relate Inc ↗
- Who funds REACH & RESTORE INC ↗
- Who funds THE MINNESOTA CAMP FIRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMP FIRE MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds THE HENDRICKSON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Autism Opportunities Foundation ↗
- Who funds WISHES & MORE ↗
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: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Kopp Family Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Bame Foundation · The Walser Foundation · Allina Health System · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 Rotary Club of Lake Minnetonka- Excelsior Inc 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.
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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