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Rotary Club of Lake Minnetonka- Excelsior Inc
Rotary is a worldwide organization of business and professional leaders that provide humanitarian service. Promoting high ethical standards in all vocations, our mission of "service before self" aims to build goodwill and peace in the world. The lake minnetonka excelsior rotary club was founded in 1996 and currently boasts a membership…
- $246k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $233k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 15
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $421k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Rotary Club of Lake Minnetonka- Excelsior Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 20 | $233k | 30% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $234k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $178k | 67% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $188k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $42k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| So-Hi Community Park | $85,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Mano a Mano International Partners | $75,699 | 4 | 1% |
| Wakami Foundation | $57,197 | 4 | 10% |
| Intercongregation Communities Association Inc | $54,550 | 3 | 0% |
| Open Hands Foundation | $53,950 | 3 | 5% |
| Livin Foundation | $42,500 | 4 | 16% |
| Community for the Commons | $39,775 | 1 | 11% |
| Africa Classroom Connection | $37,000 | 3 | 7% |
| Minnetonka Public Schools | $29,750 | 3 | n/a |
| Western Communities Action Network Inc | $27,550 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 34 grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($60k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Rotary Club of Lake Minnetonka- Excelsior Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About Rotary Club of Lake Minnetonka- Excelsior Inc
- How much does Rotary Club of Lake Minnetonka- Excelsior Inc give?
- Rotary Club of Lake Minnetonka- Excelsior Inc reported 20 itemized grants totaling $232,806, out of $246,192 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 15 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Rotary Club of Lake Minnetonka- Excelsior Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (16%), Food & Nutrition (14%), Human Services (11%).
- Who are Rotary Club of Lake Minnetonka- Excelsior Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: So-Hi Community Park ($85k), Mano a Mano International Partners ($76k), Wakami Foundation ($57k).
- Does Rotary Club of Lake Minnetonka- Excelsior Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Rotary Club of Lake Minnetonka- Excelsior Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Minneapolis Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation.
- Where is Rotary Club of Lake Minnetonka- Excelsior Inc based?
- Rotary Club of Lake Minnetonka- Excelsior Inc is based in MN.
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