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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.

$246k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
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, FY2021 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$141kFood & Nutrition$122kHuman Services$99kHealth$96kInternational$95kCommunity Improvement$90kEducation$76kPhilanthropy$54kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 20 grants below total $232,806, the rows itemized in this filing. The $246,192 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $13,386 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $56k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $177k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$421k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
TREE HOUSE$10,000
WESTONKA COMMUNITY FOOD SHELF$10,000
BRICKS TO BREAD$10,000
RESOURCE WEST$8,500
WAKIMI FOUNDATION$8,000
WE CAN$8,000
02The need
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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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%WAKIMI FOUNDATION: $24k → 5%LIVIN FOUNDATION: $10k → 6%WISHES & MORE: $6k → 7%WAKAMI FOUNDATION: $15k → 5%LIVIN FOUNDATION: $9k → 6%LIVIN FOUNDATION: $15k → 7%WAKIMI FOUNDATION: $10k → 5%LIVIN FOUNDATION: $9k → 6%ICA FOOD SHELF: $25k → 11%WAKIMI FOUNDATION: $8k → 5%ICA FOOD SHELF: $17k → 11%ICA FOOD SHELF: $13k → 11%WE CAN: $11k → 11%YOUTH FRONTIERS INC: $6k → 11%WE CAN: $9k → 11%YOUTH FRONTIERS: $6k → 11%WE CAN: $8k → 11%RELATE COUNSELING CENTER: $9k → 11%REACH & RESTORE: $7k → 11%YOUTH INVESTMENT FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$697k · 19 repeat orgs$178k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
10

Total granted

$697k
$123k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+12%

Still filing today

84%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesRecreation & SportsEducationHealthHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • MA
    MANO A MANO INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS
    4× · 2022–2025 · $76k · revenue +21%
  • WF
    WAKAMI FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2025 · $57k · revenue +75%
  • IC
    INTERCONGREGATION COMMUNITIES ASSOCIATION INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $55k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • CF
    COMMUNITY FOR THE COMMONS
    one grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue -73%
  • ER
    EXCELSIOR ROTARY CLUB
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • EH
    ELI HART FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $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
Habitat for Humanity of Minnesota Inc

Habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, community, and hope. through advocacy, collaboration, and leadership, hfh-mn advances the work of minnesota's habitat for humanity affiliates to create and preserve affordable…

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2
Open Your Heart to the Hungry and Homeless

Since 1986, open your heart to the hungry and homeless has worked to ensureevery minnesotan is free from hunger and homelessness. by partnering with organizations serving those in need, we grow donor engagement and raise awareness to…

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3
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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4
Second Harvest North Central Food Bank

Engaging the community to end hunger

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5
Habitat for Humanity of So Cent Mn Inc

Help families build strength, stability, and self-reliance through shelter.

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6
Women's Foundation of Minnesota

Women's Foundation of Minnesota is a statewide community foundation investing in ending systemic inequities and driving innovation for gender and racial justice. WFM applies an Intersectional Equity Framework inclusive of gender, race,…

Philanthropy
7
Connectability of Mn Inc

Connectability of mn, inc. works to advance the independence, productivity, and full citizenship of people experiencing physical or invisible barriers.

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8
House of Charity

Feed those in need, house those experiencing homelessness, and empower individuals to achieve independence.

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9
Great Plains Food Bank

End hunger together.

Food & Nutrition
10
United Way of Ne Minnesota

United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.

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11
The Open Door

The open door is a leading hunger-relief organization serving dakota county, minnesota, where food insecurity is a growing challenge. the open door is dedicated to ending local hunger by providing access to healthy, fresh, and nutritious…

Food & Nutrition
12
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Open Hands Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 35 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
17/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WAKAMI FOUNDATION: $57,197 · Human ServicesWAKAMI FOUNDATIONINTERCONGREGATION COMMUNITIES ASSOCIATION INC: $54,550 · Human ServicesINTERCONGREGATION COMMUNITIES…LIVIN FOUNDATION: $42,500 · Human ServicesLIVIN FOUNDATIONWESTERN COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC: $27,550 · Human ServicesWESTERN COMMUNITIES ACTION NE…YOUTH FRONTIERS INC: $12,400 · Human ServicesYOUTH FRONTIERS INCYOUTH INVESTMENT FOUNDATION: $9,800 · Human ServicesRelate Inc: $9,200 · Human Services+2 more: $12,750 · Human Services+2 moreEXCELSIOR CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $60,000 · OtherEXCELSIOR CHAMBER OF COMMERCEMINNETONKA PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $29,750 · OtherMINNETONKA PUBLIC SCHOOLSSOUTHLAKE MINNETONKA POLICE: $27,300 · OtherSOUTHLAKE MINNETONKA POLICEEXCELSIOR ROTARY CLUB: $19,578 · OtherEXCELSIOR ROTARY CLUBPARK NICOLLET FOUNDATION: $19,350 · OtherPARK NICOLLET FOUNDATIONINDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT 277: $10,000 · OtherEXCELSIOR-LAKE MINNETONKA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $10,000 · OtherTREEHOUSE INC: $19,000 · OtherTREEHOUSE INCMANY HANDS MANY MEALS: $21,700 · OtherMANY HANDS MANY MEALSBOUNTIFUL BASKET FOOD SHELF OF EASTERN CARVER COUNTY: $17,500 · OtherBOUNTIFUL BASKET FOOD SHELF OF EAS…+5 more: $33,800 · Other+5 moreSO-HI COMMUNITY PARK: $85,000 · Recreation & SportsSO-HI COMMUNITY PA…COMMUNITY FOR THE COMMONS: $39,775 · Recreation & SportsCOMMUNITY FOR THE …ELI HART FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsELI HART FOUNDATIO…THE HENDRICKSON FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 · Recreation & SportsMANO A MANO INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS: $75,699 · Housing & ShelterMANO A MANO …HIS HOUSE FOUNDATION: $20,100 · Housing & ShelterHIS HOUSE FO…OPEN HANDS FOUNDATION: $53,950 · PhilanthropyAFRICA CLASSROOM CONNECTION: $37,000 · EducationResourcewest: $16,500 · EducationBRICKS TO BREAD INTERNATIONAL: $19,000 · Community ImprovementThe Humanity Alliance: $18,035 · Community Improvement
Human Services$225,947Other$267,978Recreation & Sports$140,775Housing & Shelter$95,799Philanthropy$53,950Education$53,500Community Improvement$37,035

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMANO A MANO INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS: $75,699 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetWAKAMI FOUNDATION: $57,197 over 4y, 9.5% of budgetINTERCONGREGATION COMMUNITIES ASSOCIATION INC: $54,550 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetOPEN HANDS FOUNDATION: $53,950 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetLIVIN FOUNDATION: $42,500 over 4y, 16% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOR THE COMMONS: $39,775 over 1y, 11% of budgetAFRICA CLASSROOM CONNECTION: $37,000 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetWESTERN COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC: $27,550 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetMANY HANDS MANY MEALS: $21,700 over 2y, 24% of budgetHIS HOUSE FOUNDATION: $20,100 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetPARK NICOLLET FOUNDATION: $19,350 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTREEHOUSE INC: $19,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBRICKS TO BREAD INTERNATIONAL: $19,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetThe Humanity Alliance: $18,035 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetBOUNTIFUL BASKET FOOD SHELF OF EASTERN CARVER COUNTY: $17,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetResourcewest: $16,500 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetYOUTH FRONTIERS INC: $12,400 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetELI HART FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetYOUTH INVESTMENT FOUNDATION: $9,800 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRelate Inc: $9,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREACH & RESTORE INC: $7,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE MINNESOTA CAMP FIRE FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetTHE HENDRICKSON FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAutism Opportunities Foundation: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The Minneapolis Found…Saint Paul & Minnesot…The Richard M Schulze…Xcel Energy FoundationKopp Family FoundationOtto Bremer TrustMightycause Charitabl…Bame FoundationThe Walser FoundationAllina Health SystemMargaret a Cargill Fo…The Blackbaud Giving …
The Minneapolis FoundationMN36× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Lake Minnetonka- Excelsior Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rotary Club of Lake Minnetonka- Excelsior Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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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    Find your warmest path to Rotary Club of Lake Minnetonka- Excelsior Inc 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 35 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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