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Rotary Club of Palatine Foundation

To support national and international humanitarian projects

$71k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Housing & Shelter$75kHuman Services$61kEducation$39kRecreation & Sports$32kYouth Development$25kInternational$25kHealth$21kPhilanthropy$17kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 2 grants below total $12,705 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $71,474 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $58,769 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.

$6,705
Median grant
1
States reached
$77k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JOURNEYS THE ROAD HOME$6,705
SPECIAL LEISURE SERVICES FOUNDATION$6,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $118k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SHELTER BOX USA: $1k → 9%LUTHERAN CHURCH CHARITIES: $2k → 14%LUTHERAN CHURCH CHARITIES: $250 → 14%ASSOCIATION OF HORIZON: $500 → 14%CLEARBROOK: $2k → 14%CLEARBROOK: $627 → 14%ETSNW ESCORTED TRANSPORTATION SERVICE NO: $500 → 14%CLEARBROOK: $500 → 14%ESCORTED TRANSPORTATION SERVICE NOR: $500 → 14%CONNECTIONS TO CARE: $500 → 14%ETSNW ESCORTED TRANSPORTATION SERVICE NORTHWEST: $350 → 14%ESCORTED TRANSPORTATION SERVICE NORTHWEST: $300 → 14%PARTNERS FOR OUR COMMUNITIES (POC): $2k → 14%PARTNERS FOR OUR COMMUNITIES (POC): $1k → 14%PARTNERS FOR OUR COMMUNITIES POC: $1k → 14%PARTNERS FOR OUR COMMUNITIES POC: $500 → 14%PALATINE TOWNSHIP SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL: $5k → 14%ST JOSEPHS HOME FOR THE ELDERLY: $3k → 14%PALATINE TOWNSHIP SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL: $3k → 14%PALATINE TOWNSHIP SENIOR CITIZENS C: $3k → 14%LITTLE CITY FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%PALATINE TOWNSHIP SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL: $3k → 14%PALATINE OPPORTUNITY CENTER (POC): $2k → 14%SALUTE INC: $2k → 14%ST JOSEPH'S HOME FOR THE ELDERLY: $2k → 14%ST JOSEPH'S HOME FOR THE ELDERLY - LITTL: $2k → 14%ST JOSEPHS HOME FOR THE ELDERLY: $2k → 14%ST JOSEPHS HOME FOR THE ELDERLY: $1k → 14%ST JOSEPH'S HOME FOR THE ELDERLY - LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR: $1k → 14%PALATINE TOWNSHIP SENIOR CITIZENS C: $1k → 14%JOURNEYS THE ROAD HOME: $10k → 14%PALATINE TOWNSHIP NEEDY FAMILY FUND: $1k → 14%JOURNEYS THE ROAD HOME: $10k → 14%JOURNEYS THE ROAD HOME: $9k → 14%JOURNEYS THE ROAD HOME: $8k → 14%JOURNEYS THE ROAD HOME: $8k → 14%JOURNEYS THE ROAD HOME: $8k → 14%JOURNEYS THE ROAD HOME: $7k → 14%LITTLE CITY FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%JOURNEYS THE ROAD HOME: $5k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOME AID: $1k → 14%ICOMPETE: $2k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOME AID: $950 → 14%ICOMPETE: $2k → 14%WOMEN'S CLUB OF INVERNESS: $750 → 14%JOURNEYS THE ROAD HOME: $1k → 14%ICOMPETE: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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PA
MO
KY
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GA
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$295k · 35 repeat orgs$65k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

35 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
39

Total granted

$295k
$65k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+20%

Still filing today

74%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterHealthYouth DevelopmentEducationOther

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

  • PT
    PADS TO HOPE DBA-JOURNEYS THE ROAD HOME
    8× · 2017–2025 · $65k · revenue +15%
  • TB
    THE BRIDGE YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES
    6× · 2017–2023 · $23k · revenue +50%
  • RC
    ROTARY CLUB OF PALATINE
    2× · 2017–2023 · $20k · revenue +145% · 26% of their budget

Funded once

  • BR
    Barrington Rotary Club Foundation
    one grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue +9%
  • EL
    EVANSTON LIGHTHOUSE ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +21%
  • LF
    Lafayette Foundation of the CPW Rotary Club
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -64%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Lakeside Community Committee

To enhance the quality of life for children and families by inspiring hope and empowerment and growth within all whom we serve.

Human Services
2
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago

Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago's purpose is to partner with mission-driven people and organizations across Cook and Lake counties and to witness a message of mercy and hope to a world in need through service.

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3
Lurie Children's Surgical Foundation Inc

Provide pediatric and subspecialty surgical, research, and educational services.

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4
Chicago Cares Inc

Chicago Cares, Inc. mobilizes volunteers to build a stronger, more unified Chicago.

Community Improvement
5
Joliet Area Community Hospice Corp

The mission of the lightways hospice and serious illness care is to provide comprehensive, holistic, community based support services and care for terminally ill persons, their caregivers and loved ones without regard to economic status,…

Human Services
6
Rochester Rotary Club

We are a member-centered service organization enriching the lives of our city youth, people with disabilities and world neighbors.

Community Improvement
7
Rotary Club of Palatine Foundation

To support national and international humanitarian projects

Philanthropy
8
Easter Seals of Joliet Region Inc

The mission of easter seals is to increase independence, maximize opportunities, minimize barriers, and enhance the quality of life for children and adults with disabilities, those with special needs and thier families through direct…

Human Services
9
The Executives' Club of Chicago

To be chicagos premier resources for connecting, developing, and growing best-in-class leaders to provide established and emerging leaders opportunities to develop and nurture meaningful relationships, participate in innovative…

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10
The Chicago Club

The chicago club is and shall continue to be the premier club in the city of chicago, serving the business, civic, educational, and philanthropic leaders, and their families, by providing a private club with outstanding dining, service,…

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11
The Stuart I Raskas Friendship Circle Illinois Nfp

The Stuart I Raskas Friendship Circle, NFP. provides assistance and support to the families of children with special needs. The services provided benefits the special needs children, their families and the volunteers.

Youth Development
12
Volunteers of America of Illinois

Volunteers of america of illinois partners with the people we serve to create transformational and lasting change in their lives through programs that support, empower, and transform.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Association of Horizon Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%2%<5yr14%0%5–10yr18%11%10–20yr17%38%20–35yr15%25%35–55yr16%25%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%1%<5yr14%0%5–10yr18%8%10–20yr17%43%20–35yr15%26%35–55yr16%23%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/74
the rest of the field
16%
5,000/31,436

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.

04the grantee network

53 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. 53 of the 75 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/53
Grantees still filing
36/53
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE BRIDGE YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES — $22,900 · OtherTHE BRIDGE YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICESSPECIAL LEISURE SERVICES FOUNDATION — $22,060 · OtherSPECIAL LEISURE SERVICES FOUNDATIONROTARY CLUB OF PALATINE — $20,000 · OtherROTARY CLUB OF PALATINEPALATINE PUBLIC LIBRARY DISTRICT FOUNDATION — $11,500 · OtherPALATINE PUBLIC LIBRARY DISTRICT FOUNDATIONTOWNSHIP HS DISTRICT 211 — $8,850 · Otherone-five Foundation — $7,984 · OtherNorthwest Community Hospital Foundation — $7,434 · OtherCONNECT TO COMMUNITY INC — $7,000 · OtherVILLAGE OF PALATINE — $6,712 · Other+36 more — $76,374 · Other+36 morePADS TO HOPE DBA-JOURNEYS THE ROAD HOME — $65,085 · Human ServicesPADS TO HOPE DBA-JOURNEYS THE ROAD H…PALATINE TOWNSHIP SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL — $13,500 · Human ServicesPALATINE TOWNSHIP SENIOR CITIZENS CO…PARTNERS FOR OUR COMMUNITIES — $11,500 · Human ServicesPARTNERS FOR OUR COMMUNITIESLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR PALATINE ST JOSEPHS HOME FOR THE ELDERLY — $10,220 · Human ServicesLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR PALATINE …+12 more — $18,136 · Human Services+12 moreBarrington Rotary Club Foundation — $5,844 · PhilanthropyLafayette Foundation of the CPW Rotary Club — $5,000 · PhilanthropyROTARY DISTRICT 6440 CHARITABLE FUND INC NFP — $4,900 · PhilanthropyCHILDREN'S DYSLEXIA CENTERS INC — $1,250 · Philanthropy+2 more — $759 · PhilanthropyWINGS PROGRAM INC — $6,500 · Housing & ShelterSHELTER INC — $6,000 · Housing & ShelterFAMILYFORWARD — $4,200 · Housing & ShelterHome of the Sparrow Inc — $1,000 · Housing & ShelterSECOND CITY CANINE RESCUE — $8,000 · AnimalsCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF NORTH & NORTHWEST COOK COUNTY — $6,500 · Crime & LegalPalatine Citizen Police Academy Alumni Association — $3,150 · EducationWILLIAM RAINEY HARPER COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $2,500 · Education
Other$190,814Human Services$118,441Philanthropy$17,753Housing & Shelter$17,700Animals$8,000Crime & Legal$6,500Education$5,650

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPADS TO HOPE DBA-JOURNEYS THE ROAD HOME — $65,085 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BRIDGE YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES — $22,900 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetSPECIAL LEISURE SERVICES FOUNDATION — $22,060 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF PALATINE — $20,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetPALATINE TOWNSHIP SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL — $13,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetPARTNERS FOR OUR COMMUNITIES — $11,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR PALATINE ST JOSEPHS HOME FOR THE ELDERLY — $10,220 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND CITY CANINE RESCUE — $8,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetone-five Foundation — $7,984 over 5y, 7.1% of budgetNorthwest Community Hospital Foundation — $7,434 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWINGS PROGRAM INC — $6,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF NORTH & NORTHWEST COOK COUNTY — $6,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSHELTER INC — $6,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBarrington Rotary Club Foundation — $5,844 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetEVANSTON LIGHTHOUSE ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetLafayette Foundation of the CPW Rotary Club — $5,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTHE 100 CLUB OF ILLINOIS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL — $4,975 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROTARY DISTRICT 6440 CHARITABLE FUND INC NFP — $4,900 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetFAMILYFORWARD — $4,200 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetLITTLE CITY FOUNDATION — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $3,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPalatine Citizen Police Academy Alumni Association — $3,150 over 1y, 42% of budgetSPECIAL GIFTS THEATRE INC CO ELISE LARSEN — $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe American Legion — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Hap Foundation Inc (F/K/A Journeycare Foundation) — $2,850 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCLEARBROOK — $2,627 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIAM RAINEY HARPER COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPALATINE SWIM TEAM — $2,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetRotary International District 6440 — $2,450 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCONNECTIONS TO CARE — $2,150 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetSALUTE INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL — $1,950 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHERAN CHURCH CHARITIES FUND — $1,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPALATINE JAYCEES — $1,600 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMUSIC ON STAGE INC — $1,350 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S DYSLEXIA CENTERS INC — $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPALATINE TOWNSHIP NEEDY FAMILY FUND INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetARTS REFRESHING THE SOUL — $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSHELTERBOX USA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHome of the Sparrow Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMENS CLUB OF INVERNESS (c/o Lisa Holloway) — $750 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNSSEO Foundation Inc — $600 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF ARL HGTS CHAIRITABLE FOUN — $500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAssociation of Horizon Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Motorola Solutions Fo…John Marshall Family …AbbVie FoundationGeorge M Eisenberg Fo…The FJK Private Found…Give N KindNorthwest Community H…United Way of Metropo…The Canning FoundationFoglia Family Foundat…First Bank Chicago Fo…Arthur J Gallagher Fo…
Motorola Solutions FoundationIL30.6× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Motorola Solutions Foundation · John Marshall Family Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · The FJK Private Foundation · Give N Kind · Northwest Community Hospital · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Canning Foundation · Foglia Family Foundation · First Bank Chicago Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation

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 Palatine Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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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    How do I get to Rotary Club of Palatine Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Rotary Club of Palatine Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 75 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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