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Rotary Club of SC Sunrise Foundation
The primary mission of the Rotary Club of SC Sunrise Foundation is to provide funds for community non-profit organizations and youth programs in Santa Cruz County (California).
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $169,600 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $267,930 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $98,330 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 $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $87k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| County Park Friends | $75,000 |
| Boys & Girls Club Santa Cruz | $25,000 |
| Skills of Life Cafe | $25,000 |
| Teen Kitchen Project | $25,000 |
| Veterans Surf Alliance | $12,000 |
| Rotary District 5170 | $7,600 |
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 (FY23–23, $151k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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 +17% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 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, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $112k 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
- TKTEEN KITCHEN PROJECT4× · 2018–2025 · $143k · revenue +737%
- GIGIRLS INC2× · 2023–2024 · $22k · revenue +87%
- SHSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK SANTA CRUZ COUNTY2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue +17%
Funded once
MONARCH SERVICES-SERVICIOS MONARCAgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $151k · revenue +27%- SCSanta Cruz Childrens Museum of Discoveryone grant, 2022 · $34k · revenue 0%
- JHJACOBS HEART CHILDRENS CANCER SUPPORT SERVICESgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +193%
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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To serve our community by providing direct access to sustainable sources of fresh produce and other unique foods, and provide education about food issues, both local and beyond.
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CASA recruits, trains, and supports community volunteers who advocate for chidren and youth throughout their journey in foster care.
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Create and support mentoring matches that ignite the power and promise of youth.
The mission of San Francisco Bicycle Coalition is to transform San Francisco's streets and neighborhoods into more livable and safe places by promoting the bicycle for everyday transportation.
To ensure equitable access to the coastline and improve the health and well-being of Bay Area youth, through surf instruction. We use surfing as a vehicle to foster respect for nature, healthy living, personal growth, diversity, equity and…
Girl scouting builds girls of courage, confidence & character, who make the world a better place.
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Friends of santa cruz state parks is a vital partner to california state parks, creatively working to ensure parks and beaches throughout santa cruz county and coastal san mateo county are thriving and available to all.
Creating compassionate and equitable local economies that contribute to the well-being of our communities.Ventures partners with rural, working-class families in Californias Central Coast to ensure a shared and equitable economic future…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Second Harvest Food Bank Santa Cruz County and the most unlike its peers is Veteran Surf Alliance. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 23 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 MONARCH SERVICES-SERVICIOS MONARCA ↗
- Who funds TEEN KITCHEN PROJECT ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY PARKS ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Rotary District 5170 Foundation ↗
- Who funds FoodWhat Incorporated ↗
- Who funds Santa Cruz Childrens Museum of Discovery ↗
- Who funds JACOBS HEART CHILDRENS CANCER SUPPORT SERVICES ↗
- Who funds DIGITAL NEST INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT BIKE TECH ↗
- Who funds SKILLS OF LIFE CAFE ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAINS 2 SEA ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK SANTA CRUZ COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Veteran Surf Alliance ↗
- Who funds Court Appointed Special Advocates of Santa Cruz County ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF LAHAINA SUNSET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOUSING MATTERS ↗
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: Community Foundation Santa Cruz County · Monterey Peninsula Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Volunteer Centers of Santa Cruz County · Caroline's Nonprofit Thrift Shop · Newman's Own Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Pajaro Valley Community Health Trust · Dignity Health · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Nicholson Family 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 SC Sunrise 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.
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.