· Public charity
Rotary District 5170 Foundation
The foundation administers funds contributed by its participating rotary clubs, interact clubs, rotaract clubs and any other persons or groups approved by the board of directors, and distributes foundation funds and assets to support its charitable and public purposes.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $243,134 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $308,118 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $64,984 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 · FY2022
- Under $10k7 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $42k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $147k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WHEELCHAIR FOUNDATION | $147,000 |
| THE ROTARY FOUNDATION | $29,256 |
| ROTARY DISTRICT 5170 | $12,500 |
| SECOND HARVEST | $9,800 |
| WEST VALLEY COMMUNITY SERV | $9,800 |
| LOAVES AND FISHES | $8,650 |
| ROTARY CLUB OF NILES | $8,070 |
| ROTARY CLUB OF LIVERMORE VALL | $6,150 |
| PARI FOUNDATION USA INC | $6,000 |
| ROTARY CLUB OF SILICON VALLEY | $5,908 |
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 (FY17–17, $52k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 11% of Rotary District 5170 Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +30% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2022, 6 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 10% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $193k 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
- RDROTARY DISTRICT 51703× · 2019–2021 · $256k
- RCROTARY CLUB VICTORIA FALLS2× · 2020–2021 · $49k
- PRPARADISE ROTARY FOUNDATION2× · 2019–2020 · $46k · revenue -98%
Funded once
- RCRotary Club of Castro Valleyone grant, 2019 · $176k · revenue -1%
- IRINTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEone grant, 2018 · $88k
- PLPacific Links Foundationone grant, 2020 · $80k · revenue +3%
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.
Rotary is an organization of business and professional leaders united worldwide who provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world. The main objective of…
to provide community as well as worlwide assistance to those in need.
The Foundation was established to raise funds for the purpose of contributing to charitable and educational organizations in the local, national, and international community.
The purpose of the Organization is to bring together business and professional leaders to provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help goodwill and peace in the world.
Raising funds to provide community service at home and throughout the world.
To provide a broad range of humanitarian service projects and build lasting goodwill locally and globally.
Rotary international mission is to provide service to others, promote a high ethical standards, and to advance world understanding, goodwill and peace thgough its fellowship of business, professional and community leaders.
The object of rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise. motto is service above self.
To further the purpose of rotary international.
Provide service to others, promote integrity, and advance world understanding, goodwill and peace through the fellowship of business, professional, and community leaders.
To incorporate the purposes of rotary international in our club which includes humanitarian service, encouragement of high ethical standards in all vocations and build goodwill and peace in the world. the club also identifies and addresses…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International and the most unlike its peers is Pari Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 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 Rotary Club of Castro Valley ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Pacific Links Foundation ↗
- Who funds NOT FOR SALE FUND ↗
- Who funds THE A21 CAMPAIGN INC ↗
- Who funds Rotary District 5170 Foundation ↗
- Who funds PARADISE ROTARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ESNA VILLAGE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds ROTARY INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT 5170 ↗
- Who funds PLAN INTERNATIONAL USA INC ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Planting Justice ↗
- Who funds TRUST IN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds LOAVES AND FISHES ↗
- Who funds Educate2Envision International Inc ↗
- Who funds NILES ROTARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY CLUB OF LIVERMORE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds PARI FOUNDATION ↗
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.
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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 District 5170 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.