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Rotary International at a glance

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Rotary International

Conduct civic activities and provide support for charitable projects.

$70k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$154kRecreation & Sports$56kHuman Services$28kEducation$21kYouth Development$21kFood & Nutrition$5k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $10,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $69,502 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $59,002 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.
$10,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$197k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PACIFIC HARBORS COUNCIL SCOUTING AMERICA$10,500
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 (FY22–23, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%RAINEY DAY RANCH: $6k → 9%ROTARY CLUB OF YELM: $5k → 9%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 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.

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Rotary Club of Seattle

The rotary club of seattle creates strong relationships, increases understanding, and serves critical community needs.

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2
Seattle Rotary Service Foundation

The mission of the seattle rotary service foundation is to raise, steward, and distribute funds in support of the service activities of the rotary club of seattle.

Community Improvement
3
Rotary Club of Vancouver Sunrise Foundation

The organization's mission is to enable rotarians to advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through the improvement of health, education, and alleviation of poverty, both locally and worldwide.

Education
4
Los Altos Sunset Rotary Club Endowment Fund Inc
Community Improvement
5
Rotary International Los Gatos

The object of rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise. motto is service above self.

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6
Rotary Club of Honolulu

Fellowship with members and other leaders in various disciplines and vocations. service to the community.

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7
Rotary Club of Honolulu Sunset

To enable rotarians to advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through the improvement of health, the support of education, and the alleviation of poverty.

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8
Rotary International

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…

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9
Rotary Club of Lakewood Ranch

The mission of rotary is to provide service to others, to promote high ethical standards, and to advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through its fellowship of business, professional, and community leaders.

Unclassified
10
Rotary Club of Bluffton Sc

Understanding, goodwill and peace through fellowship of business,professional and community leaders. the organization's motto is service above self.

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11
Salem Rotary Foundation

Foster, develop, promote and encourage the health, education and general welfare of primarily young people, primarily in the city of salem, oregon and its environs.

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12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rotary Club of Yelm; the most unlike its peers is Rainy Day Ranch. 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

10 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. 10 of the 12 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $138,841 · InternationalTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONALCity of Lacey: $50,000 · OtherCity of LaceyLACEY ROTARY FOUNDATION: $15,000 · OtherLACEY ROTARY FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $14,905 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPACIFIC HARBORS COUNCILBOY SCOUTS: $10,500 · OtherPACIFIC HARBORS COUNCILBOY SCOUTSSENIOR SERVICES FOR SOUTH SOUND: $10,000 · OtherSENIOR SERVICES FOR SOUTH SOUNDFAMILY EDUCATION & SUPPORT SERVICES: $10,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY EDUC…STONEWALL YOUTH: $7,500 · Human ServicesSTONEWALL Y…RAINY DAY RANCH: $6,000 · Human ServicesRAINY DAY R…ROTARY CLUB OF YELM: $5,000 · Human ServicesROTARY CLUB…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THURSTON COUNTY: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentROTARY CLUB OF LAHAINA SUNSET FOUNDATION: $6,200 · Environment
International$138,841Other$100,405Human Services$28,500Youth Development$10,000Environment$6,200

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $138,841 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLACEY ROTARY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THURSTON COUNTY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILY EDUCATION & SUPPORT SERVICES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSENIOR SERVICES FOR SOUTH SOUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSTONEWALL YOUTH: $7,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF LAHAINA SUNSET FOUNDATION: $6,200 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetRAINY DAY RANCH: $6,000 over 1y, 3.0% 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.

Dawkins Charitable Tr…The Community Foundat…Puget Sound Energy Fo…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Dawkins Charitable TrustWA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dawkins Charitable Trust · The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 International funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rotary International. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%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
    6report 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.

    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 12 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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