· Public charity
Rotary International District 5950 Inc
The organization's primary mission is to support the activities of the rotary clubs within the district (71 clubs) by providing leadership training program materials, and hosting meetings and conferences.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 15 grants below total $139,319 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $151,319 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $12,000 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 $10k4 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MINNEAPOLIS ROTARY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| EDEN PRAIRIE ROTARY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ALEXANDRIA ROTARY CLUB | $10,000 |
| MINNEAPOLIS UNIVERSITY ROTARY SERVICE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MINNEWASKA ROTARY CLUB | $10,000 |
| EDINA ROTARY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| REDWOOD FALLS ROTARY CLUB | $10,000 |
| CHANHASSEN ROTARY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ROTARY E-CLUB OF GLOBAL TRAVELERS | $10,000 |
| BLOOMINGTON ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ROTARY CLUB OF LAKE MINNETONKA EXCELSIOR | $10,000 |
| CRYSTAL NEW HOPE ROBBINSDALE ROTARY CLUB | $9,000 |
| ST CLOUD GRANITE ROTARY FOUNDATION INC | $8,000 |
| SAVAGE ROTARY FOUNDATION | $6,319 |
| ST LOUIS PARK ROTARY FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 83% of your 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 13% of Rotary International District 5950 Inc’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. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in MN; read by stated purpose it is 47% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 +12% since the first grant, against -11% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 4 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- TETHE EDINA ROTARY FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2025 · $67k · revenue +61%
- BRBLOOMINGTON ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2025 · $60k · revenue +112% · 35% of their budget
- RCROTARY CLUB OF LAKE MINNETONKA- EXCELSIOR INC5× · 2020–2025 · $50k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- EMEDINA MORNINGSIDE ROTARY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $24k
- SCST CLOUD ROTARY FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $18k · revenue +13%
- RCROTARY CLUB OF MINNESOTA VETERANS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $15k
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.
Community/World Service
Community service
Rotary Club of Maple Grove is a member club of Rotary International, a service organization involved in community activities.
to provide community as well as worlwide assistance to those in need.
Service and funding to various organizations throughout our community and worldwide.
A fellowship of individuals who are focused on supporting their community and building bridges between nations.
Rotary club of superior is a service organization located in superior, wi and chartered under rotary international. the club members donate hundreds of hours annually to different projects and fundraisers in the community and contribute…
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 humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations and help build goodwill and peace in the world
Service club
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minneapolis Rotary Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Apple Valley Rotary Scholarship Foundation. 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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 9% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
28 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. 28 of the 53 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 THE EDINA ROTARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOMINGTON ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN PARK ROTARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF LAKE MINNETONKA- EXCELSIOR INC ↗
- Who funds Chanhassen Rotary Foundation ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF BUFFALO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MINNEAPOLIS ROTARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAPLE GROVE ROTARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MINNEAPOLIS CITY OF LAKES ROTARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MINNEWASKA ROTARY CLUB ↗
- Who funds ROTARY 5950 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MINNEAPOLIS UNIVERSITY ROTARY SERVICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds APPLE VALLEY ROTARY SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST CLOUD GRANITE ROTARY CLUB ↗
- Who funds ROTARY INTERNATIONAL EDINA ROTARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF EDEN PRAIRIE NOON ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF MINNETONKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST CLOUD ROTARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BURNSVILLE ROTARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Rotary International-Alexandria Club ↗
- Who funds WACONIA WEST CARVER ROTARY ↗
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: The Minneapolis Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 International District 5950 Inc 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.
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