· Public charity
Rotary International District 6440
The object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the idea of service as a basis of worthy enterprise, and in particular, to encourage and foster First - the development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service Second - high ethical standards in business and professions the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations and…
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 4 grants below total $23,433 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $85,472 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $62,039 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Rotary Club Charitable Projects Foundation of Northbrook | $6,448 |
| WIlmette Harbor Rotary Foundation | $5,942 |
| Rotary Club of Arlington Heights Charitable Foundation | $5,603 |
| Buffalo Grove Rotary Foundation | $5,440 |
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 (FY23–24, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +19% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 2 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, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
- RCROTARY CLUB CHARITABLE PROJECTS FOUNDATION OF NORTHBROOK ILLINOIS6× · 2019–2025 · $42k · revenue +19%
- SUSHELTERBOX USA INC2× · 2023–2024 · $21k · revenue -3%
- ELEVANSTON LIGHTHOUSE ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- WRWINNETKANORTHFIELD ROTARY CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue 0%
- RCRotary Club of Batavia Illinoisone grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue -52%
- RCROTARY CLUB OF ARLINGTON HEIGHTSgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +52%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
7 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. 7 of the 10 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 CHARITABLE PROJECTS FOUNDATION OF NORTHBROOK ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds SHELTERBOX USA INC ↗
- Who funds EVANSTON LIGHTHOUSE ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WINNETKANORTHFIELD ROTARY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Rotary Club of Batavia Illinois ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF ARLINGTON HEIGHTS ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF ARL HGTS CHAIRITABLE FOUN ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Rotary International District 6440 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.