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Rotary International Sumner Rotary Club
Charitable and education
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 60% of Rotary International Sumner Rotary Club’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 22 grants below total $289,711 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $310,472 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $20,761 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 $10k19 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $52k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $192k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Pierce County Library | $191,500 |
| Sumner Rotary Club Foundation | $36,000 |
| Good Samaritan Hospital | $16,000 |
| Gordon Family YMCA | $8,500 |
| Sumner Bonney Lake Family Center | $7,756 |
| Team Agape - Kenya | $7,206 |
| Sumner Bonney Lake School District | $4,500 |
| Sumner Community Food Bank | $3,500 |
| United Way of Pierce County | $2,500 |
| Shelter Box USA | $2,500 |
| Building Beyond the Walls | $1,500 |
| City of Sumner | $1,084 |
| Sumner United Methodist Church | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Rotary International District 2440 | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 12% of Rotary International Sumner Rotary Club’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, 98% of the giving stays in WA; read by stated purpose it is 86% — 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.
19 repeat relationships — 17 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- SCSumner Community Food Bank4× · 2022–2025 · $43k · revenue +65%
- GNGoodRoots Northwest2× · 2023–2024 · $35k · revenue +44%
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES4× · 2022–2025 · $29k · revenue +88%
Funded once
- CGCONSIDERATE GROUPone grant, 2024 · $21k
- MOMISSION OUTDOORSone grant, 2024 · $21k
- GSGood Samaritan Hospitalone grant, 2023 · $17k
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.
Seattle University is dedicated to educating the whole person, to professional formation, and to empowering leaders for a just and humane world.
Fundraising activities to support Seattle University
Rotary is a Worldwide Service Organization. Rotary District 5030 is comprised of 52 individual Rotary clubs. Its purpose is to provide training and to assist and support the clubs in providing service projects in their local communities…
Provide grants to nonprofits in the local community and scholarships for local students.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pierce County Library Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Blessing Movement. 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 26 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 45 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 PIERCE COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Sumner Rotary Club Foundation ↗
- Who funds Sumner Community Food Bank ↗
- Who funds GoodRoots Northwest ↗
- Who funds MULTICARE FOUNDATIONS ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds MISSION OUTDOORS ↗
- Who funds SHELTERBOX USA INC ↗
- Who funds PIERCE COUNTY RURAL LIBRARY DISTRICT ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Building Beyond The Walls ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC HARBORS COUNCILBOY SCOUTS ↗
- Who funds ALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OLD SUMNER MAIN STREET TRADE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NICK OF TIME FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Rotary International District 5000 ↗
- Who funds LEMAY FAMILY COLLECTION FOUNDATION DBA LEMAY COLLECTIONS AT MARYMOUNT ↗
- Who funds POST-PRISON EDUCATION PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds PUYALLUP EXTRICATION TEAM INC ↗
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: Greater Tacoma Community Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Sumner Community Food Bank · Woodworth Family Foundation · The Bamford Foundation · Seattle Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Gates Foundation · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Sumner Rotary Club 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.
- Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
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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