· Public charity
Rotary Zones 21 & 27 Foundation
To train and educate rotary district officers and leaders (past, elected, and nominated) so they are prepared to lead their district club members in service above self in their communities and communities around the world.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k3 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $176k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $481k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEAGUE CITY ROTARY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| VIDOR ROTARY CLUB | $85,000 |
| ROTARY WEST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $82,500 |
| ROTARY DISTRICT 5890 | $75,000 |
| ROTARY HOUSTON SKYLINE | $73,000 |
| MI LEWIS SOCIAL SERVICE CENTER | $65,000 |
| HUMBLE INTERCONTINENTAL ROTARY FOUNDATION ACCOUNT | $40,678 |
| DICKINSON FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $35,000 |
| UNITED METHODIST COMMITTEE RELIEF | $20,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY KINGWOOD INC | $20,000 |
| NEHEMIAH'S VISION | $20,000 |
| ROCKPORT ROTARY CLUB | $20,000 |
| MESA-OUTREACH INC | $20,000 |
| MCALLEN NORTH ROTARY FUND | $7,967 |
| ROTARY CLUB OF SPACE CENTER | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–18, $116k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 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.
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.
Grant to organizations or group to benefit the citizens of graham and young county
to provide community as well as worlwide assistance to those in need.
To provide humanitarian service, to encourage high ethical standards in all vocations and to help build goodwill and peace in the world.
To provide and promote community service throughout the Greater Houston area by focusing on the needs of Veterans and their families.
The Club's objective is to Encourage and Foster the Idea of Service as a basis of Worthy Enterprise, and in particular, to Foster the Development of Acquaintance as an Opportunity for Service, High Ethical Standards in Business and…
Community Service
Charitable giving-Community, International & Vocational Service
Provide humanitarian aid to local charities, international aid and scholarships to local high school students
Provide scholarships for high school seniors.Serve as conduit for donor funds for cmminity service.
To promote humanitarianism, ethics, goodwill peace.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rotary Club of Lake Houston Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Nehemiah's Vision Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 16 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 WEST U ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROTARY DISTRICT 5890 CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds MI Lewis Social Services ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF LAKE HOUSTON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MESA-OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY KINGWOOD INC ↗
- Who funds NEHEMIAH'S VISION INC ↗
- Who funds McAllen Rotary Club ↗
- Who funds Rotary International Space Center Rotary Space Center Rotary ↗
- Who funds CYPRESS-FAIRBANKS ROTARY 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: 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 Zones 21 & 27 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.