· Public charity
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 4 grants below total $50,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $124,293 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $74,293 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 $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $37k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HELPING HANDS RESOURCES | $25,000 |
| NORTHWEST HUB | $12,200 |
| SALEM RIVERFRONT CAROUSEL | $7,100 |
| PUNX WITH PURPOSE | $5,700 |
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, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
We are a non-profit member organization dedicated to bringing the best fresh local produce, flowers, meat/dairy, nursery products, authentic artisan food and artisan crafts to the Salem and surrounding communities.
Creswell Clubhouse was designed to provide young people in Creswell with a safe and healthy place to practice reading skills, receive help with homework, utilize computer resources and participate in educationally enriching activities…
Be a force for improvement in inner north-northeast portland primiarily for children
Shift is a community-centered bicycling hub providing mobility and skills to all. We believe Eugene and Lane County will be world-class, bicycle-friendly communities by 2050, where cycling is safe,supported, and woven into the daily life…
Bike Works promotes the bicycle as a vehicle for change to empower youth and build resilient communities.
Promoting good health and active lifestyles through cultural exploration and awareness, travel, exercise and community engagement. we provide a service of community engagement and an outlet for activity, while touching a demographic in need
Increase sustainable food security in South Corvallis by providing emergency food and supplies.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Salem Rotary Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Helping Hands Resources. 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 11 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SALEM MARION & POLK COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds SALEM ROTARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL FUTBOL CLUB ↗
- Who funds THE GILBERT HOUSE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds ST FRANCIS SHELTER ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST HUB ↗
- Who funds Blanchet Community Foundation East Salem Community Center ↗
- Who funds SALEMS RIVERFRONT CAROUSEL ↗
- Who funds Punx With Purpose ↗
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: Maps Community Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Willamette Health Council · The Autzen Foundation · Salem Health · United Way of the Mid-Willamette Valley · The Salem Foundation · Braemar Charitable Trust · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · 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 Salem Rotary 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Northwest Hub — 16% of income from government
- Capital Futbol Club — 2% 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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