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· 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.

$124k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$151kYouth Development$81kArts & Culture$50kHuman Services$37kHousing & Shelter$30kPublic Benefit$12k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $50,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $124,293 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $74,293 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $37k
$12,200
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HELPING HANDS RESOURCES$25,000
NORTHWEST HUB$12,200
SALEM RIVERFRONT CAROUSEL$7,100
PUNX WITH PURPOSE$5,700
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%HELPING HANDS RESOURCES: $25k → 14%BLANCHET COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (EAST SALEM COMMUNITY CENTER): $12k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Salem Rotary Foundation
Philanthropy
2
Metro Portland New Car Dealers Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Jubilee Hall Pdx
Employment
4
Portland Seamens Friend Society
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5
Salem Saturday Market

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.

Community Improvement
6
Creswell Clubhouse

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…

Human Services
7
Salem Health and Wellness Foundation Inc
Health
8
Albina Rotary Club Foundation

Be a force for improvement in inner north-northeast portland primiarily for children

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9
Shift Community Cycles

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…

Recreation & Sports
10
Bike Works Seattle

Bike Works promotes the bicycle as a vehicle for change to empower youth and build resilient communities.

Recreation & Sports
11
Ride Salem

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

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12
South Corvallis Food Bank

Increase sustainable food security in South Corvallis by providing emergency food and supplies.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Salem Rotary Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SALEM ROTARY FOUNDATION: $61,000 · OtherSALEM ROTARY FOUNDATIONCAPITAL FUTBOL CLUB: $60,000 · OtherCAPITAL FUTBOL CLUBST FRANCIS SHELTER: $30,000 · OtherST FRANCIS SHELTERSALEM AREA TRAIL ALLIANCE: $30,000 · OtherSALEM AREA TRAIL ALLIANCEBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SALEM MARION & POLK COUNTIES: $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SALE…Punx With Purpose: $5,700 · Youth DevelopmentPunx With PurposeTHE GILBERT HOUSE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $42,500 · Arts & CultureTHE GILBERT H…HELPING HANDS RESOURCES: $25,000 · Human ServicesHELPING HAN…Blanchet Community Foundation East Salem Community Center: $12,000 · Human ServicesBlanchet Co…NORTHWEST HUB: $12,200 · Public BenefitSALEMS RIVERFRONT CAROUSEL: $7,100 · Recreation & Sports
Other$181,000Youth Development$80,700Arts & Culture$42,500Human Services$37,000Public Benefit$12,200Recreation & Sports$7,100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SALEM MARION & POLK COUNTIES: $75,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSALEM ROTARY FOUNDATION: $61,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetCAPITAL FUTBOL CLUB: $60,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHE GILBERT HOUSE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $42,500 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetST FRANCIS SHELTER: $30,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetNORTHWEST HUB: $12,200 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetBlanchet Community Foundation East Salem Community Center: $12,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Maps Community Founda…The Oregon Community …Willamette Health Cou…The Autzen FoundationSalem HealthUnited Way of the Mid…The Salem FoundationBraemar Charitable Tr…Marie Lamfrom Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Maps Community FoundationOR17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Salem Rotary Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Salem Rotary Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 16%
  • Northwest Hub: 16% of income from government
  • Capital Futbol Club: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Salem Rotary Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Salem Rotary Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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