California · Public charity
Santa Monica Rotary Club Foundation
To provide assistance to nonprofit organizations in the santa monica bay area through foundation grants, to support projects of rotary international, and to award scholarships to worthy students in local schools
- $153k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 67%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $48k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $12,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 9
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 67% of the organizations Santa Monica Rotary Club Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 66% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 4 | $42k | 75% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $49k | 67% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $82k | 43% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $80k | 63% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $63k | 60% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $78k | 89% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $57k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rotary Intl District 5280 Charitable Foundation | $49,000 | 3 | 23% |
| Wise and Healthy Aging | $32,300 | 3 | 0% |
| Step Up on Second Street Inc | $25,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Boys and Girls Club of Santa Monica Inc | $24,100 | 3 | 0% |
| First United Methodist Church | $22,500 | 2 | n/a |
| The Santa Monica College Foundation | $21,640 | 2 | 0% |
| Coalition for Engaged Education | $19,518 | 2 | 3% |
| Clarematrix | $16,205 | 2 | 0% |
| Safe Place for Youth Inc | $14,350 | 1 | 0% |
| Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce Foundation | $14,106 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 32 grantees
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($16k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Santa Monica Rotary Club Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Kiwanis Charities of Santa Monica Inc · The Ahmanson Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Providence Saint John's Health Center · QueensCare · The Green Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Santa Monica Rotary Club Foundation with peer funders
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About Santa Monica Rotary Club Foundation
- How much does Santa Monica Rotary Club Foundation give?
- Santa Monica Rotary Club Foundation reported 5 itemized grants totaling $48,000, out of $153,375 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 9 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Santa Monica Rotary Club Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (25%), Human Services (15%), Education (13%).
- Who are Santa Monica Rotary Club Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Rotary Intl District 5280 Charitable Foundation ($49k), Wise and Healthy Aging ($32k), Step Up on Second Street Inc ($26k).
- Does Santa Monica Rotary Club Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Santa Monica Rotary Club Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, The Ralph M Parsons Foundation, The Rose Hills Foundation.
- Where is Santa Monica Rotary Club Foundation based?
- Santa Monica Rotary Club Foundation is based in CA.
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