· 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
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 5 grants below total $48,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $153,375 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $105,375 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 $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $42k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PLAYA VENICE FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| READY TO SUCCEED | $10,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA MONICA | $10,000 |
| UPWARD BOUND HOUSE | $10,000 |
| ROTARY INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION | $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 (FY19–25, $89k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% 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.
Grants abroad, by region — $42k on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: GRANT FOR DAM PROJECT & SCHOOL TOILET PROJECT
Stated purpose: GRANT FOR ROTARY PROJECT
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +158% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 9 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, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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
- RIROTARY INTL DISTRICT 5280 CHARITABLE FOUNDATION3× · 2021–2023 · $49k · revenue +955%
- WAWISE AND HEALTHY AGING3× · 2019–2022 · $32k · revenue +49%
- SUSTEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC2× · 2020–2023 · $26k · revenue +158%
Funded once
- SPSAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH INCone grant, 2023 · $14k · revenue +11%
- SISAVING INNOCENCE INCone grant, 2019 · $13k · revenue +10%
- KIKIDSAVE INTERNATIONAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $12k · revenue +110%
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.
The midnight mission seeks to offer a bridge to self sufficiency for people experiencing homelessness through interim shelter, advocacy, education, training and job placement, make available the necessities of life, offer the 12-step…
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
The mission of the organization is to ensure safety and stability for people who are battered, abused, homeless or at risk; to create public awareness about the epidemic of violence; and to mobilize the community to prevent violence and…
To prevent alcohol and drug addiction by offering education, prevention and recovery to individuals and families, regardless of income level.
The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…
The mission of the st. vincent de paul society of san francisco (svdp-sf) is to offer hope and service on a direct person-to-person basis, working to break the cycles of homelessness and domestic violence.
The roots of the los angeles didi hirsch psychiatric service dba didi hirsch mental health services ("dhmhs") extend back to the 1930s, when a group of women funded psychiatric care for people whose lives were devastated by the depression.…
We work to end homelessness through housing solutions, supportive services, and connection to community. we advocate for equitable and just systems that ensure all individuals and families will have a safe place they can call home.
To enhance the quality of life for youth and families by education, motivating and providing prevention programs through social and emotional wellness services.
To give hope and change lives. we do this by offering a continuum of prevention, intervention, behavioral health and wellness services to adults and families throughout california. these services aim to reduce costs of societal problems by…
Aviva believes every child and every family in our los angeles community deserves the chance for a brighter future. we provide compassionate support, therapeutic services and guidance to at-risk children and families.
The center provides a place of community to end isolation, build relationships, and introduce housing, health and wellness services to adult individuals experiencing homelessness in hollywood. it contracts with public and non-profit grant…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safe Place for Youth Inc and the most unlike its peers is Santa Monica Black Lives Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 35 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 THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds ROTARY INTL DISTRICT 5280 CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WISE AND HEALTHY AGING ↗
- Who funds STEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA MONICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE SANTA MONICA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Coalition for Engaged Education ↗
- Who funds CLAREMATRIX ↗
- Who funds SAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds Santa Monica High School Grad Nite ↗
- Who funds SAVING INNOCENCE INC ↗
- Who funds KIDSAVE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds PLAYA SUNRISE ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HELPGUIDEORG INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA MONICA BLACK LIVES ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UPWARD BOUND HOUSE ↗
- Who funds READY TO SUCCEED ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE AURELIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ELEMENTAL MUSIC ↗
- Who funds SANTA MONICA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS WEST ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Santa Monica Police Officers Association Benefit Trust ↗
- Who funds ROTARY ACTION GROUP FOR FAMILY HEALTH AND AIDS PREVENTION INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTERBOX USA 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: 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
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 Santa Monica Rotary Club 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.
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