California · Public charity
Saratoga Rotary Charitable Foundation
Grants to support 1 youth services activities - high school seniors, rotary youth entrepreneurial leaders, and various school programs, 2 community services activities - Feeding the Hungry, Rise Against Hunger, Operation Care Comfort, and other programs. 3 community partners in healthcare, elder care and art, culture nature.
- $157k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 75%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $90k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $8,432
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 6
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.5M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 75% of the organizations Saratoga Rotary Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 79% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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 | 9 | $90k | 78% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $24k | 75% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $42k | 67% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $59k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $65k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $17k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $13k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Martha's Kitchen | $51,684 | 1 | 1% |
| West Valley Mission Community College District Foundation | $30,745 | 2 | 0% |
| Pursuit of Excellence - South Bay | $20,000 | 1 | 9% |
| The Grateful Garment Project | $18,300 | 2 | 2% |
| Via Rehabilitation Services Inc | $17,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Rotary International District 5170 | $15,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Silicon Valley Shakespeare | $13,257 | 1 | n/a |
| Campbell-San Jose West Rotary Foundation | $13,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Bill Wilson Center | $11,186 | 2 | 0% |
| Lifemoves | $11,064 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 25 grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($7k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Saratoga Rotary Charitable 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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Farrington Historical Foundation · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · 100 Women Charitable Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Creates · San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc · The Sobrato Family Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · Mission City Community Fund · Star One Credit Union · The Sharks Foundation · Rotary Club of San Jose Foundation
How this is measured
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About Saratoga Rotary Charitable Foundation
- How much does Saratoga Rotary Charitable Foundation give?
- Saratoga Rotary Charitable Foundation reported 10 itemized grants totaling $89,889, out of $156,781 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 6 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Saratoga Rotary Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (26%), Food & Nutrition (15%), Arts & Culture (14%).
- Who are Saratoga Rotary Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Martha's Kitchen ($52k), West Valley Mission Community College District Foundation ($31k), Pursuit of Excellence - South Bay ($20k).
- Does Saratoga Rotary Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Saratoga Rotary Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Farrington Historical Foundation, Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation.
- Where is Saratoga Rotary Charitable Foundation based?
- Saratoga Rotary Charitable Foundation is based in CA.
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