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Seattle Rotary Service Foundation

The mission of the SEATTLE ROTARY SERVICE FOUNDATION is to raise, steward, and distribute funds in support of the service activities of the rotary club of seattle.

$235k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

International$502kYouth Development$316kEducation$254kCommunity Improvement$166kFood & Nutrition$165kHousing & Shelter$117kHuman Services$101kPublic Safety & Disaster$100kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 8 grants below total $192,202 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $235,095 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $42,893 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

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $117k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$16,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UPLIFT NORTHWEST$75,000
SCHOOL CONNECT WA$30,000
ROTARY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB$23,402
HARVEST AGAINST HUNGER$16,000
5TH AVENUE THEATRE$15,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF KING CTY$12,800
UW CONSULTING & BUS DEV$10,000
ETTA PROJECTS$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $221k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Stove Team International: $21k → 15%GLOBAL FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 10%CENTS CONSUMER ED & TRAINING: $10k → 9%UPLIFT NORTHWEST: $75k → 9%Wellspring Family Services: $20k → 9%WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES: $15k → 9%Wellspring Family Services: $8k → 9%Pioneer Human Services: $25k → 9%REFUGEE WOMEN'S ALLIANCE: $20k → 9%SIDR Foundation: $6k → 9%Lutheran Community Services: $12k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
IL
NY
OR
CA
CO
DC
OK

Grants abroad, by region — $29k 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.

Zambia$19k · 66% · 1 grant
Uganda$10k · 34% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: RUBONGI DEV FUND

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 15 repeat orgs$679k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
33

Total granted

$1.2M
$549k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+15%

Still filing today

87%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationInternationalArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther

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

  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KING COUNTY
    8× · 2017–2025 · $301k · revenue +38%
  • UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $167k · revenue +74%
  • PH
    PLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES
    2× · 2018–2020 · $50k · revenue +108%

Funded once

  • PP
    PIKE PLACE MARKET FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
  • RI
    ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ASPEN ROTARY CLUB
    one grant, 2020 · $63k · revenue +4%
  • DS
    DOWNTOWN SEATTLE CARESgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $35k · revenue ×307 · 35% of their budget

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
School's Out Washington

School's out washington (sowa) drives positive systemic change so that all washington's children and youth, particularly those furthest from justice, have access to a robust ecosystem of high-quality expanded learning programs.

Youth Development
2
Seattle International Foundation

Seattle international foundation (sif) champions equity and rule of law in central america through good governance and a robust civil society. sif works with other donors to the region to increase philanthropy and to promote collaboration,…

Philanthropy
3
Global Visionaries

Global visionaries invites youth from diverse socio-economic, racial, and ethnic backgrounds to be active leaders in their local and global communities. fostering leadership skills grounded in environmental and social justice.

Youth Development
4
Fsc I&P

Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…

Philanthropy
5
Seattle University

Seattle University is dedicated to educating the whole person, to professional formation, and to empowering leaders for a just and humane world.

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6
Rotary Foundation of the South Puget Sound Rotary Club
Education
7
Foundation for International Understanding Through

FIUTS connects university students with local and global communities through cross-cultural experiences, student leadership, and community connections.

International
8
Seattle Architectural Foundation

The Seattle Architecture Foundation connects people to the architecture, design, and history of Seattle. We believe the more you engage with design, the more you feel connected to your changing city. As a volunteer driven organization, we…

Arts & Culture
9
Earthcorps

To cultivate leaders and community partnerships to advance environmental justice.

International
10
The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals
11
Working Washington

We are workers, united across different industries to improve our working conditions and our lives. We come together as working people to build power through education, organizing, and enforcement. We work to raise and uphold standards in…

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12
Seattle Economic Development Fund Business Impact Nw

To provide economic development financing to serve the needs of small businesses in the state of washington that would not qualify for private financing under conventional financing criteria.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Sahar Education. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%5%<5yr14%7%5–10yr18%12%10–20yr18%29%20–35yr14%27%35–55yr15%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%4%<5yr14%2%5–10yr18%19%10–20yr18%33%20–35yr14%24%35–55yr15%18%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/55
the rest of the field
15%
6,869/45,670

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.

04the grantee network

50 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. 50 of the 56 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/50
Grantees still filing
30/50
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HARVEST AGAINST HUNGER — $121,000 · OtherHARVEST AGAINST HUNGERROTARY INTERNATIONAL ASPEN ROTARY CLUB — $63,448 · OtherROTARY INTERNATIONAL ASPEN ROT…ROTARY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB — $62,705 · OtherROTARY BOYS & GIRLS CLUBSeattle Children's Foundation — $33,100 · OtherSeattle Children's FoundationUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON — $20,000 · OtherPLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES — $50,000 · OtherPLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUB…+18 more — $199,821 · Other+18 moreMalaria Partners International — $303,302 · InternationalMalaria Partners Inte…THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL — $44,568 · InternationalTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION…COMMON THREADS PROJECT — $14,500 · International+3 more — $24,000 · International+3 moreBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KING COUNTY — $301,103 · Recreation & SportsBOYS AND GIRLS C…UPLIFT NORTHWEST — $75,000 · Human ServicesUPLIFT NORTHWES…WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES — $42,610 · Human ServicesWELLSPRING FAMI…SHELTERBOX USA INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesSHELTERBOX USA …PIONEER HUMAN SERVICES INC — $24,810 · Human ServicesPIONEER HUMAN S…STOVETEAM INTERNATIONAL — $21,000 · Human ServicesSTOVETEAM INTER…Refugee Womens Alliance — $20,000 · Human ServicesRefugee Womens …Everstrong Prevention — $15,000 · Human ServicesEverstrong Prev…SEATTLE-INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION — $12,000 · Human ServicesLutheran Community Services Northwest — $12,000 · Human ServicesGLOBAL FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN WITH HEARING LOSS — $10,000 · Human ServicesConsumer Education and Training Services — $10,000 · Human ServicesFEDERAL WAY ROTARY SERVICE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Human ServicesUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $167,400 · EducationUNITED NEGRO …UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $38,110 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF…SCHOOL CONNECT WA — $30,000 · EducationSCHOOL CONNEC…+1 more — $6,550 · EducationPIKE PLACE MARKET FOUNDATION — $100,000 · Community ImprovementDOWNTOWN SEATTLE CARES — $35,000 · Community ImprovementCULTIVATE SOUTH PARK — $10,000 · Community ImprovementRVC SEATTLE — $10,000 · Community Improvement+1 more — $5,250 · Community ImprovementSEATTLE FOUNDATION — $100,000 · PhilanthropyURBAN ARTWORKS — $20,000 · PhilanthropySammamish Rotary Foundation — $10,000 · PhilanthropyBURIENWHITE CENTER ROTARY SERVICE FOUNDATION — $6,000 · Philanthropy
Other$550,074International$386,370Recreation & Sports$301,103Human Services$277,420Education$242,060Community Improvement$160,250Philanthropy$136,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMalaria Partners International — $303,302 over 3y, 21% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KING COUNTY — $301,103 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $167,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHARVEST AGAINST HUNGER — $121,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetPIKE PLACE MARKET FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetSEATTLE FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROTARY INTERNATIONAL ASPEN ROTARY CLUB — $63,448 over 1y, 19% of budgetPLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL — $44,568 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES — $42,610 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $38,110 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDOWNTOWN SEATTLE CARES — $35,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetSeattle Children's Foundation — $33,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOOL CONNECT WA — $30,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetSHELTERBOX USA INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPIONEER HUMAN SERVICES INC — $24,810 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTOVETEAM INTERNATIONAL — $21,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetRefugee Womens Alliance — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetURBAN ARTWORKS — $20,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF SEATTLE — $17,765 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSEATTLE AGAINST SLAVERY — $16,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetNATUREBRIDGE — $16,263 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEverstrong Prevention — $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBELLEVUE ROTARY FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budget5TH AVENUE THEATRE ASSOCIATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMWANZO — $14,580 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetCOMMON THREADS PROJECT — $14,500 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetSEATTLE-INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION — $12,000 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetLutheran Community Services Northwest — $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST HARVEST EMM — $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TAPROOT THEATRE — $10,100 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNORTHWEST MARITIME CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCULTIVATE SOUTH PARK — $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSammamish Rotary Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetGLOBAL FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN WITH HEARING LOSS — $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetConsumer Education and Training Services — $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetFEDERAL WAY ROTARY SERVICE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetRVC SEATTLE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Bhutan Foundation — $8,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAHAR EDUCATION — $8,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetEVERGREEN TREATMENT SERVICES — $6,989 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROTARY INTERNATIONAL — $6,874 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHOOSE 180 — $6,800 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetIMAGINE SCHOLAR INC — $6,550 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetWALL OF HOPE — $6,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetBURIENWHITE CENTER ROTARY SERVICE FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetASSOCIATED RECREATION COUNCIL — $5,950 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROTARYONE FOUNDATION INC — $5,250 over 1y, 2.5% of budget
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.

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.

Seattle FoundationUnited Way of King Co…The Norcliffe Foundat…Lucky Seven FoundationPuget Sound Energy Fo…M J Murdock Charitabl…Grousemont FoundationMoccasin Lake Foundat…School's Out Washingt…Gates FoundationMedina FoundationRaikes Foundation
Seattle FoundationWA32.3× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · United Way of King County · The Norcliffe Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Grousemont Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · School's Out Washington · Gates Foundation · Medina Foundation · Raikes 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 Seattle Rotary Service 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 56 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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