How much did SEATTLE ROTARY SERVICE FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

SEATTLE ROTARY SERVICE FOUNDATION reported 12 grants totaling $311,422 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is SEATTLE ROTARY SERVICE FOUNDATION based?

SEATTLE ROTARY SERVICE FOUNDATION is based in WA.

SEATTLE ROTARY SERVICE FOUNDATION

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· Public charity

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.

$311k

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$100k

Largest

01What you fund

0180% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.

International$370kRecreation & Sports$263kEducation$212kCommunity Improvement$160kHuman Services$137kPhilanthropy$136kHousing & Shelter$50kArts & Culture$20kEnvironment$16kOther$376k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

wateragainstyouthfood

2020

uncfnationstudentsdegreesmember hbcusfoodyouth

2021

uncfnationstudentsdegreesmember hbcuseducationalyouth

2022

scholarships mentoringmalaria

2023

malaria

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k3 grants · $19k
$10k–50k8 grants · $143k
$50k–250k1 grant · $100k

$10,100

Median grant

States reached

$2.1M

Total assets

Largest grants

PIKES PLACE MARKET FOUNDATION$100,000
ROTARY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB$39,303
UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND$33,600
WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES$15,110
HARVEST AGAINST HUNGER$15,000
TAPROOT THEATRE CO$10,100
WA BUILDING LEADERS OF CHANGE$10,000
CENTS CONSUMER ED & TRAINING$10,000
SHELTER BOX USA$10,000
BELLEVUE ROTARY FOUNDATION$7,500
ASSOCIATED RECREATION COUNCIL$5,950
ROTARY ONE FOUNDATION$5,250

02The need

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 (FY18–24, $87k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 12%. 24% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.0M · 11 repeat orgs$713k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.0M

$518k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%

+27%

Still filing today

100%

83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $196k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementInternationalPhilanthropyEducationArts & CultureOther

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

RB
Rotary Boys & Girls Club
6× · 2018–2023 · $263k · revenue +36%
United Negro College Fund Inc
5× · 2020–2024 · $167k · revenue +181%
PH
Plymouth Housing Group
2× · 2018–2020 · $50k · revenue +196%

Funded once

SF
Seattle Foundationgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +106%
RC
Rotary Club of Aspen
one grant, 2020 · $63k · revenue -2%
DS
Downtown Seattle Cares DSA
one grant, 2021 · $35k · revenue -95% · 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.

Seattle University

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

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Bike Works Seattle

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

Recreation & Sports

Seattle Center Foundation

The Seattle Center Foundation supports the vision and purpose of Seattle Center by advocating for public support and private dollars for major capital and program improvements.

Arts & Culture

Friends of Seattle Waterfront

To support, through outreach, fundraising and stewardship, the City's Waterfront Seattle project: Creation of a park along the central shoreline to benefit the public

Community Improvement

Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition - Tag

Elevate the voice of those impacted by the Duwamish River pollution and other environmental injustices for a clean, healthy, equitable environment for people and wildlife. We promote place-keeping and prioritize communit

Environment

We Heart Seattle

We Heart Seattle is an action-based, boots-on-the-ground movement that organizes trash cleanups in our public spaces and offers resources to those in need. Through our direct civic engagement we lead the way to a more compassionate and…

Community Improvement

The Seattle Chapter American Institute of Archite

We champion the central role of architects in creating and sustaining a better built environment.

—

The Urbanist

Seattle-based online publication seeking to examine and influence urban policies.

Community Improvement

Earthcorps

To cultivate leaders and community partnerships to advance environmental justice.

International

Sustainable Path Foundation

Sustainable Path Foundation promotes sustainability and health in the Puget Sound region through collaborative approaches informed by scientific understanding and systems thinking.

Social Science

Seattle Opera

To thrill, inspire and educate through the shared experience of opera

Arts & Culture

Seattle Pacific University

Seattle Pacific University is a Christian university fully committed to engaging the culture and changing the world by graduating people of competence and character, becoming people of wisdom, and modeling grace-filled community.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Taproot Theatre. 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 field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/48

the rest of the field

13%

5,807/44,201

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.

05the grantee network

43 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

42/43

Grantees still filing

27/43

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

International$370,370Other$462,282Recreation & Sports$262,853Education$212,060Community Improvement$160,250Human Services$136,500Philanthropy$136,000

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.

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 FoundationWA30.8× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Medina Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · United Way of King County · Moccasin Lake Foundation · School's Out Washington · Gates Foundation · Grousemont Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation · Artsfund

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 organisation 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

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Downtown Seattle Cares DSA.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 270052418 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Downtown Seattle Cares DSA, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 35% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Seattle Rotary Service Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Seattle Rotary Service Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

SEATTLE ROTARY SERVICE FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

43 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Seattle Rotary Service Foundation?

More from the funding graph

SEATTLE ROTARY SERVICE FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

43 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Seattle Rotary Service Foundation?

More from the funding graph