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South San Francisco Rotary Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $84k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $189k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NO SM COUNTY | $130,000 |
| HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS (41) | $59,000 |
| SSF UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | $43,815 |
| ROTARY SERVICE INCRYLA FUND | $10,000 |
| SSF ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ROTARY DISTRICT 5000 FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE ROTARY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SHELTER BOX | $5,000 |
| CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ROTARY CLUB OF BELMONT AND REDWOOD SHORES FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| THE ROTARY FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| ALLIANCE FOR SMILES | $3,000 |
| ROTAPLAST INTERNATIONAL INC | $3,000 |
| ROTACARE BAY AREA INC | $3,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
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.
14 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $92k 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NO SM COUNTY6× · 2018–2024 · $263k
- HSHIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS (37)3× · 2019–2022 · $158k
- SUSSF UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT5× · 2019–2024 · $152k
Funded once
- HSHIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS (39)one grant, 2020 · $50k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $20k
- BGBOYS GIRLS CLUBS OF NO SM COUNTYone grant, 2017 · $15k
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.
Scholarships, educator awards, financial support of community organizations
The primary purpose of the foundation is to participate in community service and philanthropy. the foundation makes grants to aid youth and to assist in community and international service. the priority of the funding is to support local…
The Foundation was established to raise funds for the purpose of contributing to charitable and educational organizations in the local, national, and international community.
Rotary is an organization of business and professional leaders united worldwide who provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world. The main objective of…
Make charitable contributions on behalf of foundations donors
to provide community as well as worlwide assistance to those in need.
Engage San Jose Leaders in meaningful service within our community and humanitarian projects around the world, while embracing opportunities for fellowship and enjoying extraordinary speakers.
The Rotary Club of Roseville Foundation supports charitable educational and humanitarian programs that advance Rotarys ideals of service above self. The Foundation raises funds through community events and donations to provide grants and…
Award grants to deserving non-profit organizations, and scholarships to worthy students in the greater santa rosa area.
Service as a member of Rotary International.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International and the most unlike its peers is Rotary Club of Ignacio Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 31 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 PARADISE ROTARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROTACARE BAY AREA INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTERBOX USA INC ↗
- Who funds Rotary District 5000 Foundation ↗
- Who funds Silicon Valley Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN HOUSE ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROTAPLAST INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NORTH STATE ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF IGNACIO FOUNDATION ↗
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: Marin Community Foundation · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 South San Francisco Rotary 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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