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St Paul-Sunrise Rotary Club Foundation at a glance

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St Paul-Sunrise Rotary Club Foundation

Its FY2019 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$12k
Granted FY2019
10
Grants FY2019
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Religion$8kInternational$2kHuman Services$2kFood & Nutrition$1kEducation$1kArts & Culture$500Civil Rights$500Philanthropy$500Other$0
02FY2019 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
1
States reached
$8k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAINT PAUL AREA SYNOD$8,068
FAMILY VALUES FOR LIFE$1,000
WHITE BEAR LAKE ROTARY FOUNDATION$500
OPEN HANDS MIDWAY$500
INTERNATIONAL VILLAGE CLINIC$500
SAINT PAUL COLLEGE$500
ADOPTION IS LOVE FUND$500
NEW BRIGHTON MOUNDS VIEW ROTARY$250
LAKE MINNETONKA EXCELSIOR ROTARY CLUB$150
HEALTHY YOUTH FOUNDATION$100
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%FAMILY VALUES FOR LIFE: $1k → 14%OPEN HANDS MIDWAY: $500 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

17%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3k · 3 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2019, 2 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
4

Total granted

$3k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+7%

Still filing today

33%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
Human ServicesEducationPhilanthropyInternationalArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • IV
    INTERNATIONAL VILLAGE CLINIC
    2× · 2017–2019 · $2k · revenue +13%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2017–2018 · $1k
  • TM
    THANKSGIVING MEALS ON WHEELS INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $200

Funded once

  • IL
    IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA
    one grant, 2017 · $500
  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF THE HAMLINE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
    one grant, 2018 · $500 · revenue +7%
  • HO
    HEART OF DANCE
    one grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue -87%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Minneapolis City of Lakes Rotary Foundation

To benefit charitable, benevolent, and educational causes.

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2
Rotary International Winona Rotary Club

Encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise.

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3
Rotary International

Rotary club of superior is a service organization located in superior, wi and chartered under rotary international. the club members donate hundreds of hours annually to different projects and fundraisers in the community and contribute…

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4
Rotary International Menomonie Rotary

A fellowship of individuals who are focused on supporting their community and building bridges between nations.

—
5
Mercy House Minneapolis
Human Services
6
Igbo Women League of Minnesota

To unify, identify, educate, and promote the socio-cultural and economic development of Igbo Women and their families residing both in Minnesota and Nigeria.

Education
7
Rotary Club of Chaska Mn Inc

Social and civic organization made up of local community business members.

—
8
Wellshare International

The mission of wellshare international is to advance sustainable community health around the world. wellshare international focuses its resources where it can have the greatest impact on the health of underserved and vulnerable…

International
9
Coffee Fc

giving back to society contributing to education, health, social and community building

Arts & Culture
10
Rotary International

to provide community as well as worlwide assistance to those in need.

—
11
Minneapolis University Rotary Service Foundation

To collect and disperse funds that support service projects with ethical standards and which promote experiences and opportunities

Community Improvement
12
Rotary Club of Minnetonka Foundation

Provide support for local and international charities

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is White Bear Lake Rotary Foundation; the most unlike its peers is International Village Clinic. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 16 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAINT PAUL AREA SYNOD: $8,068 · OtherSAINT PAUL AREA SYNODIndividual grant recipient: $1,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSAINT PAUL COLLEGE: $500 · OtherIMMIGRATION LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA: $500 · OtherADOPTION IS LOVE FUND: $500 · OtherMINNESOTA FOOD ASSOCIATION: $500 · Other+3 more: $550 · OtherINTERNATIONAL VILLAGE CLINIC: $1,500 · InternationalINTERNATIO…FAMILY VALUES FOR LIFE: $1,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY VAL…OPEN HANDS MIDWAY: $500 · Human ServicesOPEN HANDS…TRUSTEES OF THE HAMLINE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $500 · EducationROTARY CLUB OF LAKE MINNETONKA- EXCELSIOR INC: $150 · EducationWHITE BEAR LAKE ROTARY FOUNDATION: $500 · PhilanthropyHEART OF DANCE: $500 · Arts & Culture
Other$11,618International$1,500Human Services$1,500Education$650Philanthropy$500Arts & Culture$500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINTERNATIONAL VILLAGE CLINIC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFAMILY VALUES FOR LIFE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWHITE BEAR LAKE ROTARY FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE HAMLINE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEART OF DANCE: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPEN HANDS MIDWAY: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF LAKE MINNETONKA- EXCELSIOR INC: $150 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Saint Paul & Minnesot…The Minneapolis Found…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN13× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization St Paul-Sunrise Rotary Club Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from St Paul-Sunrise Rotary Club Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to St Paul-Sunrise Rotary Club Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to St Paul-Sunrise Rotary Club Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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