· Public charity
The Charitable Division of the Rotary Club of Portsmouth
The organization of fundraising events to provide funding to qualifying tax-exempt entities in nh's seacoast area.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 54% of THE CHARITABLE DIVISION OF THE ROTARY CLUB OF PORTSMOUTH’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $104,672 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $246,835 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $142,163 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
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PRESIDENTIAL PROJECT | $37,054 |
| RECOVERY COMMUNITY | $21,899 |
| ROTARY FOUNDATION | $20,570 |
| OPERATION WARM COATS | $10,388 |
| JARVIS CENTER PROJECT | $9,487 |
| BEN SCHAFFER RECREATION INC | $5,274 |
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 (FY21–21, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k 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
- RIROTAPLAST INTERNATIONAL INC2× · 2018–2019 · $119k · revenue +155%
- PHPortsmouth Historical Society2× · 2017–2019 · $42k · revenue +18%
- PIPINETREE INSTITUTE2× · 2020–2021 · $24k · revenue +559%
Funded once
- PCPEER CONNECTIONS PROJECTone grant, 2024 · $57k
- COCITY OF PORTSMOUTHone grant, 2023 · $30k
- PYPiscataqua Youth Sailing Associationone grant, 2023 · $24k
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.
WSCA Radio (106.1 FM) is a volunteer-driven, listener-supported community radio station based in Portsmouth, NH. We broadcast eclectic, locally produced content reflecting the diversity and character of the Seacoast region. WSCA provides a…
The Portsmouth Arts Guild was founded in January 2003 to provide an opportunity for Portsmouth artists and those of surrounding towns to exhibit their work and to learn from one another. Our mission is to provide a welcoming and nurturing…
The rhode island historical society, through its collections, museums, and educational initiatives, welcomes everyone to engage with rhode island's complex and significant past.
Portsmouth united is organized for the purpose of promoting united efforts to secure the highest advantages in education, extra-curricular and enrichment activities for all children in the public schools in the town of portsmouth, rhode…
The newport art museum's mission is to share a diversity of art and experiences that spark reflection, inspiration, and connection within our newport community and beyond. the museum was founded in 1912 on the belief that arts and culture…
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To Serve the Elderly
The mission of Providence Improv Guild is to provide Improv and comedic theatre education that is affordable and accessible to individuals, community groups, schools, and other organizations. PIG strives to support improv and comedic…
To celebrate, honor, experience, and share the story of Maine's maritime heritage.
Marine education for young adults
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Portsmouth Music & Arts Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Crutches 4 Africa. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 28 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 ROTAPLAST INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Portsmouth Historical Society ↗
- Who funds PINETREE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Piscataqua Youth Sailing Association ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS FOREVER ↗
- Who funds GFWC PORTSMOUTH WOMEN'S CITY CLUB ↗
- Who funds Operation Warm Inc ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FORESTS ↗
- Who funds SEACOAST REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds REDS GOOD VIBES INC ↗
- Who funds PISCATAQUA MARITIME COMMISSION INC ↗
- Who funds PORTSMOUTH MUSIC & ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MARY C DONDERO PARENT TEACHER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Crutches 4 Africa ↗
- Who funds NEW HEIGHTS - ADVENTURES FOR TEENS ↗
- Who funds RICHIE MCFARLAND CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds Gather ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS IN ACTION ↗
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: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Foundation for Seacoast Health · A Caring Community Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · The Schleyer Foundation · Gateway Fund 7522-Xxxxxx00049 · Macdonald Family Foundation · Bartko Family Charitable Foundation · Madelaine G Vonweber Trust Todd Fahey & William Tucker Co-Trustees · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 The Charitable Division of the Rotary Club of Portsmouth 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.