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The Charitable Division of the Rotary Club of Portsmouth at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

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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.

$247k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$37k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$415kPhilanthropy$387kYouth Development$77kPublic Benefit$67kArts & Culture$67kHuman Services$42kRecreation & Sports$41kEducation$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $104,672, the rows itemized in this filing. The $246,835 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $142,163 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $90k
$20,570
Median grant
5
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
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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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%RED'S GOOD VIBES: $8k → 5%GATHER NH: $5k → 5%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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$612k · 6 repeat orgs$304k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +29% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
17

Total granted

$612k
$230k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+29%

Still filing today

83%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k 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 ServicesArts & CultureInternationalEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentEducationOther
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

  • RI
    ROTAPLAST INTERNATIONAL INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $119k · revenue +155%
  • PH
    Portsmouth Historical Society
    2× · 2017–2019 · $42k · revenue +18%
  • PI
    PINETREE INSTITUTE
    2× · 2020–2021 · $24k · revenue +559%

Funded once

  • PC
    PEER CONNECTIONS PROJECT
    one grant, 2024 · $57k
  • CO
    CITY OF PORTSMOUTH
    one grant, 2023 · $30k
  • PY
    Piscataqua Youth Sailing Association
    one grant, 2023 · $24k
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.

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Portsmouth Reads
Education
2
Portsmouth General Hospital Foundation
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3
Seacoast Arts and Cultural Alliance

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…

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4
Portsmouth Arts Guild

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…

Arts & Culture
5
The Rhode Island Historical Society

The rhode island historical society, through its collections, museums, and educational initiatives, welcomes everyone to engage with rhode island's complex and significant past.

Arts & Culture
6
Portsmouth United for Education Group Return

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…

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7
Newport Art Museum and Art Association

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…

Arts & Culture
8
Boothbay Sea and Science Center

The mission of the boothbay sea and science center is the advancement of sailing, boating and ocean sciences by minimizing economic and physical obstacles and further to develop independence, self-confidence, teamwork and volunteerism in…

Education
9
Portsmouth Multi Purpose Senior Center

To Serve the Elderly

Human Services
10
Providence Improv Guild Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
11
Sail Power and Steam Museum

To celebrate, honor, experience, and share the story of Maine's maritime heritage.

Education
12
Coastx

Marine education for young adults

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Portsmouth Music & Arts Center Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 28 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/19
Grantees still filing
16/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW HAMPSHIRE CHARITABLE FUND: $387,413 · OtherNEW HAMPSHIRE CHARITABLE FUNDPEER CONNECTIONS PROJECT: $56,505 · OtherPEER CONNECTIONS PROJECTPortsmouth Historical Society: $41,641 · OtherPortsmouth Historical SocietyPRESIDENTIAL PROJECT: $37,054 · OtherPRESIDENTIAL PROJECTCITY OF PORTSMOUTH: $30,000 · Other+11 more: $112,524 · Other+11 moreTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $289,569 · InternationalTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNA…ROTAPLAST INTERNATIONAL INC: $119,255 · InternationalROTAPLAST INTERNATIONAL INC+1 more: $6,000 · InternationalOperation Warm Inc: $19,004 · Human ServicesREDS GOOD VIBES INC: $8,020 · Human ServicesGather: $5,300 · Human ServicesSEACOAST REPERTORY THEATRE: $10,000 · Arts & CulturePISCATAQUA MARITIME COMMISSION INC: $8,000 · Arts & CulturePORTSMOUTH MUSIC & ARTS CENTER INC: $7,122 · Arts & CulturePINETREE INSTITUTE: $24,000 · EducationPiscataqua Youth Sailing Association: $24,000 · Youth DevelopmentGFWC PORTSMOUTH WOMEN'S CITY CLUB: $19,421 · Community Improvement
Other$665,137International$414,824Human Services$32,324Arts & Culture$25,122Education$24,000Youth Development$24,000Community Improvement$19,421

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 budgetTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $289,569 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetROTAPLAST INTERNATIONAL INC: $119,255 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetPortsmouth Historical Society: $41,641 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetPINETREE INSTITUTE: $24,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetFRIENDS FOREVER: $20,225 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetGFWC PORTSMOUTH WOMEN'S CITY CLUB: $19,421 over 1y, 23% of budgetOperation Warm Inc: $19,004 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FORESTS: $14,829 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSEACOAST REPERTORY THEATRE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetREDS GOOD VIBES INC: $8,020 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetPISCATAQUA MARITIME COMMISSION INC: $8,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetPORTSMOUTH MUSIC & ARTS CENTER INC: $7,122 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCrutches 4 Africa: $6,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetNEW HEIGHTS - ADVENTURES FOR TEENS: $5,840 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetRICHIE MCFARLAND CHILDREN'S CENTER: $5,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGather: $5,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS IN ACTION: $5,250 over 1y, 1.7% 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.

New Hampshire Charita…Foundation for Seacoa…A Caring Community IncEastern Bank Foundati…The Schleyer Foundati…Gateway Fund 7522-Xxx…Macdonald Family Foun…Bartko Family Charita…Madelaine G Vonweber …Eastern Cambridge Fou…Ge Aerospace Foundati…The Bank of America C…
New Hampshire Charitable FoundationNH24.5× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The Charitable Division of the Rotary Club of Portsmouth funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Charitable Division of the Rotary Club of Portsmouth. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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.

    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 28 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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