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The Edina Rotary Foundation Inc

To provide funding for various international and domestic charitable causes and youth activities including camp enterprise.

$167k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$14k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Education$100kHuman Services$30kRecreation & Sports$24kHousing & Shelter$21kInternational$19kHealth$18kFood & Nutrition$13kReligion$9kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $31,850, the rows itemized in this filing. The $167,417 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $135,567 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 $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
$10,850
Median grant
2
States reached
$969k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EDINA EDUCATION FUND$14,000
HELPS INTERNATIONAL$10,850
SAFE FAMILIES$7,000
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 (FY19–22, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%INVOLVE MN: $6k → 6%FRASER: $7k → 11%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 11% of The Edina Rotary Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 91% of the giving stays in MN; by stated purpose, 85%.

The Edina Rotary Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 15% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

54%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$137k · 4 repeat orgs$116k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
16

Total granted

$137k
$109k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+51%

Still filing today

50%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesReligionInternationalCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • EE
    EDINA EDUCATION FUND
    6× · 2020–2025 · $95k · revenue +21%
  • HI
    HELPS INTERNATIONAL
    2× · 2021–2025 · $19k · revenue -15%
  • A
    ACES
    2× · 2020–2022 · $13k

Funded once

  • 6W
    66 WEST PROJECT
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
  • RP
    ROSLAND PARK-EDINA PARKS
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • RI
    ROTARY INTERNATIONAL EDINA ROTARY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    2× · 2023–2024 · $9k · revenue +46%
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
Rotary 5950 Foundation

Providing services and assistance to people within the state of minnesota and throughout the world.

Philanthropy
2
Rotary International

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…

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3
Rotary Club of Intl Falls Charitable Foundation

Provide financial assistance to local school programs and community programs

Youth Development
4
Community Resource Connections Inc

Improving access to and the effectiveness of services through facilitation and coordination of community services and provision of information and referral services.

Community Improvement
5
Service Enterprises Inc of Minnesota

Service enterprises, inc. of minnesota through effective partnerships, provides quality vocational training, job opportunities, habilitative and other services to individuals with disabilities to promote their independence and active…

Employment
6
African Development Center

Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota

Human Services
7
Rochester Rotary Club

We are a member-centered service organization enriching the lives of our city youth, people with disabilities and world neighbors.

Community Improvement
8
Bemidji Rotary Club

To provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations and help build goodwill and peace in the world

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9
Madison Rotary Foundation

The mission of the madison rotary foundation is to work with the rotary club of madison to support its charitable activities, serve as a responsible steward of its resources, and ensure compliance with all regulations.

Community Improvement
10
United Way of Ne Minnesota

United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.

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11
Rotary Club of Milwaukee

Provide services to social and civic organizations to promote social and civic involvement

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12
Ecumen

We empower individuals and families to confidently navigate aging so that it is a purposeful journey filled with dignity and support.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rotary Club of Sacramento Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Cornerstone. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 21 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
11/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EDINA EDUCATION FUND: $94,500 · EducationEDINA EDUCATION FUNDHOPE ACADEMY INC: $5,000 · Education66 WEST PROJECT: $14,500 · Other66 WEST PROJECTACES: $13,000 · OtherACESHEARTS & HAMMERS: $10,500 · OtherHEARTS & HAMMERSROSLAND PARK-EDINA PARKS: $10,000 · OtherROSLAND PARK-EDINA PARKSCITY OF EDINA PARKS AND REC: $8,000 · OtherCITY OF EDINA PARKS AND RECSAFE FAMILIES: $7,000 · OtherSAFE FAMILIESVEAP Inc: $6,000 · OtherVEAP IncIndividual grant recipient: $5,460 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCAN DO CANINES: $5,000 · OtherCAN DO CANINESWACONIA WEST CARVER ROTARY: $5,000 · OtherWACONIA WEST CARVER ROTARYROTARY CLUB OF LAKEWOOD RANCH: $5,000 · OtherROTARY CLUB OF LAKEWOOD RANCHHELPS INTERNATIONAL: $18,850 · InternationalROTARY INTERNATIONAL EDINA ROTARY FOUNDATION: $9,000 · ReligionINNER CITY CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $5,000 · ReligionFRASER: $7,237 · Human ServicesINVOLVE MN: $6,000 · Human ServicesCORNERSTONE: $6,800 · Youth DevelopmentSTAR LEGACY FOUNDATION: $6,000 · HealthROTARY CLUB OF NORTHFIELD: $5,000 · Community Improvement
Education$99,500Other$89,460International$18,850Religion$14,000Human Services$13,237Youth Development$6,800Health$6,000Community Improvement$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEDINA EDUCATION FUND: $94,500 over 6y, 7.1% of budgetHELPS INTERNATIONAL: $18,850 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROTARY INTERNATIONAL EDINA ROTARY FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetFRASER: $7,237 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINVOLVE MN: $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVEAP Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTAR LEGACY FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCAN DO CANINES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWACONIA WEST CARVER ROTARY: $5,000 over 1y, 10.0% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF LAKEWOOD RANCH: $5,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF NORTHFIELD: $5,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetHOPE ACADEMY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINNER CITY CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

The Minneapolis Found…Russell T Lund Charit…United Way WorldwideThe Blackbaud Giving …Paypal Charitable Giv…National Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Minneapolis FoundationMN14.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Russell T Lund Charitable Trust · United Way Worldwide · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 The Edina Rotary Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Edina Rotary Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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 · 0–5%
    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

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    How do I get to The Edina Rotary Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Edina Rotary Foundation Inc 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 21 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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