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The Los Altos Rotary Endowment Fund Inc

The mission of the los altos rotary endowment fund is the management of contributions received by the rotary club of los altos, for the purpose of dispensing grants, scholarships and charitable contributions, building an endowment for the future and to otherwise aid and support worthy organizations, be they local, national or…

$424k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$80k
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$569kCommunity Improvement$282kInternational$111kHuman Services$78kHealth$66kPublic Safety & Disaster$66kRecreation & Sports$41kArts & Culture$23kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $257,926, the rows itemized in this filing. The $424,372 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $166,446 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 · $109k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $134k
$40,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOOTHILL DE ANZA COMMUNITY COLLEGES FOUNDATION$80,000
THE LAHAINA ROTARY YOUTH FOUNDATION$53,875
LARC$42,373
CITY OF LOS ALTOS$40,000
MENTOR TUTOR CONNECTION$15,000
ROTARY DISTRICT 5170$11,558
THE ROTARY FOUNDATION$8,620
KARAT SCHOOL PROJECT$6,500
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 (FY17–20, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY: $10k → 8%COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY: $6k → 8%COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY: $5k → 8%COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY: $5k → 8%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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 8% of The Los Altos Rotary Endowment Fund Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Los Altos Rotary Endowment Fund Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$904k · 11 repeat orgs$237k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
16

Total granted

$904k
$144k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+8%

Still filing today

100%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $94k 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
EducationHealthCommunity ImprovementArts & CulturePhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
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

  • FC
    FOOTHILL-DEANZA COMMUNITY COLLEGES FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $402k · revenue +11%
  • MT
    MENTOR TUTOR CONNECTION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $156k · revenue +266%
  • LA
    LOS ALTOS ROTARY CLUB
    4× · 2022–2025 · $103k · revenue +23% · 25% of their budget

Funded once

  • GT
    GLOBAL TELEHEALTH NETWORK
    one grant, 2024 · $70k
  • IF
    Intersection for the Arts
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +2%
  • MV
    MOUNTAIN VIEW PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue -9%
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
Los Altos Sunset Rotary Club Endowment Fund Inc
Community Improvement
2
Rotary International Los Gatos

The object of rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise. motto is service above self.

—
3
Los Altos Journalism Foundation
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4
Los Gatos Rotary Scholarship Fund

Endowment to provide college scholarships to los gatos and san jose youth.

Education
5
South San Francisco Rotary Foundation
—
6
Rotary Club of San Jose Silicon Valley Foundation

Supported over 15 local non profit programs in promoting education, health and beautification of our local community.

—
7
Kiwanis Club of San Leandro Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Salinas Steinbeck Rotary Club

We provide service to others, promote integrity, and advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through our fellowship of business, professional, and community leaders.

—
9
Rotary Club of San Rafael Fund

Scholarships, educator awards, financial support of community organizations

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10
Cupertino Rotary Endowment Foundation

Provide funding through donations and grants to qualified charitable,scientific, educational and public purpose organizations.

Philanthropy
11
Kiwanis Club of Los Altos Foundation

Kiwanis is a global organization of volunteers dedicated to changing the world one child and one community at a time.

Community Improvement
12
Santa Clara Rotary Foundation

Scholarships and youth & senior activities and related community activities programs.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Mentor Tutor Connection. 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

25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 32 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
19/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FOOTHILL-DEANZA COMMUNITY COLLEGES FOUNDATION: $402,426 · PhilanthropyFOOTHILL-DEANZA COMMUNITY COLLEGES FO…LOS ALTOS MOUNTAIN VIEW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $16,900 · PhilanthropyLOS ALTOS ROTARY CLUB: $102,951 · OtherLOS ALTOS ROTARY CLUBGLOBAL TELEHEALTH NETWORK: $70,000 · OtherGLOBAL TELEHEALTH NETWORKCITY OF LOS ALTOS: $40,000 · OtherCITY OF LOS ALTOSCAMPBELL-SAN JOSE WEST ROTARY FOUNDATION: $27,533 · OtherCAMPBELL-SAN JOSE WEST ROTARY …CHILD ADVOCATES OF SILICON VALLEY INC: $24,750 · OtherCHILD ADVOCATES OF SILICON VAL…Hopes Corner Inc: $21,000 · OtherHopes Corner IncIntersection for the Arts: $15,000 · Other+10 more: $47,922 · Other+10 moreMENTOR TUTOR CONNECTION: $155,851 · EducationMENTOR TUTOR CONNEC…Lahaina Rotary Youth Foundation: $53,875 · EducationLahaina Rotary Yout…+3 more: $9,350 · EducationRotary District 5170 Foundation: $95,247 · Community ImprovementRotary District …KARAT SCHOOL PROJECT: $83,403 · Community ImprovementKARAT SCHOOL PRO…+1 more: $5,270 · Community ImprovementCHAC FKA COMMUNITY HEALTH AWARENESS COUNCIL: $25,750 · HealthROTARY AIDS PROJECT INC: $25,250 · HealthTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $23,870 · InternationalThe Global Uplift Project: $6,000 · InternationalCOMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY OF MOUNTAIN VIEW LOS ALTOS AND LOS ALTOS HILLS INC: $25,500 · Human Services
Philanthropy$419,326Other$349,156Education$219,076Community Improvement$183,920Health$51,000International$29,870Human Services$25,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFOOTHILL-DEANZA COMMUNITY COLLEGES FOUNDATION: $402,426 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetMENTOR TUTOR CONNECTION: $155,851 over 9y, 13% of budgetLOS ALTOS ROTARY CLUB: $102,951 over 4y, 25% of budgetRotary District 5170 Foundation: $95,247 over 6y, 8.3% of budgetKARAT SCHOOL PROJECT: $83,403 over 5y, 26% of budgetCAMPBELL-SAN JOSE WEST ROTARY FOUNDATION: $27,533 over 4y, 17% of budgetCHAC FKA COMMUNITY HEALTH AWARENESS COUNCIL: $25,750 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY OF MOUNTAIN VIEW LOS ALTOS AND LOS ALTOS HILLS INC: $25,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetROTARY AIDS PROJECT INC: $25,250 over 4y, 34% of budgetCHILD ADVOCATES OF SILICON VALLEY INC: $24,750 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $23,870 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHopes Corner Inc: $21,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetLOS ALTOS MOUNTAIN VIEW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $16,900 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetIntersection for the Arts: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLOS ALTOS FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS: $10,000 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetMOUNTAIN VIEW PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION: $6,500 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetThe Global Uplift Project: $6,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetLAKE AREA ROTARY CLUB ASSOCIATION: $5,270 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOLIVESEED FOUNDATION: $5,200 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND ARTS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPALO ALTO ROTARY CLUB ANNUAL CHARITIES INC: $3,500 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetTHE LOS ALTOS ROTARY ENDOWMENT FUND INC: $3,150 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE LOS ALTOS LIBRARY ENDOWMENT: $650 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE WOMENS CLUB OF SILICON VALLEY: $500 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

Los Altos Mountain Vi…K2N2 Family FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…Michael and Ina Korek…The George and Judy M…Gordon E and Betty I …The David and Lucile …Embarcadero Media Fou…The Sobrato Family Fo…The William & Flora H…Jewish Community Fede…Kaiser Foundation Hos…
Los Altos Mountain View Community FoundationCA28.1× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · K2N2 Family Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Michael and Ina Korek Foundation Trust · The George and Judy Marcus Family Foundation II · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Embarcadero Media Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals

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 Los Altos Rotary Endowment Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Los Altos Rotary Endowment Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%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
    9report 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.
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    Find your warmest path to The Los Altos Rotary Endowment Fund 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 32 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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