· Public charity
The Rotary Club of Lawrence Inc
Provide educational, humanitarian, and cultural programs
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of The Rotary Club of Lawrence Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Rotary Foundation Of Rotary International, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 1 grants below total $12,581 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $36,396 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $23,815 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Rotary International Foundation | $12,581 |
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 US giving — 89% of grant dollars ($200k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 11% that went abroad ($24k) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $298) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Beyond the US — 11% of all-years giving ($24k)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
The mission of the Lawrence Farmers Market is to provide children and adults in the Lawrence, KS area, with locally grown foods and farm products. This will be accomplished by improving access to local, healthy, affordable food through a…
Help nbsp;people nbsp;face nbsp;challlenges nbsp;one nbsp;step nbsp;at nbsp;a nbsp;time nbsp;create nbsp;supportive nbsp;structures nbsp;to nbsp;help nbsp;individuals nbsp;and nbsp;families nbsp;make nbsp;positve nbsp;changes nbsp;and…
The lawrence humane society nurtures the human-animal bond by providing shelter, care and advocacy for homeless and abused animals, as well as resource for the pets and people in our community
The Good Samaritan Center of Douglas County demonstrates the love and acceptance of individuals and families through encouragement, provision of food and other resources, while enabling them to maintain their dignity and self-respect. Our…
Provide usda meals to qualified daycare centers
Heartland offers high-quality, affordable, behavior ally-enhanced primary care to all community members regardless of income or insurance status. heartland is dedicated to practicing holistic, integrated health care in a model that focuses…
The laramie soup kitchen is a nonprofit organization working to increase access to quality, nutritious food so that every person who is hungry or alone may share a meal without cost. its mission is to improve the quality of life for its…
Lincoln county dental clinics mission is to provide access to dental care to adults and children who live at or below 200 percent of the federal poverty level and have no dental home.
To feed the hungry in our service area through an efficient system of collection and distribution of food to individuals, striving to preserve dignity and extending respect to all clients in douglas county.
To provide quality services in a comfortable, empathetic environment to persons suffering from a mental illness or emotional disturbance and to return them to a higher quality of life.
To coordinate and provide services for people with needs so they can improve their quality of life.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lawrence Community Shelter Inc and the most unlike its peers is Elizabeth Ballard Community Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 18 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 JUST FOOD OF DOUGLAS COUNTY KS INC ↗
- Who funds DOUGLAS COUNTY DENTAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE COMMUNITY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds WARM HEARTS OF DOUGLAS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds LINK INC ↗
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: Douglas County Community Foundation · United Way of Douglas County Inc · Ethel & Raymond F Rice Foundation · Midcontinent Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Rotary Club of Lawrence Inc 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.