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The Rotary Club of Sebastopol Foundation Inc

Formed in 1925, this club has been going strong for almost 100 years, funding and volunteering for worthy projects such as Learn-to-Swim, Learn-with-Me, Interact, and an International Youth Exchange program. Were also dedicated to supporting important projects around the world, such as eradicating polio from the planet! We award…

$161k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
2
Itemized grants FY2024
4
Organizations funded FY2021
0%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Itemized, FY2024
$13k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$6,300
Largest grant, FY2024
$6,300
Organizations funded a year
4 to 6
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$158k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 0% of the organizations The Rotary Club of Sebastopol Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21
PhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving2$13k100%
FY20214$42k0%
FY20205$74k40%
FY20196$90k33%
FY20184$59k0%
FY20175$66kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$269kInternational$51kCommunity Improvement$18kYouth Development$17k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
West Sonoma County Union High School District$92,0015n/a
Santa Rosa Junior College Foundation$69,00050%
Sebastopol Rotary Education Foundation$49,124346%
Sebastopol Union School Distr$41,3434n/a
Sebastopol Chamber of Commerce$17,500116%
Rotary Club of Sebastopol Sunrise Community Foundation$5,16119%

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($70k), not named here.

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About The Rotary Club of Sebastopol Foundation Inc

How much does The Rotary Club of Sebastopol Foundation Inc give?
The Rotary Club of Sebastopol Foundation Inc reported 2 itemized grants totaling $12,600, out of $161,372 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 6 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does The Rotary Club of Sebastopol Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (76%), International (14%), Community Improvement (5%).
Who are The Rotary Club of Sebastopol Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: West Sonoma County Union High School District ($92k), Santa Rosa Junior College Foundation ($69k), Sebastopol Rotary Education Foundation ($49k).
Does The Rotary Club of Sebastopol Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is The Rotary Club of Sebastopol Foundation Inc based?
The Rotary Club of Sebastopol Foundation Inc is based in CA.

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 12 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $217k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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