· Public charity
The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International
The mission of THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL is to enable rotarians to advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through the improvement of health, the support of education, and the alleviation of poverty.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 66% of THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 325 grants below total $25,503,267 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $310,692,990 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $285,189,723 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k37 grants · $249k
- $10k–50k138 grants · $3.5M
- $50k–250k139 grants · $14M
- $250k+11 grants · $7.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK | $1,500,000 |
| SUSAN B ANTHONY LIST INC EDUCATION FUND | $1,250,000 |
| CRISTO REY SAN DIEGO HIGH SCHOOL | $1,000,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $685,766 |
| HANWASH INC | $680,000 |
| MAGIS INSTITUTE | $600,000 |
| WHISPERING WINDS CATHOLIC CONFERENCE CENTER INC | $500,000 |
| FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE | $500,000 |
| SHARP HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $360,000 |
| LIFE PERSPECTIVES | $354,443 |
| PIKES PEAK AREA ROTARY ENDOWMENT | $312,585 |
| ROTARY DISTRICT 5280 | $249,603 |
| CHARITYVEST INC | $247,537 |
| ROTARY DISTRICT 5020 | $212,566 |
| ROTARY DISTRICT 7610 | $205,324 |
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 human-services grants (FY17–25, $4.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 57% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
Grants abroad, by region — $281M on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 9 regions, $272M to organizations and $8.7M to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: DISEASE PREV. AND TREATMENT-POLIO · DISEASE PREV. AND TREATMENT-HUMANITARIAN · MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH-HUMANITARIAN
Stated purpose: DISEASE PREV. AND TREATMENT-POLIO · PEACE AND CONFL. PREV./RESOLUTION-SCHOLARSHIP · DISEASE PREV. AND TREATMENT-HUMANITARIAN
Stated purpose: PEACE AND CONFL. PREV./RESOLUTION-SCHOLARSHIP · MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH-HUMANITARIAN · DISEASE PREV. AND TREATMENT-HUMANITARIAN
Stated purpose: PEACE AND CONFL. PREV./RESOLUTION-SCHOLARSHIP · MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH-HUMANITARIAN · DISEASE PREV. AND TREATMENT-HUMANITARIAN
Stated purpose: DISEASE PREV. AND TREATMENT-HUMANITARIAN · BASIC EDUCATION AND LITERACY-HUMANITARIAN · PEACE AND CONFL. PREV./RESOLUTION-HUMANITARIAN
Stated purpose: WATER AND SANITATION-HUMANITARIAN · DISEASE PREV. AND TREATMENT-HUMANITARIAN · MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH-HUMANITARIAN
Stated purpose: ENVIRONMENT-HUMANITARIAN · MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH-HUMANITARIAN · WATER AND SANITATION-HUMANITARIAN
Stated purpose: BASIC EDUCATION AND LITERACY-HUMANITARIAN · DISEASE PREV. AND TREATMENT-HUMANITARIAN · ECON. AND COMMUNITY DEVELOP.-HUMANITARIAN
Stated purpose: ENVIRONMENT-HUMANITARIAN · MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH-HUMANITARIAN · DISEASE PREV. AND TREATMENT-HUMANITARIAN
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +13% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
464 repeat relationships — 239 still active in FY2025, 225 since wound down; 58 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.7M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- EWETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC5× · 2018–2025 · $5.5M · revenue +98%
- WWWHISPERING WINDS CATHOLIC CONFERENCE CENTER INC5× · 2017–2025 · $4.9M · revenue +11% · 63% of their budget
- LPLIFE PERSPECTIVES6× · 2017–2025 · $3.1M · revenue +127% · 82% of their budget
Funded once
- FCFIDELIS CENTER FOR LAW & POLICYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue +113%
- KTKATIE & THOMAS HAYNES MEMORIAL EDUCATIONAL FUNDone grant, 2024 · $500k · revenue 0%
- CNCOMMUNITY NEWS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $460k · revenue +471% · 26% of their budget
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Raising funds to provide community service at home and throughout the world.
to provide community as well as worlwide assistance to those in need.
To provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace throughout the world; and to provide communication between rotary international to and among the clubs of the district to…
The object of the rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise.
To provide service to others, promote integrity, and advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through our fellowship of business, professional, and community leaders.
To incorporate the purposes of rotary international in our club which includes humanitarian service, encouragement of high ethical standards in all vocations and build goodwill and peace in the world. the club also identifies and addresses…
Promote general community welfare
Encourage & foster community service via the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise, application of the ideal of service in each rotarians life and advance international understanding, goodwill and peace through a world…
The mission of rotary international is to provide servicve to others, promote integrity, and advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through its fellowship of business, professional, and community leaders.
Rotary international provides service to others, promotes integrity, and advances world understanding, goodwill, and peace through our fellowship of business, professional, and community leaders.
Service club
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rotary International District 7410 and the most unlike its peers is Vietnam Helicopters. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
808 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. 808 of the 1,070 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 SERVING HANDS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds WHISPERING WINDS CATHOLIC CONFERENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE PERSPECTIVES ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds Spitzer-Magis Center FKA Magis Institute ↗
- Who funds THE HEIGHTS ELLIS COUNTY FAMILY RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds Sharp Healthcare Foundation ↗
- Who funds ROTARY INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT 6960 INC ↗
- Who funds ROTARY INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT 6900 ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ROTARY INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT 5950 INC ↗
- Who funds ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Susan B Anthony List Education Fund ↗
- Who funds Rotary International District 7770 ↗
- Who funds VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds Rotary International District 5870 ↗
- Who funds FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE ↗
- Who funds ROTARY INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT 5340 ↗
- Who funds ROTARY INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT 5110 ↗
- Who funds ROTARY INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT 7600 ↗
- Who funds ROTARY INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT 5280 ↗
- Who funds ROTARY INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT 7610 ↗
- Who funds ROTARY INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT 5100 ↗
- Who funds ROTARY INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT 5240 ↗
- Who funds ROTARY INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT 5150 ↗
- Who funds ROTARY INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT 5030 ↗
- Who funds WORD AMONG US INC ↗
- Who funds ROTARY INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT 5890 INC ↗
- Who funds ROTARY INTERNATIONAL 7570 DISTRICT ↗
- Who funds ROTARY INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT 6970 ↗
- Who funds ROTARY INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT 6910 INC ↗
- Who funds ROTARY INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT 5450 INC ↗
- Who funds ROTARY INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT 7690 ↗
- Who funds Rotary International District 6710 ↗
- Who funds THE DYNAMIC CATHOLIC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Rotary International District 5180 ↗
- Who funds ROTARY INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT 6000 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: Catholic Community Foundation of San Diego · David C Copley Foundation · Knights of Columbus Charitable Fund Inc · The Cushman Foundation · Art Pratt Foundation of Old Mission Rc · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · The Parker Foundation · French Fund Samuel Katherine Tua · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · Alpharetta Rotary Foundation Inc
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 Foundation of Rotary International 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.