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The Vero Beach Rotary Charities Foundation Inc

Awarding of scholarships to students and grants to 501(c)(3) charities

$29k
Granted FY2022
1
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 54% of THE VERO BEACH ROTARY CHARITIES FOUNDATION INC’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.

02FY2022 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 1 grants below total $7,800 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $28,800 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $21,000 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.

$7,800
Median grant
1
States reached
$352k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROTARY CLUB OF VERO BEACH$7,800
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Shining Light Garden Foundation: $1k → 12%SHINING LIGHT GARDEN FOUNDATION: $1k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$23k · 4 repeat orgs$17k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2022, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
8

Total granted

$23k
$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+133%

Still filing today

100%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’22
Recreation & SportsEducationYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesOther

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

  • SF
    SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC
    2× · 2017–2019 · $7k · revenue +48%
  • TG
    THE GIFFORD FLORIDA YOUTH ORCHESTRA
    2× · 2017–2019 · $3k · revenue +613%
  • SL
    Shining Light Garden Foundation Inc
    2× · 2017–2019 · $2k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC
    one grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +7%
  • FH
    FLOAT HOPE OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +164%
  • IR
    INDIAN RIVER STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +226%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Indian River Charter High School Inc

To give its students the opportunity to develop a new set of competencies and foundational skills that will help them to enjoy a productive, full, and satisfying life.

Education
2
Executive Roundtable of Indian River County Inc

To identify solutions that will protect and enhance the lives of indian river county children, individuals, families, and seniors.

Youth Development
3
Indian River County Chamber of Commerce Inc

The indian river county chamber of commerce, inc. is a county-wide organization representing the business community by providing services, benefits, and leadership for positive economic growth and change.

4
Childcare Resources of Indian River Inc

To ensure the availability and affordability of high quality early childhood and family support programs for children of income eligible working families in indian river county.

Human Services
5
Cultural Council of Indian River County

To promote the cultural arts in indian river county, florida through education, collaboration, marketing and advocacy.

Arts & Culture
6
Integrated Healthcare Systems Riviera Inc

Provide mental health preventative health social services and housing to the underserved,homeless and low income.

7
Indian River Community Foundation Inc

Building a better community through donor-driven philanthropy.

Philanthropy
8
Indian River County Volunteer Ambulance Squad Inc

The primary mission of indian river county volunteer ambulance squad inc is to provide, at no charge, non-emergency transportation to scheduled medical appointments for residents of indian river county, florida.

Human Services
9
Initiative for a Competitive Inner City Inc

Icic drives inclusive economic prosperity in under-resourced communities through innovative research and programs to create jobs, income, and wealth for local residents.

Housing & Shelter
10
Indian River Golf Foundation Inc

Promote interest & awareness of local golfing opportunities & encourage local youth to participate in programs that will lead to high levels of knowledge, player development and service.

Recreation & Sports
11
Treasure Coast Food Bank Inc

Alleviate hunger by collection & distribution of donated food & other essentials in indian river, martin, okeechobee & st. lucie counties.

Food & Nutrition
12
The Education Foundation of Indian River County Inc

To supplement educational programs in indian river county.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Club of Indian River County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Shining Light Garden Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ROTARY CLUB OF VERO BEACH INC — $11,300 · OtherROTARY CLUB OF VERO BEACH INCSCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC — $6,500 · OtherSCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INCIndian River County Habitat for Humanity Inc — $2,000 · OtherIndian River County Habitat for Humanity IncFeed the Lambs — $1,000 · Other+2 more — $623 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC — $6,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB…FLOAT HOPE OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC — $3,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE GIFFORD FLORIDA YOUTH ORCHESTRA — $2,837 · Arts & CultureINDIAN RIVER STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $2,400 · EducationTREASURE COAST COMMUNITY HEALTH INC — $2,000 · HealthShining Light Garden Foundation Inc — $2,000 · Human Services
Other$21,423Youth Development$6,000Recreation & Sports$3,000Arts & Culture$2,837Education$2,400Health$2,000Human Services$2,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetROTARY CLUB OF VERO BEACH INC — $11,300 over 2y, 25% of budgetSCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC — $6,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE GIFFORD FLORIDA YOUTH ORCHESTRA — $2,837 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetIndian River County Habitat for Humanity Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTREASURE COAST COMMUNITY HEALTH INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShining Light Garden Foundation Inc — $2,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budget
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.

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.

Indian River Community Foundation IncFL19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Indian River Community Foundation Inc · Olivia Delacruz Foundation Inc · John's Island Community Service League Inc · Jake Owen Foundation · Grand Harbor Community Outreach Program Inc · Quail Valley Charities Inc · Archie S Wingfield Jr Charitable Trust U/A/D 5/15/1995 · The John's Island Foundation Inc · Bernard a Egan Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Vero Beach Rotary Charities Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 60%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 17%
  • Treasure Coast Community Health Inc17% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Vero Beach Rotary Charities Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Vero Beach Rotary Charities 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $24k 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 FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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