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University Rotary Service Fund
This service fund is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization affiliated with Rotary International.
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 4 grants below total $33,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $217,787 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $184,287 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 $10k2 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Roosevelt High School | $10,000 |
| Open Hearts Big Dreams | $10,000 |
| U District Partnership | $6,773 |
| Ronald McDonald House | $6,727 |
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 (FY17–24, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
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.
10 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 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, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- EHElizabeth Home4× · 2019–2024 · $43k · revenue +19%
- UDUNIVERSITY DISTRICT SERVICE FUND4× · 2019–2025 · $39k · revenue +138%
- RYROOTS YOUNG ADULT SHELTER3× · 2020–2022 · $35k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONone grant, 2020 · $20k
- FFAMILYWORKSgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +354%
- KWKIDS WITHOUT BORDERSgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +69%
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.
House Our Neighbors envisions a future where all people can afford to live and thrive in vibrant, cohesive, and climate resilient communities. To achieve this, we develop, advocate, and mobilize for policy to realize social housing for the…
Urban Impact cultivates thriving communities, by creating access, opportunity, and lasting change. Our vision is that all people and every neighborhood are rooted and thriving in community.
Community Roots Housing Foundation is a 501(c)(3) raising funds to support Community Roots Housing, a Seattle-area public development authority that creates inclusive housing and fosters thriving, just communities. (See Schedule O for…
The Washington Housing Alliance Action Fund elects candidates, educates voters and decision-makers, and amplifies the voices and priorities of people and communities most impacted by housing instability and homelessness.
We Heart Seattle is an action-based, boots-on-the-ground movement that organizes trash cleanups in our public spaces and offers resources to those in need. Through our direct civic engagement we lead the way to a more compassionate and…
To make known the gifts of people with developmental disabilities revealed through mutually transforming relationships. To engage in our diverse cultures, working together toward a more humane society. To foster community that is inspired…
West Seattle Food Bank strengthens the community through the power of neighbors helping neighbors, working to ensure all in our community have access to the essential necessities of living.
Aurora Commons cultivates belonging and community to foster health and healing among our neighbors experiencing poverty and homelessness.
Friendship Place is a leader in the Washington, DC, metro area in developing solutions to homelessness that have measurable results and a lasting impact. Friendship Place's mission is to empower people who are experiencing or at risk of…
Hilltop is transforming early childhood education through play, collaboration, and reflection: in our classrooms with children, partnerships with families, and professional development with educators.
Seattle-based online publication seeking to examine and influence urban policies.
Queen Anne Helpline prevents homelessness and bolsters access to the foundational resources we all need to thrive.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Low Income Housing Institute and the most unlike its peers is Sanctuary Art Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 20 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 Elizabeth Home ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY DISTRICT SERVICE FUND ↗
- Who funds ROOTS YOUNG ADULT SHELTER ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS CENTER FOR THE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE CHILDRENS PLAYGARDEN ↗
- Who funds LOW INCOME HOUSING INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds HARVEST AGAINST HUNGER ↗
- Who funds Sanctuary Art Center ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of Western Washington & Alaska ↗
- Who funds VENTURES ↗
- Who funds Open Hearts Big Dreams ↗
- Who funds FAMILYWORKS ↗
- Who funds KIDS WITHOUT BORDERS ↗
- Who funds ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY FOR PRECISION LEARNING ↗
- Who funds Solid Ground Washington ↗
- Who funds NEW HORIZONS MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds UNITED INDIANS OF ALL TRIBES FOUNDATION ↗
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: Seattle Foundation · Beeks Family Legacy Foundation · Medina Foundation · United Way of King County · The Norcliffe Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Fales Foundation Trust · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Washington Federal Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Employees Community Fund of Boeing-Puget Sound · Raikes 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 University Rotary Service Fund 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.
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