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University Rotary Service Fund

This service fund is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization affiliated with Rotary International.

$218k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

International$628kHousing & Shelter$111kFood & Nutrition$63kCommunity Improvement$45kHealth$28kEducation$26kYouth Development$21kArts & Culture$17kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $33,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $217,787 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $184,287 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Roosevelt High School$10,000
Open Hearts Big Dreams$10,000
U District Partnership$6,773
Ronald McDonald House$6,727
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%New Horizons: $6k → 9%ELIZABETH GREGORY HOME: $11k → 9%Elizabeth Gregory House: $10k → 9%Elizabeth Gregory House: $10k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$252k · 10 repeat orgs$85k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +118% since the first grant, against +115% for those funded once.

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
7

Total granted

$252k
$65k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+118%
+115%

Still filing today

100%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentInternationalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • EH
    Elizabeth Home
    4× · 2019–2024 · $43k · revenue +146%
  • UD
    UNIVERSITY DISTRICT SERVICE FUND
    4× · 2019–2025 · $39k · revenue +138%
  • RY
    ROOTS YOUNG ADULT SHELTER
    3× · 2020–2022 · $35k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
  • KW
    KIDS WITHOUT BORDERSgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +69%
  • F
    FAMILYWORKSgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +145%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Community Roots Housing Foundation

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…

Philanthropy
2
Urban Impact

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.

Religion
3
House Our Neighbors

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…

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4
West Seattle Food Bank

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.

Food & Nutrition
5
Friendship Place

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…

Housing & Shelter
6
Aurora Commons

Aurora Commons cultivates belonging and community to foster health and healing among our neighbors experiencing poverty and homelessness.

Recreation & Sports
7
Washington Housing Alliance Action Fund

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.

Housing & Shelter
8
South Whidbey Homeless Coalition

We provide community members facing homlessness with chelter, resurces, and advoccy to create a strong and thriving widbey island.

Housing & Shelter
9
Larche Noah Sealth of Seattle

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…

Human Services
10
Solid Ground

The mission of Solid Ground is to prevent and end homelessness for families with children in the communities we serve through housing, resources and opportunity.

Human Services
11
Larkin Street Youth Services

The mission of Larkin Street Youth Services is to create a continuum of services that inspires youth to move beyond the street. We will nurture potential, promote dignity, and support bold steps by all.

Human Services
12
Seattle Institute for Early Childhood Development

Hilltop is transforming early childhood education through play, collaboration, and reflection: in our classrooms with children, partnerships with families, and professional development with educators.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Familyworks; 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.
04the grantee network

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
14/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $618,104 · InternationalTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL+1 more: $10,000 · InternationalTHE UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS CENTER FOR THE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $25,170 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY …LOW INCOME HOUSING INSTITUTE: $24,400 · OtherLOW INCOME HOUS…HARVEST AGAINST HUNGER: $21,200 · OtherHARVEST AGAINST…UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $20,350 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF W…Sanctuary Art Center: $14,000 · OtherSanctuary Art C…Ronald McDonald House Charities of Western Washington & Alaska: $12,527 · OtherRonald McDonald…Open Hearts Big Dreams: $10,000 · OtherOpen Hearts Big…+1 more: $2,700 · OtherElizabeth Home: $43,265 · Human ServicesNEW HORIZONS MINISTRIES: $6,200 · Human ServicesUNIVERSITY DISTRICT SERVICE FUND: $39,388 · Community ImprovementFAMILYWORKS: $10,000 · Community ImprovementROOTS YOUNG ADULT SHELTER: $35,000 · Housing & ShelterSolid Ground Washington: $8,000 · Housing & ShelterVENTURES: $11,750 · EducationROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationACADEMY FOR PRECISION LEARNING: $8,000 · EducationSEATTLE CHILDRENS PLAYGARDEN: $25,000 · Youth Development
International$628,104Other$130,347Human Services$49,465Community Improvement$49,388Housing & Shelter$43,000Education$29,750Youth Development$25,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $618,104 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetElizabeth Home: $43,265 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY DISTRICT SERVICE FUND: $39,388 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetROOTS YOUNG ADULT SHELTER: $35,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS CENTER FOR THE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $25,170 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSEATTLE CHILDRENS PLAYGARDEN: $25,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetLOW INCOME HOUSING INSTITUTE: $24,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHARVEST AGAINST HUNGER: $21,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSanctuary Art Center: $14,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Western Washington & Alaska: $12,527 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVENTURES: $11,750 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetKIDS WITHOUT BORDERS: $10,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetFAMILYWORKS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSolid Ground Washington: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACADEMY FOR PRECISION LEARNING: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW HORIZONS MINISTRIES: $6,200 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED INDIANS OF ALL TRIBES FOUNDATION: $2,700 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Seattle FoundationBeeks Family Legacy F…Medina FoundationUnited Way of King Co…The Norcliffe Foundat…Puget Sound Energy Fo…Fales Foundation TrustMightycause Charitabl…Washington Federal Fo…Liberty Mutual Founda…Employees Community F…Raikes Foundation
Seattle FoundationWA27.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization University Rotary Service Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from University Rotary Service Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to University Rotary Service Fund?

    Find your warmest path to University Rotary Service Fund 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 20 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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