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Walnut Creek Rotary Club Community Foundation

WALNUT CREEK ROTARY CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the charitable arm to the rotary club of walnut creek that raises funds to provide charitable giving to qualified charities (irs sec 501(c)(3)) within the local community.

$63k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20222025.

Food & Nutrition$30kHousing & Shelter$21kHealth$11kInternational$10kRecreation & Sports$7kEducation$5kCivil Rights$5kPhilanthropy$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 13 grants below total $52,750 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $62,750 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $10,000 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.

$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$569k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO COUNTIES$5,000
CC INTERFAITH$5,000
LOAVES AND FISHES CC$5,000
LINDY FUND - WOMEN'S CANCER RESEARCH CENTER$5,000
LAS LOMAS HS$5,000
SAUSALITO ROTARY CLUB FOUND (FLOATING DOCK)$5,000
CASA CCC$5,000
TOUCHING TINY HEARTS - ROTARY CLUB OF MADRAS & ROTARY INTERNATION FOJNDATIO$5,000
BARAKA WOMEN'S CENTER$5,000
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE PROJECT$4,500
CAMP ROYAL AND VENTURE$2,050
LN4 HAND PROJECT$700
CONCORD ROTAR CLUB FOUNDATION (GAMBIA TEACHERS HOUSING)$500
02The need
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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 US giving — 84% of grant dollars ($84k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 16% that went abroad ($16k) is mapped below.

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Your human-services grants (FY22–23, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%TRINTY CENTER: $15k → 9%WHITE PONY EXPRESS: $11k → 9%WHITE PONY EXPRESS: $9k → 9%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.

Beyond the US — 16% of all-years giving ($16k)

4 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
India$5k · 1 grant
Panama$5k · 1 grant
Kenya$5k · 1 grant
Gambia$500 · 1 grant

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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

03Your 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.

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West Contra Costa County Meals On Wheels

Enable frail seniors to maintain their independence at home by providing them with high quality, nutritious meals that are cost effective, prepared in West Contra Costa County, delivered by caring drivers and administered by local…

Food & Nutrition
2
Extrafood

Food Rescue - The Organization rescues excess fresh food from Bay Area businesses, schools and non-profits and immediately delivers the food to safety net partners - such as senior housing centers, after-school programs, and homeless…

Food & Nutrition
3
Foodwise Community

Foodwise grows thriving communities through the power and joy of local food. We envision a world that nourishes all people, local economies, and the living earth.

4
Council on Aging Services for Seniors

To enhance the quality of life for our aging community by providing services that promote wellbeing and maintain independence.

5
Feeding It Forward Inc

Feeding It Forward works to reduce food waste and alleviate hunger in Napa County through collaboration efforts with other community based organizations. We recover perishable and prepared food from over 50+ donors and deliver it to 40+…

Food & Nutrition
6
Twin Lakes Food Bank

To Share God's Love by Uniting and mobilizing the community to provide food, clothing and support to those in need.

Unclassified
7
Central California Food Bank

Ccfb is dedicated to ending hunger, working with over 200 partner agencies to provide food to those experiencing hunger. our mission: transforming lives together, in the passionate pursuit to end hunger in central ca - one meal, one…

Food & Nutrition
8
Alameda Emergency Food Dba Alameda Food Bank

Founded in 1977, The Alameda Food Bank is a non-profit organization that helps Alameda residents in need by providing nourishing food in compassionate and respectful manner with the support of dedicated volunteers and local partners.

Food & Nutrition
9
Contra Costa Regional Health Foundation

Contra Costa Regional Health Foundation eliminates barriers and enhances the capabilities of Contra Costa Health Services and the community to improve the saftey, health, and wellness of every Contra Costa County resident.

Health
10
Nourish California

To collaborate with diverse community partners for policy change, ensuring equitable access to food, health, and well-being for all Californians.

Food & Nutrition
11
Crossroads Community Food Network Inc

Improving community health through local food access.

Food & Nutrition
12
18 Reasons

Our mission is to empower our community with the confidence and creativity needed to buy, cook, and eat good food every day.

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Loaves and Fishes of Contra Costa and the most unlike its peers is Rotary Club of Sausalito Charitable Fdtn. 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

11 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. 11 of the 17 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.

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

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CITY OF WALNUT CREEK — $7,000 · OtherCITY OF WALNUT CREEKTOUCHING TINY HEARTS - ROTARY CLUB OF MADRAS & ROTARY INTERNATION FOJNDATIO — $5,000 · OtherTOUCHING TINY HEARTS - ROTARY CLUB OF MADRAS …Womens Cancer Resource Center — $5,000 · OtherWomens Cancer Resource CenterCONTRA COSTA INTERFAITH COALITION — $5,000 · OtherCONTRA COSTA INTERFAITH COALITIONWalnut Creek Education Foundation K-12 — $5,000 · OtherWalnut Creek Education Foundation K-12Loaves and Fishes of Contra Costa — $5,000 · OtherLoaves and Fishes of Contra CostaASSISTANCE LEAGUE PROJECT — $4,500 · OtherASSISTANCE LEAGUE PROJECTCAMP ROYAL AND VENTURE — $2,050 · Other+2 more — $1,200 · OtherWHITE PONY EXPRESS — $19,842 · Human ServicesWHITE PONY EXPRESSTRINITY CENTER WALNUT CREEK — $15,000 · Human ServicesTRINITY CENTER WALNUT CREEKREHABILITATION AND EMPLOYMENT SERVICES OF THE — $5,001 · EmploymentFOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO — $5,000 · Food & NutritionRotary Club of Sausalito Charitable Fdtn — $5,000 · PhilanthropyTHE GIVING EXCHANGE — $5,000 · InternationalCHILD ADVOCATES OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY — $5,000 · Civil Rights
Other$39,750Human Services$34,842Employment$5,001Food & Nutrition$5,000Philanthropy$5,000International$5,000Civil Rights$5,000

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$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWHITE PONY EXPRESS — $19,842 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTRINITY CENTER WALNUT CREEK — $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetREHABILITATION AND EMPLOYMENT SERVICES OF THE — $5,001 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWomens Cancer Resource Center — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRotary Club of Sausalito Charitable Fdtn — $5,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetTHE GIVING EXCHANGE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCHILD ADVOCATES OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCONTRA COSTA INTERFAITH COALITION — $5,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetWalnut Creek Education Foundation K-12 — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLoaves and Fishes of Contra Costa — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Lowell Berry FoundationCA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lowell Berry Foundation · Charis Fund · East Bay Community Foundation · Contra Costa Regional Health Foundation · Justice Justice Foundation · Firedoll Foundation · Dean and Margaret Lesher Foundation · San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good

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 Walnut Creek Rotary Club Community Foundation 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.

2025
202122232425
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report 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.

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    How do I get to Walnut Creek Rotary Club Community Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Walnut Creek Rotary Club Community Foundation 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 17 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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