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West Shore Rotary Foundation at a glance

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West Shore Rotary Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$730
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$20kFood & Nutrition$7kRecreation & Sports$4kInternational$4kCommunity Improvement$2kArts & Culture$2kHealth$2kYouth Development$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$250
Median grant
4
States reached
$119k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YOUTH CHALLENGE$730
FOP LODGE 25$500
Individual grant recipient$500
MEALS ON WHEELS$500
NORTH OLMSTED HUNGER CENTER$250
WEST PARK HUNGER CENTER$250
FAIRVIEW PARK HUNGER CENTER$250
ROTARY CLUB OF ASHEVILLE NC$200
FAIRVIEW PARK EDUCATION FOUNDATION$100
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $250) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%CHURCH STREET MINISTRIES: $50 → 17%GIRLS WITH SOLE: $200 → 17%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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$35k · 18 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
9

Total granted

$35k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+10%

Still filing today

22%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • YC
    YOUTH CHALLENGE
    5× · 2021–2025 · $2k · revenue +28%
  • RI
    ROTARY INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT 6630
    3× · 2021–2023 · $1k · revenue +7%
  • FP
    FAIRVIEW PARK EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $600 · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • BC
    BIKE CLEVELANDgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue +41%
  • OO
    OMNI - ORPANS MEDICAL NETWORK INT'L
    one grant, 2024 · $2k
  • KS
    KENT STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $2k
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
Southwest Baptist University

Christ-centered, caring academic community preparing students to be servant leaders in a global society; a higher-education institution offering courses that lead to both undergraduate and graduate degrees.

Education
2
Hathaway Brown School

The school is dedicated to excellence in the education of girls. our true mission, as reflected in our motto "non scholae sed vitae discimus," is learning & preparation for life.

Education
3
Lewis & Clark College

Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…

Education
4
Benedictine College

Benedictine college's mission as a catholic, benedictine, liberal arts, residential college is the education of men and women within a community of faith & scholarship.

Education
5
The Winsor School

Our mission: the winsor school prepares young women to pursue their aspirations and contribute to the world.

Education
6
Alvernia University

Alvernia university is a catholic comprehensive university with a liberal arts foundation founded by the bernardine franciscan sisters in 1958. see continuation on schedule o.

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7
Georgian Court University

Georgian court university (gcu), provides a comprehensive liberal arts education and is open to students of all faiths, delivers a curriculum that promotes scholarship, service, and personal development.

Education
8
Lynn University Inc

Founded in 1962 and located in boca raton, florida, lynn university is an independent, coeducational institution accredited by the southern association of colleges and schools commission on colleges (sacscoc). (continued in sch o)the…

Education
9
Barry University Inc

Barry university is a catholic institution of higher education founded by the adrian dominican sisters. with a liberal arts tradition, barry university is a scholarly community committed to the highest academic standards in undergraduate,…

Education
10
America Scores Cleveland

America scores cleveland inspires urban youth to lead healthy lives, be engaged students, and have the confidence and character to make a difference in the world.

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11
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
12
Chatham University

Chatham university prepares women and men to be world ready: to build lives of purpose and value and fulfilling work. (see continuation on schedule o)in addition to appropriate professional skills and liberal arts learning, chatham…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Butler University; the most unlike its peers is Girls With Sole. 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

10 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. 10 of the 28 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY: $4,500 · OtherCLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI: $4,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATIOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $4,500 · OtherOHIO STATE UNIVERSITYROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $3,630 · OtherROTARY INTERNATIONALCITY OF FAIRVIEW PARK: $2,700 · OtherCITY OF FAIRVIEW PARKYOUTH CHALLENGE: $2,227 · OtherYOUTH CHALLENGEMEALS ON WHEELS: $1,750 · OtherNANZE: $1,700 · OtherOMNI - ORPANS MEDICAL NETWORK INT'L: $1,680 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,650 · OtherKENT STATE UNIVERSITY: $1,500 · OtherROTARY INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT 6630: $1,417 · Other+10 more: $6,450 · Other+10 moreButler University: $1,500 · EducationButler Univ…John Carroll University: $1,500 · EducationJohn Carrol…BAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $1,500 · EducationBAYLOR UNIV…BIKE CLEVELAND: $2,194 · Recreation & SportsGirls With Sole: $200 · Human ServicesSECOND MILE OUTREACH: $50 · Human Services
Other$38,204Education$4,500Recreation & Sports$2,194Human Services$250

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYOUTH CHALLENGE: $2,227 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBIKE CLEVELAND: $2,194 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetButler University: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJohn Carroll University: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROTARY INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT 6630: $1,417 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFAIRVIEW PARK EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $600 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCLEVELAND GUARDIANS CHARITIES INC: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND MILE OUTREACH: $50 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds YOUTH CHALLENGE ↗
  • Who funds BIKE CLEVELAND ↗
  • Who funds Butler University ↗
  • Who funds John Carroll University ↗
  • Who funds BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ROTARY INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT 6630 ↗
  • Who funds FAIRVIEW PARK EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CLEVELAND GUARDIANS CHARITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds Girls With Sole ↗
  • Who funds SECOND MILE OUTREACH ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 West Shore Rotary Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from West Shore Rotary Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.

    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 28 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-PF 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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