Texas · Public charity
West U Rotary Club Foundation
The primary mission of the foundation is to promote charitable, educational, ethical business and civic responsibility.
- $98k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 78%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $76k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $43,023
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 12
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $106k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 78% of the organizations West U Rotary Club Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 95% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $203k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 5 | $76k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $215k | 78% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $52k | 0% |
| FY2017 | 12 | $89k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Have Shears Will Travel | $100,000 | 1 | 16% |
| Code Academy | $45,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area | $28,818 | 2 | 0% |
| Prison Entrepreneurship Program Inc | $28,011 | 2 | 1% |
| Project Joy & Hope for Texas | $28,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Friends of Columbia Tap | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Women's Home | $22,324 | 4 | 0% |
| The Women's Resource of Greater Houston | $14,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Rotary District 5890 Charities Inc | $6,574 | 1 | 16% |
| Camp Aranzazu Inc | $5,250 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Have Shears Will Travel | $100,000 | 1 | 16% |
| Code Academy | $45,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area | $28,818 | 2 | 0% |
| Prison Entrepreneurship Program Inc | $28,011 | 2 | 1% |
| Project Joy & Hope for Texas | $28,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Friends of Columbia Tap | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Women's Home | $22,324 | 4 | 0% |
| The Women's Resource of Greater Houston | $14,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Rotary District 5890 Charities Inc | $6,574 | 1 | 16% |
| Camp Aranzazu Inc | $5,250 | 1 | 0% |
| Small Steps Nurturing Center | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Ryla North America | $3,909 | 2 | 6% |
| William Marsh Rice University | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Christian Community Service Center Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Rightrak Industries | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($114k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget West U Rotary Club Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About West U Rotary Club Foundation
- How much does West U Rotary Club Foundation give?
- West U Rotary Club Foundation reported 5 itemized grants totaling $75,933, out of $97,827 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 12 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does West U Rotary Club Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (24%), Human Services (11%), Recreation & Sports (11%).
- Who are West U Rotary Club Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Have Shears Will Travel ($100k), Code Academy ($45k), Young Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area ($29k).
- Does West U Rotary Club Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 78% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as West U Rotary Club Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is West U Rotary Club Foundation based?
- West U Rotary Club Foundation is based in TX.
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