Washington · Nonprofit
Aberdeen Rotary Foundation
Aberdeen Rotary Foundation (Washington) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $166,550 to it, the largest being GRAYS HARBOR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($166,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $83k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $167k
- Net assets
- $483k
What Aberdeen Rotary Foundation does
Mission
The Aberdeen Rotary Foundation provides grants to support local humanitarian projects educational scholarships vocational training as well as supporting not for profit organizations in Grays Harbor County. The Foundation focused their charitable efforts on the following giving objectives: education assistance and summer camp experiences for the deaf blind and deaf-blind vision testing primary education literacy projects secondary education business curriculum youth exchange programs and college scholarships for graduating high school seniors.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Rosenkrantz Scholarship and Grant Fund -- The Foundation has a partnership agreement with an endowed fund the Alex and Suzanne Rosenkrantz Fund held by the Grays Harbor Community Foundation. The mission of the Fund is to support the educational needs of deaf blind and deaf-blind students especially higher education. The Foundation receives an annual distribution from the Grays Harbor Community Foundation and contracts with the Aberdeen Rotary Club to do the administrative work for the fund. This year the Aberdeen Rotary Foundation delivered grants to Clark College to help their new Disability Access Center and to provide scholarships to their mission-appropriate college students. We also provided a grant to the Northwest Association of Blind Athletes that helps blind students prepare to transition from high school to college. We supported the Near Vision Institute with a grant for vision evaluation technology to help identify and evaluate vision-impaired students in underserved school districts throughout Washington State. We also provided scholarships to a college student working through her third year at university. The Aberdeen Rotary Club receives an annual administrative fee…
$16,009 spentof which $77,528 as grants59% of program spendingRotary Readers - Operated a book giveaway program at our local schools and with partnerships with the City of Aberdeen and the YMCA of Grays Harbor.
$5,266 spent19% of program spendingRotary Youth Exchange - We hosted an inbound student from another country locally in our area. Volunteer families took turns hosting the student in their homes. We had three local organizers who coordinated and oversaw the program in action. The overall program was in conjunction with coordinators at Rotary International and at our local Rotary District level. The foreign exchange student had a plethora of experiences and opportunities to learn about the US and our community just as the local students and families learn about the foreign exchange students home country and culture.
$3,450 spent13% of program spendingHarbor High Thanksgiving Dinner - Celebrate and honor the work of the students and staff at our alternative high school Harbor High with a Thanksgiving dinner for all. The local Rotary Club members serve the dinner to the students and staff.
$2,320 spent9% of program spendingAberdeen Rotary Business Week at Aberdeen High School - Our signature sponsored event at the local high school Aberdeen Rotary Business Week involves all 11th graders in a week long immersive business simulation event. Students manage the companies and make all decisions regarding sales marketing research and production. The students also participate in multidimensional programs throughout the week. Aberdeen Rotary Club members volunteer as corporate advisors stockholder judges and tradeshow investors for the companies. The program provides real-world experiences grows the students ownership of their own learning gives them agency and responsibilities that they may never have felt during their high school years and overall prepares them for the next stage of their life when they step beyond high school. We give a grant to the Business Week volunteer organization team at the high school that is used to cover most of the expenses for running the program.
$0 spentof which $7,500 as grants0% of program spendingScholarships for local students - The Aberdeen Rotary Foundation directly funds three scholarships at this time. The first scholarship is a $4000 scholarship for a student to attend our local Grays Harbor College. Based on the timing of our fiscal year we distributed two GHC scholarships this year one for 2024 and one for 2025. The second scholarship is a $2000 scholarship for a local Aberdeen High School student. The third scholarship is a $1000 scholarship for a local Aberdeen High School student.
$0 spentof which $11,000 as grants0% of program spendingStudent of the Month programs for Aberdeen High School and alternative Harbor High School - one student is awarded a certificate and $100 check each month during the school year for their work in the spirit of "Service Above Self" within the ecosystem of their high school.
$0 spentof which $1,600 as grants0% of program spendingFoundation Community Grant Program - Issued grants to organizations in our local community and beyond serving humanitarian needs
$0 spentof which $5,256 as grants0% of program spending
The 8 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $27,045.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $3.1M to $664k (−79%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
65% of Aberdeen Rotary Foundation’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (77% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $13 → $77k.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Aberdeen Rotary Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Aberdeen Rotary Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Aberdeen Rotary Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of Aberdeen Rotary Foundation's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $167k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Aberdeen Rotary Foundation's revenue fell 31% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,328 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
72%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Aberdeen Rotary Foundation?
- Aberdeen Rotary Foundation (Washington) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $166,550 to it, the largest being GRAYS HARBOR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($166,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Aberdeen Rotary Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $166,550 in grants to Aberdeen Rotary Foundation, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Aberdeen Rotary Foundation?
- GRAYS HARBOR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $166,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Aberdeen Rotary Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing