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BELLEVUE ROTARY FOUNDATION

BELLEVUE ROTARY FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $269,734 to it, the largest being SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC ($84,353). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$301k
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$270k
Net assets
$1.5M
6/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 33%
01What it does

What Bellevue Rotary Foundation does

Mission

To promote community service and social welfare.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Community grants program: provide donations and funding to various charities and educational organizations providing services to residents primarily on the greater eastside of lake washington. The foundation has contributed significant dollars and countless volunteer hours to organizations in the bellevue community since it was established in 1990.in fy25, the Bellevue Rotary Foundation contributed $64,450 to 14 different organizations and $5,346 was directed towards the family festival support project, meal service projects, service to mature adults and other community projects.

    $80,940 spentof which $69,796 as grants
    62% of program spending
  2. World community service: the foundation also participates in a broad range of humanitarian, intercultural and educational activities designed to improve the human condition. Humanitarian grants support projects that provide health care and medical supplies, clean water, food, job training, youth development, and education to millions of people in need, particularly in the developing world. The foundation also provides numerous grants each year to fund the work of rotary club of bellevue volunteers, who travel to parts of the world where their technical expertise and knowledge are most needed to alleviate hardship and solve problems. In addition, the foundation builds understanding through international scholarships, exchange programs and humanitarian grants. The rotary centers for international studies in peace and conflict resolution is an innovative program designed to educate tomorrow's peacemakers.

    $45,405 spentof which $45,405 as grants
    35% of program spending
  3. During fy21 the foundation also added a new endowment and scholarship program. The casey hawkes memorial fund provides an annual scholarship to the bellevue high school in memory of a former student, casey hawkes.

    $5,000 spentof which $5,000 as grants
    4% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $131,345.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($615k) Expenses 100 ($342k) Net assets 100 ($603k)2018 Revenue 20 ($121k) Expenses 54 ($184k) Net assets 36 ($219k)2019 Revenue 37 ($225k) Expenses 51 ($174k) Net assets 58 ($349k)2020 Revenue 49 ($303k) Expenses 58 ($198k) Net assets 124 ($747k)2021 Revenue 71 ($436k) Expenses 71 ($242k) Net assets 166 ($999k)2022 Revenue 45 ($276k) Expenses 55 ($189k) Net assets 162 ($979k)2023 Revenue 33 ($205k) Expenses 56 ($192k) Net assets 170 ($1.0M)2024 Revenue 38 ($233k) Expenses 50 ($170k) Net assets 214 ($1.3M)2025 Revenue 49 ($301k) Expenses 59 ($201k) Net assets 245 ($1.5M)
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Revenue (49)Expenses (59)Net assets (245)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $1.1M to $1.4M (+21%).

$752k
$620k
$740k
$865k
$1.1M
$1.1M
$1.1M
$1.4M
$1.5M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$273k
’17
−$63k
’18
$51k
’19
$105k
’20
$193k
’21
$87k
’22
$13k
’23
$63k
’24
$99k
’25
90
months of
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.

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Listed141413131314131313
Joined·+5+5+4+5+4+5+6+5
No longer listed·56453665
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $35k → $33k.

4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 BELLEVUE 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

BELLEVUE ROTARY FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

86% 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 BELLEVUE ROTARY FOUNDATION.

31%
largest funder
66%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2019 99% · 2020 85% · 2021 57% · 2022 66% · 2023 42% — diversifying over time.

“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.

How long its funders stay

22% of BELLEVUE ROTARY FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

BELLEVUE ROTARY FOUNDATION draws 59% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 5 states in all.

WA
MN
MO
DE
OK

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Washington out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $110k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like BELLEVUE ROTARY FOUNDATION

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Washington

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

65% of spending goes to programs.

Program 65%Management 35%Fundraising 0%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

76%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Rotary Club of Bellevue · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds BELLEVUE ROTARY FOUNDATION?
BELLEVUE ROTARY FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $269,734 to it, the largest being SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC ($84,353). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BELLEVUE ROTARY FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $269,734 in grants to BELLEVUE ROTARY FOUNDATION, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BELLEVUE ROTARY FOUNDATION?
SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC is the largest funder on record, with $84,353 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BELLEVUE 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 13 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing