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LOS GATOS ROTARY CHARITIES FOUNDATION

LOS GATOS ROTARY CHARITIES FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $107,944 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($96,972). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$276k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$108k
Net assets
$2.1M
2/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 18%
01What it does

What Los Gatos Rotary Charities Foundation does

Mission

Organization's primary exempt purpose is to secure donations for other charitable organizations in furtherance of rotary's motto of service above self. Donations are made to both international and local organizations.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The organization makes donations to other 501(c)3 organizations to further charitable work and also sponsors international projects to better living conditions. Operating expenses are accounting services, bank charges, and government filling fees.

    $218,541 spentof which $213,762 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $218,541.

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 ($86k) Expenses 100 ($93k) Net assets 100 ($592k)2018 Revenue 303 ($260k) Expenses 156 ($145k) Net assets 119 ($708k)2019 Revenue 176 ($151k) Expenses 96 ($89k) Net assets 130 ($770k)2020 Revenue 140 ($120k) Expenses 109 ($101k) Net assets 133 ($789k)2021 Revenue 198 ($170k) Expenses 107 ($99k) Net assets 286 ($1.7M)2022 Revenue 316 ($271k) Expenses 252 ($234k) Net assets 276 ($1.6M)2023 Revenue 227 ($194k) Expenses 147 ($137k) Net assets 286 ($1.7M)2024 Revenue 420 ($360k) Expenses 328 ($304k) Net assets 335 ($2.0M)2025 Revenue 322 ($276k) Expenses 248 ($230k) Net assets 354 ($2.1M)
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Revenue (322)Expenses (248)Net assets (354)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $790k to $1.7M (+115%).

$592k
$708k
$770k
$790k
$1.7M
$1.6M
$1.7M
$2.0M
$2.1M
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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.

−$7k
’17
$115k
’18
$62k
’19
$19k
’20
$71k
’21
$38k
’22
$58k
’23
$56k
’24
$46k
’25
17
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.

Board chair

Doug Brent

Director/chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed710991311965
Joined·+7+6+0+10+5+4+3+5
No longer listed·47067666
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $7k → $2k.

2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 90% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $97k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Los Gatos Rotary Charities Foundation); $75k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Rotary International Los Gatos). These are real filings, and they are not money LOS GATOS ROTARY CHARITIES FOUNDATION raised.

From the IRS filings of LOS GATOS ROTARY CHARITIES 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

LOS GATOS ROTARY CHARITIES FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% 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

90% 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 LOS GATOS ROTARY CHARITIES FOUNDATION.

90%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2023 95% — 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.

Where its funders are

90% of LOS GATOS ROTARY CHARITIES 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. Of the $11k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 2 states.

MA
TX

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

’21
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $97k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 LOS GATOS ROTARY CHARITIES 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 California

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

95% of spending goes to programs.

Program 95%Management 5%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

74%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Rotary International Los Gatos · exempt
  • Los Gatos Rotary Scholarship Fund · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds LOS GATOS ROTARY CHARITIES FOUNDATION?
LOS GATOS ROTARY CHARITIES FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $107,944 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($96,972). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does LOS GATOS ROTARY CHARITIES FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $107,944 in grants to LOS GATOS ROTARY CHARITIES FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LOS GATOS ROTARY CHARITIES FOUNDATION?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $96,972 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LOS GATOS ROTARY CHARITIES FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 4 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