Washington · Nonprofit
ROTARY CLUB OF BELLINGHAM FOUNDATION
ROTARY CLUB OF BELLINGHAM FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,935 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($18,150). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2026
- $144k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $24k
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Rotary Club of Bellingham Foundation does
Mission
Provide grants to nonprofits in the local community and scholarships for local students.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Programs
The Rotary Club of Bellingham Foundation provides scholarships annually. Scholarship recipients include students of excellence attending local schools, the Rotary youth exchange program, and our youth adventures in leadership (YAIL) program.
$95,551 spentof which $95,551 as grants49% of program spendingThe Rotary Club of Bellingham Foundation makes grant funds available to local nonprofit organizations. A grant from the Foundation is typically to a smaller nonprofit for some essential but otherwise unaffordable project, service, or purchase.
$97,544 spentof which $97,544 as grants51% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $193,095.
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 2017 to 2018, from $1.1M to $1.5M (+31%).
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 ROTARY CLUB OF BELLINGHAM FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 10 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
2019 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $6k → $7k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 ROTARY CLUB OF BELLINGHAM 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
ROTARY CLUB OF BELLINGHAM FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% 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 ROTARY CLUB OF BELLINGHAM FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 95% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
99% of ROTARY CLUB OF BELLINGHAM 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 $285 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Washington funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $24k 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.
Against its field
ROTARY CLUB OF BELLINGHAM FOUNDATION receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $24k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 625 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Organizations like ROTARY CLUB OF BELLINGHAM 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
65%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ROTARY CLUB OF BELLINGHAM FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF BELLINGHAM FOUNDATION?
- ROTARY CLUB OF BELLINGHAM FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,935 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($18,150). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ROTARY CLUB OF BELLINGHAM FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $23,935 in grants to ROTARY CLUB OF BELLINGHAM FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ROTARY CLUB OF BELLINGHAM FOUNDATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $18,150 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ROTARY CLUB OF BELLINGHAM 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 3 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