California · Nonprofit
ROTARY CLUB OF SAN JOSE FOUNDATION
ROTARY CLUB OF SAN JOSE FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $603,647 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($244,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $990k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $604k
- Net assets
- $8.3M
What Rotary Club of San Jose Foundation does
Mission
The primary purpose of the foundation is to participate in community service and philanthropy. The foundation makes grants to aid youth and to assist in community and international service. The priority of the funding is to support local and community organizations. The foundation also sponsors projects and identifiable capital purchases. Generally, grants are given for operating expenses, office and administrative expenses, the purchase of real estate, contributions to a "general fund or "campaign", or to an individual.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Grants & projects: the foundation makes small capital grants to assist local community nonprofits, disaster relief efforts, and international service organizations. The majority of funding supports local community organizations. For example, several organizations received grants for computers, which facilitated the covid-induced need to work from home. Our members were involved in projects in vietnam, el salvador, tanzania, and other countries. The foundation also sponsors projects and identifiable capital purchases.
$867,257 spentof which $434,819 as grants85% of program spendingRotary international services: rotary international is committed to the concept of world peace and understanding. With this commitment in mind, the rotary club of san jose looks to provide services outside the united states to help communities abroad and to eliminate polio around the world.
$94,876 spentof which $79,876 as grants9% of program spendingRotary's fireworks committee partnered with the san jose giants to provide a fireworks show and concert on july 3 and 4. There was a free viewing area adjacent to the stadium, and 250 tickets were distributed to community members to attend the concert.
$61,013 spent$3,395 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,023,146.
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.
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 $6.2M to $7.4M (+18%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2024 22% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
2017 → 2023: the base held at 5 funders, grant income rose $89k → $131k.
5 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% 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: $12k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Silicon Valley Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money ROTARY CLUB OF SAN JOSE FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of ROTARY CLUB OF SAN JOSE 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 SAN JOSE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
68% 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 SAN JOSE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 99% · 2019 55% · 2020 35% · 2021 48% · 2022 31% · 2023 57% — 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of ROTARY CLUB OF SAN JOSE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.
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
62% of ROTARY CLUB OF SAN JOSE 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 $227k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $376k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Organizations like ROTARY CLUB OF SAN JOSE 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Rotary Club of San Jose Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ROTARY CLUB OF SAN JOSE 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 SAN JOSE FOUNDATION?
- ROTARY CLUB OF SAN JOSE FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $603,647 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($244,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ROTARY CLUB OF SAN JOSE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $603,647 in grants to ROTARY CLUB OF SAN JOSE FOUNDATION, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ROTARY CLUB OF SAN JOSE FOUNDATION?
- AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $244,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ROTARY CLUB OF SAN JOSE 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 15 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