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Rotary Club 29 Foundation

Oklahoma City, OK · EIN 73-6093582. Reported 32 grants totalling $1,272,979 to 24 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

24organizations funded
$15,000median reported grant
$1,272,979granted, 2020-2024
21%of grantees funded again the next year
42%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Rotary Club 29 Foundation, by its IRS classification it exists to support one specific institution in community improvement -- typically its own parent hospital, university or school (NTEE S110).
  2. How spread out its giving is. 24 distinct organizations, with 42% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
  3. How much its list changes. 21% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $15,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $37,334; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $436,400. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
8 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
14 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
3 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
6 grants
$250,000 Or More
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
World VisionFederal Way, WA$530,750222022
Restoreokc IncOklahoma City, OK$111,940222023
The Dragonfly Home IncOklahoma City, OK$96,803112023
Oklahoma Zoological Society IncOklahoma City, OK$85,795112022
Wings Special Needs Adult CommunityEdmond, OK$85,245112024
Oklahoma City Public Schools Foundation IncOklahoma City, OK$73,000552024
Rainbow Fleet IncOklahoma City, OK$70,000112020
The Rotary Foundation of Rotary InternationalEvanston, IL$42,000222021
Sunbeam Family Services IncOklahoma City, OK$37,334112020
Calm Waters Center for Children and Families IncOklahoma City, OK$18,620112021
St Lukes United Methodist Foundation Inc of Oklahoma City OkOklahoma City, OK$15,750112020
Palo Alto Rotary Club Annual Charities IncPalo Alto, CA$10,000112023
Rotary District 671 Foundation IncLouisville, KY$10,000112024
Rotary InternationalOklahoma City, OK$10,000112023
Rotary Club of Sacramento FoundatioFair Oaks, CA$10,000112022
Sammamish Rotary FoundationSammamish, WA$10,000112022
Seattle Rotary Service FoundationSeattle, WA$10,000112020
Shelter Box USASanta Barbara, CA$10,000222023
Donorschoose OrgNew York, NY$9,792112024
Rotary Zones 33-34 FoundationVenice, FL$5,950112024
Bellevue Rotary FoundationBellevue, WA$5,000112023
Council on American-Islamic Relations IncOklahoma City, OK$5,000112022
Phoenix Rotary Club Charities IncPhoenix, AZ$5,000112023
Rotary InternationalOklahoma City, OK$5,000112020

5 of 24 (21%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 17 of 24 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Education
5 orgs
Human Services
4 orgs
International Affairs
2 orgs
Community Improvement
2 orgs
Religion
1 org
Animal Welfare
1 org
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 org
Arts & Culture
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
20208$171,084$14,000
20215$240,170$27,000
20226$562,195$12,500
20238$173,543$10,000
20245$125,987$10,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

48% of its giving went to organizations in Oklahoma. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

Oklahoma
$614K
Washington
$556K
Illinois
$42K
California
$30K
Kentucky
$10K
New York
$10K
Florida
$6K
Arizona
$5K

Down to the city

Federal Way, WA
$531K
Oklahoma City, OK
$529K
Edmond, OK
$85K
Evanston, IL
$42K
Palo Alto, CA
$10K
Louisville, KY
$10K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc12 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund9 shared recipientsOklahoma City Community Foundation Inc9 shared recipientsInasmuch Foundation7 shared recipientsCommunities Foundation of Oklahoma7 shared recipientsEl and Thelma Gaylord Foundation6 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $15,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Oklahoma.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Rotary Club 29 Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: 625 Nw 13TH Street Ste 105, Oklahoma City, OK, 73103.

EIN 73-6093582 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded.

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