Rotary International
Sumner, WA · EIN 91-6033379. Reported 72 grants totalling $602,461 to 47 organizations across tax years 2021-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
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:
- What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 47 distinct organizations, with 18% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 50% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $2,500. Half of what it reported fell between $750 and $7,030; the smallest was $99 and the largest $100,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
8 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $20,521 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sumner Rotary Club Foundation | Sumner, WA | $108,030 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Pierce County Library Foundation | Tacoma, WA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Team Agape-Kenya | Columbia Fls, MT | $98,985 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Sumner Community Food Bank | Sumner, WA | $39,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Goodroots Northwest | Bonney Lake, WA | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Considerate Group | Auburn, WA | $21,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mission Outdoors | Lake Tapps, WA | $21,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Young Mens Christian Association of Pierce and Kitsap Counties | Tacoma, WA | $20,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Sumner Bonney Lake School District | Sumner, WA | $18,490 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| Good Samaritan Hospital | Puyallup, WA | $17,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Multicare Foundations | Tacoma, WA | $17,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Tacoma, WA | $15,190 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Sumner Bonney Lake Family Center | Sumner, WA | $14,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Pierce County Rural Library District | Tacoma, WA | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Shelter Box USA | Santa Barbara, CA | $7,845 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Sumner Family Center | Sumner, WA | $7,030 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Tacoma, WA | $5,017 | 2 | 1 | 2023 |
| Camp Possible | Puyallup, WA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Building Beyond the Walls | Bonney Lake, WA | $4,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| United Way of Pierce County | Tacoma, WA | $4,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bonney Lake Tehaleh Rotary Club | Bonney Lake, WA | $3,524 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International | Evanston, IL | $3,420 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc | Watertown, MA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Prairie Ridge of Bonney Lake | Bonney Lake, WA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| City of Sumner | Sumner, WA | $2,130 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Sumner Main Street Association | Sumner, WA | $2,122 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Nick of Time Foundation | Mill Creek, WA | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Potary International District 5000 | Honolulu, HI | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Interact Club of Sumner | Sumner, WA | $1,812 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Lemay Foundation | Tacoma, WA | $1,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Open Life Church | Bonney Lake, WA | $1,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Post-Prison Education Foundation | Seattle, WA | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mary Bridge Hospital Foundation | Tacoma, WA | $1,370 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Rotary International District 2440 | $1,096 | 1 | 1 | 2023 | |
| Bonney Lake School District | Sumner, WA | $750 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Lemay Family Collection Foundation | Tacoma, WA | $750 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sumner School District | Sumner, WA | $750 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Puyallup Extriction Team | Puyallup, WA | $700 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mary Bridge Hosital Foundation | Tacoma, WA | $556 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Bonney Lake Sumner Little League | Bonney Lake, WA | $510 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Team Cozzi Foundation | Lake Tapps, WA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Pierce County | Tacoma, WA | $300 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Washington Department of Transportation | Olympia, WA | $285 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| American Association of University Women | Washington, DC | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Miss Pierce County | University Place, WA | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Blessing Movement | Bonney Lake, WA | $200 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| City of Bonney Lake | Bonney Lake, WA | $99 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
15 of 47 (32%) received money in more than one year over the 3 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.
- Sumner Rotary Club Foundation
community facility and scholarships - Team Agape - Kenya
prphanage & mobile medical team - The Considerate Group
veterans & sobriety rehab - Sumner Bonney Lake School District
uniforms & student programs - Camp Possible
special needs kids summer camp - Puyallup Extriction Team
vehicle rescue extrication
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 14 of 47 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 20 | $141,227 | $1,635 |
| 2022 | 29 | $200,057 | $2,000 |
| 2023 | 23 | $261,177 | $5,000 |
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
81% of its giving went to organizations in Washington. 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.
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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 the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- 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.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $2,500 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Washington.
- 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 International's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 3 returns (tax years 2021-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 18 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 23 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 272, Sumner, WA, 98390.
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