Rotary International District 5950 Inc
Wayzata, MN · EIN 41-6031318. Reported 65 grants totalling $643,976 to 41 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, 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. 41 distinct organizations, with 6% 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. 37% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $8,000 and $10,000; the smallest was $5,300 and the largest $24,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edina Rotary Foundation Inc | Edina, MN | $38,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Bloomington Rotary Foundation | Bloomington, MN | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Brooklyn Park Rotary Foundation | Brooklyn Park, MN | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Chanhassen Rotary Foundation | Chanhassen, MN | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Rotary Club of Lake Minnetonka - Excelsior | Excelsior, MN | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Rogers Rotary Foundation | Rogers, MN | $28,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Crystal- New Hope- Robbinsdale Rotary Club | Robbinsdale, MN | $26,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Edina Morningside Rotary Foundation | Edina, MN | $24,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Maple Grove Rotary Foundation | Maple Grove, MN | $24,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Rotary International | Saint Cloud, MN | $22,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Rotary Club of Buffalo Foundation | Buffalo, MN | $21,400 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Brooklyn Center Rotary Foundation | Fridley, MN | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Minneapolis City of Lakes Rotary Foundation | Minneapolis, MN | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Rotary 5950 Foundation | Wayzata, MN | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Burnsville Rotary Foundation | Burnsville, MN | $18,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| St Cloud Rotary Foundation Inc | Saint Cloud, MN | $18,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Rotary International | Litchfield, MN | $16,680 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Minneapolis Rotary Foundation | Minneapolis, MN | $15,682 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Apple Valley Rotary Scholarship Foundation | Apple Valley, MN | $14,151 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Edina Morningside Rotary Foundation | Edina, MN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Minneapolis University Rotary Service Foundation | Minneapolis, MN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Minneapolis Uptown Rotary Community Service Foundation | Minneapolis, MN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Orono Rotary Foundation | Long Lake, MN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Rotary Club of North Minneapolis | Minneapolis, MN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Rotary Club of St Louis Park Sunrise Foundation | St Louis Park, MN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Rotary E-Club of Global Travelers Minnesota USA | Iowa City, IA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Rotary International | Glenwood, MN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Rotary International | Eden Prairie, MN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Rotary International | Waconia, MN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Rotary International | Gaylord, MN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Rotary International | Plymouth, MN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| The Rotary Club of Minnetonka Foundation | Edina, MN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Rotary International | Monticello, MN | $9,300 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Chaska Rotary Foundation Inc | Chaska, MN | $8,463 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Minnewaska Rotary Club | Glenwood, MN | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Richfield Rotary Foundation | Richfield, MN | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| South Metro Minneapolis Evenings Rotary Club Foundation | Bloomington, MN | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Willmar Rotary Club Foundation | Willmar, MN | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Rotary International | Golden Valley, MN | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Rotary International | Alexandria, MN | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Epam Rotary Foundation | Chaska, MN | $5,300 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
16 of 41 (39%) received money in more than one year over the 4 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.
- Edina Morningside Rotary Foundation
TREE PLANTING, FARM CLEARING - TANZANIA - Chanhassen Rotary Foundation
BOREHOLE - KENYA, HOPE HOUSE MINIVAN - Edina Rotary Foundation
WATER FILTERS - GUATEMALA, MOBILE EYE EQUIPMENT - TANZANIA - Apple Valley Rotary Club Foundation
ELECTRIFICATION, WATER FILTRATION - HAITI - Maple Grove Rotary Foundation
COMMUNITY LITERACY, TRANSFORT VAN, LATVIA - Rogers Rotary Foundation
COMPUTER ROOM - NICARAGUA
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 20 of 41 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 19 | $200,133 | $10,000 |
| 2021 | 18 | $154,900 | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 13 | $149,863 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 15 | $139,080 | $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
98% of its giving went to organizations in Minnesota. 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 $10,000 -- 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 Minnesota.
- 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 District 5950 Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 8 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 7 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 591, Wayzata, MN, 55391.
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