Rotary Foundations and Grants 2: Directory by State for the United States

By Quentin Wodon

This book is the second installment in a set of two volumes on Rotary foundations and grants. The first volume provides an introduction for grant applicants and Rotarians to Rotary foundations based in the United States. These foundations include the Rotary Foundation of Rotary International as well as close to 4,000 other local foundations operated by local Rotary clubs, districts, and other entities.
This second volume in the set provides a comprehensive directory of local Rotary foundations based in the United States. While Rotary International maintains a great database of local Rotary clubs which is accessible by all (not only Rotarians) who may wish to make contact with a club or attend a club meeting, it does not maintain a similar database for foundations.
There is therefore no easy way for applicants to find out which Rotary foundations are active in any given geographic area. This is a drawback because as documented in the first volume in this set, club and other local Rotary foundations are numerous and active. In fact, for nonprofits as well as students in the United States, Rotary funding comes primarily from club, district, and other local foundations. By contrast, the Rotary Foundation of Rotary International tends to focus primarily on projects implemented in developing countries.
In order to make it easier for potential grant applicants to find local Rotary foundations to which they could apply in the United States, this book provides a comprehensive directory of local Rotary foundations. Since these foundations tend to focus their grants on projects in their communities, as well as on students living in their communities, the data is organized by state and by city within each state.
In practice, the book lists 501c(3) charitable organizations associated with Rotary clubs, districts, or other entities in the United States. The directory is based on publicly available records from the Internal Revenue Services, using the latest year of data available for each foundation.
In terms of the organization of the directory, foundations are ranked within each state by city in order to make it easier for grant applicants to identify foundations operating in their geographic area. Each listing in the directory consists of the city where a foundation is located, the foundation’s name, and its assets in the latest year of filing with the Internal Revenue Service when assets are available in that filing.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Quentin Wodon
• Release date: Feb 22, 2017
• ISBN: 9781946819048

Quentin Wodon

Quentin Wodon is a Lead Economist in the Education Global Practice at the World Bank where he leads work programs among others on equity and inclusion in education, child marriage, out-of-school children, and the wealth of nations. Previously, he managed the World Bank unit on values and development, served as Lead Poverty Specialist for West and Central Africa, and as Economist/Senior Economist in the Latin America region. Before joining the World Bank, he worked among others as Assistant Brand Manager with Procter & Gamble, volunteer corps member with the International Movement ATD Fourth World, and (tenured) Assistant Professor of Economics with the University of Namur. He has also taught at American University and Georgetown University. A lifelong learner, he holds graduate degrees in Business Engineering, Economics, and Philosophy, as well as PhDs in Economics, Environmental Science, Health Sciences, and Theology and Religious Studies. Quentin has more than 500 publications on a wide range of topics. Books published since 2014 include Water and Sanitation in Uganda (World Bank), The Economics of Faith-based Service Delivery (Palgrave Macmillan), Climate Change Adaptation and Social Resilience in the Sundarbans (Routledge), Investing in Early Childhood Development (World Bank), Infrastructure and Poverty in sub-Saharan Africa (Palgrave Macmillan), Education in sub-Saharan Africa (World Bank), Faith-Based Schools in Latin America (World Bank), Climate Change and Migration (World Bank), and Membership in Service Clubs (Palgrave Macmillan). A recipient of the Prize of Belgium’s Secretary of Foreign Trade, a Fulbright grant, and the Dudley Seers Prize, Quentin has served on several advisory boards for non-profit organizations and university programs, and as Associate Editor for academic journals. A past President of the Society of Government Economists, he is currently serving as President of the Association for Social Economics. Quentin is actively involved in Rotary with his club (currently serving as President), District (former Evaluation Adviser and Interact Chair, among others), and Rotary International (committee member for the Rotary Foundation and other roles). His father was a Rotarian. His daughters founded the Interact Club of their High School. Quentin launched the Rotarian Economist blog in 2014 on World Polio Day and the Rotarian Economist Short Books series in 2017.

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Rotary Foundations and Grants 2

Directory by State for the United States

By Quentin Wodon

Copyright 2017 Quentin Wodon

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Table of Contents

Foreword to the Series

Introduction

Directory of Foundations by State

Alabama

Alaska

Arizona

Arkansas

California

Colorado

Connecticut

Delaware

District of Columbia

Florida

Georgia

Hawaii

Idaho

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

Kansas

Kentucky

Louisiana

Maine

Maryland

Massachusetts

Michigan

Minnesota

Mississippi

Missouri

Montana

Nebraska

Nevada

New Hampshire

New Jersey

New Mexico

New York

North Carolina

North Dakota

Ohio

Oklahoma

Oregon

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

South Carolina

South Dakota

Tennessee

Texas

Utah

Vermont

Virginia

Washington

West Virginia

Wisconsin

Wyoming

Others

References

About the Author

Connect with the Author

FOREWORD to the series

This ebook is published as part of the Rotarian Economist Short Books series. The books in the series are short, typically at 15,000 words or less. They provide rapid and practical introductions to topics related to volunteer work, service clubs, nonprofits, and the six areas of focus of the Rotary Foundation of Rotary International. These areas of focus are promoting peace, fighting disease, providing clean water, saving mothers and children, supporting education, and growing local economies. Other topics will be considered as well.

The book series is associated with the Rotarian Economist Blog launched in October 2014 on World Polio Day. The aim of the blog and its book series is to provide analysis that can help readers make a positive difference in the life of the less fortunate. If you would like to receive email alerts of new posts and resources made available on the blog, please provide your email through the widget at https://rotarianeconomist.com/.

The editor and main author for the book series works at the World Bank. Although some of the books in the series may relate to topics that the author and co-author(s) may occasionally work on at the World Bank, the opinions expressed in the books are solely those of the individual author(s) of each book in the series and do not represent the views of the World Bank, its Executive Directors, or the countries they represent. This book series is not associated in any formal or informal way with the World Bank.

Similarly, it goes without saying that this book need not represent the views of the Rotary club(s) of which the author(s) may be members, their Rotary district(s), or Rotary International.

If you would like to contact the author(s) of books in the series for a question or to provide feedback, please do not hesitate to send an email to the editor of the series through the Contact Me page of the Rotarian Economist blog.

INTRODUCTION

This ebook is the second installment in a set of two volumes on Rotary foundations and grants. The first volume provides an introduction to Rotary foundations based in the United States (Wodon. 2017). These foundations include the Rotary Foundation of Rotary International for which a Centennial is celebrated in 2017 (on the history of the foundation’s first hundred years, see Forward, 2016). But they also include close to 4,000 other foundations operated by local Rotary clubs, districts, and other entities. The work of these local foundations is less well known, but no less fundamental.

This second volume in the set provides a comprehensive directory of Rotary foundations based in the United States. To my knowledge, while Rotary International maintains a great database of local Rotary clubs which is accessible by all (not only Rotarians) who may wish to make contact with a club or attend a club meeting, it does not maintain a similar database for foundations.

There is therefore no easy way for applicants to find out which Rotary foundations are active in any given geographic area. This is a drawback because as documented in the first volume in this set, club and other local Rotary foundations are numerous and active. In fact, for nonprofits as well as students in the United States, Rotary funding comes primarily from club, district, and other local foundations. By contrast, the Rotary Foundation of Rotary International tends to focus primarily on projects implemented in developing countries.

In order to make it easier for potential grant applicants to find local Rotary foundations to which they could apply in the United States, this book provides a directory of the foundations registered with the Internal Revenue Service. Since local Rotary foundations tend to focus their grants on projects in their communities, as well as on students living in their communities, the data is organized by state and by city within each state.

In practice, the book lists all 501c(3) charitable organizations associated with Rotary clubs, districts, or other entities in the United States. The directory is based on publicly available records from the Internal Revenue Services, using the latest year of data available for each foundation. The filter used for inclusion in the directory is the fact that a foundation has Rotary in its name.

Because of this (imperfect) filter, two caveats are in order on the data being provided. First, based on a rapid assessment as opposed to a detailed analysis of each foundation listed, a few foundations with Rotary in their name were identified as not being related to Rotary clubs, districts, or other entities. These foundations were not included in the directory, but it could still be that some other foundations included in the directory may not actually be related to Rotary clubs or districts. Readers should be able to figure this out simply by searching a foundation’s name (or the name of the associated club) on the web. These cases are likely to be relatively rare however. As these foundations are identified, they could be deleted from potential subsequent editions of this directory, so don’t hesitate to let me know if you find a mistake.

Second, and conversely, some Rotary foundations may have been excluded from the directory because they do not have Rotary in their name. It is unlikely however that there would be many such cases, because Rotary foundations typically make their association with Rotary clear through their name. If there are such omissions, they could also be corrected in the future.

Because of these two caveats, the list of Rotary foundations based in the United States included in this directory should be considered as tentative. In addition, it is important to note that the list considers only Rotary foundations located in the United States. This is simply because accessing data for other countries in a comprehensive way appears to be challenging in many countries. Again, to the extent that comprehensive data for other countries could be accessed in the future, the scope of this directory could be expanded to include foundations from other countries. But for now, it is good to start with the United States, which is in all likelihood the country with the most grant making by local Rotary foundations given its size, wealth, and large number of active Rotarians.

In terms of the organization of the directory, foundations are ranked within each state by city in order to make it easier for grant applicants to identify foundations operating in their geographic area. Each listing in the directory consists of the city where a foundation is located, the foundation’s name, and its assets in the latest year of filing with the Internal Revenue Service when assets are available in that filing.

Note that small foundations with less than $50,000 in annual income or gross receipts are not required to file a form 990 with the International Revenue Service. They may instead file a postcard. For these foundations, data on assets are missing. In that case assets are not provided in the entry for the foundation in the directory. Still, these foundations are typically active and may provide grants, so grant applicants could consider applying to them. Note also that while many foundations have a small assets base, this does not mean that their annual giving is small. Many Rotary foundations organize annual fundraisers, which enables them to give significantly to the community every single year.

Note also that this book provides a directory only of Rotary foundations based in the United States, and not a directory of all clubs, districts, and associated Rotary entities in the country. Many Rotary clubs in the United States do not have a