Rotary Club of Bainbridge Island Trust
Bainbridge Island, WA · EIN 94-3184519. Reported 84 grants totalling $1,540,642 to 44 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, 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. 44 distinct organizations, with 15% 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. 44% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 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 $7,642. Half of what it reported fell between $5,700 and $15,000; the smallest was $488 and the largest $125,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
2 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $3,083 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rotary Club of Bainbrdige Island Scholarship Foundation | Bainbridge Is, WA | $225,539 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Helpline House | Bainbridge Is, WA | $165,943 | 6 | 3 | 2024 |
| Housing Resources Bainbridge | Bainbridge Is, WA | $114,748 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Bainbridge Island Japanese American Memorial | Bainbridge Is, WA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Finch Green | Bainbridge Is, WA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bainbridge Island Historical Society | Bainbridge Is, WA | $72,800 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bainbridge Artisan Resource Network | Bainbridge Is, WA | $71,888 | 4 | 2 | 2023 |
| Filipino American Community of Bainbridge Island & Vicinity | Bainbridge Is, WA | $61,485 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Battle Point Astronomical Association | Bainbridge Is, WA | $55,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Bi Metro Parks & Rec Dist | Bainbridge Island, WA | $54,451 | 5 | 3 | 2024 |
| Bainbridge Community Tennis Association | Bainbridge Is, WA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bainbridge Schools Foundation | Bainbridge Is, WA | $32,289 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| Bainbridge Island Parent-Teacher Organization | Bainbridge Is, WA | $31,006 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| First Years Childrens Center | Bainbridge Is, WA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Island Time Activities | Bainbridge Is, WA | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Resilience Guild | Bainbridge Is, WA | $29,548 | 5 | 3 | 2024 |
| Bainbridge Community Foundation | Bainbridge Is, WA | $28,800 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Bainbridge Youth Services | Bainbridge Is, WA | $26,653 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Bainbridge Public Library Inc | Bainbridge Is, WA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bainbridge Island Rowing Club | Bainbridge Is, WA | $20,750 | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| Ecoadapt | Bainbridge Is, WA | $16,500 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Kitsap Humane Society | Silverdale, WA | $16,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Island Cooperative Preschool | Bainbridge Is, WA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Kitsap Childrens Musical Theatre | Poulsbo, WA | $13,701 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Peaceful Morning Farm | Bainbridge Is, WA | $12,567 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Peacock Family Services | Bainbridge Is, WA | $12,340 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Progressive Animal Welfare Society Paws of Bainbridge Island | Bainbridge Is, WA | $10,096 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bainbridge Island Parks & Trails Foundation | Bainbridge Is, WA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bainbridge Performing Arts | Bainbridge Is, WA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Bainbridge Island Arts & Humanities Council | Bainbridge Is, WA | $7,700 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Donorschoose Org | New York, NY | $7,599 | 6 | 1 | 2024 |
| Kitsap Immigrant Assistance Center | Bremerton, WA | $7,585 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bainbridge Island Saddle Club Inc | Bainbridge Is, WA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Marge Williams Center | Bainbridge Is, WA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Young Womens Christian Assoc | Bremerton, WA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| West Sound Treatment Center Inc | Bremerton, WA | $7,020 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of King County | Tukwila, WA | $6,350 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Leadership Kitsap Foundation | Bremerton, WA | $6,300 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Port Gamble Sklallam Foundation | Kingston, WA | $6,300 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sustainable Bainbridge | Bainbridge Island, WA | $6,200 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bainbridge Island Senior Community Center | Bainbridge Is, WA | $5,357 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Good Play America Foundation | Bainbridge Is, WA | $5,352 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Kitsap Black Student Union | Port Orchard, WA | $5,175 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Saint Vincent De Paul Conference of Our Lady Star of the Sea | Bremerton, WA | $5,100 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
16 of 44 (36%) 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.
- Finch Green LLC
Affordable housing project - Bi Japanese Exl Memorial
Part funding visitor cntr - Battle Point Astronomical
Optical upgrades new dome - Bain Comm Tennis Assoc
Part funding tennis courts - Bainbridge Schools Fdn
Career exploration program - Bainbridge Performing Arts
Assisted listening system
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 37 of 44 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.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 2 | $92,485 | $46,242 |
| 2022 | 20 | $303,468 | $7,500 |
| 2023 | 31 | $685,674 | $8,520 |
| 2024 | 31 | $459,015 | $6,567 |
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
100% 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 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.
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 $7,642 -- 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 Club of Bainbridge Island Trust's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). 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.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 31 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 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: 221 Winslow Way W Ste 302, Bainbridge Island, WA, 98110.
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