Seattle Rotary Service Foundation
The Seattle Rotary Service Foundation is a public charity based in Seattle, Washington. Its stated mission is to raise, steward, and distribute funds in support of the service activities of the Rotary Club of Seattle.
Seattle Rotary Service Foundation at a glance
In short: Seattle Rotary Service Foundation gave $192K across 8 grants in 2025 (avg $24K), mostly in Washington. Source: 2025 IRS Form 990.
- Annual giving (2025)
- $192,202
- -26.6% vs 2024
- Grants made (2025)
- 8
- -33.3% vs 2024
- Average grant
- $24,025
- +10.1% vs 2024
- Median grant
- $15,500
- Total assets
- $2,491,333
- +17.2% vs 2024
- Primary geography
- Washington (100% of itemized 2025 grant dollars)
- Latest 990 filing
- Form 990, 2025 View filing
Data from IRS Form 990, 2025; updated September 2026.
How to apply to Seattle Rotary Service Foundation
- How to Apply
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The website describes committee-based applications. Proposals must have a Rotary Club of Seattle member as the primary advocate; that advocate cannot be a staff member of the applicant organization. For local proposals, the sponsoring committee must approve the complete proposal, and the current committee chair must sign it before submission on the foundation’s grant proposal form. International proposals also require a member advocate, complete submission materials, and, if selected for review, a presentation to the International Service Committee. The website describes progress or final reporting, including project results and expenditures; international reporting instructions also request project photos and videos.
- Review Cycle
- The local application page listed March 15, 2025 for committee proposals, with International Service Committee proposals due at the end of February each year. These dates are past. The international application page listed March 11, 2026 for the next annual cycle; that deadline is also past.
- Deadline
- The local application page listed March 15, 2025 for committee proposals, with International Service Committee…
- Contact
Mailing address: 1326 5Th Ave, Seattle, WA 98101
Phone: (206) 623-0023
Website: https://seattlerotary.org
Application details from Grantable's research on the foundation's public materials; confirm on its website before applying.
Who Seattle Rotary Service Foundation funds
How this funder distributes its grants
Top Recipients
Top 8 recipients in 2025
The largest 2025 recipient was Uplift Northwest ($75K). Together the top 8 received $192K.
Grant Size Distribution
49 grants across all recorded years
The most common grant size was under $50K: 44 grants of 49 (90%).
Geographic Focus
Where this funder awards grants
The foundation’s website describes major project grants as benefiting the local community and its International Service Committee as supporting projects in other countries. The 2023 grants listed above include recipients in Seattle and elsewhere in Washington, as well as an Oklahoma-based Rotary club and an international malaria organization.
Grant Distribution by State
Share of 2025 grant dollars across all 8 itemized grants.
Cities
How Seattle Rotary Service Foundation gives
- Giving held roughly steady from 2022 to 2025 (−17%). Method
From the foundation's IRS Form 990 filings. Methodology.
Giving History
Giving Over Time
Total grant dollars and number of grants per year
From 2019 to 2025, annual grant giving ranged from $146K (2019) to $408K (2023). In 2025 it made 8 grants totaling $192K.
Grants by year
Grant recipients and amounts by year
| Recipient | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Uplift Northwest Seattle, WA | — | $75,000 |
| School Connect WA Renton, WA | — | $30,000 |
| Rotary Boys & Girls Club Seattle, WA | — | $23,402 |
| Harvest Against Hunger Seattle, WA | — | $16,000 |
| 5TH Avenue Theatre Seattle, WA | — | $15,000 |
| Boys & Girls Club of King Cty Tukwila, WA | — | $12,800 |
| Etta Projects Tacoma, WA | — | $10,000 |
| Uw Consulting & Bus Dev Seattle, WA | — | $10,000 |
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Financial History
Multi-year comparison from IRS filings
| Filing year | Total Assets | Revenue | Expenses | Grants paid | Grants | Net Investment Income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $2,491,333 | $498,040 | $304,713 | $192,202 | 8 | $66,615 |
| 2024 | $2,125,421 | $460,976 | $375,114 | $261,813 | 12 | $38,377 |
| 2023 | $1,889,904 | $572,982 | $499,758 | $408,300 | 12 | $28,922 |
| 2022 | $1,712,822 | $798,230 | $386,799 | $231,583 | 9 | $39,441 |
| 2021 | $1,574,185 | $761,397 | $795,211 | $150,084 | 8 | $12,393 |
| 2020 | $1,354,236 | $687,293 | $542,030 | $376,533 | 14 | $23,382 |
| 2019 | $1,222,688 | $435,546 | $510,067 | $145,959 | 11 | $12,081 |
Research compiled by Grantable AI from public sources. Last updated September 2026.
Mission & Focus Areas
The foundation’s mission is to raise, steward, and distribute funds in support of the service activities of the Rotary Club of Seattle. Its 2024 filing describes support for projects involving, among other things, youth programs, education, health, water, refugee and migrant support, and malaria.
Examples of organizations supported in 2023 include Malaria Partners International, which describes its mission as igniting an international Rotarian campaign for the global eradication of malaria; Refugee Women’s Alliance, which says it provides culturally and linguistically appropriate services to refugee and immigrant women and their families; and Northwest Maritime Center, whose stated mission is to engage and educate people of all generations in maritime life. These are the grantees’ descriptions of their own work.
Grantmaking
The 2023 filing reports $408,300 in grants across 12 grants. Named 2023 recipients include Malaria Partners International ($228,250), Refugee Women’s Alliance ($20,000), Rotary Club of Oklahoma City ($10,000), Cultivate South Park ($10,000), Northwest Maritime Center ($10,000), and Imagine Scholar Inc. ($6,550). Its 2025 filing, the latest on this page, reports 8 grants totaling $192,202.
The foundation’s 2024–2025 annual report says it raised $190,300 that year and describes three awards: $75,000 to Uplift Northwest through its Large Local Impact Grant Competition, and $15,000 each to Third Avenue Project and Operation Nightwatch through its standard grant process. The report characterizes the year’s approach as funding fewer, more focused projects.
Leadership & Key People
Leadership team and compensation from IRS filings
The 2025 filing lists Vickey Oxley as President, Candy Lee as Treasurer, Robyn Grad as Secretary, and Sue McNab, Anna Liotta, Lillian Sherman, Kevin Crane, Tony Chen, Sarah Weaver, and Eric Christiansen as trustees.
The website’s listed 2025–2026 board officers are Lillian Sherman (President), Maddy Vonhoff (President-Elect), Robyn Grad (Secretary), Paul Spieldenner (Treasurer), and Vicky Oxley (Immediate Past President). Its listed 2026–2027 officers are Maddy Vonhoff (President), Eric Christensen (Secretary), Paul Spieldenner (Treasurer), and Lillian Sherman (Immediate Past President).
Seattle Rotary Service Foundation is led by Sarah Weaver, President & Trustee since 2025 (on filings since 2023); none of the 22 officers listed in 2025 report compensation.
Officers on the 2025 filing
Sarah Weaver
President & Trustee
Trustee → President, 2024
President → President & Trustee, 2025
On filings since 2023
4 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Vickey Oxley
President
Trustee → President, 2025
On filings since 2024
3 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Alan Bergen
Trustee
On filings since 2020
No compensation reported
Sue McNab
Trustee
Trustee → President, 2023
President → Trustee, 2024
On filings since 2021
3 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Alvaro Jimenez
Trustee
On filings since 2022
No compensation reported
Crysti Chen
Trustee
On filings since 2022
No compensation reported
Laura Rehrmann
Trustee
On filings since 2022
No compensation reported
Anna Liotta
Trustee
On filings since 2023
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Kevin Crane
Trustee
On filings since 2023
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Lillian Sherman
Trustee
On filings since 2023
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Eric Christiansen
Trustee
On filings since 2024
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Frances Walker
Trustee
On filings since 2024
No compensation reported
Lori Walker
Trustee
On filings since 2024
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Tiffany Lewis
Trustee
On filings since 2024
No compensation reported
Tony Chen
Trustee
On filings since 2024
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Eric Christensen
Trustee
New on the 2025 filing
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Heather Fitzpatrick
Trustee
New on the 2025 filing
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Maddy Vonhoff
Trustee
New on the 2025 filing
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Paul Spieldenner
Trustee
New on the 2025 filing
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Paul Tsai
Trustee
New on the 2025 filing
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Candy J. Lee
Treasurer
Finance Chair → Treasurer, 2022
On filings since 2019
4 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Robyn Grad
Secretary
Trustee → Secretary, 2024
On filings since 2021
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Former officers (29)
- Former: David Woodward (2022–2024) — Trustee
- Former: Jim Stevens (2022–2024) — Trustee
- Former: Nick Anderson (2022–2024) — Trustee
- Former: David Kraft (2021–2023) — Past President
- Former: Jon Bridge (2021–2023) — Trustee
- Former: Matt Albertson (2021–2023) — Trustee
- Former: Nancy Cahill (2019–2022) — Past President
- Former: Jim Duncan (2020–2022) — Trustee
- Former: Whitney Mason (2020–2022) — Trustee
- Former: Rachelle Nesta-Goff (2021–2022) — Trustee
- Former: Cynthia Chirot (2019–2021) — Trustee
- Former: Jeff Pritchard (2019–2021) — Trustee
- Former: Neil Larson (2019–2021) — Treasurer
- Former: Trent Mummery (2019–2021) — Trustee
- Former: Trish Bostrom (2019–2021) — Past President
- Former: Virgina McKenzie (2019–2021) — Trustee
- Former: Ben Lindford (2020–2021) — Trustee
- Former: Jan Levy (2020–2021) — Trustee
- Former: Todd Summerfelt (2020–2021) — Trustee
- Former: Linda Rough (2021) — Trustee
- Former: Jeanne Thompson (2019–2020) — Trustee
- Former: Lynn Lindsay (2019–2020) — Trustee
- Former: Tom Mesaros (2019–2020) — Trustee
- Former: Jeff Borek (2020) — Past President
- Former: George Twiss (2019) — Trustee
- Former: Jeffrey Borek (2019) — President
- Former: Kathy Williams (2019) — Past President
- Former: Lauren Domino (2019) — Trustee
- Former: Michael Troyer (2019) — Trustee
Data from IRS Form 990 filings, 2019–2025. "On filings since" is the earliest filing we hold that lists the person; hours are average hours per week as reported.
Frequently asked questions about Seattle Rotary Service Foundation
How much does Seattle Rotary Service Foundation give each year?
Seattle Rotary Service Foundation gave $192K across 8 grants in 2025, according to its 2025 IRS Form 990. In 2024 it gave $262K across 12 grants.
What is Seattle Rotary Service Foundation's typical grant size?
Seattle Rotary Service Foundation's median grant in 2025 was $15,500, and its average grant was $24,025, across 8 grants on its 2025 IRS Form 990.
Where does Seattle Rotary Service Foundation give grants?
Seattle Rotary Service Foundation gives mostly in Washington: 100% of the grant dollars itemized on its 2025 IRS Form 990 went to recipients there. The most frequent recipient cities were Seattle, WA (5 grants).
Who are Seattle Rotary Service Foundation's largest grantees?
Seattle Rotary Service Foundation's largest 2025 grantees include Uplift Northwest ($75,000), School Connect WA ($30,000) and Rotary Boys & Girls Club ($23,402), according to its 2025 IRS Form 990. Together they received 67% of its itemized 2025 grant dollars.
How large is Seattle Rotary Service Foundation?
Seattle Rotary Service Foundation reported $2.5M in total assets on its 2025 IRS Form 990. Its revenue that year was $498K.
What does Seattle Rotary Service Foundation fund?
The foundation’s mission is to raise, steward, and distribute funds in support of the service activities of the Rotary Club of Seattle. Its 2024 filing describes support for projects involving, among other things, youth programs, education, health, water, refugee and migrant support, and malaria. See mission & focus areas ↑
How do I apply for a grant from Seattle Rotary Service Foundation?
The website describes committee-based applications. Eligibility and process details are in the grantmaking section of this profile. See how to apply ↑
What is Seattle Rotary Service Foundation's EIN?
Seattle Rotary Service Foundation's EIN (Employer Identification Number) is 91-0612120. IRS Form 990 filing data is available on this page for 2019–2025.
Data last updated September 2026. Sourced from IRS Form 990 filings. Research dossier generated September 2026.
Data update history
(8)
When this profile's IRS filing data changed on Grantable
- Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2019 (received by the IRS March 2, 2020)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2020 (received by the IRS April 28, 2021)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2021 (received by the IRS November 10, 2021)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2022 (received by the IRS May 15, 2023)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2023 (received by the IRS April 4, 2024)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2024 (received by the IRS April 14, 2025)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2025 (received by the IRS November 16, 2025)
- IRS filings on file for fiscal years 2020–2025
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