FOUNDATION MINUTE: AUGUST 24, 2026.

Welcome to Week FOUR of RI’s Month of Membership & New Club Development.

 

Just a reminder of the great works done by RI through TRF as at June 2025:  

Contribution summary                    2024-25                       All-time contributions

 Annual Fund                                      $146.4 million                         $3.6 billion 

Endowment Fund                               $64.0 million                           $632.7 million 

PolioPlus Fund                                    $132.8 million                         $2.5 billion 

Other*                                                 $63.3 million                           $528.0 million 

Total outright contributions            $406.5 million                        $7.2 billion 

Total new commitments 

to the Endowment Fund                   $152.7 million                        $1.1 billion 

 

Polio transfers**                                 $10.4 million                           – 

Grand total                                          $569.6 million                          - 

Program awards & operations        $331.6 million    Since 1947: $6.5 billion 

Totals are rounded and in U.S. dollars. 

* Cash contributions to global grants, directed gifts, and contributions to the donor advised fund. 

** District Designated Fund transfers and the resulting World Fund match, affinity card royalties, and donor advised fund transfers to PolioPlus. Does not include a $6.3 million transfer from the World Fund.

Source: file:///C:/Users/titil/Downloads/159-rotary-foundation-facts-en%20(3).pdf

 

In Rotary,

Olabisi Gwamna, PhD

Editor, Foundation Minute