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