ROTARY INTERNATIONAL RELEASES ANNUAL REPORT
Posted by John Biggs
on Feb 16, 2013
Rotarians who contribute to the Rotary Foundation will have received RI's 2012 annual report in the mail this week. It's a fascinating read! Here are some interesting factoids:
- There are now 532 Districts, 34,533 Rotary clubs, and 1,227,189 Rotarians
- There are 9,388 Rotaract clubs, 14,734 Interact clubs
- 8,000 Youth Exchange students from 80 countries
- 25,000 students participated in RYLA
- The Rotary Foundation administrative and sales expenses were only 10% of revenues. This earned the Foundation a rating of A+ from Charity Navigator, the highest grade given.
- Taiwan was the country with the highest per capita giving ($179)
- There were 47,218 new Paul Harris Fellows
- The Annual Programs Fund received $110 million in contributions; the Permanent Fund received $18 million; Polio Plus received $45 million.
- Total Foundation assets as of 12/31/12 were $813 million.