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Local Grant Application - Fall 2025

The Excelsior Morning Rotary Club announces its Local Community grant process for the Fall 2025 season.

All applications must be completed online and can be reached here.

We award grants to 501(c)3 organizations that positively impact people who:

reside in the Minnetonka, Mound/Westonka, and/or Eastern Carver County School Districts, OR
impact people in communities outside of these areas through collaboration with Rotary clubs in their communities.

All proposals, due October 31, 2025, must fit within these identified areas of need:

Health & social services (families, individuals and youth in need)
Education & literacy
Water and sanitation
Economic & community development
The Environment
Youth Activities (providing access to youth unable to participate due to limiting circumstances)

All organizations interested in receiving funding must submit a grant application. Any organization that received funding in the past calendar year is requested to share the impact that the dollars received made upon people in need in our targeted communities.

Grant applications meeting these criteria will be due October 31, 2025. Note: no consideration will be given to late or incomplete applications.

All applications can be completed online and are available here. This email is not an indication of funding; it is an announcement of the opportunity to apply for funding.

If you have any questions, please contact us at grants@excelsiormorningrotary.org. We thank you for all you do to benefit people in need in our communities.

All the best,

The Members of the Excelsior Rotary Club

International Grants

Now accepting International Grant Applications!
Applications for the next round of International Grants are due January 15, 2026: CLICK HERE to complete

Join us at an Upcoming Meeting

Our meetings are once again in-person at Maynards in Excelsior on Wednesdays from 7-8 a.m. Members and guests can also use this link to join us via Zoom each week.

We'd love to meet you! We have a vibrant club with men and women of different generations.

If you have questions, please contact Lisa Wagner.

Request a membership application here.

Youth Exchange Program

The Excelsior Morning Rotary Club has sponsored both inbound and outbound students for the Long-term Exchange Program nearly every year since we started in 1998. The objective of Rotary Exchange Programs is to foster world peace and international understanding. It is hoped that the participants will experience firsthand, the challenges and accomplishments of other countries, by living with and meeting people of different cultures.

Our club has sponsored one outgoing student and one inbound exchange student for the 24-25 school year.

Learn more about our exchange program and how to apply to be an outbound student for the 25-26 school year.

Charitable Gaming

Pull tabs have been added to the menu at Maynards in Excelsior, The Narrows in Navarre and now North Coop at the corner of 7/41 giving people a new way to support organizations in the Lake Minnetonka area.

The Excelsior Morning Rotary Club and Maynards have partnered together on other projects for more than two decades. Our group has held our weekly meetings on Wednesdays at 7am at Maynards for the past 21 years. During that time, members of the club and the Stevens family have built strong relationships.

Our relationship with The Narrows is strong and we look forward to supporting non-profits in the Navarre/Orono/Westonka area.

With the addition of a partner on the W/SW part of our area we will be able to expand our support to a wider area within the Minnetonka School District.

All of the proceeds from the sale of pull tabs will be distributed by the Excelsior Morning Rotary Club to local organizations like the ICA Food Shelf, WeCAN, Open Hands Foundation, Tree House and Scholarships to local High School graduates.