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AbbVie Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$47M
Granted FY2025still arriving
65
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$15M
Largest
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$89MEducation$78MHealth$62MInternational$37MCivil Rights$11MEmployment$10MHuman Services$9.2MYouth Development$6.1MOther$0
02FY2025 · 65 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k34 grants · $798k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $582k
  • $250k+23 grants · $46M
$25,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$266M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The University of Chicago Medicine$15,000,000
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC$11,357,716
Health Leads$3,000,000
Points of Light Foundation$2,591,700
Scholarship America Inc$2,082,269
Individual grant recipient$2,050,000
Partners In Health$1,400,000
YourCause Holdings LLC$1,182,284
The Heart of America Foundation$1,100,000
Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc$750,000
E4E Relief$600,000
Community Health$500,000
Direct Relief$500,000
North Chicago Community Partners$500,000
Innovation Development Institute Inc$475,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $14.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $71k → 8%A Little Easier Recovery Inc: $25k → 10%Wounded Warrior Project: $750k → 14%OPTOMETRY CARES- THE AOA FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%Canine Companions for Independence: $40k → 15%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $70k → 8%Wounded Warrior Project: $300k → 14%American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery Foundation: $100k → 6%BAPS CHARITIES INC: $45k → 8%Families for Depression Awareness: $30k → 8%Mano a Mano Family Resource Center: $25k → 8%Metropolitan Asian Family Services: $25k → 7%Almost Home Kids: $25k → 7%Miriam's Kitchen: $25k → 14%Metropolitan Asian Family Services: $25k → 7%Cradles to Crayons Inc: $500k → 14%American National Red Cross: $256k → 14%American National Red Cross: $100k → 14%Cradles to Crayons Inc: $500k → 14%National Urban League Inc: $1.4M → 17%Cradles to Crayons Inc: $400k → 14%National Urban League Inc: $1.4M → 17%Cradles to Crayons Inc: $300k → 14%National Urban League Inc: $1.4M → 17%Cradles to Crayons Inc: $260k → 14%National Urban League Inc: $1.4M → 17%Cradles to Crayons Inc: $100k → 14%National Urban League Inc: $1.4M → 17%Beacon Place NFP: $175k → 8%Beacon Place NFP: $175k → 8%Beacon Place NFP: $175k → 8%Beacon Place NFP: $175k → 8%Beacon Place NFP: $175k → 8%Beacon Place NFP: $175k → 8%Beacon Place NFP: $150k → 8%Beacon Place NFP: $125k → 8%The Beacon Place NFP: $100k → 8%Cradles to Crayons Inc: $215k → 14%Cradles to Crayons Inc: $182k → 14%Cradles to Crayons Inc: $150k → 14%Cradles to Crayons Inc: $100k → 14%Illinois Science & Technology Institute: $80k → 14%Orchard Village: $80k → 14%Illinois Science & Technology Institute: $40k → 14%Illinois Science & Technology Institute: $80k → 14%Illinois Science & Technology Institute: $56k → 14%Illinois Science & Technology Institute: $43k → 14%Little City Foundation: $50k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
ME
VT
NH
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ID
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
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SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
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MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
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DC
HI
OK
LA
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AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 38% of AbbVie Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 30% of the giving stays in IL; by stated purpose, 24%.

AbbVie Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 7.2% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$242M · 1507 repeat orgs$16M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

1507 repeat relationships: 53 still active in FY2025, 1454 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1507
446

Total granted

$242M
$10M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+28%

Still filing today

69%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • University of Chicago
    8× · 2017–2024 · $21M · revenue +56%
  • DIRECT RELIEF
    9× · 2017–2025 · $16M · revenue +94%
  • PO
    POINTS OF LIGHT FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $13M · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • NC
    North Chicago Community Unit School
    one grant, 2024 · $1.5M
  • NC
    North Chicago CUSD 187
    one grant, 2019 · $1.2M
  • AA
    ANSWER ALS
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue +24% · 44% of their budget
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
United Food Bank

Uniting communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
2
University of Denver

A higher educational institution, providing both undergraduate and graduate degrees.

Education
3
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of family medicine.

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4
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

the organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the UCSF Foundation.

Education
5
University of New Haven

See schedule ouniversity of new haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts & professional education.

Education
6
Global Fund for Children

To advance the rights and opportunities of children and youth worldwide.

Arts & Culture
7
American Cancer Society Inc

Improve the lives of people with cancer and their families through advocacy, research, and patient support, to ensure everyone has an opportunity to prevent, detect, treat, and survive cancer.

Health
8
Furman University

Furman university is an institution of higher education providing distinctive undergraduate education emphasizing an engaged approach combining classroom learning with real world experiences and self-discovery.

Education
9
Arbor Research Collaborative for

To improve patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice.

Health
10
Georgetown University

Georgetown university is one of the world's leading academic and research institutions. established in 1789, georgetown is the nation's oldest catholic and jesuit university.

Education
11
Kipp Chicago Schools

The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…

Education
12
United States Naval Institute

To advance professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Rose. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

1369 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1369 of the 2,000 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

16
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
324
Early backer (in before they grew)
1323/1369
Grantees still filing
1056/1369
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND: $52,066,282 · PhilanthropyTHE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUNDPOINTS OF LIGHT FOUNDATION: $13,423,085 · PhilanthropyPOINTS OF LIGHT FOUNDATIONAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC: $11,357,816 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATI…FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS: $8,341,500 · PhilanthropyFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS+11 more: $2,746,579 · PhilanthropyThe University of Chicago Medicine: $30,000,000 · OtherThe University of Chicago Medicin…Indiana University School of Medicine: $8,516,090 · OtherIndiana University School of Medi…Individual grant recipient: $7,672,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientScholarship America Inc: $7,587,218 · OtherScholarship America IncAmerican Red Cross: $3,225,676 · Other+83 more: $36,435,841 · Other+83 moreUniversity of Chicago: $21,061,260 · EducationUniversity of Chic…UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $10,011,227 · EducationUNITED NEGRO COLLE…YEAR UP INC: $10,000,000 · EducationYEAR UP INCNorth Chicago Community Partners: $6,165,105 · EducationNorth Chicago Comm…+20 more: $3,378,478 · Education+20 moreBAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE INTERNATIONAL PEDIATRIC AIDS INITIATIVE: $12,515,000 · HealthBAYLOR COLL…PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $5,978,366 · HealthPARTNERS IN…FAMILY REACH FOUNDATION: $3,856,271 · HealthFAMILY REAC…HEALTH LEADS INC: $3,000,000 · HealthHEALTH LEAD…GLOBAL HEALTH CORPS INC: $1,100,000 · Health+37 more: $6,050,820 · Health+37 moreDIRECT RELIEF: $16,203,131 · InternationalDIRECT REL…INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $3,288,637 · InternationalINTERNATIO…PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $2,198,835 · InternationalPROJECT HO…HEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,650,424 · InternationalHEART TO H…AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $1,538,127 · InternationalAMERICARES…MAP International Inc: $1,350,331 · International+7 more: $2,015,535 · International+7 moreNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $7,000,525 · Human ServicesCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $2,769,161 · Human ServicesThe Beacon Place NFP: $1,432,107 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1,090,821 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $530,295 · Human Services+11 more: $1,018,862 · Human ServicesHEART OF AMERICA FOUNDATION: $11,359,102 · Community Improvement+1 more: $151,555 · Community Improvement
Philanthropy$87,935,262Other$93,436,825Education$50,616,070Health$32,500,457International$28,245,020Human Services$13,841,771Community Improvement$11,510,657

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND: $52,066,282 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $21,061,260 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $16,203,131 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetPOINTS OF LIGHT FOUNDATION: $13,423,085 over 8y, 9.3% of budgetBAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE INTERNATIONAL PEDIATRIC AIDS INITIATIVE: $12,515,000 over 9y, 29% of budgetHEART OF AMERICA FOUNDATION: $11,359,102 over 9y, 57% of budgetAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC: $11,357,816 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $10,011,227 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetYEAR UP INC: $10,000,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS: $8,341,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $7,000,525 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetNorth Chicago Community Partners: $6,165,105 over 9y, 37% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $5,978,366 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetFAMILY REACH FOUNDATION: $3,856,271 over 7y, 10% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $3,288,637 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetBERNIE'S BOOK BANK: $3,042,978 over 9y, 7.8% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $2,769,161 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $2,503,005 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $2,500,760 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $2,198,835 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetKABOOM INC: $2,025,502 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetHEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,650,424 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $1,538,127 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetProvidence St Mel School: $1,500,000 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetThe Beacon Place NFP: $1,432,107 over 9y, 25% of budgetJERSEY CARES INC: $1,357,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetMAP International Inc: $1,350,331 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY LAKE COUNTY: $1,335,200 over 6y, 17% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $1,155,879 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetGLOBAL HEALTH CORPS INC: $1,100,000 over 7y, 8.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1,090,821 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetANSWER ALS: $1,000,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetNATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC: $916,800 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetINNOVATION DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE INC: $845,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetREADING POWER INC: $814,159 over 5y, 57% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $751,136 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $723,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF LAKE COUNTY INC: $705,169 over 9y, 3.6% of budgetFeeding America: $704,690 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $672,897 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $670,890 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetE4E RELIEF LLC: $600,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetKOHL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF GREATER CHICAGO INC: $583,613 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $532,426 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $530,295 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - CHICAGO: $529,500 over 3y, 18% of budgetHighland Park Community Foundation: $500,200 over 4y, 6.5% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND: $500,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
  • Who funds POINTS OF LIGHT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE INTERNATIONAL PEDIATRIC AIDS INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds HEART OF AMERICA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
  • Who funds North Chicago Community Partners ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY REACH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS ↗
  • Who funds BERNIE'S BOOK BANK ↗
  • Who funds HEALTH LEADS INC ↗
  • Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
  • Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds KABOOM INC ↗
  • Who funds HEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Providence St Mel School ↗
  • Who funds The Beacon Place NFP ↗
  • Who funds JERSEY CARES INC ↗
  • Who funds MAP International Inc ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY LAKE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL HEALTH CORPS INC ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Lake County Community FoundationIL47.5× affinity53 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Lake County Community Foundation · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation · First Bank Chicago Foundation · John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy · Trustmark Foundation · The Service Club of Chicago · Cme Group Community Foundation F/K/A Nymex Foundation · The Allergan Foundation · The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation · Baxter International Foundation · Andrew and Alice Fischer Charitable Trust

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization AbbVie Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from AbbVie Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Families for Depression Awareness Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Jersey Cares Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Fairleigh Dickinson University: 2% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
46report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 2000 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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