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Achieving America Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
51
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$275k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Civil Rights$4.5MPublic Benefit$1.7MArts & Culture$1.7MEducation$1.1MPhilanthropy$1.1MEnvironment$655kHealth$521kHuman Services$488kOther$0
02FY2024 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $466k
  • $50k–250k20 grants · $1.8M
  • $250k+1 grant · $275k
$25,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$46k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOPEWELL FUND$275,000
PENNSYLANIA VOICE$200,000
STATE LEADERSHIP PROJECT$175,000
AMERICA VOTES EDUCATION FUND$150,000
UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION$150,000
CALIFORNIA VOLUNTEERS FUND$125,000
HAMMER MUSEUM$125,000
TIDES FOUNDATION$100,000
ADVANCEMENT PROJECT$100,000
YOUTH SERVICE AMERICA$75,000
NEW VENTURE FUND$70,000
HEARTLAND FUND$60,000
WORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND$60,000
ACCELERATE CHANGE INC$55,000
PUBLIC CONCERN FOUNDATION$50,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $481k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WorkMoney Foundation: $25k → 17%LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY GARDEN COUNCIL: $500 → 14%Union Station Homeless Services: $5k → 14%GOLDEN STATE OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION: $200k → 14%GOLDEN STATE OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION: $150k → 14%GOLDEN STATE OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

AK
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
SD
OH
PA
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
DE
AZ
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$10M · 59 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.

59 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

59
69

Total granted

$10M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+40%

Still filing today

75%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $845k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationCivil RightsPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO
    4× · 2017–2022 · $1.2M · revenue +20%
  • SL
    STATE LEADERSHIP PROJECT
    4× · 2021–2024 · $475k · revenue +67%
  • GS
    Golden State Opportunity
    3× · 2017–2019 · $450k · revenue +341%

Funded once

  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD- PASADENA
    one grant, 2019 · $200k
  • PP
    Planned Parenthood of PSGV
    one grant, 2022 · $200k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $100k

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
2
The American Institute of Architects California

The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.

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3
The California Channel

To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…

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4
Los Angeles Conservancy

The los angeles conservancy is a nonprofit membership organization that works through education and advocacy to recognize, preserve, and revitalize the historic architectural and cultural resources of los angeles county.

Arts & Culture
5
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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6
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
7
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce

Chamber's mission: design and advance opportunities and solutions for a thriving regional economy that are inclusive and globally competitive. 1) advocacy - be a bold advocate for business as a driver of a strong economy that enables…

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8
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

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9
California Chamber of Commerce

Represent members and cal employers to members of cal legislature and other agencies of state government through in-house legislative analysts, lobbying staff, and contract lobbyists. cal chamber publishes books and software related to…

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10
Los Angeles County Bar Association (Lacba)

Meeting the professional needs of los angeles lawyers, and improving the administration of justice.

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11
California Budget & Policy Center

The budget center provides dependable, timely, policy guidance and public education through our independent research and analysis, public education, strategic collaborations, and communications to expand economic opportunities and promote…

Education
12
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Accelerate Change Inc and the most unlike its peers is Psychotherapy Action Network. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPolicy Research and AdvocacyYmca Youth DevelopmentWomen & Girls Leadership De…Immigrant Worker SupportElementary Literacy TutoringCommunity Arts CentersJewish Community Organizati…Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Food Banks and PantriesEnvironmental Conservation …School District FoundationsCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%7%<5yr15%11%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr17%21%20–35yr11%24%35–55yr13%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%4%<5yr15%7%5–10yr20%21%10–20yr17%55%20–35yr11%8%35–55yr13%6%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.9%1/118
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,860

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

112 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 112 of the 151 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
111/112
Grantees still filing
74/112
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CATALYST CALIFORNIA — $3,876,921 · Public BenefitCATALYST CALIFORNIASTATE LEADERSHIP PROJECT — $475,000 · Public BenefitSTATE LEADERSHIP PROJECT+7 more — $275,000 · Public Benefit+7 moreUC BERKELEY FOUNDATION — $470,000 · OtherUC BERKELEY FOUNDATIONPLANNED PARENTHOOD- PASADENA — $200,000 · OtherPlanned Parenthood of PSGV — $200,000 · OtherHeartland Fund — $160,000 · OtherLA RIVER REVITALIZATION CORPORATION — $160,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $150,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $140,000 · OtherGolden State Opportunity — $450,000 · OtherGolden State OpportunityNEW VENTURE FUND — $235,000 · OtherNEW VENTURE FUNDWINDWARD FUND — $140,000 · OtherCALIFORNIA VOLUNTEERS FUND — $250,000 · OtherCALIFORNIA VOLUNTEERS FUND+72 more — $1,585,820 · Other+72 moreSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO — $1,175,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTHERN CAL…ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC — $130,000 · Arts & CultureARMAND HAMME…COMMON SENSE MEDIA — $50,000 · Arts & Culture+12 more — $135,879 · Arts & Culture+12 morePENNSYLVANIA VOICE — $200,000 · Civil RightsCOLOR OF CHANGEORG EDUCATION FUND — $175,000 · Civil RightsAmerica Votes Education Fund — $150,000 · Civil RightsTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER — $75,000 · Civil RightsACCELERATE CHANGE INC — $70,000 · Civil RightsVOTO LATINO FOUNDATION INC — $70,000 · Civil RightsCIVIC INFLUENCERS INC — $50,000 · Civil RightsNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc — $50,000 · Civil RightsAll Americans Vote — $45,000 · Civil Rights+4 more — $55,000 · Civil RightsLos Angeles River Revitalization Corporation dba River LA — $409,240 · Community Improvement21st Century School Fund — $225,000 · Community ImprovementTHE MARSHALL PROJECT INC — $50,000 · Community ImprovementDOLORES C HUERTA FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Community ImprovementPUBLIC CONCERN FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · Community ImprovementONE ARROYO FOUNDATION — $35,000 · Community Improvement+2 more — $35,000 · Community ImprovementPasadena City College Foundation — $200,000 · EducationST JOHN'S COLLEGE — $120,000 · EducationWORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND — $100,000 · EducationCivic Nation — $95,000 · EducationOHIO CAMPUS COMPACT — $70,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS — $61,000 · EducationOCCIDENTAL COLLEGE — $60,000 · Education+8 more — $89,500 · EducationHOPEWELL FUND — $275,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATION — $190,000 · PhilanthropyPASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $65,000 · PhilanthropyTHE J PAUL GETTY TRUST — $55,000 · PhilanthropyAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $50,000 · PhilanthropySOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS — $32,585 · Philanthropy+2 more — $10,000 · Philanthropy
Public Benefit$4,626,921Other$4,140,820Arts & Culture$1,490,879Civil Rights$940,000Community Improvement$854,240Education$795,500Philanthropy$677,585

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCATALYST CALIFORNIA — $3,876,921 over 7y, 9.4% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO — $1,175,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetSTATE LEADERSHIP PROJECT — $475,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetGolden State Opportunity — $450,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetLos Angeles River Revitalization Corporation dba River LA — $409,240 over 4y, 31% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND — $275,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA VOLUNTEERS FUND — $250,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND — $235,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budget21st Century School Fund — $225,000 over 3y, 32% of budgetPasadena City College Foundation — $200,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA VOICE — $200,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $190,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLOR OF CHANGEORG EDUCATION FUND — $175,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAmerica Votes Education Fund — $150,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetWINDWARD FUND — $140,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC — $130,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetST JOHN'S COLLEGE — $120,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND — $100,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetLOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY — $100,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetYouth Service America — $97,500 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetCivic Nation — $95,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetREPOWER — $90,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetCenter on Budget and Policy Priorities — $75,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER — $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetACCELERATE CHANGE INC — $70,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetVOTO LATINO FOUNDATION INC — $70,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetOHIO CAMPUS COMPACT — $70,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetPASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $65,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS — $61,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOCCIDENTAL COLLEGE — $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE J PAUL GETTY TRUST — $55,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOLORES C HUERTA FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetA BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER INSTITUTE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetCOMMON SENSE MEDIA — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCIVIC INFLUENCERS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC CONCERN FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetAll Americans Vote — $45,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIMAGINE NORTH CAROLINA FIRST — $40,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetInner City Law Center — $38,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMEXICAN AMERICAN BAR FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetONE ARROYO FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS — $32,585 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY — $32,279 over 7y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

  • Who funds CATALYST CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO ↗
  • Who funds STATE LEADERSHIP PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds Golden State Opportunity ↗
  • Who funds Los Angeles River Revitalization Corporation dba River LA ↗
  • Who funds HOPEWELL FUND ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA VOLUNTEERS FUND ↗
  • Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
  • Who funds 21st Century School Fund ↗
  • Who funds Pasadena City College Foundation ↗
  • Who funds PENNSYLVANIA VOICE ↗
  • Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COLOR OF CHANGEORG EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds America Votes Education Fund ↗
  • Who funds WINDWARD FUND ↗
  • Who funds ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JOHN'S COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds WORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY ↗
  • Who funds Youth Service America ↗
  • Who funds Civic Nation ↗
  • Who funds REPOWER ↗
  • Who funds Center on Budget and Policy Priorities ↗
  • Who funds THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ACCELERATE CHANGE INC ↗
  • Who funds VOTO LATINO FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds OHIO CAMPUS COMPACT ↗
  • Who funds PASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Ralph M Parsons F…California Community …Weingart FoundationThe California Endowm…The Annenberg Foundat…Pasadena Community Fo…The California Wellne…The Ahmanson Foundati…The Greenberg Foundat…Tides FoundationThe James Irvine Foun…Amalgamated Charitabl…
The Ralph M Parsons FoundationCA45.3× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · California Community Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The California Endowment · The Annenberg Foundation · Pasadena Community Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Greenberg Foundation · Tides Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Achieving America Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • St John's College — 2% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Achieving America Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Achieving America Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 151 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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