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Alan B Slifka 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.

$3.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
44
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$2.1M
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 2024.

Education$7.4MPhilanthropy$3.5MReligion$3.2MHealth$3.1MPublic Benefit$2.9MCivil Rights$2.5MInternational$2.0MArts & Culture$890kOther$0
02FY2024 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k26 grants · $70k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $273k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
  • $250k+2 grants · $2.6M
$5,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$68M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONTRIBUTIONS TO OTHER PUBLIC CHARITIES - SEE STMT 13$2,086,900
CLUB OF MADRID FOUNDATION INC$487,500
YALE UNIVERSITY$150,000
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS$50,000
GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION$45,000
Individual grant recipient$40,000
SAMUEL WAXMAN CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION$33,000
INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR AUTISM RESEARCH$25,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING$25,000
COMMUNITY PARTNERS$15,000
HEART OF A NATION$15,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE UMM EL FAHEM MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART$15,000
BOLD BEAUTY PROJECT$10,000
ST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$10,000
MILKWEED EDITIONS$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $136k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%YMCA OF SOUTHEAST VENTURA COUNTY: $5k → 10%UNITED IN HARMONY: $500 → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES: $15k → 14%Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles: $5k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES: $5k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES: $4k → 14%YOUR MOM CARES: $25k → 14%YOUR MOM CARES: $10k → 14%UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $3k → 14%United Friends of the Children: $3k → 14%UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $500 → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES: $12k → 14%TANENBAUM CENTER FOR INTERRELIGIOUS UNDERSTANDING: $3k → 17%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES: $4k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC: $3k → 14%CHILDREN OF WAR FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%CHILDREN OF WAR FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%TANENBAUM CENTER FOR INTERRELIGIOUS UNDERSTANDING: $3k → 17%TANENBAUM CENTER FOR INTERRELIGIOUS UNDERSTANDING: $1k → 17%Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding: $10k → 17%TANENBAUM CENTER FOR INTERRELIGIOUS UNDERSTANDING: $10k → 17%TANENBAUM CENTER FOR INTERRELIGIOUS UNDERSTANDING: $5k → 17%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

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MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
NJ
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CA
CO
VA
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DE
AZ
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TN
NC
DC
AL
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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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$23M · 129 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +36% for those funded once.

129 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2024, 101 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

129
111

Total granted

$23M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+36%

Still filing today

71%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $359k 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
InternationalHealthArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyReligionOther
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

  • AJ
    ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL SCHOOL
    5× · 2017–2021 · $5.0M · revenue +66%
  • CO
    CLUB OF MADRID FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $2.9M · revenue +1% · 100% of their budget
  • TA
    THE ABRAHAM INITIATIVES INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $1.4M · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • P
    PEF
    one grant, 2019 · $280k
  • MO
    MORASHA OLAMI INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $165k · revenue +59%
  • YU
    YALE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2019 · $121k
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.

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The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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2
Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech
3
American Jewish Committee

AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…

Civil Rights
4
American Friends of Bar-Ilan University

We fundraise in the u.s. to support, and raise awareness of, bar-ilan university in israel.

Education
5
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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6
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
7
American Society for Technion Israel Institute of Technology Inc

The american technion society supports the technion's critical research and (continued on sch o)

International
8
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
9
Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles

We steward $1.5 billion in charitable assets through donor-advised funds, endowments, and other giving vehicles. partnering with 1,400 individuals, families, and organizations, we build enduring legacies and multigenerational impact. in…

Philanthropy
10
The Israel Institute Inc

The israel institute, inc. (the institute) enhances knowledge about modern israel by ensuring that more students have access to courses about israel during their time on campus.

International
11
American Friends of Kohelet Policy Forum

The principal and primary intent of the organization is to support kohelet policy forum (the "forum"), a jerusalem-based non-profit policy center founded in 2012, comprised of leading academics and researchers.

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American Israel Public Affairs Committee

To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Hebrew University Inc; the most unlike its peers is Eigen-Arnett Educational and. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

186 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. 186 of the 266 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
36
Early backer (in before they grew)
183/186
Grantees still filing
133/186
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONTRIBUTIONS TO OTHER PUBLIC CHARITIES - SEE STMT 13: $2,125,900 · OtherCONTRIBUTIONS TO OTHER PUBLIC CHARITIES - …OLAMI: $1,044,600 · OtherOLAMIJEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICA: $932,500 · OtherJEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICAYALE UNIVERSITY: $605,558 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYMemorial Sloan-Kettering: $591,850 · OtherMemorial Sloan-KetteringSAMUEL WAXMAN CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $423,800 · Other+108 more: $4,525,686 · Other+108 moreABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL SCHOOL: $5,000,000 · EducationABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL S…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $516,200 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA…+13 more: $514,000 · Education+13 moreTHE ABRAHAM INITIATIVES INC: $1,421,000 · InternationalTHE ABRAHAM …THE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA: $510,000 · InternationalTHE SHALOM H…HUMAN RIGHTS FIRST: $475,000 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHTS…MORASHA OLAMI INC: $165,000 · InternationalHAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA: $120,000 · International+18 more: $432,800 · International+18 moreCLUB OF MADRID FOUNDATION INC: $2,855,100 · Civil RightsCLUB OF MADR…ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $199,018 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMAT…+2 more: $10,000 · Civil RightsPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $1,289,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL…UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $650,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEW…JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK: $307,200 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FUN…+15 more: $201,100 · Philanthropy+15 moreCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $660,500 · HealthSanta Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation: $395,900 · HealthMARY CROWLEY MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER: $50,000 · Health+14 more: $171,900 · HealthCOLUMBIABARNARD HILLEL INC: $554,600 · ReligionJOSEPH SLIFKA CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AT: $202,600 · ReligionHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $110,000 · ReligionMOISHE HOUSE: $100,000 · ReligionINTERFAITH AMERICA: $95,000 · ReligionINTERFAITHFAMILYCOM INC: $65,000 · Religion+3 more: $45,800 · Religion
Other$10,249,894Education$6,030,200International$3,123,800Civil Rights$3,064,118Philanthropy$2,447,300Health$1,278,300Religion$1,173,000

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%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL SCHOOL: $5,000,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetCLUB OF MADRID FOUNDATION INC: $2,855,100 over 7y, 100% of budgetTHE ABRAHAM INITIATIVES INC: $1,421,000 over 6y, 19% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $1,289,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $660,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $650,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCOLUMBIABARNARD HILLEL INC: $554,600 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $516,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA: $510,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS FIRST: $475,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetSAMUEL WAXMAN CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $423,800 over 8y, 4.1% of budgetSanta Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation: $395,900 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK: $307,200 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetMILKWEED EDITIONS INC: $261,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetJOSEPH SLIFKA CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AT: $202,600 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $199,018 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM: $180,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetMORASHA OLAMI INC: $165,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC: $143,300 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetHAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA: $120,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $110,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $105,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOISHE HOUSE: $100,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetINTERFAITH AMERICA: $95,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $92,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBeit T'Shuvah: $76,600 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERFAITHFAMILYCOM INC: $65,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetAMERICA-ISRAEL FRIENDSHIP LEAGUE INC: $61,100 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetNEW TEACHER CENTER: $55,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBOLD BEAUTY PROJECT INC: $51,000 over 5y, 91% of budgetAUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITIES & SCHOOLS USA FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetMARY CROWLEY MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $47,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCARSON SARCOMA FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES: $44,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $42,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF SAN FRANCISCO MARIN & PENINSULA: $40,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE TEL AVIV FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCITIZEN UNIVERSITY: $40,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetKIDS KICKING CANCER INC: $38,800 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetTHE AMERICAN FUND FOR CHARITIES: $38,000 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Sustainability Laboratory Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTANENBAUM CENTER FOR INTERRELIGIOUS UNDERSTANDING: $31,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% 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 ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds CLUB OF MADRID FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ABRAHAM INITIATIVES INC ↗
  • Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
  • Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds COLUMBIABARNARD HILLEL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds THE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS FIRST ↗
  • Who funds SAMUEL WAXMAN CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds MILKWEED EDITIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds JOSEPH SLIFKA CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AT ↗
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds MORASHA OLAMI INC ↗
  • Who funds ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds HAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA ↗
  • Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
  • Who funds University of Arizona Foundation ↗

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY34.2× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Fjc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · Greater Miami Jewish Federation Inc · Newton & Rochelle Becker Charitable Trus · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · California Community Foundation

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 Alan B Slifka Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alan B Slifka Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 150%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
15get no government money at all
37report 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.
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Find your warmest path to Alan B Slifka 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 266 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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