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Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
320
Grants FY2024still arriving
19
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$4.2MEducation$3.1MHealth$2.6MYouth Development$2.0MHuman Services$1.9MScience & Tech$1.7MReligion$1.6MPublic Benefit$1.3MOther$0
02FY2024 · 320 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k135 grants · $696k
  • $10k–50k173 grants · $2.5M
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $925k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.8M
$10,000
Median grant
19
States reached
$132M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS INC$1,000,000
TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION$500,000
THE EMERYWEINER CENTER FOR JEWISH EDUCATION$300,000
THE IRVIN M SHLENKER SCHOOL OF CONGREGATION BETH ISREAL$150,000
SAM HOUSTON AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA$100,000
ST THOMAS HIGH SCHOOL$100,000
HERITAGE FOUNDATION$100,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER HOUSTON$100,000
CAMP YOUNG JUDAEA INC$100,000
REMEMBER THE ALAMO FOUNDATION$100,000
CHINQUAPIN PREPARATORY SCHOOL$100,000
THE BETA FOUNDATION DBA BETA ACADEMY$75,000
KIDS' MEALS INC$35,000
STRAKE JESUIT COLLEGE PREPARATORY INC$35,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE$30,000
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 (FY20–24, $2.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS: $10k → 5%BOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOUSTON INC: $15k → 15%CAMP ARANZAZU INC: $10k → 17%JEWISH CHILDREN'S REGIONAL SERVICE: $20k → 15%BOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOUSTON INC: $15k → 15%JEWISH CHILDREN'S REGIONAL SERVICE: $15k → 15%BOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOUSTON INC: $15k → 15%BOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOUSTON INC: $12k → 15%PRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM: $15k → 16%CENTER FOR PURSUIT: $20k → 16%PRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM: $16k → 16%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $15k → 16%KIDS' MEALS INC: $35k → 16%KIDS' MEALS INC: $16k → 16%KIDS' MEALS INC: $15k → 16%WORKTEXAS TRAINING CENTER: $150k → 16%WORKTEXAS TRAINING CENTER: $35k → 16%WORKTEXAS TRAINING CENTER: $25k → 16%HOUSTON'S AMAZING PLACE INC: $25k → 16%HOUSTON'S AMAZING PLACE INC: $25k → 16%HOUSTON'S AMAZING PLACE INC: $20k → 16%HOUSTON'S AMAZING PLACE INC: $20k → 16%HOUSTON'S AMAZING PLACE INC: $15k → 16%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $50k → 16%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $30k → 16%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $20k → 16%COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $40k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON-HOUSTON: $25k → 16%COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $25k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON-HOUSTON: $15k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON-HOUSTON: $15k → 16%THE WOMEN'S HOME: $15k → 16%THE WOMEN'S HOME: $15k → 16%COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $15k → 16%THE WOMEN'S HOME: $15k → 16%COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $12k → 16%VOLUNTEER INTERFAITH CAREGIVERS SOUTHWEST: $15k → 16%SUMMERHOUSE HOUSTON: $25k → 16%SUMMERHOUSE HOUSTON: $13k → 16%HOUSTON APHASIA RECOVERY CENTER: $50k → 16%HOUSTON APHASIA RECOVERY CENTER: $25k → 16%HOUSTON POLICE FOUNDATION: $160k → 16%JUSTICE FORWARD: $15k → 16%JUSTICE FORWARD: $15k → 16%TARGET HUNTER: $20k → 16%FURNITURE BANK: $20k → 16%SAILING ANGELS FOUNDATION: $100k → 16%SAILING ANGELS FOUNDATION: $12k → 16%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

WA
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IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
SD
IN
OH
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
DE
NM
KS
DC
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$19M · 336 repeat orgs$3.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

336 repeat relationships: 237 still active in FY2024, 99 since wound down; 74 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

336
158

Total granted

$19M
$2.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+13%

Still filing today

92%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther
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

  • TM
    THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON
    4× · 2020–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +51%
  • TP
    TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $708k · revenue +62%
  • CP
    CHINQUAPIN PREPARATORY SCHOOL
    5× · 2020–2024 · $464k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • BT
    BATTLESHIP TEXAS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $450k · revenue -7%
  • HP
    HOUSTON POLICE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $160k · revenue -15%
  • FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
    one grant, 2023 · $120k · revenue -33%
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
Houston Local Information Initiative Inc

The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.

Arts & Culture
2
Houston Independent School District Foundation

The HISD Foundation is dedicated to mobilizing the local community to support innovative priorities in HISD to improve outcomes for all students in the district. Our mission is to fund projects and programs of merit that fall outside of…

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3
Made Houston

MADE Houston was formed to create a school community focused on nurturing and developing the unique academic and social needs of students with learning differences and to successfully transition students into mainstream schools.

Education
4
Rebuilding Together Houston

Rebuilding Together Houston is the only organization in Houston and Harris County providing free home repairs to hundreds of families each year. We employ licensed contractors to restore homes to safe, livable conditions, extending each…

Housing & Shelter
5
St John's School

See Schedule OSt. John's School is an independent, co-educational day school presenting a 13-year sequence of college preparatory training. A non-profit institution, it was founded in 1946 to provide the community with a school of exacting…

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6
Houston Christian Foundation dba National Christian Foundation Houston

As the Houston affiliate of the National Christian Foundation (NCF), our mission is to serve and encourage givers to grow as faithful stewards who give wisely to further the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

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7
Glasstire

Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.

Arts & Culture
8
Presbyterian School

Family, School, and Church united in the education and support of each child - this is the founding premise upon which Presbyterian School nurtures and challenges its students. The school provides an educational program of the highest…

Education
9
American Leadership Forum Houston Gulf Coast Chapter

American Leadership Forum (ALF) brings together, in classes, leaders with diverse perspectives so they can build relationships, learn to dialogue and respectfully differ, and work together for the good of our community.

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10
Harris County Medical Society

Our mission is to be the leading advocate for our member physicians, their patients and our community, in promoting the highest standards of ethical medical practice, access to quality medical care, medical education, research, and…

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11
Collaborative for Children

The mission of Collaborative for Children is to meaningfully improve the quality of early childhood education and care for Greater Houston's children through those most influential in their lives.

Human Services
12
Progress Texas Institute

The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Loving Houston Inc; the most unlike its peers is The National World War Ii Museum Inc. 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

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

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 492 of the 573 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
113
Early backer (in before they grew)
488/492
Grantees still filing
332/492
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Houston Museum of Natural Science: $1,512,500 · Arts & CultureHouston Museum of Natural S…THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON: $1,000,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOU…BATTLESHIP TEXAS FOUNDATION: $450,000 · Arts & CultureBATTLESHIP TEXAS FOUNDATIONALLEY THEATRE: $185,000 · Arts & Culture+25 more: $1,407,200 · Arts & Culture+25 moreCHINQUAPIN PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $464,249 · OtherCHINQUAPIN PREPARATORY SCHOOLUNION COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $454,000 · OtherUNION COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETYJewish Federation of Greater Houston: $385,000 · OtherJewish Federation of Greater HoustonEvelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston: $512,500 · OtherEvelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center…+86 more: $5,079,800 · Other+86 moreWork Texas Training Center: $210,000 · Human ServicesWork Texas T…HOUSTON POLICE FOUNDATION: $160,000 · Human ServicesHOUSTON POLI…SAILING ANGELS FOUNDATION INC: $132,000 · Human ServicesSAILING ANGE…Houston's Amazing Place Inc: $115,000 · Human ServicesHouston's Am…JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $105,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $97,000 · Human ServicesHouston Aphasia Recovery Center: $83,000 · Human ServicesKIDS' MEALS INC: $76,000 · Human Services+25 more: $1,105,500 · Human Services+25 moreThe EmeryWeiner Center for Jewish Education: $310,000 · EducationThe Emery…PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $255,000 · EducationPRAGER UN…SEPHARDIC GAN TORAT EMET INC: $82,500 · EducationTEXAS EDUCATION WORKS: $77,000 · EducationJoy Development School: $65,000 · EducationINTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC: $65,000 · EducationYELLOWSTONE ACADEMY INC DBA YELLOWSTONE SCHOOLS: $65,000 · EducationBreakthrough Houston: $62,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $60,000 · EducationThe Monarch School Monarch Institute for Neurological Diff: $57,000 · Education+13 more: $521,000 · Education+13 moreJunior Achievement of Southeast Texas Inc: $1,040,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $120,000 · InternationalJEWISH INSTITUTE FOR NATIONAL SECURITY OF AMERICA: $95,000 · International+1 more: $30,000 · InternationalTEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION: $707,500 · Public BenefitTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $290,000 · Public BenefitCombined Arms: $43,000 · Public BenefitNextOp Inc: $40,000 · Public Benefit+2 more: $66,000 · Public BenefitASIAN AMERICAN HEALTH COALITION OF THE GREATER HOUSTON AREA: $332,500 · HealthSEVEN ACRES JEWISH SENIOR CARE SERVICES INC: $280,000 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES GREATER HOUSTON INC: $80,000 · HealthTIRR Foundation: $50,000 · HealthNick Finnegan Counseling Center Foundation: $47,500 · Health+10 more: $304,500 · Health
Arts & Culture$4,554,700Other$6,895,549Human Services$2,083,500Education$1,619,500International$1,285,000Public Benefit$1,146,500Health$1,094,500

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 budgetHouston Museum of Natural Science: $1,512,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetJunior Achievement of Southeast Texas Inc: $1,040,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON: $1,000,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION: $707,500 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetEvelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston: $512,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCHINQUAPIN PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $464,249 over 5y, 7.3% of budgetUNION COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $454,000 over 4y, 76% of budgetBATTLESHIP TEXAS FOUNDATION: $450,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetJewish Federation of Greater Houston: $385,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN HEALTH COALITION OF THE GREATER HOUSTON AREA: $332,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetThe EmeryWeiner Center for Jewish Education: $310,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $290,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSEVEN ACRES JEWISH SENIOR CARE SERVICES INC: $280,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $255,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWork Texas Training Center: $210,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetPRO-VISION INC: $195,000 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetALLEY THEATRE: $185,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budget1894 INC: $162,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetHOUSTON POLICE FOUNDATION: $160,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetMANNED SPACE FLIGHT EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $145,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSAILING ANGELS FOUNDATION INC: $132,000 over 3y, 79% of budgetBoy Scouts of America Sam Houston Area Council: $126,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetHermann Park Conservancy: $125,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCamp Young Judaea Inc: $125,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetHOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON: $120,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $120,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Symphony Society: $117,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHouston's Amazing Place Inc: $115,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCrime Stoppers of Houston Inc: $112,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $105,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSpringSpirit Inc: $100,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetWONDERLAND EDUCATIONAL ESTATE DBA BEATRICE MAYES INSTITUTE: $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetRemember the Alamo Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $97,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSan Jacinto Museum and Battlefield Association: $95,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetJEWISH INSTITUTE FOR NATIONAL SECURITY OF AMERICA: $95,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR: $91,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBRIDGES TO LIFE: $86,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetHouston Aphasia Recovery Center: $83,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetSEPHARDIC GAN TORAT EMET INC: $82,500 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetHouston Public Media Foundation: $82,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES GREATER HOUSTON INC: $80,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTEXAS EDUCATION WORKS: $77,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetKIDS' MEALS INC: $76,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCamp For All Foundation: $75,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE WOODS PROJECT: $75,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetHouston Ballet Foundation: $70,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Transportation and Commerce: $70,000 over 3y, 4.1% 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.

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.

Strake FoundationHarry S & Isabel C Ca…The Brown Foundation …The William Stamps Fa…The Elkins FoundationVivian L Smith Founda…Houston Endowment IncBaxter Trust Co Priva…MD Anderson FoundationThe Powell FoundationMarek Family Foundati…Charity Guild of Cath…
Strake FoundationTX248.6× affinity155 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Strake Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · The Brown Foundation Inc · The William Stamps Farish Fund · The Elkins Foundation · Vivian L Smith Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · Baxter Trust Co Private Foundation Services · MD Anderson Foundation · The Powell Foundation · Marek Family Foundation · Charity Guild of Catholic Women of Harris County Inc

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 Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    49report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable 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 573 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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