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American Gas Association

AMERICAN GAS ASSOCIATION's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential.

$593k
Granted FY2024still arriving
34
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Environment$1.7MPublic Benefit$1.1MCommunity Improvement$837kEducation$257kHealth$112kEmployment$108kHuman Services$101kHousing & Shelter$95kOther$0
02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $48k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $445k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$15,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$57M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLORADANS FOR ENERGY ACCESS$50,000
NCSL FOUNDATION FOR STATE LEGISLATURES$50,000
NATIONAL ENERGY AND UTILITY AFFORDABILITY COALITION$30,000
NARUC$28,500
INDEPENDENT PETROLEUM ASSOC OF AMERICA$26,250
COMMON GROUND ALLIANCE$25,000
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES$25,000
CSA GROUP$25,000
REPUBLICAN ATTORNEYS GENERAL ASSOCIATION$25,000
INTERNATIONAL CODE COUNCIL INC$22,500
THE ECONOMIC CLUB OF WASHINGTON DC$20,000
WESTERN GOVERNORS' ASSOCIATION$20,000
US CONFERENCE OF MAYORS$20,000
ENERGY SOLUTIONS CENTER$19,000
CSG WEST$16,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $74k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE WATERFALL FOUNDATION: $15k → 8%THE WATERFALL FOUNDATION: $14k → 8%THE WATERFALL FOUNDATION: $13k → 8%THE WATERFALL FOUNDATION: $13k → 8%THE WATERFALL FOUNDATION: $13k → 8%THE WATERFALL FOUNDATION: $7k → 8%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
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IL
NY
IA
OH
PA
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
DC
MS
GA

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.9M · 47 repeat orgs$568k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

47 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
26

Total granted

$3.9M
$517k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+10%

Still filing today

79%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k 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
Public BenefitCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentPhilanthropyFood & NutritionScience & TechOther

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

  • IC
    INTERNATIONAL CODE COUNCIL INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $222k · revenue +69%
  • TN
    THE NATIONAL ENERGY AND UTILITY AFFORDABILITY COALITION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $216k · revenue +64%
  • CF
    COLORADANS FOR ENERGY ACCESS
    4× · 2021–2024 · $207k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • AP
    AMERICAN PUBLIC GAS ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2018 · $75k · revenue +6%
  • AF
    ALLIANCE FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY LLCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $63k · revenue +145%
  • PS
    PARK STREET STRATEGIES
    one grant, 2020 · $50k

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
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

2
National Association of Clean Water Agencies

Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.

3
Nw Energy Coalition

The NW Energy Coalition is an alliance of over 100 environmental, civic, and human service organizations, utilities, and businesses in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia, plus many individual members. The NW Energy…

4
American Council of Engineering Companies

The business association and voice of america's engineering industry, representing thousands of independent u.s. engineering companies engaged in the development of transportation, water, and other public and commercial facilities.

5
North American Electric Reliability Corp

The north american electric reliability corporation (nerc) is a not-for-profit international regulatory authority whose mission is to assure the effective and efficient reduction of risks to the reliability and security of the grid.

Community Improvement
6
Natural Gas Supply Association

The object and purpose of the association is to promote sound federal and state laws and regulations pertaining to the natural gas industry, the equitable and effective administration of such laws and regulations, and to educate and inform…

7
Pipeline Research Council International Inc

Foster an international, industry-wide collaborative community that delivers innovative applied research, and develops the means for stakeholders to leverage/implement the research.

Community Improvement
8
American Clean Power Association

Acp is the voice of companies from across the clean power sector that are powering america's future & providing cost-effective solutions to the climate crisis while creating jobs, spurring massive investment in the u.s. economy, & driving…

Community Improvement
9
National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities

The National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU) serves as the unified voice for the 1,700 private, nonprofit colleges and universities in our nation. (continued on Schedule O)

10
American Geophysical Union

Agu's mission is to advance and support an inclusive community of earth and space scientists and partners dedicated to discovery and solutions to societal challenges. agu seeks to catalyze discovery and solutions to scientific and societal…

Science & Tech
11
Western Electricity Coordinating Council

To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.

Public Benefit
12
EnerGeo Alliance

EnerGeo Alliance optimizes the business and regulatory climate and enhances public understanding to support a strong, viable energy geoscience industry essential to discovering and delivering the world's energy resources.EnerGeo Alliance's…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Association of State Energy Officials and the most unlike its peers is Hispanics in Energy. 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 backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Community FoundationsCommunity FoundationsYouth Sports ProgramsImmigrant Worker Support
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 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%15%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr13%33%35–55yr16%25%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%13%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr13%28%35–55yr16%24%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 13% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/80
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,485

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

63 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 63 of the 80 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)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/63
Grantees still filing
49/63
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REGULATORY UTILITY COMMISSIONERS — $163,900 · OtherNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REGULATORY UTILITY COMMISSIONERSNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF STATE LEGISLATURES — $140,959 · OtherNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF STATE LEGISLATURESCOUNCIL OF STATE GOVERNMENTS — $139,950 · OtherCSA GROUP — $115,833 · OtherDEMOCRATIC GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION — $107,500 · OtherWestern Governors' Association — $105,000 · OtherINDEPENDENT PETROLEUM ASSOCIATION — $105,000 · OtherNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES — $100,000 · OtherThe Economic Club of Washington DC — $95,960 · OtherCONGRESSIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS INSTITUTE INC — $95,000 · OtherRepublican Attorneys General Assoc — $95,000 · Other+45 more — $1,369,877 · Other+45 moreINTERNATIONAL CODE COUNCIL INC — $222,000 · Community ImprovementINTERNATIONAL CODE C…COLORADANS FOR ENERGY ACCESS — $207,000 · Community ImprovementCOLORADANS FOR ENERG…COMMON GROUND ALLIANCE — $190,400 · Community ImprovementCOMMON GROUND ALLIAN…EDISON ELECTRIC INSTITUTE INC — $130,000 · Community ImprovementEDISON ELECTRIC INST…BUSINESS COUNCIL FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY — $80,000 · Community ImprovementBUSINESS COUNCIL FOR…+2 more — $22,500 · Community ImprovementPARTNERS FOR ENERGY PROGESS — $250,000 · EnvironmentCITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBLE ENERGY SOLUTIONS INC — $57,500 · EnvironmentResources for the Future Inc — $25,000 · EnvironmentNational Energy Resources Organization Inc — $20,340 · EnvironmentNCSL FOUNDATION FOR STATE LEGISLATURES — $90,000 · Public BenefitAMERICAN GAS FOUNDATION — $70,000 · Public BenefitBIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER INC — $25,000 · Public BenefitWESTERN CAUCUS FOUNDATION — $24,000 · Public BenefitFORMER MEMBERS OF CONGRESS — $12,000 · Public BenefitMid Atlantic Conference of Regulatory Utilities Comm Inc — $11,000 · Public Benefit+1 more — $6,115 · Public BenefitTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $200,000 · EducationAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF BLACKS IN ENERGY — $20,000 · EducationTHE NATIONAL ENERGY AND UTILITY AFFORDABILITY COALITION — $216,000 · Housing & ShelterCENTER FOR ENERGY WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT — $98,000 · PhilanthropyCONGRESSIONAL HOCKEY CHALLENGE — $50,000 · PhilanthropyTHE WATERFALL FOUNDATION INC — $13,000 · Philanthropy
Other$2,633,979Community Improvement$851,900Environment$352,840Public Benefit$238,115Education$220,000Housing & Shelter$216,000Philanthropy$161,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetINTERNATIONAL CODE COUNCIL INC — $222,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL ENERGY AND UTILITY AFFORDABILITY COALITION — $216,000 over 8y, 7.7% of budgetCOLORADANS FOR ENERGY ACCESS — $207,000 over 4y, 24% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMON GROUND ALLIANCE — $190,400 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REGULATORY UTILITY COMMISSIONERS — $163,900 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetCOUNCIL OF STATE GOVERNMENTS — $139,950 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEDISON ELECTRIC INSTITUTE INC — $130,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetINDEPENDENT PETROLEUM ASSOCIATION — $105,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES — $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR ENERGY WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT — $98,000 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetThe Economic Club of Washington DC — $95,960 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS INSTITUTE INC — $95,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNCSL FOUNDATION FOR STATE LEGISLATURES — $90,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetBUSINESS COUNCIL FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY — $80,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetENERGY SOLUTIONS CENTERINC — $78,285 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetAMERICAN PUBLIC GAS ASSOCIATION — $75,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetWATERFALL FOUNDATION — $74,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetAMERICAN GAS FOUNDATION — $70,000 over 7y, 3.8% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE UTILITY CONSUMER ADVOCATES (NASUCA) — $62,500 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetALLIANCE FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY LLC — $62,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN COUNCIL FOR CAPITAL FORMATION — $60,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetThe Natural Gas Vehicle Coalition — $59,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetCITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBLE ENERGY SOLUTIONS INC — $57,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetThe Bryce Harlow Foundation — $55,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetASSOCIATION OF HOME APPLIANCE MANUFACTURERS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN PETROLEUM INSTITUTE — $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL HOCKEY CHALLENGE — $50,000 over 3y, 39% of budgetNATIONAL CAPITAL AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $45,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPacific Northwest Economic Region Foundation — $40,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $37,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJefferson Island Club Inc — $30,450 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE ENERGY OFFICIALS — $30,350 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION CENTER FOR BEST PRACTICES — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INGAA FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES — $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetResources for the Future Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWESTERN CAUCUS FOUNDATION — $24,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL SPORTSMEN'S FOUNDATION — $21,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetChamber of Commerce of the USA — $20,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Energy Resources Organization Inc — $20,340 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetNational Restaurant Association — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAfrican American Mayors Assocation — $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE WATERFALL FOUNDATION INC — $13,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFORMER MEMBERS OF CONGRESS — $12,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMid Atlantic Conference of Regulatory Utilities Comm Inc — $11,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCSA AMERICA STANDARDS INC — $10,500 over 1y, 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 PARTNERS FOR ENERGY PROGESS
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL CODE COUNCIL INC
  • Who funds THE NATIONAL ENERGY AND UTILITY AFFORDABILITY COALITION
  • Who funds COLORADANS FOR ENERGY ACCESS
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK
  • Who funds COMMON GROUND ALLIANCE
  • Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REGULATORY UTILITY COMMISSIONERS
  • Who funds COUNCIL OF STATE GOVERNMENTS
  • Who funds EDISON ELECTRIC INSTITUTE INC
  • Who funds INDEPENDENT PETROLEUM ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES
  • Who funds CENTER FOR ENERGY WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT
  • Who funds The Economic Club of Washington DC
  • Who funds CONGRESSIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS INSTITUTE INC
  • Who funds NCSL FOUNDATION FOR STATE LEGISLATURES
  • Who funds BUSINESS COUNCIL FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY
  • Who funds ENERGY SOLUTIONS CENTERINC
  • Who funds AMERICAN PUBLIC GAS ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds WATERFALL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds AMERICAN GAS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE UTILITY CONSUMER ADVOCATES (NASUCA)
  • Who funds ALLIANCE FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY LLC
  • Who funds AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR CAPITAL FORMATION
  • Who funds The Natural Gas Vehicle Coalition
  • Who funds CITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBLE ENERGY SOLUTIONS INC
  • Who funds The Bryce Harlow Foundation
  • Who funds ASSOCIATION OF HOME APPLIANCE MANUFACTURERS INC
  • Who funds AMERICAN PETROLEUM INSTITUTE
  • Who funds CONGRESSIONAL HOCKEY CHALLENGE
  • Who funds NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
  • Who funds Pacific Northwest Economic Region Foundation
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC

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.

Edison Electric Institute IncDC65.6× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Edison Electric Institute Inc · Nuclear Energy Institute Inc · American Petroleum Institute · American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers · Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America · AARP · Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund Inc · Biotechnology Innovation Organization · The Pew Charitable Trusts · Croplife America · Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated · National Association of Water Companies

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 American Gas Association 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
202122232425
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    6report 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, FY2025

    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.

    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 80 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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