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Ann B Zekauskas Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$298k
Granted FY2025still arriving
45
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 FY2018–2025.

Food & Nutrition$1.1MEmployment$364kEducation$307kHuman Services$122kPublic Safety & Disaster$103kEnvironment$64kAnimals$53kArts & Culture$14kOther$0
02FY2025 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k30 grants · $77k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $221k
$5,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$6.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHEF ANN FOUNDATION$30,000
EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD NEW YORK$25,000
CAREERS THROUGH CULINARY ARTS PROGRAM INC$24,000
MERCY CAREER & TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL$20,000
OZARKS TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$15,000
ST CHARLES COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$13,000
VETRI FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN$12,000
CAREERS THROUGH CULINARY ARTS PROGRAM INC$12,000
VETRI FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN$10,000
LAND TO LEARN INC$10,000
CAREERS THROUGH CULINARY ARTS PROGRAM INC$10,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCORPORATED$10,000
LAKE CAREER TECHNICAL CENTER$10,000
METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$10,000
COMMON THREADS$10,000
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 (FY18–25, $82k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 28% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FOOD BACKPACKS 4 KIDS: $10k → 9%CATHEDRAL SOUP KITCHEN INC: $5k → 12%CHOPCHOP FAMILY INC: $31k → 8%CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE DIOCESE OF SCRANTO: $1k → 13%FOOD BACKPACKS 4 KIDS: $8k → 9%CATHEDRAL SOUP KITCHEN INC: $5k → 12%CHOPCHOP FAMILY INC: $10k → 8%CATHEDRAL SOUP KITCHEN INC: $5k → 12%CATHEDRAL SOUP KITCHEN INC: $4k → 12%CATHEDRAL SOUP KITCHEN INC: $3k → 12%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

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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.

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Where the work is directed

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

About 5% of Ann B Zekauskas Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Ann B Zekauskas Family Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 6.0% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.0M · 45 repeat orgs$237k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

45 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
34

Total granted

$2.0M
$194k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+17%

Still filing today

91%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Food & NutritionEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesAnimalsPhilanthropyOther

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

  • CT
    CAREERS THROUGH CULINARY ARTS PROGRAM DBA CULINARY CAREERS PROGRAM
    7× · 2019–2025 · $239k · revenue +9%
  • CA
    CHEF ANN FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $135k · revenue ×15
  • CT
    COMMON THREADS
    7× · 2019–2025 · $126k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $21k
  • Feeding Americagraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $13k · revenue +40%
  • TR
    TEAM RUBICON INC
    one grant, 2019 · $12k · revenue -7%

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.

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Chester County Food Bank

We mobilize and educate our community to ensure equitable access to nutritious and familiar food. we do this by raising, and soliciting funds for the acquisition, storage, growing, collection and distribution of food to low income citizens…

Food & Nutrition
2
Nashville Food Project Inc

The nashville food project brings people together to grow, cook, and share nourishing food, with the goals of cultivating community and alleviating hunger in our city.

Food & Nutrition
3
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
4
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition
5
Community Food Bank of New Jersey Inc

We serve as a champion for addressing the root causes of hunger, delivering neighbor-centric solutions, and fostering collaborative partnerships across all sectors of society for New Jersey.

Food & Nutrition
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The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition
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The Food Bank for Larimer County

To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.

Food & Nutrition
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Food Bank Association of New York State

The mission of feeding new york state is to lead a unified effort for a hunger-free state of new york. the mission of food banking is to obtain food and deliver it to emergency food programs. feeding new york state works to end hunger by…

Food & Nutrition
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The Maryland Food Bank Inc

The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.

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Philabundance

PHILABUNDANCE WAS FOUNDED IN 1984 WITH THE SIMPLE BELIEF THAT NO ONE SHOULD GO HUNGRY WHILE HEALTHY FOOD GOES TO WASTE. OUR MISSION IS TO DRIVE HUNGER FROM OUR COMMUNITIES TODAY AND TO END HUNGER FOR GOOD. We have a commitment to always…

Food & Nutrition
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Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc

Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.

Food & Nutrition
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North Texas Food Bank

To close the hunger gap in north texas by working through over 500 feeding partners to provide access to nutritious food and address the root causes of hunger.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dogwood Animal Shelter Inc. 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 backsteadyCommunity College Foundatio…Community FoundationsAffordable Housing Developm…Independent K-12 SchoolsEnvironmental Conservation …Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community Arts CentersAnimal Rescue and ShelterLocal Food System Organizat…Military Veterans SupportSenior Support ServicesDomestic Violence ServicesDevelopmental Disabilities …Food Banks and Pantries
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 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%27%10–20yr16%11%20–35yr13%32%35–55yr16%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%39%10–20yr16%34%20–35yr13%16%35–55yr16%7%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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%0/82
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,483

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.

05the grantee network

77 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. 77 of the 89 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
77/77
Grantees still filing
50/77
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD NEW YORK — $190,875 · EducationEDIBLE SCHOOLYARD NEW YOR…CHEF ANN FOUNDATION — $135,000 · EducationCHEF ANN FOUNDATIONFOOD EDUCATION FUND INC — $56,275 · EducationFOOD EDUCATION FUND INCMETROPOLITAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $45,000 · EducationMETROPOLITAN COMMUNITY CO…THE FOOD AND BEVERAGE SCHOLARSHIP FOUDNATION INC — $35,875 · EducationTHE FOOD AND BEVERAGE SCH…+6 more — $30,000 · Education+6 moreCOLUMBIA AREA CAREER CTR — $94,750 · OtherCOLUMBIA AREA CAREER CTRST CHARLES COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $78,000 · OtherST CHARLES COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATI…HAPPY ORGANIZATION — $52,000 · OtherHAPPY ORGANIZATIONST MARY INTERPAROCHIAL SCHOOL — $28,000 · OtherWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $93,000 · OtherWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCCHOPCHOP FAMILY INC — $41,000 · OtherCHOPCHOP FAMILY INCOZARKS TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $60,000 · OtherOZARKS TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FO…HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI — $26,500 · Other+39 more — $266,356 · Other+39 moreGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $68,600 · Food & NutritionGREATER PITTSBURG…LAND TO LEARN — $40,000 · Food & NutritionLAND TO LEARNOZARKS FOOD HARVEST INC — $35,000 · Food & NutritionOZARKS FOOD HARVE…HOPE HOUSE OF MILLER COUNTY INC — $31,800 · Food & NutritionHOPE HOUSE OF MIL…THE FOOD TRUST — $27,500 · Food & NutritionTHE FOOD TRUSTThe Lands at Hillside Farms — $21,000 · Food & NutritionThe Lands at Hill…Feeding America — $12,500 · Food & NutritionFeeding the Gulf Coast — $12,500 · Food & NutritionFOOD LINK INC — $11,750 · Food & Nutrition+11 more — $72,500 · Food & Nutrition+11 moreCAREERS THROUGH CULINARY ARTS PROGRAM DBA CULINARY CAREERS PROGRAM — $239,475 · EmploymentCAREERS THRO…LACLEDE INDUSTRIES — $10,000 · EmploymentGREENER PARTNERS — $98,000 · EnvironmentHARLEM GROWN INC — $41,000 · Environment+1 more — $1,000 · EnvironmentCOMMON THREADS — $125,875 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $2,985 · Arts & CultureVETRI FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN — $122,000 · Health+1 more — $500 · Health
Education$493,025Other$739,606Food & Nutrition$333,150Employment$249,475Environment$140,000Arts & Culture$128,860Health$122,500

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 budgetCAREERS THROUGH CULINARY ARTS PROGRAM DBA CULINARY CAREERS PROGRAM — $239,475 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetEDIBLE SCHOOLYARD NEW YORK — $190,875 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetCHEF ANN FOUNDATION — $135,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetCOMMON THREADS — $125,875 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetVETRI FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN — $122,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetGREENER PARTNERS — $98,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $93,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetST CHARLES COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $78,000 over 4y, 8.4% of budgetGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $68,600 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOZARKS TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetFOOD EDUCATION FUND INC — $56,275 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetMETROPOLITAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $45,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCHOPCHOP FAMILY INC — $41,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetHARLEM GROWN INC — $41,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLAND TO LEARN — $40,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetTHE FOOD AND BEVERAGE SCHOLARSHIP FOUDNATION INC — $35,875 over 2y, 51% of budgetOZARKS FOOD HARVEST INC — $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE HOUSE OF MILLER COUNTY INC — $31,800 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetTHE FOOD TRUST — $27,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI — $26,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CATHEDRAL SOUP KITCHEN INC — $21,731 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Lands at Hillside Farms — $21,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetKENOSHA FORGOTTEN FRIENDS INC — $19,000 over 7y, 4.8% of budgetFOOD BACKPACKS 4 KIDS — $18,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION OF SOUTHOLD TOWN INC — $17,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFeeding America — $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMISSION ON ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY OF LUZERNE COUNTY — $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC — $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD LINK INC — $11,750 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLACLEDE INDUSTRIES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY KITCHEN PITTSBURGH — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CAJUN NAVY RELIEF INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOL — $8,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCITIZENS AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE — $8,400 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFEEDING WESTCHESTER INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD4KIDZ INC — $7,500 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL NEW YORK — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE FOOD PROGRAM — $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSprouts Chef Training — $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALLEN COMMUNITY OUTREACH — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKID PACK INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

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 Philadelphia Foun…Connelly FoundationThe William Penn Foun…The Leo and Peggy Pie…W W Smith Charitable …Wsfs Cares FoundationThe Cigna Group Found…Jacques Pepin Foundat…The Daniel B and Flor…C F Holdship Charitab…The Gordon Charter Fo…The Luzerne Foundation
The Philadelphia FoundationPA18.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · Connelly Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · The Leo and Peggy Pierce Family Foundation Inc · W W Smith Charitable Trust · Wsfs Cares Foundation · The Cigna Group Foundation · Jacques Pepin Foundation The · The Daniel B and Florence E Green Foundation · C F Holdship Charitable Trust · The Gordon Charter Foundation · The Luzerne Foundation

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 Ann B Zekauskas Family Foundation Inc 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.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • World Learning Inc — 39% of income from government
  • Food Link Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Star of the Sea Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
29report 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

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.

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How do I get to Ann B Zekauskas Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Ann B Zekauskas Family Foundation Inc 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 89 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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