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Atlanta Braves Foundation

The Atlanta Braves Foundation dedicates countless hours to civic and charitable endeavors.

$2.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
66
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$323k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Recreation & Sports$2.9MYouth Development$1.1MHuman Services$793kEducation$680kHousing & Shelter$543kHealth$491kPhilanthropy$456kArts & Culture$381kOther$0
02FY2024 · 66 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 66 grants below total $2,319,287, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,802,017 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $482,730 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k46 grants · $755k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+1 grant · $323k
$17,500
Median grant
13
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MGBA INC$322,578
Habitat for Humanity of Northwest Metro Atlanta Inc$166,000
Atlanta Historical Society Inc$157,516
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SARASOTA and DeSoto Counties$150,000
Tuskegee University$122,000
LEAD Inc$100,000
Tennessee State University Foundation$77,000
Tougaloo College$75,000
LATIN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION INC$60,000
Food Well Alliance$50,000
Cobb Community Foundation Inc$50,000
Good Sports Inc$50,000
Cobb County Safety Village Foundation Inc$50,000
Boys and Girls Club of Lanier$50,000
Second Helpings Atlanta Inc$50,000
02The need
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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 (FY17–24, $957k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $100k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 14%CAMP SOUTHERN GROUND: $30k → 6%OPERATION ONE VOICE INC: $7k → 7%CONNECTING GENERATIONS - STFCC: $10k → 8%MISSISSIPPI URBAN LEAGUE INC: $35k → 23%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $25k → 14%MY WARRIORS PLACE INC: $30k → 13%LEAD: $10k → 6%CAMP SOUTHERN GROUND: $15k → 6%OPERATION ONE VOICE: $7k → 7%AMERICAN RED CROSS- DISASTER RELIEF: $9k → 14%CAMP SOUTHERN GROUND INC: $10k → 6%OPERATION ONE VOICE: $6k → 7%CAMP SOUTHERN GROUND: $10k → 6%OPERATION ONE VOICE INC: $5k → 7%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF ATLANTA INC: $30k → 23%THE CENTER FOR FAMILY RESOURCES INC: $25k → 8%MUST Ministries: $15k → 8%LEAD INC (LAUNCH EXPOSE ADVISE DIRECT): $20k → 23%UNITED MILITARY CARE: $10k → 8%THE TWIG CARES: $28k → 9%THE DAVE KRANCHE FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 8%SWEETWATER MISSION: $20k → 8%The Twig Cares: $10k → 9%SWEETWATER MISSION: $10k → 8%FURNITURE BANK OF METRO ATLANTA INC: $6k → 13%SWEETWATER MISSION INC: $7k → 8%LATIN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION INC: $60k → 13%LATIN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION INC: $50k → 13%LATIN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION: $10k → 13%LATIN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION: $8k → 13%LATIN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION INC: $8k → 13%LATIN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION: $5k → 13%United Methodist Children's Home of the North Georgia Conference: $10k → 14%Ser Familia Inc: $15k → 8%SER FAMILIA INC: $10k → 8%CHRIS 180 Inc: $10k → 14%SER FAMILIA INC: $8k → 8%SER FAMILIA: $5k → 8%LEAD Inc: $100k → 13%LEAD INC (LAUNCH EXPOSE ADVISE DIRECT): $65k → 13%L E A D INC: $8k → 13%L E A D INC: $8k → 13%JM TULL GWINNETT YMCA: $30k → 13%YMCA OF METRO ATLANTA: $30k → 13%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC OF METRO ATL: $10k → 13%JOSEPH AND SARAH CARING FOR VETERANS: $10k → 13%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

IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
MO
VA
TN
NC
DC
MS
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 20% of Atlanta Braves Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 81% of the giving stays in GA; by stated purpose, 64%.

Atlanta Braves Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

49%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.2M · 63 repeat orgs$4.3M to everyone else

63 repeat relationships: 35 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

63
96

Total granted

$4.2M
$3.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+22%

Still filing today

94%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’21’22’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationPhilanthropyHealthRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • MI
    MGBA Inc
    5× · 2019–2024 · $901k · revenue +21% · 49% of their budget
  • LI
    LEAD INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $210k · revenue +281%
  • TR
    TEAM RUBICON INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $208k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • DC
    DEKALB COUNTY GEORGIA
    one grant, 2021 · $1.5M
  • TW
    THE WARRIOR ALLIANCE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $289k · revenue +398% · 38% of their budget
  • FU
    FCS URBAN MINISTRIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +98%
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
Atlanta Community Food Bank Inc

The mission of the atlanta community food bank is to engage, educate and empower our community to fight hunger. our bold goal is to see that all people in our service area have access to the nutritious meals they need when they need them.

Food & Nutrition
2
Atlanta Braves Foundation

The Atlanta Braves Foundation dedicates countless hours to civic and charitable endeavors. Each year with the goals of addressing the needs of our community and enhancing the quality of life for area citizens. The Atlanta Braves Foundation…

Recreation & Sports
3
The Georgia Center for Nonprofits

Our mission is to create thriving communities by helping nonprofits succeed. our work revolves around four primary areas of focus.1. we are a hub for social innovation 2. we are a capacity accelerator for organizations and their people3.…

Community Improvement
4
Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce Inc

The corporation is a voluntary association of individuals and organizations the purposes of which are to upgrade and advance the atlanta metropolitan area in population, commerce and finance; to effect civic and social improvements; to…

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5
Atlanta Community Tennis Foundation

The foundation's mission is to enrich the lives of under-resourced youth through tennis and education. the foundation promotes the physical and mental development of underserved youth, in metro atlanta and surrounding counties, through the…

Recreation & Sports
6
Acfb Support Organization Inc

Acfb support organization, inc., is operated exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes and/or activities of atlanta community food bank, inc., a georgia nonprofit corporation.

Food & Nutrition
7
Atlanta Committee for Progress Inc

ACP is a group committed to identifying and providing leadership on selected issues important to driving the economic development of the city of Atlanta and for which the ACP's active involvement will make a major difference. The ACP has a…

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8
Hope Atlanta Inc

Hope atlanta seeks to help georgians avoid homelessness and hunger through a comprehensive approach that equips them with the tools for lifelong stability.our vision is to end hunger and homelessness for every georgian.

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9
Leadership Atlanta Inc

It is the mission of leadership atlanta to build a better community for everyone in the atlanta region through education about the key issues facing the region and inspiring members and others to take on and exercise real leadership…

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10
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc

To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.

Health
11
Goodwill of the Coastal Empire Inc

Our commitment is to provide the individual support, meaningful training and employment services to people to remove barriers and close skill gaps so that individuals build brighter futures.

Employment
12
Georgia Court Appointed Special Advocates Inc

Georgia Court Appointed Special Advocates, Inc. (the Organization) is a nonprofit organization which strengthens and supports court-sanctioned, affiliate CASA programs that empower community volunteers who advocate for abused or neglected…

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Texas Bankers Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

191 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. 191 of the 192 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)
38
Early backer (in before they grew)
185/191
Grantees still filing
121/191
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DEKALB COUNTY GEORGIA: $1,500,000 · OtherDEKALB COUNTY GEORGIAHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF NORTHWEST METRO ATLANTA INC: $166,000 · OtherTHE WARRIOR ALLIANCE INC: $289,107 · OtherTHE WARRIOR ALLIANCE INCTEAM RUBICON INC: $207,856 · Other+89 more: $1,894,125 · Other+89 moreMGBA Inc: $900,981 · Recreation & SportsMGBA IncVENICE CHALLENGER BASEBALL: $77,500 · Recreation & SportsVENICE CHALLEN…+12 more: $153,621 · Recreation & Sports+12 moreBoys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc: $162,824 · Youth DevelopmentBoys & Girls…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SARASOTA AND DESOTO COUNTIES INC: $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIR…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF LANIER INC: $97,200 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIR…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $90,708 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS…Boy Scouts of America 92 Atlanta Area Council: $87,000 · Youth DevelopmentBoy Scouts o…PLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED: $72,000 · Youth DevelopmentPLAYWORKS ED…BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOY SCOUTS O…GOOD SPORTS INC: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentGirl Scouts of Greater Atlanta Inc: $40,000 · Youth Development+11 more: $178,150 · Youth Development+11 moreLEAD INC: $210,000 · Human ServicesLEAD INCLATIN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION: $140,000 · Human ServicesLATIN AMERIC…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $133,634 · Human ServicesAmerican Nat…YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ATLANTA (1361): $70,200 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S …CAMP SOUTHERN GROUND INC: $65,000 · Human ServicesCAMP SOUTHER…THE TWIG CARES INC: $38,000 · Human ServicesSER FAMILIA: $37,500 · Human ServicesSWEETWATER MISSION INC: $36,500 · Human ServicesMISSISSIPPI URBAN LEAGUE: $34,500 · Human Services+16 more: $219,981 · Human Services+16 moreDONORSCHOOSEORG: $125,000 · EducationTuskegee University: $122,000 · EducationTENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $77,000 · EducationTougaloo College: $75,000 · EducationPiney Woods School: $29,330 · EducationBOOKS FOR KEEPS INC: $28,900 · EducationATLANTA PARTNERSHIP OF BUSINESS AND EDUCATION INC: $27,082 · EducationHUDSON FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · EducationTEXAS BANKERS FOUNDATION: $22,618 · EducationCOBB COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $21,000 · Education+5 more: $57,500 · EducationHANK AARON CHASING THE DREAM FOUNDATION INC: $120,000 · PhilanthropyHands on Atlanta Inc: $98,478 · PhilanthropyTHE GIVING KITCHEN INITIATIVE INC: $80,707 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyCoosawattee Foundation Inc: $42,000 · PhilanthropyTHE GRADY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC: $32,500 · PhilanthropyWELLSTAR FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · Philanthropy+9 more: $121,000 · PhilanthropyATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $157,516 · Arts & CultureCOBB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $155,000 · Arts & CultureARTSNOW INC: $20,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $50,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$4,057,088Recreation & Sports$1,132,102Youth Development$987,882Human Services$985,315Education$610,430Philanthropy$609,685Arts & Culture$382,516

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMGBA Inc: $900,981 over 5y, 49% of budgetTHE WARRIOR ALLIANCE INC: $289,107 over 1y, 38% of budgetLEAD INC: $210,000 over 7y, 5.8% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC: $207,856 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF NORTHWEST METRO ATLANTA INC: $166,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc: $162,824 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $157,516 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCOBB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $155,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SARASOTA AND DESOTO COUNTIES INC: $150,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetLATIN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION: $140,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $133,634 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $125,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTuskegee University: $122,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHANK AARON CHASING THE DREAM FOUNDATION INC: $120,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetFCS URBAN MINISTRIES INC: $100,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetHands on Atlanta Inc: $98,478 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF LANIER INC: $97,200 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $90,708 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HELPINGS ATLANTA INC: $90,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBoy Scouts of America 92 Atlanta Area Council: $87,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GIVING KITCHEN INITIATIVE INC: $80,707 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetVENICE CHALLENGER BASEBALL: $77,500 over 5y, 10% of budgetTENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $77,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTougaloo College: $75,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED: $72,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCure Childhood Cancer Inc: $72,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ATLANTA (1361): $70,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP SUNSHINE INC: $69,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetCAMP SOUTHERN GROUND INC: $65,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetThe Martin Luther King Jr Center For Nonviolent Social Change Inc: $65,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetEDMONDSON TELFORD CENTER FOR CHILDREN I: $63,508 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUSO COUNCIL OF GEORGIA INC: $50,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetGOOD SPORTS INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCobb County Safety Village Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCobb Veterans Memorial Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetFOOD WELL ALLIANCE: $50,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTHE SEQUOYAH FUND INC: $41,801 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetGirl Scouts of Greater Atlanta Inc: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TWIG CARES INC: $38,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetSER FAMILIA: $37,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSWEETWATER MISSION INC: $36,500 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Atlanta Inc: $35,300 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GRADY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGIA FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURE INC: $35,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetMISSISSIPPI URBAN LEAGUE: $34,500 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetATLANTA CHILDREN'S SHELTER INCORPORATED: $33,150 over 4y, 0.7% 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.

Georgia Power Foundation IncGA80.2× affinity54 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · The Imlay Foundation Inc · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · THDF II Inc DBA The Home Depot Foundation & Homer Fund · Waffle House Foundation Inc · Ryan Ida Alice Tuw Main

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Child Protection Center Inc: 8% of income from government
  • All Faiths Food Bank Inc: 1% of income from government
  • United Way Suncoast Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
40report 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.

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 192 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 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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