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Bank of Utica Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$605k
Granted FY2025still arriving
114
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$960kArts & Culture$813kPhilanthropy$429kHuman Services$428kEducation$264kHousing & Shelter$190kCommunity Improvement$177kAnimals$106kOther$0
02FY2025 · 114 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k102 grants · $203k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $220k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $183k
$1,100
Median grant
1
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MOHAWK VALLEY HEALTH SYSTEM (MVHS)$100,000
MUNSON WILLIAMS PROCTOR ARTS INSTITUTE$82,500
CNY COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL INC (THE STANLEY)$40,000
Individual grant recipient$35,000
UNITED WAY OF THE MOHAWK VALLEY INC$30,000
YWCA MOHAWK VALLEY$27,500
ICAN INC (FOR THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM)$25,000
MOHAWK VALLEY EDGE$17,000
JCTOD OUTREACH (JOHNSON PARK CTR)$15,000
RESCUE MISSON OF UTICA$10,000
UTICA UNIVERSITY$10,000
CENTRAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND INC$10,000
THE ONE CHARITY GOLF (UFCW)$9,000
UTICA PUBLIC LIBRARY$9,000
BROADWAY THEATRE LEAGUE$8,200
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $122k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FREEDOM GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $500 → 16%FREEDOM GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $500 → 16%FREEDOM GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $500 → 16%RESCUE MISSION: $10k → 16%RESCUE MISSION: $9k → 16%RESCUE MISSION: $7k → 16%RESCUE MISSION: $7k → 16%RESCUE MISSION: $6k → 16%RESCUE MISSION: $6k → 16%RESOURCE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $5k → 16%RESOURCE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $4k → 16%COMPASSION COALITION: $3k → 16%COMPASSION COALITION: $3k → 16%COMPASSION COALITION: $3k → 16%FOR THE GOOD INC: $3k → 16%FOR THE GOOD: $3k → 16%FOR THE GOOD: $3k → 16%FOR THE GOOD: $3k → 16%FOR THE GOOD: $2k → 16%FOR THE GOOD: $2k → 16%THEA BOWMAN HOUSE: $2k → 16%THE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $2k → 16%THE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $2k → 16%FOR THE GOOD INC: $2k → 16%RESOURCE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $2k → 16%CENTER FOR FAMILY LIFE & RECOVERY: $2k → 16%CENTER FOR FAMILY LIFE & RECOVERY: $2k → 16%CENTER FOR FAMILY LIFE & RECOVERY: $2k → 16%THE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $1k → 16%CENTER FOR FAMILY LIFE & RECOVERY: $1k → 16%THE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $1k → 16%EMPOWERED PATHWAYS: $1k → 16%HOUSE OF THE GOOD SHEPARD: $1k → 16%FOR THE GOOD: $1k → 16%HOUSE OF THE GOOD SHEPARD: $1k → 16%CENTRAL NEW YORK COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS: $1k → 16%HOUSE OF THE GOOD SHEPARD: $1k → 16%FOR THE GOOD INC: $1k → 16%UPSTATE CARING PARTNERS: $1k → 16%RESOURCE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $1k → 16%THE HOUSE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD: $1k → 16%HOUSE OF THE GOOD SHEPARD: $1k → 16%THE HOUSE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD: $1k → 16%CENTER FOR FAMILY LIFE & RECOVERY: $1k → 16%THE HOUSE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD: $1k → 16%HOUSE OF THE GOOD SHEPARD: $1k → 16%HOUSE OF THE GOOD SHEPARD: $1k → 16%THE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $800 → 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.
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.3M · 157 repeat orgs$151k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

157 repeat relationships: 101 still active in FY2025, 56 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

157
31

Total granted

$4.3M
$144k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+19%

Still filing today

39%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEducationHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • CA
    CENTRAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $111k · revenue +84%
  • UZ
    UTICA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $102k · revenue +40%
  • UP
    UTICA PUBLIC LIBRARY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $71k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • MV
    MOHAWK VALLEY HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $110k · revenue -8%
  • GW
    GREATER WINFIELD MEDICAL BUILDING INC
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • TE
    TEMPLE EMANU-EL
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Baggs Square Association Inc
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Syracuse Urban Partnership Inc
Philanthropy
3
Unity House of Cayuga County Inc

Unity house's mission is to empower and enrich the lives of people in recovery, coping with a mental illness, and/or diagnosed with a developmental disability. this is accomplished by offering supports and services in an inclusive,…

Health
4
Utica Industrial Development Corp

The purpose of this organization is to encourage the location and expansion of industrial and manufacturing capacity. in addition, the corporation strives for the creation of new and improved job opportunities in the city of utica and the…

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5
Greater Utica Chamber of Commerce

Membership activities- maintain a climate which encourages and assists businesses to locate, grow and prosper in the mohawk valley of new york state.

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6
Upstate Minority Economic Alliance Inc

Our mission is to establish a small, cooperative community in upstate & central new york where the most driven individuals can network, acquire and share priceless talents, and develop both personally and professionally. as a result, we…

Community Improvement
7
Upper Albany Main Street Program Inc

We preserve, revitalize, and support the commercial district, creating a center of choiceby collaborating with residents and stakeholders to foster a successful community.

Community Improvement
8
United Way of Central New York Inc

To improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of our community.

Philanthropy
9
Cny Arts Center Inc

The organization's mission is to offer training and educational opportunities in artistic skills and technique; and present programming in visual, literary and performing arts.

Arts & Culture
10
Center for the Arts of Homer Inc

Providing cultural and educational programs to the homer, new york community. to enhance the quality of life for the people of the central new york community that preserves and enriches local culture and provides stewardship for a…

Arts & Culture
11
Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporation

To sustain the economic revitalization of all communities in upper manhattan through job creation, corporate alliances, strategic investments, and small business assistance.

Community Improvement
12
Advocates for Upstate Medical University University Hospital Inc

Advocates for upstate medical university/university hospital was formed to promote and advance the welfare of upstate medical university, a campus of suny, which is an agency of the state of ny. upstate includes university hospital as well…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Neighborhood Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Proctor Football Boosters 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

82 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. 82 of the 201 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)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
78/82
Grantees still filing
54/82
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $435,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMOHAWK VALLEY HEALTH SYSTEMS: $300,000 · OtherMOHAWK VALLEY HEALTH SYSTEMSMOHAWK VALLEY HEALTH SYSTEM (MVHS): $300,000 · OtherMOHAWK VALLEY HEALTH SYSTEM (MVHS)Individual grant recipient: $209,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNITED WAY: $163,000 · OtherECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT GROWTH ENTERPRISES CORPORATION: $136,500 · OtherCNY COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL INC (THE STANLEY): $120,000 · Other+143 more: $1,508,040 · Other+143 moreMUNSON-WILLIAMS-PROCTOR ARTS INSTITUTE: $330,000 · Arts & CultureMUNSON-WILL…THE BOILERMAKER ROAD RACE INC: $54,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BOILERM…ONEIDA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $20,000 · Arts & Culture+15 more: $68,380 · Arts & Culture+15 moreCENTRAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND INC: $111,000 · HealthMOHAWK VALLEY HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $110,000 · HealthHOPE HOUSE INC: $47,500 · HealthKELBERMAN CENTER INC: $10,000 · Health+1 more: $1,800 · HealthUNITED WAY OF THE MOHAWK VALLEY INC: $87,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION INC: $74,400 · PhilanthropyTHE WOMENS FUND OF HERKIMER & ONEIDA COUNTY INC: $8,000 · PhilanthropyUTICA UNIVERSITY: $106,000 · EducationON POINT FOR COLLEGE INC: $22,500 · EducationUTICA MONDAY NITE CORPORATION: $17,500 · Education+2 more: $2,500 · EducationTHE RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE OF SYRACUSE: $44,500 · Human ServicesFOR THE GOOD INC: $19,000 · Human ServicesRESOURCE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC: $11,500 · Human ServicesCOMPASSION COALITION INC: $9,000 · Human ServicesHOUSE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD: $9,000 · Human ServicesRCIL INC: $8,750 · Human ServicesTHE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $8,550 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR FAMILY LIFE AND RECOVERY INC: $7,100 · Human ServicesTHEA BOWMAN HOUSE INC: $5,250 · Human Services+6 more: $8,250 · Human ServicesUTICA NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICE INC: $67,500 · Housing & ShelterJCTOD OUTREACH INC D/B/A JOHNSON PARK CENTER: $31,500 · Housing & ShelterTHE UTICA CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENT INC: $24,400 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $2,200 · Housing & Shelter
Other$3,172,040Arts & Culture$472,380Health$280,300Philanthropy$169,400Education$148,500Human Services$130,900Housing & Shelter$125,600

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMUNSON-WILLIAMS-PROCTOR ARTS INSTITUTE: $330,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT GROWTH ENTERPRISES CORPORATION: $136,500 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetCENTRAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND INC: $111,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMOHAWK VALLEY HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $110,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetUTICA UNIVERSITY: $106,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUTICA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $101,500 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE MOHAWK VALLEY INC: $87,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION INC: $74,400 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetUTICA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $70,500 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetUTICA NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICE INC: $67,500 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetSCULPTURE SPACE INC: $55,000 over 9y, 4.1% of budgetTHE BOILERMAKER ROAD RACE INC: $54,000 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetHOPE HOUSE INC: $47,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE OF SYRACUSE: $44,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetABRAHAM HOUSE: $33,750 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetJCTOD OUTREACH INC D/B/A JOHNSON PARK CENTER: $31,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTHE RESCUE MISSION OF UTICA INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBusiness Training Institute Inc: $27,900 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetCENTRAL NEW YORK CONSERVANCY: $27,000 over 6y, 8.6% of budgetTHE UTICA CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENT INC: $24,400 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetON POINT FOR COLLEGE INC: $22,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetONEIDA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $20,000 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetMOHAWK VALLEY LATINO ASSOCIATION: $19,200 over 9y, 3.6% of budgetFOR THE GOOD INC: $19,000 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetLANDMARKS SOCIETY OF GREATER UTICA INC: $18,450 over 9y, 4.5% of budgetUTICA MONDAY NITE CORPORATION: $17,500 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetMID UTICA NEIGHBORHOOD PRESERVATION CORPORATION: $16,250 over 9y, 32% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION INC: $16,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetTHE MIDTOWN UTICA COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $13,500 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetRESOURCE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC: $11,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMOHAWK VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS INC D/B/A MOHAWK VALLEY BALLET: $10,900 over 7y, 19% of budget4 ELEMENTS STUDIO INC: $10,250 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetKELBERMAN CENTER INC: $10,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPASSION COALITION INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD: $9,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $8,550 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WOMENS FUND OF HERKIMER & ONEIDA COUNTY INC: $8,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ARC FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetCENTER FOR FAMILY LIFE AND RECOVERY INC: $7,100 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUPTOWN THEATER FOR CREATIVE ARTS INC: $6,250 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetROME ART AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $6,050 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetPLAYERS OF UTICA INC: $5,380 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetTHEA BOWMAN HOUSE INC: $5,250 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetHUMAN TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION: $5,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUTICA ROAD RUNNERS INC: $4,250 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetOlmsted City of Greater Utica Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetHOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE INC: $4,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFreedom Guide Dogs for the Blind Inc: $2,750 over 7y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds MUNSON-WILLIAMS-PROCTOR ARTS INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT GROWTH ENTERPRISES CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
  • Who funds MOHAWK VALLEY HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UTICA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UTICA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE MOHAWK VALLEY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION INC ↗
  • Who funds UTICA PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds UTICA NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds SCULPTURE SPACE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BOILERMAKER ROAD RACE INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE OF SYRACUSE ↗
  • Who funds ABRAHAM HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds JCTOD OUTREACH INC D/B/A JOHNSON PARK CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE RESCUE MISSION OF UTICA INC ↗
  • Who funds Business Training Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL NEW YORK CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds THE UTICA CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds ON POINT FOR COLLEGE INC ↗

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.

The Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties IncNY135.6× affinity67 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties Inc · Utica National Group Foundation Inc · Joseph and Inez E Carbone Foundation · Indium Corporation and Macartney Family Foundation Inc · The James H Wurz Jr and Edward T Wurz Sr Foundation · Hazen B Hinman Sr Foundation Inc · United Way of the Mohawk Valley Inc · UpMobility Foundation Inc · The Rob Esche Save of the Day Foundation Inc · Edwin J Wadas Foundation Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · The Jeremiah O McCarthy Family Foundation 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 Bank of Utica Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bank of Utica Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%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
    0get no government money at all
    27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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    Find your warmest path to Bank of Utica 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 201 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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