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Becton Family Foundation Sheila Heatter Trustee

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.

$465k
Granted FY2025still arriving
110
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.1MArts & Culture$935kEnvironment$706kHealth$595kHuman Services$364kCommunity Improvement$192kFood & Nutrition$144kAnimals$126kOther$0
02FY2025 · 110 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k99 grants · $231k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $234k
$2,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$162k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GFWC NAPLES WOMAN'S CLUB$35,000
GEORGE STEVENS ACADEMY$33,000
KNEISEL HALL$25,000
COMMUNITY ARTS MUSIC ASSOCIATION (CAMA)$25,000
KNEISEL HALL$20,000
KNEISEL HALL$20,000
BLUE HILL HERITAGE TRUST$18,000
MAINE COAST HERITAGE TRUST$18,000
JACKSON LABORATORY$15,000
LIFEFLIGHT OF MAINE FOUNDATION$15,000
SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN$10,000
THE WARING SCHOOL$9,000
DEERFIELD ACADEMY$9,000
NORTHERN LIGHT HEALTH FOUNDATION$8,000
BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL TRUST$8,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $132k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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%WELLSPRING HOUSE: $3k → 14%PLAYTIME PROJECT: $500 → 14%EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%FRIENDS IN ACTION: $3k → 11%GROWING GARDENS: $1k → 12%SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN: $26k → 10%GROWING GARDENS: $1k → 12%SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN: $26k → 10%GROWING GARDENS: $500 → 12%FRIENDS IN ACTION: $3k → 11%SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN: $10k → 10%FRIENDS IN ACTION: $3k → 11%FRIENDS IN ACTION: $2k → 11%FRIENDS IN ACTION: $1k → 11%FRIENDS IN ACTION: $1k → 11%FUN TIME EARLY CHILDHOOD ACADEMY: $6k → 10%FRIENDS IN ACTION: $1k → 11%OPIATE FREE ISLAND PARTNERSHIP: $2k → 11%OPIATE FREE ISLAND PARTNERSHIP: $2k → 11%OPIATE FREE ISLAND PARTNERSHIP: $2k → 11%DOWNEAST COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $5k → 11%DOWNEAST COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $5k → 11%DOWNEAST COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $3k → 11%DOWNEAST COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $3k → 11%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

ME
NH
IL
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
VA
MD
DC
AL
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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 13% of Becton Family Foundation Sheila Heatter Trustee’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Becton Family Foundation Sheila Heatter Trusteelessmore 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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.4M · 128 repeat orgs$204k to everyone else

128 repeat relationships: 70 still active in FY2025, 58 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

128
40

Total granted

$4.4M
$177k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+40%

Still filing today

59%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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
EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentRecreation & 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

  • KNEISEL HALL
    8× · 2017–2025 · $301k · revenue +260%
  • Maine Coast Heritage Trust
    9× · 2017–2025 · $249k · revenue +106%
  • BH
    BLUE HILL HERITAGE TRUST
    9× · 2017–2025 · $223k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • EA
    EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -55%
  • CA
    Community Arts Music Association
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
  • SF
    SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Marine Biological Laboratory

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…

Science & Tech
3
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
4
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
5
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
6
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
7
MaineGeneral Health

To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.

Health
8
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
9
Islesboro Islands Trust

The mission of Islesboro Islands Trust is to enhance the quality of residents' lives through the preservation of open space, educate all residents as to the value of the island's natural ecosystems, and act as an environmental advocate on…

Philanthropy
10
Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.

Health
11
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…

Environment
12
Maine Maritime Museum

To connect people to the past, present, and future of Maine's waterways and their global reach.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New England Aquarium Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Island Workforce Housing. 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

100 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. 100 of the 176 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)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
98/100
Grantees still filing
71/100
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GFWC WOMAN'S CLUB: $165,000 · OtherGFWC WOMAN'S CLUBBLUE HILL LIBRARY: $75,000 · OtherTREE OF LIFE FOOD PANTRY: $72,000 · OtherLifeflight of Maine Foundation: $70,000 · OtherPENINSULA AMBULANCE CORPS: $55,000 · OtherNEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION: $117,500 · OtherNEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION+104 more: $1,091,200 · Other+104 moreGeorge Stevens Academy: $313,500 · EducationGeorge Stevens Academ…WARING SCHOOL INC: $171,500 · EducationWARING SCHOOL INCTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $89,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD…Fairleigh Dickinson University: $64,500 · EducationFairleigh Dickinson U…BLUE HILL PUBLIC LIBRARY: $63,500 · EducationBLUE HILL PUBLIC LIBR…CONCORD ACADEMY: $45,300 · EducationNEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $40,000 · Education+13 more: $98,600 · Education+13 moreKNEISEL HALL: $300,500 · Arts & CultureKNEISEL HALLCOMMUNITY ARTS MUSIC ASSOCIATION OF SANTA BARBARA INC: $190,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY ARTS MU…WGBH Educational Foundation: $60,500 · Arts & CultureWGBH Educational …SANTA BARBARA CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureSANTA BARBARA CEN…Maine Museum of Photographic Arts: $39,000 · Arts & CultureMaine Museum of P…LOBERO THEATRE FOUNDATION: $35,000 · Arts & Culture+9 more: $57,400 · Arts & Culture+9 moreMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $248,500 · EnvironmentMaine Coast He…BLUE HILL HERITAGE TRUST: $223,000 · EnvironmentBLUE HILL HERI…SHAW INSTITUTE: $62,500 · EnvironmentSHAW INSTITUTE+5 more: $48,000 · Environment+5 moreTHE JACKSON LABORATORY: $190,500 · HealthTHE JACKSO…Children's Hospital Corporation: $88,000 · HealthChildren's…ISLAND HEALTH & WELLNESS FOUNDATION: $39,000 · HealthISLAND HEA…ISLAND NURSING HOME INC: $35,000 · HealthISLAND NUR…THE BLUE HILL MEMORIAL HOSPITAL NORTHERN LIGHT BLUE HILL HOSPITAL: $30,000 · HealthTHE BLUE H…+8 more: $50,000 · Health+8 moreGFWC NAPLES WOMAN'S CLUB INC: $167,000 · Community ImprovementTHE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN INC: $74,000 · Human ServicesEMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesDOWNEAST COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS IN ACTION: $12,500 · Human ServicesOPIATE FREE ISLAND PARTNERSHIP INC: $8,000 · Human ServicesFun Time Early Childhood Academy Inc: $6,000 · Human Services+3 more: $5,500 · Human Services
Other$1,645,700Education$885,900Arts & Culture$722,400Environment$582,000Health$432,500Community Improvement$167,000Human Services$146,000

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 budgetGeorge Stevens Academy: $313,500 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetKNEISEL HALL: $300,500 over 8y, 4.9% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $248,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetBLUE HILL HERITAGE TRUST: $223,000 over 9y, 3.0% of budgetTHE JACKSON LABORATORY: $190,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ARTS MUSIC ASSOCIATION OF SANTA BARBARA INC: $190,000 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetWARING SCHOOL INC: $171,500 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetGFWC NAPLES WOMAN'S CLUB INC: $167,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetNEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION: $117,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $89,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $88,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN INC: $74,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFairleigh Dickinson University: $64,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE HILL PUBLIC LIBRARY: $63,500 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetSHAW INSTITUTE: $62,500 over 9y, 4.0% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation: $60,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPENINSULA AMBULANCE CORPS: $55,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetCONCORD ACADEMY: $45,300 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Center for Coastal Fisheries: $43,500 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetNEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $40,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $40,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMaine Museum of Photographic Arts: $39,000 over 9y, 9.0% of budgetISLAND HEALTH & WELLNESS FOUNDATION: $39,000 over 9y, 3.1% of budgetLOBERO THEATRE FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetISLAND NURSING HOME INC: $35,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BLUE HILL MEMORIAL HOSPITAL NORTHERN LIGHT BLUE HILL HOSPITAL: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetIsland Institute: $28,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetEMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Community Foundation Inc: $23,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetISLAND WORKFORCE HOUSING: $20,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetOCEANA INC: $19,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank: $18,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART: $17,400 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetNatural Resources Council of Maine Inc: $16,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCOMPASSION & CHOICES: $16,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $16,000 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetCONNECTICUT COLLEGE: $16,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetDOWNEAST COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $15,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHaystack Mountain School of Crafts: $14,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetDowneast Family Young Mens Christian Association: $14,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMEMORIAL AMBULANCE CORPS: $14,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetMaine Farmland Trust: $13,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FNDTN INC: $12,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS IN ACTION: $12,500 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetMORY'S PRESERVATION INC: $12,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetOPERA HOUSE ARTS: $11,500 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetTHE FAY SCHOOL INC: $10,500 over 5y, 0.0% 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 George Stevens Academy ↗
  • Who funds KNEISEL HALL ↗
  • Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
  • Who funds BLUE HILL HERITAGE TRUST ↗
  • Who funds THE JACKSON LABORATORY ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ARTS MUSIC ASSOCIATION OF SANTA BARBARA INC ↗
  • Who funds WARING SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds GFWC NAPLES WOMAN'S CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
  • Who funds THE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds Fairleigh Dickinson University ↗
  • Who funds BLUE HILL PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds SHAW INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds WGBH Educational Foundation ↗
  • Who funds PENINSULA AMBULANCE CORPS ↗
  • Who funds CONCORD ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries ↗
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
  • Who funds SANTA BARBARA CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds Maine Museum of Photographic Arts ↗
  • Who funds ISLAND HEALTH & WELLNESS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LOBERO THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ISLAND NURSING HOME INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BLUE HILL MEMORIAL HOSPITAL NORTHERN LIGHT BLUE HILL HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC ↗
  • Who funds Island Institute ↗

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.

Maine Community Foundation IncME50.2× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · The Clements Family Charitable Trust · Prior Family Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Raymond F and Judith K McCaskey 2003 Charitable Trust · The Martin Foundation · The Thomas B Stanley Jr and Ruth B Stanley Family Foundation Inc · Hickrill Foundation Inc · Lawrence Family Foundation · Onion Foundation · Sasco Foundation Xxxxx0008 · Laurence B Flood 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 Becton Family Foundation Sheila Heatter Trustee funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Becton Family Foundation Sheila Heatter Trustee. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 150%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • New England Aquarium Corporation: 12% of income from government
  • Central City Concern: 10% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Wellspring House Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Growing Gardens: 6% of income from government
  • Fairleigh Dickinson University: 2% of income from government
  • Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Old Dartmouth Historical Society: 2% of income from government
  • The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc: 2% of income from government
  • New England Conservatory of Music: 1% of income from government
  • Wgbh Educational Foundation: 1% of income from government
  • Historic Deerfield Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Connecticut College: 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
15get no government money at all
25report 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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How do I get to Becton Family Foundation Sheila Heatter Trustee?

Find your warmest path to Becton Family Foundation Sheila Heatter Trustee 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 176 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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