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Beth and Ravenel Curry Foundation

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.

$56M
Granted FY2025still arriving
143
Grants FY2025still arriving
28
States reached
$5.0M
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.

Education$95MSocial Science$41MPhilanthropy$33MArts & Culture$18MPublic Benefit$14MCivil Rights$14MYouth Development$3.4MHuman Services$3.4MOther$0
02FY2025 · 143 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $165k
  • $50k–250k68 grants · $8.4M
  • $250k+67 grants · $47M
$200,000
Median grant
28
States reached
$513M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND$5,000,000
AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE$4,991,000
HUDSON INSTITUTE$3,150,000
VELA EDUCATION FUND$2,000,000
KHAN ACADEMY$2,000,000
ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY$2,000,000
STAND TOGETHER FOUNDATION$2,000,000
FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION$1,500,000
STATE POLICY NETWORK$1,500,000
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS$1,250,000
BILL OF RIGHTS INSTITUTE$1,250,000
SILICON SCHOOLS FUND$1,000,000
HETERODOX ACADEMY$1,000,000
GREAT HEARTS ACADEMIES$750,000
CRISTO REY NETWORK$600,000
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, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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%HOPE WOMEN'S CENTER: $25k → 11%FROST VALLEY YMCA: $30k → 16%BETTER TOGETHER: $200k → 10%HOPE WOMEN'S CENTER: $25k → 11%FROST VALLEY YMCA: $30k → 16%HOPE WOMEN'S CENTER: $25k → 11%FROST VALLEY YMCA: $30k → 16%BETTER TOGETHER: $100k → 10%BETTER TOGETHER: $50k → 10%FROST VALLEY YMCA: $25k → 16%FROST VALLEY YMCA: $25k → 16%BETTER TOGETHER: $50k → 10%FROST VALLEY YMCA: $15k → 16%GUADALUPE CENTER: $50k → 10%GUADALUPE CENTER: $50k → 10%NATIONAL HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE ORGANIZATION: $100 → 9%LET GROW: $200k → 17%LET GROW: $200k → 17%LET GROW: $200k → 17%LET GROW: $200k → 17%LET GROW: $200k → 17%LET GROW: $125k → 17%LET GROW: $125k → 17%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

VT
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
WV
VA
MD
AZ
NM
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$208M · 184 repeat orgs$14M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

184 repeat relationships: 98 still active in FY2025, 86 since wound down; 35 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

184
69

Total granted

$208M
$5.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+21%

Still filing today

77%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8.8M 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 & CulturePublic BenefitPhilanthropyHealthHuman ServicesOther
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

  • AE
    AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH
    9× · 2017–2025 · $29M · revenue +0%
  • TR
    THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $7.1M · revenue +33%
  • HI
    Hudson Institute Inc
    8× · 2017–2025 · $6.8M · revenue +242%

Funded once

  • CF
    CITY FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue -49%
  • OY
    ON YOUR MARK EDUCATION
    one grant, 2024 · $300k
  • CE
    CAMBIAR EDUCATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +102%
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
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
2
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
3
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
4
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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5
Boston Architectural College

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

—
6
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
7
New Classrooms Innovation Partners Inc

To create and inspire better ways to give every student an educational foundation for lifelong success. we imagine a world where every student attends a school that meets them where they are, adapts to the unique ways they learn, and…

Education
8
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
9
National Association of Independent Schools Inc

As the largest association of independent schools, nais co-creates the future of education by uniting and empowering our community. we do this through thought leadership, research, creation and curation of resources, and direct…

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10
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
11
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
12
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Success Academy Charter Schools Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Drexel Fund. 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

205 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. 205 of the 296 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)
47
Early backer (in before they grew)
202/205
Grantees still filing
141/205
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $7,059,750 · EducationTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITYEQUITABLE FACILITIES FUND INC: $6,000,000 · EducationEQUITABLE FACILITIES FUND INCKHAN ACADEMY INC: $6,000,000 · EducationKHAN ACADEMY INCSUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS - NYC: $4,599,490 · EducationSUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOO…SILICON SCHOOLS FUND INC: $3,500,000 · EducationSILICON SCHOOLS FUND INC+54 more: $37,384,000 · Education+54 moreCHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND: $20,100,000 · PhilanthropyCHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CH…VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $19,000,000 · PhilanthropyVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOW…VELA EDUCATION FUND: $6,100,000 · PhilanthropyVELA EDUCATION FUNDBRADLEY IMPACT FUND INC: $3,500,000 · PhilanthropyBRADLEY IMPACT FUND INC+8 more: $6,690,000 · Philanthropy+8 moreHudson Institute Inc: $6,801,000 · OtherHudson Institute IncBRADLEY IMPACT FUND DAF: $5,750,000 · OtherBRADLEY IMPACT FUND DAFThe Frick Collection: $2,850,000 · OtherBill of Rights Institute: $2,600,000 · OtherATLAS NETWORK: $2,525,000 · Other+93 more: $41,276,871 · Other+93 moreAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $28,735,500 · Social ScienceAMERICAN ENTE…+4 more: $1,125,000 · Social ScienceNew York Historical Society: $4,216,570 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK HALL OF SCIENCE: $2,470,550 · Arts & CultureVMTS EDUCATION INC: $2,250,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER: $1,450,000 · Arts & CultureTHE YOUNG PEOPLE'S CHORUS OF NEW YORK CITY INC: $1,300,000 · Arts & CultureROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC: $1,173,378 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $953,456 · Arts & CultureFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC: $4,550,000 · Civil RightsSTATE POLICY NETWORK: $3,000,000 · Civil RightsINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $1,200,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR THE RIGHTS OF ABUSED CHILDREN: $425,000 · Civil Rights+2 more: $400,000 · Civil RightsCATO INSTITUTE: $2,050,000 · Public BenefitStand Together Foundation: $2,000,000 · Public BenefitMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC: $1,696,963 · Public BenefitLibertas Network: $975,000 · Public BenefitMACKINAC CENTER: $750,000 · Public BenefitBARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $625,000 · Public BenefitILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE: $575,000 · Public BenefitPELICAN INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $475,000 · Public Benefit+1 more: $150,000 · Public Benefit
Education$64,543,240Philanthropy$55,390,000Other$61,802,871Social Science$29,860,500Arts & Culture$13,813,954Civil Rights$9,575,000Public Benefit$9,296,963

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%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $28,735,500 over 9y, 11% of budgetCHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND: $20,100,000 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $7,059,750 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetHudson Institute Inc: $6,801,000 over 8y, 17% of budgetVELA EDUCATION FUND: $6,100,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetEQUITABLE FACILITIES FUND INC: $6,000,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetKHAN ACADEMY INC: $6,000,000 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetSUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS - NYC: $4,599,490 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC: $4,550,000 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetNew York Historical Society: $4,216,570 over 9y, 2.7% of budgetSILICON SCHOOLS FUND INC: $3,500,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetBRADLEY IMPACT FUND INC: $3,500,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetSTATE POLICY NETWORK: $3,000,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetThe Frick Collection: $2,850,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetBill of Rights Institute: $2,600,000 over 5y, 7.9% of budgetNEW YORK HALL OF SCIENCE: $2,470,550 over 9y, 6.3% of budgetVMTS EDUCATION INC: $2,250,000 over 6y, 24% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE: $2,050,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetTHE DREXEL FUND: $1,960,000 over 5y, 9.5% of budgetVERTEX PARTNERSHIP ACADEMIES INC: $1,850,000 over 5y, 63% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $1,750,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC: $1,696,963 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetHETERODOX ACADEMY: $1,530,000 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetCALVIN COOLIDGE PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION INC: $1,500,000 over 9y, 6.1% of budgetGREATHEARTS ARIZONA: $1,500,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetPASSAGES AMERICA ISRAEL INC: $1,500,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetSUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC: $1,500,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE: $1,485,000 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetNATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER: $1,450,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetGeorgia Center for Opportunity Inc: $1,350,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN INC: $1,350,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetTHE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES: $1,300,000 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetSETON EDUCATION PARTNERS: $1,300,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetTHE YOUNG PEOPLE'S CHORUS OF NEW YORK CITY INC: $1,300,000 over 8y, 6.0% of budgetLET GROW INC: $1,250,000 over 7y, 22% of budgetUATX: $1,220,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $1,200,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC: $1,173,378 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetTHE CHILDRENS SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $1,125,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetCOMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE: $1,100,000 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetTHE AMERICAN EXCHANGE PROJECT INC: $1,100,000 over 4y, 22% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR INNER CITY EDUCATION DBA PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS: $1,100,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetEmergent Order Foundation Inc: $1,100,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetCITY FUND: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $975,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLibertas Network: $975,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetSTUDENTSPONSOR PARTNERS INC: $900,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetThe Buckeye Institute: $900,000 over 5y, 5.5% 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 AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds CHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND ↗
  • Who funds VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Hudson Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds VELA EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds EQUITABLE FACILITIES FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds KHAN ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS - NYC ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC ↗
  • Who funds New York Historical Society ↗
  • Who funds SILICON SCHOOLS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds BRADLEY IMPACT FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds STATE POLICY NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds The Frick Collection ↗
  • Who funds Bill of Rights Institute ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK HALL OF SCIENCE ↗
  • Who funds VMTS EDUCATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Stand Together Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE DREXEL FUND ↗
  • Who funds VERTEX PARTNERSHIP ACADEMIES INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
  • Who funds MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC ↗
  • Who funds HETERODOX ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds CALVIN COOLIDGE PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATHEARTS ARIZONA ↗
  • Who funds PASSAGES AMERICA ISRAEL INC ↗
  • Who funds SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Georgia Center for Opportunity Inc ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES ↗
  • Who funds SETON EDUCATION PARTNERS ↗

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 Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation IncWI81.8× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Donors Trust Inc · The Seminar Network Inc · Walton Family Foundation Inc · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · State Policy Network · Adolph Coors Foundation · Atlas Economic Research Foundation · Charles Koch Foundation · The Roe Foundation · Charles Koch Institute · John William Pope Foundation

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 Beth and Ravenel Curry Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Beth and Ravenel Curry Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 190%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • The Dream Program Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Bridges Outreach Inc: 25% of income from government
  • The Discovery Orchestra Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Thread Inc: 12% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Family Promise Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Rising Tide Capital Inc and Subsidiaries: 2% of income from government
  • Zearn: 0% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Guadalupe Center Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
19get no government money at all
27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 Beth and Ravenel Curry Foundation 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 296 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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