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Bluebird Legacy Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
37
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$100k
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.

Arts & Culture$1.6MHuman Services$1.3MEducation$1.1MFood & Nutrition$1.0MInternational$1.0MYouth Development$765kCrime & Legal$708kPhilanthropy$532kOther$0
02FY2024 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k27 grants · $995k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $630k
$40,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$41M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CASA OF ORANGE COUNTY$100,000
DIRECT RELIEF$75,000
TEAM RUBICON$65,000
Individual grant recipient$60,000
ALL HANDS AND HEARTS$60,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF TUSTIN$60,000
LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK$55,000
MEALS ON WHEELS ORANGE COUNTY$55,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY$50,000
FEEDING AMERICA RIVERSIDE AND SAN BERNARDINO COUNTIES$50,000
SAN BERNARDINO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$45,000
PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY OF ORANGE COUNTY$45,000
ACCESS BOOKS$45,000
PACIFIC SYMPHONY$40,000
FAMILIES FORWARD$40,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $928k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 36% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $35k → 10%First Place for Youth: $35k → 10%First Place for Youth: $25k → 10%FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $25k → 10%FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $25k → 10%First Place for Youth: $25k → 10%FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $20k → 10%FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $20k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $8k → 10%COUNCIL ON AGING - SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $40k → 10%HILLSIDES: $35k → 14%hillsides: $35k → 14%hillsides: $30k → 14%hillsides: $25k → 14%HILLSIDES: $15k → 14%HILLSIDES: $15k → 14%Jewish Family Services of Los Angeles: $35k → 14%Jewish Family Services of Los Angeles: $30k → 14%Jewish Family Services of Los Angeles: $25k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF LOS ANGELES: $20k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF LOS ANGELES: $20k → 14%YMCA OF ORANGE COUNTY: $40k → 10%YMCA OF ORANGE COUNTY: $40k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF LOS ANGELES: $20k → 14%YMCA of Orange County: $35k → 10%YMCA of Orange County: $35k → 10%YMCA of Orange County: $30k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF LOS ANGELES: $20k → 14%YMCA OF ORANGE COUNTY: $20k → 10%YMCA OF ORANGE COUNTY: $20k → 10%YMCA OF ORANGE COUNTY: $15k → 10%WESTERN YOUTH SERVICES: $30k → 10%Western Youth Services: $25k → 10%Western Youth Services: $20k → 10%Western Youth Services: $15k → 10%WESTERN YOUTH SERVICES: $10k → 10%WESTERN YOUTH SERVICES: $10k → 10%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
NY
MA
OR
CT
CA
DC
LA
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.0M · 46 repeat orgs$650k to everyone else

46 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
9

Total granted

$8.0M
$400k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+88%

Still filing today

87%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionCivil RightsInternationalOther
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

  • DIRECT RELIEF
    8× · 2017–2024 · $635k · revenue +94%
  • CA
    COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE OF ORANGE COUNTY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $280k · revenue +161%
  • CS
    COMMUNITY SENIORSERV INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $265k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • SC
    SCHWAB CHARITABLE DONOR ADVISED FUND
    one grant, 2019 · $105k
  • RC
    REDWOOD CREDIT UNION COMMUNITY FUND INC
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -96%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
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
The California Channel

To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…

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2
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
3
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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4
League of California Community Foundations

The league of california community foundations promotes and strengthens community foundations in california. through collaboration and shared learning among member foundations and building partnerships with private and public entities, we…

Philanthropy
5
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
6
The California Education Partners

California education partners seeds and grows collaborations among california's school systems, so that they innovate, improve, and build internal capacity as learning organizations in order to close gaps and lead high performing,…

Education
7
California Dental Association

The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.

Community Improvement
8
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
9
California Budget & Policy Center

The budget center provides dependable, timely, policy guidance and public education through our independent research and analysis, public education, strategic collaborations, and communications to expand economic opportunities and promote…

Education
10
California Court Appointed Special Advocate Association

California casa was founded in 1987. its mission is to ensure that children and youth in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems have both a voice and the services they need to thrive. we achieve this by strengthening and empowering…

Civil Rights
11
Los Angeles County Bar Association (Lacba)

Meeting the professional needs of los angeles lawyers, and improving the administration of justice.

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12
Communities in Schools of Los Angeles Inc

To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. we work with public school systems, establishing relationship with superintendents, principals, educators, and community partners to…

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Families Forward; the most unlike its peers is Foodbank of Southern California. 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

52 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. 52 of the 64 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/52
Grantees still filing
45/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FAMILIES FORWARD: $242,500 · OtherFAMILIES FORWARDLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $225,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANKSan Bernardino Symphony Orchestra: $220,000 · OtherSan Bernardino Symphony OrchestraCOUNCIL ON AGING SO CAL: $175,000 · Otherboys & girls club of central oc: $175,000 · OtherCASA OF SAN BERNARDINO: $170,000 · OtherSENECA FAMILY OF AGENCIES: $170,000 · OtherSBP FKA ST BERNARD PROJECT: $125,000 · OtherALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC: $230,000 · OtherALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INCTEAM RUBICON INC: $225,000 · OtherTEAM RUBICON INCBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TUSTIN: $245,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TUSTINJohn Burton Advocates for Youth: $195,000 · OtherDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $157,000 · OtherFOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC: $150,000 · OtherSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $150,000 · Other+16 more: $894,633 · Other+16 moreUCLA FOUNDATION: $534,759 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONACCESS BOOKS: $235,000 · EducationACCESS BOOKSHarmony Project: $205,000 · EducationHarmony ProjectSCHOOL ON WHEELS INC: $190,000 · EducationSCHOOL ON WHEEL…Challenge Success: $114,000 · EducationChallenge Succe…+1 more: $20,000 · EducationPHILHARMONIC SOCIETY OF ORANGE COUNTY: $250,000 · Arts & CulturePHILHARMONIC SO…Pacific Symphony: $235,000 · Arts & CulturePacific Symphon…SOUTH COAST REPERTORY INC: $220,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTH COAST REP…SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $195,000 · Arts & CultureSIMON WIESENTHA…FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $155,000 · Arts & CultureFACING HISTORY …RIVERSIDE COUNTY PHILHARMONIC ASSN INC: $102,500 · Arts & CultureRIVERSIDE COUNT…HOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA: $55,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC: $45,000 · Arts & CultureYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ORANGE COUNTY: $235,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S…FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $210,000 · Human ServicesFIRST PLACE…JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES: $170,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMI…HILLSIDES: $155,000 · Human ServicesHILLSIDESWestern Youth Services: $110,000 · Human ServicesWestern You…COUNCIL ON AGING - SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $40,000 · Human Services+1 more: $7,500 · Human ServicesDIRECT RELIEF: $635,000 · InternationalDIRECT REL…GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $165,000 · InternationalGLOBALGIVI…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $80,000 · InternationalWORLD CENT…COMMUNITY SENIORSERV INC: $265,000 · Food & NutritionFOODBANK OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $170,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding America: $140,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC: $75,000 · Food & NutritionFEEDING AMERICA RIVERSIDE SAN BERNARDINO COUNTIES: $50,000 · Food & NutritionCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE OF ORANGE COUNTY: $280,000 · Civil RightsCASA OF LOS ANGELES: $220,000 · Civil RightsVOICES FOR CHILDREN: $42,500 · Civil RightsLEARNING RIGHTS LAW CENTER: $40,000 · Civil Rights
Other$3,749,133Education$1,298,759Arts & Culture$1,257,500Human Services$927,500International$880,000Food & Nutrition$700,000Civil Rights$582,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $635,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $534,759 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE OF ORANGE COUNTY: $280,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY SENIORSERV INC: $265,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetPHILHARMONIC SOCIETY OF ORANGE COUNTY: $250,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TUSTIN: $245,000 over 8y, 3.8% of budgetFAMILIES FORWARD: $242,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetACCESS BOOKS: $235,000 over 8y, 4.3% of budgetPacific Symphony: $235,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ORANGE COUNTY: $235,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC: $230,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $225,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC: $225,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH COAST REPERTORY INC: $220,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetSan Bernardino Symphony Orchestra: $220,000 over 8y, 11% of budgetCASA OF LOS ANGELES: $220,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetFIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $210,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHarmony Project: $205,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $195,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetJohn Burton Advocates for Youth: $195,000 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetSCHOOL ON WHEELS INC: $190,000 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES: $170,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFOODBANK OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $170,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSENECA FAMILY OF AGENCIES: $170,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $165,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $157,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSIDES: $155,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $155,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC: $150,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding America: $140,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChallenge Success: $114,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetWestern Youth Services: $110,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JED FOUNDATION: $109,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetRIVERSIDE COUNTY PHILHARMONIC ASSN INC: $102,500 over 7y, 7.4% of budgetREDWOOD CREDIT UNION COMMUNITY FUND INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $80,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA: $55,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA RIVERSIDE SAN BERNARDINO COUNTIES: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFUND FOR INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM INC: $45,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetAMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVOICES FOR CHILDREN: $42,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCOUNCIL ON AGING - SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ORANGE COAST: $40,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLEARNING RIGHTS LAW CENTER: $40,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetPARENT INSTITUTE FOR QUALITY EDUCATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT NEWS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 DIRECT RELIEF ↗
  • Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY SENIORSERV INC ↗
  • Who funds PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TUSTIN ↗
  • Who funds FAMILIES FORWARD ↗
  • Who funds ACCESS BOOKS ↗
  • Who funds Pacific Symphony ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH COAST REPERTORY INC ↗
  • Who funds San Bernardino Symphony Orchestra ↗
  • Who funds CASA OF LOS ANGELES ↗
  • Who funds FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH ↗
  • Who funds Harmony Project ↗
  • Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds John Burton Advocates for Youth ↗
  • Who funds SCHOOL ON WHEELS INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES ↗
  • Who funds FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds SENECA FAMILY OF AGENCIES ↗
  • Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
  • Who funds HILLSIDES ↗
  • Who funds FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC ↗
  • Who funds FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
  • Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Feeding America ↗
  • Who funds Challenge Success ↗
  • Who funds Western Youth Services ↗
  • Who funds THE JED FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Orange County Community FoundationCA24.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · California Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Argyros Family Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian · Oneoc · Orange County's United Way · The Rose Hills Foundation · Inland Empire Community 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 Bluebird Legacy Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bluebird Legacy Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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 Bluebird Legacy 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 64 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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