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Bob & Felicia Burger Family Foundation at a glance

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Bob & Felicia Burger Family 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.

$220k
Granted FY2025still arriving
88
Grants FY2025still arriving
17
States reached
$21k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$731kReligion$369kCivil Rights$95kHealth$66kHuman Services$39kInternational$32kPhilanthropy$21kRecreation & Sports$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 88 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k82 grants · $121k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $100k
$1,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA CATHOLIC CHURCH$20,650
MT ST MARY SEMINARY OF THE WEST ATHENAEUM OF OHIO$20,100
THE CATHEDRAL BASILICA OF ST PETER IN CHAINS$20,000
CINCINNATI RIGHT TO LIFE EDUCATION FOUNDATION$15,000
ST LAWRENCE$14,000
MOTHERHOUSE OF THE CONGREGATION OF THE SISTERS OF$10,000
PREGNANCY CENTER WEST INC$5,600
ST VINCENT DE PAUL$5,000
THE CATHEDRAL BASILICA OF ST PETER IN CHAINS$5,000
LA SALLE HIGH SCHOOL$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC$5,000
ORTHOALLIANCE EMPLOYEE ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION$5,000
XAVIER UNIVERSITY$5,000
PROVIDENCE CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL INC$5,000
WOMENS CARE CENTER INC$5,000
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 (FY20–25, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL INC: $1k → 14%KAREN CARNS FOUNDATION: $2k → 6%THE AMERICAN BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $100 → 6%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL INC: $1k → 14%KAREN CARNS FOUNDATION: $2k → 6%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL INC: $500 → 14%KAREN CARNS FOUNDATION: $1k → 6%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL INC: $500 → 14%KAREN CARNS FOUNDATION: $500 → 6%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL INC: $500 → 14%HEAVEN S GAIN MINISTRIES: $100 → 16%PREGNANCY CENTER PLUS: $500 → 16%PREGNANCY CENTER EAST INC: $500 → 16%PREGNANCY CENTER EAST INC: $500 → 16%PREGNANCY CENTER PLUS: $500 → 16%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DEPAUL PARTICULAR COUNCIL OF: $500 → 16%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DEPAUL PARTICULAR COUNCIL OF: $500 → 16%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DEPAUL PARTICULAR COUNCIL OF: $500 → 16%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DEPAUL PARTICULAR COUNCIL OF: $500 → 16%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DEPAUL PARTICULAR COUNCIL OF: $100 → 16%SANTA MARIA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $4k → 16%SANTA MARIA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $2k → 16%SANTA MARIA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $300 → 16%SANTA MARIA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $300 → 16%SANTA MARIA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $300 → 16%SANTA MARIA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $300 → 16%BAYLEY SENIOR CARE: $200 → 16%BAYLEY SENIOR CARE: $100 → 16%BAYLEY SENIOR CARE: $50 → 16%ST JOSEPH INFANT & MATERNITY HOME: $2k → 16%ST JOSEPH INFANT & MATERNITY HOME: $1k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
SD
IA
IN
OH
CO
NE
KY
VA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
DC
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 75 repeat orgs$46k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

75 repeat relationships: 64 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

75
17

Total granted

$1.3M
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+3%

Still filing today

59%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationReligionPhilanthropyCivil RightsOther
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

  • CR
    CINCINNATI RIGHT TO LIFE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $92k · revenue +32%
  • SJ
    Saint John Institute
    4× · 2020–2023 · $35k · revenue +52%
  • XU
    XAVIER UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $28k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • NF
    NATIONAL FOOTBALL FOUNDATION AND COLLEGE HALL OF F
    one grant, 2020 · $750
  • SI
    SOUTHERN INDIANA CHAPTER NATIONAL FOOTBALL FOUNDAT
    one grant, 2021 · $750
  • CO
    CONGREGATION OF HOLY CROSS SOUTHERN PROVINCE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $500
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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Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

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2
Catholic Education Foundation Inc

The catholic education foundation is dedicated to the growth and vitality of catholic education in the archdiocese of louisville. the foundation advances its mission primarily through tuition assistance grants to families who cannot afford…

Education
3
Catholics for Choice

Catholics for Choice - which serves the pro-choice Catholic majority - encounters, educates, and emboldens people of faith who support reproductive freedom. Catholics for Choice believes healthcare is a human right and that includes access…

Civil Rights
4
Living His Life Abundantly International

To inform, instruct and inspire people through the media about the sacred scriptures and teachings of the roman catholic church

Religion
5
Ave Maria Communications

Ave Maria Communications (AMC)employs radio, internet and other media to offer news, analysis, teaching, devotion and music to demonstrate Catholic values.

Religion
6
Benedictine University

Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…

Education
7
Catholic Answers Inc

Catholic answers is an apostolate dedicated to serving christ by bringing the fullness of catholic truth to the world. we help good catholics become better catholics, bring former catholics home, and lead non-catholics into the fullness of…

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8
Paulist Press Inc

The Paulist Press was founded to provide Catholic literature and resources for the the religious use of parishes, institutions, individuals and other religious bodies to further the educational and mission goals of the Christian faith and…

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9
The Institute for the Psychological Sciences Inc

Divine Mercy University is a Catholic graduate school of psychology and counseling, founded in 1999. The University is dedicated to the scientific study of psychology and counseling with a Catholic understanding of the person, marriage and…

Education
10
Loyola University

Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…

Education
11
Catholic Charities Bloomington Inc

Catholic Charities Bloomington is committed to enhancing the availability of quality mental health services in the communities it serves. We do this through the delivery of professional mental health education and counseling on a sliding…

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12
Catholic Charities Corporation

Respond to those in need through an integrated system of quality services designed to respect the dignity of every person and build a just and compassionate society.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Christian Virtue; the most unlike its peers is Hope for Kabingo 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

55 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. 55 of the 99 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
54/55
Grantees still filing
40/55
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LA SALLE HIGH SCHOOL: $602,250 · OtherLA SALLE HIGH SCHOOLST IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA CATHOLIC CHURCH: $107,700 · OtherST IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA CATHOLIC CHURCHMT ST MARY SEMINARY OF THE WEST ATHENAEUM OF OHIO NORWOOD: $90,100 · OtherMT ST MARY SEMINARY OF THE WEST ATHENAEUM OF OHIO NORWOODST LAWRENCE: $38,000 · Other+55 more: $247,650 · Other+55 moreSaint John Institute: $35,300 · EducationXAVIER UNIVERSITY: $28,200 · EducationUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $13,000 · EducationRUAH WOODS: $12,500 · EducationMOUNT ST JOSEPH UNIVERSITY: $6,450 · Education+4 more: $8,650 · EducationCINCINNATI RIGHT TO LIFE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $91,700 · Civil Rights+2 more: $2,800 · Civil RightsSPREAD THE FAITH INC: $20,000 · ReligionSACRED HEART RADIO INC: $10,000 · ReligionEWTN PUBLISHING INC: $4,000 · ReligionCISE: $3,750 · Religion+1 more: $500 · ReligionGOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION OF CINCINNATI INC: $17,650 · HealthWOMEN'S CARE CENTER INC: $5,000 · HealthLIFE FORWARD PREGNANCY CARE OF CINCINNATI INC: $3,000 · HealthCOUPLE TO COUPLE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,800 · HealthPINK RIBBON GOOD INC: $1,500 · HealthLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR-CINCINNATI: $1,200 · HealthARA PARSEGHIAN MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $1,150 · Health+3 more: $350 · HealthSANTA MARIA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $7,800 · Human ServicesKAREN CARNS FOUNDATION: $5,500 · Human ServicesFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $3,500 · Human ServicesSt Joseph Infant and Maternity Home: $3,000 · Human ServicesSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL: $2,100 · Human ServicesPREGNANCY CENTER PLUS INC: $2,000 · Human Services+3 more: $550 · Human ServicesTHE ORTHOALLIANCE EMPLOYEE ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION: $15,000 · PhilanthropyTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $3,000 · PhilanthropyTEEPE FAMILY FOUNDATION: $3,000 · PhilanthropyMagnified Giving: $2,700 · Philanthropy
Other$1,085,700Education$104,100Civil Rights$94,500Religion$38,250Health$31,650Human Services$24,450Philanthropy$23,700

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 budgetCINCINNATI RIGHT TO LIFE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $91,700 over 6y, 10.0% of budgetSaint John Institute: $35,300 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetXAVIER UNIVERSITY: $28,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPREGNANCY CENTER WEST: $20,300 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetSPREAD THE FAITH INC: $20,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION OF CINCINNATI INC: $17,650 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ORTHOALLIANCE EMPLOYEE ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $13,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRUAH WOODS: $12,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSACRED HEART RADIO INC: $10,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetOUR DAILY BREAD: $9,800 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSANTA MARIA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $7,800 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMOUNT ST JOSEPH UNIVERSITY: $6,450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKAREN CARNS FOUNDATION: $5,500 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetWOMEN'S CARE CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALL GOD'S CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL: $4,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEWTN PUBLISHING INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFriars Club Inc: $4,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE FOR KABINGO INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCISE: $3,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOUR LADY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT CENTER: $3,600 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCARDINAL NEWMAN SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF CATHOLIC HGR ED: $3,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $3,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLICS UNITED FOR THE POOR: $3,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetLife Issues Institute Inc: $3,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSt Joseph Infant and Maternity Home: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget40 DAYS FOR LIFE: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTENDOM EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION: $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPRIESTS FOR LIFE: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTEEPE FAMILY FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetLIFE FORWARD PREGNANCY CARE OF CINCINNATI INC: $3,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMagnified Giving: $2,700 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR CHRISTIAN VIRTUE: $2,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL: $2,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMatthew 25 Ministries Inc: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPREGNANCY CENTER PLUS INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOUPLE TO COUPLE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSt Rita School For The Deaf: $1,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPINK RIBBON GOOD INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIndiana University Foundation: $1,350 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC: $1,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR-CINCINNATI: $1,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPICE OF CINCINNATI INCORPORATED: $750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRENEWAL MINISTRIES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAYLEY SENIOR CARE: $350 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $150 over 1y, 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 CINCINNATI RIGHT TO LIFE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Saint John Institute ↗
  • Who funds XAVIER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds PREGNANCY CENTER WEST ↗
  • Who funds SPREAD THE FAITH INC ↗
  • Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION OF CINCINNATI INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ORTHOALLIANCE EMPLOYEE ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
  • Who funds RUAH WOODS ↗
  • Who funds SACRED HEART RADIO INC ↗
  • Who funds OUR DAILY BREAD ↗
  • Who funds SANTA MARIA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds MOUNT ST JOSEPH UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds KAREN CARNS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S CARE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ALL GOD'S CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds EWTN PUBLISHING INC ↗
  • Who funds Friars Club Inc ↗
  • Who funds HOPE FOR KABINGO INC ↗
  • Who funds CISE ↗
  • Who funds OUR LADY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT CENTER ↗

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.

Johnson Charitable Gi…The Greater Cincinnat…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Robert H & Susan F Ca…Duke Energy FoundationDayton Foundation Dep…The Foundation of the…Ed & Joann Hubert Fam…Ruth J & Robert a Con…Tql Foundation IncL & L Nippert Charita…Charles H Dater Found…
Johnson Charitable Gift FundOH66.1× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Robert H & Susan F Castellini Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Dayton Foundation Depository · The Foundation of the Catholic Diocese of Columbus · Ed & Joann Hubert Family Foundation Inc · Ruth J & Robert a Conway Foundation Inc · Tql Foundation Inc · L & L Nippert Charitable Foundation Inc Attn Carter F Randolph Phd · Charles H Dater 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 Bob & Felicia Burger Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bob & Felicia Burger Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Bob & Felicia Burger Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Bob & Felicia Burger Family 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 99 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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