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C Hamilton Sloan Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$724k
Granted FY2025still arriving
61
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Youth Development$1.6MHuman Services$1.3MArts & Culture$947kHealth$547kEducation$491kFood & Nutrition$420kEnvironment$171kRecreation & Sports$125kOther$0
02FY2025 · 61 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k32 grants · $95k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $408k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $220k
$5,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$24k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WAKE MED FOUNDATION$60,000
YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE AREA$55,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY$55,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF COASTAL CAROLINA$50,000
NORTH CAROLINA MARINE & ESTUARY FOUNDATION$30,000
PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL IN VIRGINIA$30,000
CARTERET HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION$28,333
BAND TOGETHER$25,000
SALVATION ARMY OF CARTERET COUNTY$20,000
BROAD STREET CLINIC FOUNDATION$20,000
ST DAVID'S SCHOOL$20,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS$20,000
HOPE MISSION$20,000
NORTH CAROLINA WILDLIFE FEDERATION$15,000
FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC$15,000
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, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 22% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%THE KEYS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $20k → 13%CRYSTAL COAST HOSPICE HOUSE: $5k → 12%THE KEYS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $15k → 13%THE KEYS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $15k → 13%THE KEYS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $15k → 13%THE KEYS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $15k → 13%THE KEYS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%THE KEYS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%THE KEYS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%THE KEYS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%URBAN MINISTRIES OF WAKE COUNTY: $10k → 8%URBAN MINISTRIES OF WAKE COUNTY: $10k → 8%URBAN MINISTRIES OF WAKE COUNTY: $10k → 8%URBAN MINISTRIES OF WAKE COUNTY: $10k → 8%URBAN MINISTRIES OF WAKE COUNTY: $10k → 8%URBAN MINISTRIES OF WAKE COUNTY: $10k → 8%URBAN MINISTRIES OF WAKE COUNTY: $10k → 8%URBAN MINISTRIES OF WAKE COUNTY: $10k → 8%URBAN MINISTRIES OF WAKE COUNTY: $10k → 8%BROAD STREET CLINIC FOUNDATION: $20k → 12%BROAD STREET CLINIC FOUNDATION: $15k → 12%BROAD STREET CLINIC FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%STEP UP MINISTRY: $5k → 8%STEP UP MINISTRY: $5k → 8%BROAD STREET CLINIC FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%STEPUP MINISTRY: $5k → 8%STEP UP MINISTRY: $5k → 8%BROAD STREET CLINIC FOUNDATION: $6k → 12%BROAD STREET CLINIC FOUNDATION: $6k → 12%BROAD STREET CLINIC FOUNDATION: $6k → 12%BROAD STREET CLINIC FOUNDATION: $6k → 12%BROAD STREET CLINIC FOUNDATION: $6k → 12%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE AREA: $105k → 8%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE AREA: $80k → 8%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE AREA: $80k → 8%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE AREA: $80k → 8%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE AREA: $55k → 8%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE AREA: $55k → 8%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE AREA: $55k → 8%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE AREA: $55k → 8%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE AREA: $25k → 8%THE GREEN CHAIR PROJECT: $20k → 8%THE GREEN CHAIR PROJECT: $20k → 8%THE GREEN CHAIR PROJECT: $15k → 8%THE GREEN CHAIR PROJECT: $15k → 8%THE GREEN CHAIR PROJECT: $10k → 8%THE GREEN CHAIR PROJECT: $10k → 8%THE GREEN CHAIR PROJECT: $10k → 8%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
MT
NY
MA
CT
RI
VA
DE
TN
NC
SC
DC
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.8M · 79 repeat orgs$246k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

79 repeat relationships: 54 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

79
8

Total granted

$5.8M
$180k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+6%

Still filing today

62%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k 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 ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentHealthEnvironmentOther
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

  • TY
    The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598)
    9× · 2017–2025 · $590k · revenue +51%
  • FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $329k · revenue +86%
  • BAND TOGETHER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $225k · revenue +87%

Funded once

  • DC
    DURHAM CHILDREN'S INITIATIVE
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -3%
  • YW
    YMCA - WE BUILD PEOPLE
    one grant, 2017 · $45k
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
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
Coastal Carolinas Health Alliance

Facilitate networking among hospitals

Health
2
North Carolina Medical Society

To organize members of the medical profession to advance medical science.

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3
North Carolina Chamber

The organization is a proactive, nonpartisan business advocacy organization. the organization works in the legislative, regulatory and political arenas to proactively drive positive change to ensure that north carolina is a leading place…

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4
Foundation for the Carolinas

Inspiring philanthropy and strengthening our region through innovative community initiatives and quality services to donors and constituents.

Philanthropy
5
North Carolina Museum of Life & Science Inc

To create a place of lifelong learning where people, from young child to senior citizen, embrace science as a way of knowing about themselves, their community, and their world.

Arts & Culture
6
Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc

The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.

Human Services
7
Atlantic Coast Conservancy Inc

The mission of the atlantic coast conservancy is to provide 21st century solutions and sound scientific applications for conservation of critical natural resources in the face of a changing climate, focusing on the southeasthern united…

Environment
8
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
9
Baptist Children's Homes of North Carolina Incorporated

Baptist children's homes of north carolina (bch) is a nonprofit organization that reaches out to children and families in crisis. the agency's mission statement is "sharing hope...changing lives."

Religion
10
North Carolina Council On Economic Education Inc

The nccee provides economic and financial education for educators and students throughout north carolina. this mission is accomplished through standards based workshops and a variety of resources for educators, academic competitions for…

Social Science
11
North Carolina Bar Association

The north carolina bar association is organized for the purposes of promoting and improving the administration of justice in north carolina; fostering and encouraging law reform when in the public interest; advancing the science of…

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12
Mcnc

To provide advanced electronic and information technologies to the nc education community, public health, and government agencies and to benefit economic development in nc.

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Maritime Heritage Foundation of Beaufort Nc Inc; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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

63 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. 63 of the 95 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/63
Grantees still filing
42/63
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COASTAL PLAIN: $525,520 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COASTAL PLAINBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY: $476,033 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTYSALVATION ARMY OF CARTERET COUNTY: $422,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMY OF CARTERET COUNTYBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA OCCONEECHEE: $150,000 · OtherWAKE MED FOUNDATION: $135,000 · OtherALDERT ROOT FOUNDATION: $124,000 · OtherHEALING TRANSITIONS INC: $155,000 · Other+53 more: $1,623,300 · Other+53 moreThe Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598): $590,000 · Human ServicesThe Young Men's Chr…KEYS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $120,000 · Human ServicesKEYS CHILDREN'S FOU…THE GREEN CHAIR PROJECT: $100,000 · Human ServicesTHE GREEN CHAIR PRO…URBAN MINISTRIES OF WAKE COUNTY INC: $90,000 · Human ServicesURBAN MINISTRIES OF…BROAD STREET CLINIC FOUNDATION: $85,000 · Human ServicesBROAD STREET CLINIC…+4 more: $67,000 · Human Services+4 moreNORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC: $139,000 · Arts & CultureNORTH CARO…THE MARITIME HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF BEAUFORT NC INC: $102,500 · Arts & CultureTHE MARITI…CAROLINA BALLET INC: $90,000 · Arts & CultureCAROLINA B…NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF HISTORY ASSOCIATES INC: $71,000 · Arts & CultureNORTH CARO…Beaufort Historical Association Inc: $53,000 · Arts & CultureBeaufort H…OCEAN REEF CULTURAL CENTER INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureOCEAN REEF…CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $40,200 · Arts & Culture+6 moreFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC: $329,000 · Food & NutritionBAND TOGETHER: $225,000 · Public Safety & DisasterST DAVID'S SCHOOL: $85,000 · EducationLUCY DANIELS CENTER FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD: $50,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITY: $45,000 · EducationTHE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL IN VIRGINIA: $30,000 · EducationRhodes College: $11,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationDURHAM CHILDREN'S INITIATIVE: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL CAROLINA: $75,927 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE TRIANGLE INC: $14,000 · Youth DevelopmentNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MINISTRIES: $8,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFE: $7,000 · Youth Development
Other$3,610,853Human Services$1,052,000Arts & Culture$555,700Food & Nutrition$329,000Public Safety & Disaster$225,000Education$222,000Youth Development$204,927

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 budgetThe Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598): $590,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC: $329,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBAND TOGETHER: $225,000 over 9y, 18% of budgetHEALING TRANSITIONS INC: $155,000 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC: $139,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE MISSION OF COASTAL CAROLINA INC: $120,000 over 9y, 4.4% of budgetKEYS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $120,000 over 9y, 6.4% of budgetOCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $107,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetCARTERET COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $105,000 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetTHE MARITIME HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF BEAUFORT NC INC: $102,500 over 4y, 28% of budgetDOROTHEA DIX PARK CONSERVANCY: $100,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetDURHAM CHILDREN'S INITIATIVE: $100,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetTHE GREEN CHAIR PROJECT: $100,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF CARTERET COUNTY: $91,000 over 9y, 9.6% of budgetCAROLINA BALLET INC: $90,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetURBAN MINISTRIES OF WAKE COUNTY INC: $90,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetST DAVID'S SCHOOL: $85,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCarteret County General Hospital Foundation: $85,000 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetBROAD STREET CLINIC FOUNDATION: $85,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL CAROLINA: $75,927 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF HISTORY ASSOCIATES INC: $71,000 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetHEARTS AND HANDS FOR HAITI: $60,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA MARINE AND ESTUARY FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetBeaufort Historical Association Inc: $53,000 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetLUCY DANIELS CENTER FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD: $50,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $45,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN REEF MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN REEF CULTURAL CENTER INC: $35,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetSTEPUP MINISTRY: $35,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetTHE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL IN VIRGINIA: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetCRYSTAL COAST HOSPICE HOUSE: $23,000 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $21,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRIANGLE LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $15,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMARBLES KIDS MUSEUM: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE TRIANGLE INC: $14,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetOCEAN REEF CHAPEL FOUNDATION INC: $13,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetRhodes College: $11,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE CLINIC: $10,800 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetBEAUFORT HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetHISTORIC BEAUFORT FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC: $9,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $8,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetI E C A FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MINISTRIES: $8,000 over 8y, 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 The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
  • Who funds BAND TOGETHER ↗
  • Who funds HEALING TRANSITIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE MISSION OF COASTAL CAROLINA INC ↗
  • Who funds KEYS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds OCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CARTERET COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MARITIME HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF BEAUFORT NC INC ↗
  • Who funds DOROTHEA DIX PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds DURHAM CHILDREN'S INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds THE GREEN CHAIR PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF CARTERET COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds CAROLINA BALLET INC ↗
  • Who funds URBAN MINISTRIES OF WAKE COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds ST DAVID'S SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Carteret County General Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds BROAD STREET CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL CAROLINA ↗
  • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF HISTORY ASSOCIATES INC ↗
  • Who funds HEARTS AND HANDS FOR HAITI ↗
  • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA MARINE AND ESTUARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Beaufort Historical Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds LUCY DANIELS CENTER FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds OCEAN REEF MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗

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.

Triangle Community Foundation IncNC55.1× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Ella Ann L and Frank B Holding Foundatio · Duke Energy Foundation · Hillsdale Fund · Chaucer Charitable Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Aj Fletcher Foundation · John William Pope Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · John & Frances Morisey Trust Account · O Temple Sloan Jr 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 C Hamilton Sloan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from C Hamilton Sloan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Sea Education Association Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Mystic Seaport Museum Inc: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
18report 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.

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 95 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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