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Carson Family Charitable Trust

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.

$50M
Granted FY2024still arriving
120
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$6.2M
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$116MHealth$51MPhilanthropy$22MArts & Culture$22MRecreation & Sports$20MHuman Services$9.6MCrime & Legal$7.9MInternational$7.7MOther$0
02FY2024 · 120 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $190k
  • $50k–250k54 grants · $6.7M
  • $250k+58 grants · $44M
$201,500
Median grant
11
States reached
$498M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW YORK GENOME CENTER INC$6,221,253
ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION$2,772,489
THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY$2,105,128
CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC$2,050,000
MANHATTAN MARYMOUNT COLLEGE$2,000,257
UNCOMMON SCHOOLS INC$2,000,000
MILLBROOK COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC$2,000,000
LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC$1,250,000
BREAKING GROUND HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATION$1,250,000
BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY$1,200,000
TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE$1,198,756
UNIVERSITY OF MOUNT SAINT VINCENT$1,025,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE INC$1,000,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER$750,000
SPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY$750,000
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 (FY20–24, $15.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 66% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Thorne Building Community Center: $2.9M → 9%MILLBROOK COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC: $2.0M → 9%KESSLER FOUNDATION INC: $50k → 4%Kessler Foundation: $50k → 4%Kessler Foundation: $50k → 4%Thorne Building Community Center: $100k → 9%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $100k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $100k → 14%COMMUNITY HELP IN PARK SLOPE INC: $125k → 20%COMMUNITY HELP IN PARK SLOPE INC: $75k → 20%COMMUNITY HELP IN PARK SLOPE INC: $50k → 20%GRAHAM WINDHAM: $100k → 20%GRAHAM WINDHAM: $100k → 20%GRAHAM WINDHAM: $100k → 20%RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $400k → 20%RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $400k → 20%RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $400k → 20%Red Hook Initiative: $333k → 20%Red Hook Initiative: $333k → 20%Red Hook Initiative: $250k → 20%Red Hook Initiative: $250k → 20%THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $500k → 17%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $100k → 17%THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $500k → 17%UNION SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION: $100k → 17%UNION SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION: $100k → 17%NOT ANOTHER CHILD: $25k → 17%NOT ANOTHER CHILD: $25k → 17%GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES: $500k → 17%GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES: $500k → 17%Good Shepherd Services: $500k → 17%ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $25k → 17%ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $25k → 17%Association to Benefit Children: $25k → 17%Good Shepherd Services: $250k → 17%Graham Windham: $100k → 17%THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $500k → 17%Children's Aid Society: $250k → 17%HARLEM CHILDRENS ZONE: $500k → 17%HARLEM CHILDRENS ZONE: $500k → 17%Harlem Children's Zone: $500k → 17%Harlem Children's Zone: $500k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $75k → 17%Harlem Children's Zone: $250k → 17%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $75k → 17%Children's Aid Society: $250k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $75k → 17%ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $25k → 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

NH
IL
NY
MA
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
NC
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 5% of Carson Family Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 92% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 86%.

Carson Family Charitable Trustlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.3% directed abroad (not shown)
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$256M · 135 repeat orgs$6.6M to everyone else

135 repeat relationships: 106 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

135
24

Total granted

$256M
$4.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+37%

Still filing today

88%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyCrime & LegalOther
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

  • NY
    NEW YORK GENOME CENTER INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $28M · revenue +36%
  • TR
    THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $18M · revenue +1%
  • CP
    CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $14M · revenue +167%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $950k
  • MS
    MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $750k
  • MU
    MERCY UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $750k · revenue -5%
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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Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
2
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
3
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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4
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
5
Ie New York College

(see schedule o)

Education
6
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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7
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
8
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
10
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

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 Innisfree Foundation Inc. 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

149 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. 149 of the 175 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
146/149
Grantees still filing
104/149
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $17,630,128 · EducationTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITYTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $12,650,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY …MARYMOUNT MANHATTAN COLLEGE: $10,900,000 · EducationMARYMOUNT MANHATTAN COLLEGEUNCOMMON SCHOOLS INC: $8,500,000 · EducationUNCOMMON SCHOOLS INCTrustees of Dartmouth College: $4,500,000 · EducationKIPP NEW YORK INC: $3,150,000 · Education+38 more: $33,382,138 · Education+38 moreNEW YORK GENOME CENTER INC: $27,990,257 · HealthNEW YORK GENOME C…The New York and Presbyterian Hospital: $8,220,000 · HealthThe New York and …MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $2,750,000 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-KE…+9 more: $4,593,500 · Health+9 moreMANHATTAN MARYMOUNT COLLEGE: $14,325,257 · OtherMANHATTAN MARYMOUNT COLLEG…New York-Presbyterian Hospital: $4,480,000 · OtherNew York-Presbyterian Hosp…TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $2,398,756 · OtherMake the Road New York: $2,800,000 · OtherBROOKLYN COMMUNITY BAIL FUND INC: $2,500,000 · OtherInternational Rescue Committee INC: $3,850,000 · OtherInternational Rescue Commi…BREAKING GROUND HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATION: $4,500,000 · OtherBREAKING GROUND HOUSING DE…+65 more: $30,627,000 · Other+65 moreROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $19,272,489 · PhilanthropyROBIN HOOD F…PARTNERSHIP FOR INNER CITY EDUCATION DBA PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS: $6,570,855 · PhilanthropyPARTNERSHIP …BERKSHIRE TACONIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,184,770 · PhilanthropyFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $1,150,000 · Philanthropy+5 more: $2,225,000 · Philanthropy+5 moreLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $6,200,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $2,950,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $2,000,000 · Arts & CultureWORLD TRADE CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $1,750,000 · Arts & CultureNEIGHBORHOOD TRUST FINANCIAL PARTNERS INC: $1,600,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK HALL OF SCIENCE: $1,250,000 · Arts & CultureNew York Historical Society: $1,050,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL SEPTEMBER 11 MEMORIAL AND MUSEUM AT THE WORLD TRADE CENTER: $825,000 · Arts & Culture+14 more: $4,230,000 · Arts & CultureCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $13,792,000 · Recreation & SportsPROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE INC: $1,575,000 · Recreation & SportsSPORTS HUMANITARIAN GROUP INC: $750,000 · Recreation & SportsMILLBROOK COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC: $5,000,000 · Human ServicesRED HOOK INITIATIVE: $2,366,666 · Human ServicesHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $2,250,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $2,000,000 · Human ServicesGOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES: $1,750,000 · Human Services+8 more: $1,695,000 · Human Services
Education$90,712,266Health$43,553,757Other$65,481,013Philanthropy$30,403,114Arts & Culture$21,855,000Recreation & Sports$16,117,000Human Services$15,061,666

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 budgetNEW YORK GENOME CENTER INC: $27,990,257 over 5y, 8.8% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $19,272,489 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $17,630,128 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $13,792,000 over 5y, 6.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $12,650,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMARYMOUNT MANHATTAN COLLEGE: $10,900,000 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetUNCOMMON SCHOOLS INC: $8,500,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetThe New York and Presbyterian Hospital: $8,220,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR INNER CITY EDUCATION DBA PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS: $6,570,855 over 5y, 14% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $6,200,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetMILLBROOK COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC: $5,000,000 over 2y, 54% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $4,500,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBREAKING GROUND HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATION: $4,500,000 over 5y, 8.7% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $3,850,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetKIPP NEW YORK INC: $3,150,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $2,950,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMake the Road New York: $2,800,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $2,750,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $2,500,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBROOKLYN COMMUNITY BAIL FUND INC: $2,500,000 over 5y, 37% of budgetNEW CLASSROOMS INNOVATION PARTNERS INC: $2,500,000 over 5y, 6.8% of budgetNEW YORK CITY CENTER FOR CHARTER SCHOOL EXCELLENCE: $2,500,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetRED HOOK INITIATIVE: $2,366,666 over 5y, 15% of budget50CAN INC: $2,357,138 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $2,250,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC: $2,250,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $2,000,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $2,000,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $1,935,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetEXALT YOUTH: $1,825,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetWORLD TRADE CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $1,750,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES: $1,750,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetGODDARD RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $1,700,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC: $1,700,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $1,600,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD TRUST FINANCIAL PARTNERS INC: $1,600,000 over 5y, 6.6% of budgetPROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE INC: $1,575,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetThe Children's Health Fund: $1,450,000 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetTHE CHILD CENTER OF NY INC: $1,350,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetCENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC: $1,300,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNEW YORK HALL OF SCIENCE: $1,250,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetRELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION: $1,250,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC: $1,250,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCOOP Careers Inc: $1,200,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetEXCELLENCE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS INC: $1,200,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetBERKSHIRE TACONIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,184,770 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $1,150,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetJUSTICE INNOVATION INC: $1,150,000 over 4y, 0.7% 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.

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.

Robin Hood FoundationNY54.3× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Robin Hood Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Heckscher Foundation for Children · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · William Randolph Hearst Foundation · Pinkerton Foundation · Walton Family Foundation Inc · The Hearst Foundation · Gates 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 Carson Family Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carson Family Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%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%
  • Kessler Foundation Inc: 54% of income from government
  • Citizen Schools Inc: 8% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Miami Music Project Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Adrienne Arsht Center Trust Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Achievement First Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Global Empowerment Mission Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
41report 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Carson Family Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to Carson Family Charitable Trust 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 175 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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