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Central Pennsylvania Community Foundation

Central pennsyvania community foundation encourages and effectively manages charitable giving

$1.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
47
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$78k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$1.6MYouth Development$839kReligion$738kEducation$734kHuman Services$680kAnimals$572kFood & Nutrition$502kPhilanthropy$397kOther$0
02FY2024 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 47 grants below total $924,553, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,570,037 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $645,484 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $87k
  • $10k–50k29 grants · $523k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $314k
$14,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$32M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BLAIR COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM$77,674
CENTRAL PA FOOD BANK HARRISBURG$65,128
HUNTINGDON COMMUNITY CENTER$62,500
CENTRAL PA HUMANE SOCIETY$57,384
BISHOP GUILFOYLE CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL$51,750
HOPE GRACE BRETHREN CHURCH$37,000
THE ARC OF BLAIR COUNTY$34,000
GIRLS NIGHT OUT ALTOONA$30,000
ALTOONA AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY$27,877
JAGGARD FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$27,377
ALTOONA RENAISSANCE TEAM INC$23,251
JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$23,000
TYRONE AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT$21,197
UPMC WESTERN BEHAVIORAL HEALTH FOUNDATION$20,750
DIG DOG USA LLC$20,475
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, $529k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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%SKILLS OF CENTRAL PA: $12k → 16%ADOPTION NETWORK CLEVELAND: $8k → 17%HOMEWOOD FOUNDATION: $12k → 12%HOMEWOOD FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%THE HOPE CENTER: $5k → 13%BLAIR COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $78k → 13%BLAIR COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $50k → 13%BLAIR COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $48k → 13%GLORIA GATES MEMORAIL FOUNDATION: $8k → 13%HOLLIDAYSBURG AREA YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $20k → 13%HOLLIDAYSBURG AREA YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $13k → 13%BLAIR REGIONAL YMCA: $13k → 13%ARC OF BLAIR COUNTY: $34k → 13%THE ARC OF BLAIR COUNTY: $34k → 13%THE ARC OF BLAIR COUNTY: $34k → 13%ARC OF BLAIR COUNTY: $28k → 13%ARC OF BLAIR COUNTY: $27k → 13%THE ARC OF BLAIR COUNTY: $26k → 13%ARC OF BLAIR COUNTY: $24k → 13%ARC OF BLAIR COUNTY: $24k → 13%ARC OF BLAIR COUNTY: $22k → 13%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
WA
MN
WI
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MA
OH
PA
UT
MO
MD
TN
NC
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.6M · 72 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

72 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2024, 43 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

72
72

Total granted

$5.6M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+12%

Still filing today

69%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $275k 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
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • HC
    HUNTINGDON COMMUNITY CENTER
    7× · 2017–2024 · $479k · revenue +32% · 33% of their budget
  • CP
    CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA HUMANE SOCIETY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $400k · revenue +63%
  • CP
    CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK
    8× · 2017–2024 · $266k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • TH
    Tyrone Hospital
    one grant, 2017 · $270k · revenue -11%
  • CO
    CITY OF ALTOONA
    one grant, 2020 · $110k
  • AC
    ANNA C MACASKILL SCHWAB AND DWIGHT L SCHWABgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $91k · revenue +70% · 89% of their budget
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
Abington Community Library Association

Public lending library

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2
Dalton Community Library

Public lending library

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3
Annie Halenbake Ross Library

Annie halenbake ross library serves the citizens of clinton county, pennsylvania by providing books and other materials for reading, study or reference, and other services.

Education
4
Taylor Community Library Association

Public lending library

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5
Scranton Public Library

Public lending library

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6
Central Pennsylvania Blood Bank

The central pennsylvania blood bank (cpbb) is a community based blood program committed to providing a quality blood supply, responsive to community needs, in a cost effective manner. cpbb works to promote, secure, and coordinate 100% of…

Health
7
Clairton Public Library

Operation of a public library which provides books, videos, periodicals and other eductional materials for area residents to use an borrow.

Education
8
Central Pennsylvania Clinic- a Medical Home for Special Children & Adults

Diagnosis and treatment of, and providing primary and subspecialty care for special children and adults with genetic diseases.

Health
9
Huntingdon Cty Business & Industry

Huntingdon county business and industry, incorporated (corporation) is organized for the purpose of advancing the commercial, industrial, recreational, educational, agricultural and civic interests of the county of huntingdon.

Employment
10
North Pocono Public Library

Public lending library

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11
Honey Brook Community Library

Operation of a community library in honey brook, pennsylvania.

Education
12
Carbondale Public Library

Public lending library

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Skills of Central Pennsylvania Inc; the most unlike its peers is Tyrone Community Players. 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

95 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. 95 of the 165 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)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
94/95
Grantees still filing
67/95
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HUNTINGDON COMMUNITY CENTER: $478,500 · OtherHUNTINGDON COMMUNITY CENTERHOPE GRACE BRETHREN CHURCH: $218,000 · OtherHOPE GRACE BRETHREN CHURCHJAGGARD FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $170,748 · OtherUPMC: $157,832 · OtherBOROUGH OF HUNTINGDON: $145,342 · Other+109 more: $2,810,309 · Other+109 moreTyrone Hospital: $270,460 · HealthTyrone Hospit…CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION: $255,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HO…JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC: $107,000 · HealthJOSLIN DIABET…JC Blair Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc: $70,800 · HealthJC Blair Memo…GIRLS NIGHT OUT ALTOONA INC: $70,607 · HealthGIRLS NIGHT O…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $35,200 · Health+6 more: $79,333 · Health+6 moreBLAIR COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $368,170 · Human ServicesBLAIR COUNTY…THE ARC OF BLAIR COUNTY: $252,650 · Human ServicesTHE ARC OF B…BOB PERKS CANCER ASSISTANCE FUND: $75,000 · Human ServicesBOB PERKS CA…HOLLIDAYSBURG YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC: $46,000 · Human ServicesHOLLIDAYSBUR…+6 more: $71,023 · Human Services+6 moreALTOONA AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $182,328 · EducationALTOONA A…HUNTINGDON COUNTY LIBRARY: $149,000 · EducationHUNTINGDO…BISHOP GUILFOYLE CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $51,750 · EducationBISHOP GU…TYRONE AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $50,950 · EducationTYRONE AR…THE FOUNDATION FOR INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA (IUP): $41,000 · EducationTHE FOUND…ALTOONA AREA SCHOOL DIST FOUNDATION: $31,853 · EducationFRANKSTOWN ELEMENTARY PTO INC: $31,690 · EducationBLAIR COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM INC: $31,557 · Education+7 more: $85,183 · Education+7 moreCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA HUMANE SOCIETY: $399,785 · AnimalsMENDING HEARTS ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $26,100 · AnimalsHUNTINGDON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $26,000 · AnimalsCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK: $266,118 · Food & NutritionCENTER FOR DAIRY EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION OF PENNSYLVANIA: $76,000 · Food & NutritionDAIRY'S FOUNDATION INC: $65,000 · Food & Nutrition+3 more: $26,105 · Food & NutritionYOUNG LIFE: $215,464 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP ANDERSON CORPORATION: $21,690 · Youth DevelopmentTHE DOOR STUDENT SERVICES INC: $19,725 · Youth DevelopmentALTOONA CURVE CHARITIES INC: $10,829 · Youth DevelopmentTeam Effort Inc: $10,000 · Youth Development
Other$3,980,731Health$888,400Human Services$812,843Education$655,311Animals$451,885Food & Nutrition$433,223Youth Development$277,708

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 budgetHUNTINGDON COMMUNITY CENTER: $478,500 over 7y, 33% of budgetCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA HUMANE SOCIETY: $399,785 over 8y, 6.6% of budgetBLAIR COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $368,170 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetTyrone Hospital: $270,460 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK: $266,118 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION: $255,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ARC OF BLAIR COUNTY: $252,650 over 8y, 44% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $215,464 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetALTOONA AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $182,328 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetHUNTINGDON COUNTY LIBRARY: $149,000 over 8y, 6.4% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC: $119,325 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetJOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC: $107,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $96,960 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANNA C MACASKILL SCHWAB AND DWIGHT L SCHWAB: $90,953 over 1y, 89% of budgetCENTER FOR DAIRY EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION OF PENNSYLVANIA: $76,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetBOB PERKS CANCER ASSISTANCE FUND: $75,000 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $74,464 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJC Blair Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc: $70,800 over 4y, 8.8% of budgetGIRLS NIGHT OUT ALTOONA INC: $70,607 over 4y, 17% of budgetOPERATION OUR TOWN INC: $70,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetALTOONA FOOD BANK: $60,841 over 1y, 40% of budgetUNITED WAY HUNTINGDON COUNTY INC: $57,200 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetSt Vincent de Paul Altoona-Johnstown: $56,884 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetHUNTINGDON REGIONAL FIRE AND RESCUE: $54,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetBISHOP GUILFOYLE CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $51,750 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTYRONE AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $50,950 over 4y, 13% of budgetALTOONA-BLAIR COUNTY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHOLLIDAYSBURG YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC: $46,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA (IUP): $41,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPORTLAND STAGE COMPANY: $40,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetFAMILY SERVICES INCORPORATED: $38,997 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetALTOONA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC: $37,193 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetBLAIR COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $36,600 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $35,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALTOONA AREA SCHOOL DIST FOUNDATION: $31,853 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetFRANKSTOWN ELEMENTARY PTO INC: $31,690 over 2y, 18% of budgetBLAIR COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM INC: $31,557 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF BLAIR COUNTY INC: $29,944 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetBLAIR COUNTY ARTS FOUNDATION: $28,520 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK: $27,835 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWE CARE FOUNDATION: $26,551 over 4y, 9.8% of budgetMENDING HEARTS ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $26,100 over 1y, 16% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC: $26,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHUNTINGDON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $26,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetNORTHERN BLAIR COUNTY RECREATION COMMISSION INC: $25,720 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $24,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU OF BLAIR COUNTY: $23,585 over 2y, 2.1% 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 HUNTINGDON COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds BLAIR COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds Tyrone Hospital ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE ARC OF BLAIR COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
  • Who funds ALTOONA AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds HUNTINGDON COUNTY LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
  • Who funds JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
  • Who funds ANNA C MACASKILL SCHWAB AND DWIGHT L SCHWAB ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR DAIRY EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds BOB PERKS CANCER ASSISTANCE FUND ↗
  • Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
  • Who funds JC Blair Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS NIGHT OUT ALTOONA INC ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION OUR TOWN INC ↗
  • Who funds DAIRY'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ALTOONA FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY HUNTINGDON COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds St Vincent de Paul Altoona-Johnstown ↗
  • Who funds HUNTINGDON REGIONAL FIRE AND RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds BISHOP GUILFOYLE CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds TYRONE AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds ALTOONA-BLAIR COUNTY DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗

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 Bruno & Lena Dego…Upmc GroupWard FoundationCentral Pennsylvania …Pennsylvania Automoti…Firstenergy FoundationAlbemarle FoundationSnyder H C & M a Tw C…Port Family FoundationCommunity Foundation …Central Pennsylvania …J Melvin & Beulah M I…
The Bruno & Lena Degol Family FoundPA69.9× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bruno & Lena Degol Family Found · Upmc Group · Ward Foundation · Central Pennsylvania Scholarship Fund · Pennsylvania Automotive Association Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · Albemarle Foundation · Snyder H C & M a Tw Char Trust · Port Family Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Johnstown · Central Pennsylvania Food Bank · J Melvin & Beulah M Isett Comm Fdn

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 Central Pennsylvania Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Central Pennsylvania Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 35%
  • Joslin Diabetes Center Inc: 35% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Central Pennsylvania Community Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Central Pennsylvania Community 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 165 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 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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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home