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Charles R Wood Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
83
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$500k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$4.1MArts & Culture$2.4MFood & Nutrition$1.0MHuman Services$865kEducation$366kPhilanthropy$326kCommunity Improvement$287kHousing & Shelter$240kOther$0
02FY2024 · 83 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k50 grants · $171k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $491k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $806k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$46M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALBANY MED HEALTH SYSTEM$500,000
FAMILY YMCA OF THE GLENS FALLS AREA$150,000
THE HYDE COLLECTION TRUST$150,000
REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF N E NY INC$145,600
DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION$110,000
DOUBLE H - HOLE IN THE WOODS RANCH INC$100,000
PENDRAGON INC$50,000
LAKE PLACID ASSOCIATION FOR MUSIC DRAMA & ART INC$50,000
CVPH FOUNDATION INC$50,000
ADIRONDACK MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$40,000
HUDSON HEADWATERS HEALTH NETWORK$40,000
FOUNDATION OF FULTON-MONTGOMERY COMMUNITY COLLEGE$32,500
CRAIGARDAN INC$25,000
ST JOHNS EPISCOPAL CHURCH$25,000
ST LAWRENCE COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL$25,000
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, $292k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 64% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE BUS STOP CLUB INC: $5k → 9%BUS STOP CLUB INC: $3k → 11%THE FAMILY COUNSELING CENTER OF FULTON COUNTY INC: $25k → 13%SPRINGFIELD AREA PARENT CHILD CENTER: $10k → 9%BUS STOP CLUB INC: $3k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ODGENSBURG: $5k → 18%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES INC: $50k → 7%YWCA OF SCHENECTADY: $25k → 12%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ODGENSBURG: $5k → 18%NORTH COUNTRY HOME SERVICES: $20k → 16%JUSTICE FOR ORPHANS INC: $5k → 14%NORTH COUNTRY HOME SERVICES: $10k → 16%SMALL TALES DAY CARE CENTER INC: $6k → 10%HIGH PEAKS HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE INC: $5k → 16%HIGH PEAKS HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE INC: $3k → 16%AIM SERVICES INC: $7k → 7%CREATIVE HEALING CONNECTIONS INC: $2k → 16%LAKE GEORGE REGION WOMEN FOR WIN INC: $5k → 10%AIM SERVICES INC: $5k → 7%HOSPICE OF THE NORTH COUNTRY INC: $4k → 14%CHAMPLAIN CHILDRENS LEARNING CENTER INC: $5k → 14%CHRISTMAS PROJECT INC: $10k → 11%CHAMPLAIN CHILDRENS LEARNING CENTER INC: $5k → 14%AIM SERVICES INC: $2k → 7%CHAMPLAIN CHILDRENS LEARNING CENTER INC: $4k → 14%SILVER BAY ASSOCIATION FOR CHRISTIAN CONFERENCE AN: $9k → 10%SILVER BAY ASSOCIATION FOR CHRISTIAN CONFERENCE AN: $5k → 10%SILVER BAY ASSOCIATION FOR CHRISTIAN CONFERENCE AN: $3k → 10%NYSARC INC - SARATOGA COUNTY CHAPTER: $10k → 7%NYSARC INC - SARATOGA COUNTY CHAPTER: $9k → 7%CIVIC CENTER OF MOREAU INC: $5k → 7%FAMILIES FIRST IN ESSEX COUNTY INC: $6k → 13%FAMILIES FIRST IN ESSEX COUNTY INC: $4k → 13%FRIENDS OF THE ULYSSES S GRANT COTTAGE: $1k → 7%QUEENSBURY SENIOR CITIZENS INC: $3k → 10%FAMILY SERVICE ASSN OF GLENS FALLS: $6k → 10%FAMILY SERVICE ASSN OF GLENS FALLS: $5k → 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.
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 17% of Charles R Wood Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Charles R Wood Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 8.0% 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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.0M · 97 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

97 repeat relationships: 56 still active in FY2024, 41 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

97
112

Total granted

$8.0M
$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+14%

Still filing today

86%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $236k 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
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEducationFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • DH
    DOUBLE H HOLE IN THE WOODS RANCH INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $851k · revenue +16%
  • RF
    REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $739k · revenue +242%
  • THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2024 · $535k · revenue +110%

Funded once

  • EF
    EMBLEMHEALTH FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $150k · 100% of their budget
  • CR
    CHARLES R WOOD THEATER INC
    one grant, 2023 · $116k · revenue -10%
  • EF
    ESSEX FOOD HUB INC
    one grant, 2023 · $110k · revenue -7%
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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Adirondack North Country Association Inc

Support regional economic development in new york's 14 northernmost counties

Food & Nutrition
2
Saratoga Arts Inc

Saratoga arts was established to enrich the region by cultivating a vibrant arts community and by ensuring that the arts are accessible to all.

Arts & Culture
3
Adirondack Mountain Club Inc

Adk is the only non-profit organization in new york state dedicated to the conservation, preservation, and responsible recreational use of the new york state forest preserve and other parks, wild lands, and waters vital to our members and…

Environment
4
The Lower Adirondack Regional Center for History

To provide historical education and information of the town of ticonderoga and the lower adirondack region of new york state.

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5
Adirondack Regional Chambers of Commerce Inc

To enhance business in the community and to provide a networking environment for area businesses, promote tourism in the community and develop new business.

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6
Newcomb Historical Museum

The organization was formed to safeguard and share existing and future collections related to the social, cultural, and economic history of the high peaks adirondack region in and around the township of newcomb in essex county, new york.

Arts & Culture
7
Adirondack Economic Development Corp

To foster and support the growth of sustainable North Country communities through providing assistance to aspiring entrepreneurs and existing small business owners.

Community Improvement
8
Lower Adirondack Regional Arts Council

LARAC's mission is to enrich the quality of life in Warren, Washington, and Norhtern Saratoga Counties. LARAC promotes, develops, coordinates and provides arts activities and services.

Arts & Culture
9
The Lake Placid Sinfonietta Inc

The lake placid sinfonietta, the adirondacks orchestra of world class musicians, unleashes the power of music to entertain, educate and inspire people of all ages.

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10
Traditional Arts in Upstate New York in

To explore and educate the public about traditional culture and folklife in northern new york.

Arts & Culture
11
Gardiner Library Board of Trustees

The Gardiner Library Board of Trustees operates the public library that serves the Town of Gardiner and the surrounding areas of New York State.

Education
12
Saranac Lake Adult Center Inc

To provide a multi-purpose facility for senior citizens to become informed about and receive services unique to their needs. to provide them with vital transportation services. provide meals in a social setting and those who are house…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Adirondack Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Up Yonda Farm 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

187 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. 187 of the 235 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)
51
Early backer (in before they grew)
183/187
Grantees still filing
124/187
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALBANY MED HEALTH SYSTEM: $925,000 · OtherALBANY MED HEALTH SYSTEMTHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION: $535,000 · OtherTHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATIONSaratoga Regional YMCA: $300,000 · OtherSaratoga Regional YMCAFAMILY YMCA OF THE GLENS FALLS AREA INC: $172,500 · OtherST JOHNS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $150,000 · Other+94 more: $2,042,167 · Other+94 moreTHE HYDE COLLECTION TRUST: $525,975 · Arts & CultureTHE HYDE COLLECT…SARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $135,000 · Arts & CultureSARATOGA PERFORM…CHARLES R WOOD THEATER INC: $115,500 · Arts & CultureCHARLES R WOOD T…THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM AT SARATOGA: $100,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CHILDREN'S M…PENDRAGON INC: $100,000 · Arts & CulturePENDRAGON INCADIRONDACK HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $75,000 · Arts & Culture+36 more: $457,129 · Arts & Culture+36 moreCVPH FOUNDATION INC: $400,000 · HealthCVPH FOUNDATIO…ALBANY MED HEALTH SYSTEM: $162,500 · HealthALBANY MED HEA…HUDSON HEADWATERS HEALTH NETWORK: $151,625 · HealthHUDSON HEADWAT…SAMARITAN HOSPITAL AND THE EDDY FOUNDATION: $150,000 · HealthSAMARITAN HOSP…CANTON-POTSDAM HOSPITAL: $100,000 · HealthCANTON-POTSDAM…CENTER FOR DISABILITY SERVICESINC: $67,230 · HealthFORT HUDSON NURSING CENTER INC: $50,000 · Health+14 more: $240,177 · Health+14 moreHUDSON HEADWATERS HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $700,000 · PhilanthropyHUDSON HEADW…UNITED WAY OF THE ADIRONDACK REGION INC: $222,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY O…ADIRONDACK FOUNDATION: $87,500 · PhilanthropyADIRONDACK F…ADIRONDACK MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $60,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $57,500 · PhilanthropyREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC: $739,300 · Food & NutritionREGIONAL …COMFORT FOOD OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC: $55,000 · Food & NutritionCOMFORT F…GFCSD BACKPACK PROGRAM INC: $30,000 · Food & Nutrition+4 more: $61,500 · Food & Nutrition+4 moreDOUBLE H HOLE IN THE WOODS RANCH INC: $851,000 · Recreation & SportsDOUBLE H …+3 more: $12,000 · Recreation & SportsEMBLEMHEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC VIOLENCE & RAPE CRISIS SERVICES OF SARATOGA COUNTY INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesNORTH COUNTRY HOME SERVICES INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY COUNSELING CENTER OF FULTON COUNTY INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesYWCA OF SCHENECTADY: $25,000 · Human ServicesNYSARC INC SARATOGA COUNTY CHAPTER: $19,000 · Human ServicesSILVER BAY ASSOCIATION FOR CHRISTIAN CONFERENCES AND TRAINING: $16,100 · Human Services+14 more: $120,945 · Human Services
Other$4,124,667Arts & Culture$1,508,604Health$1,321,532Philanthropy$1,127,000Food & Nutrition$885,800Recreation & Sports$863,000Human Services$436,045

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetDOUBLE H HOLE IN THE WOODS RANCH INC: $851,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC: $739,300 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetHUDSON HEADWATERS HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $700,000 over 2y, 38% of budgetTHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION: $535,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE HYDE COLLECTION TRUST: $525,975 over 5y, 11% of budgetCVPH FOUNDATION INC: $400,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetSaratoga Regional YMCA: $300,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE ADIRONDACK REGION INC: $222,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetFAMILY YMCA OF THE GLENS FALLS AREA INC: $172,500 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetALBANY MED HEALTH SYSTEM: $162,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUDSON HEADWATERS HEALTH NETWORK: $151,625 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAMARITAN HOSPITAL AND THE EDDY FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetEMBLEMHEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetSARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $135,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCHARLES R WOOD THEATER INC: $115,500 over 1y, 24% of budgetESSEX FOOD HUB INC: $110,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetPride of Ticonderoga Inc: $108,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM AT SARATOGA: $100,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetPENDRAGON INC: $100,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetWARRENWASHINGTON COUNTY HOMELESS YOUTH COALITION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetTICONDEROGA REVILTALIZATION ALLIANCE: $100,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetCANTON-POTSDAM HOSPITAL: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADIRONDACK FOUNDATION: $87,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetADIRONDACK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $85,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER SARATOGA COUNTY INC: $80,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetADIRONDACK HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $75,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCENTER FOR DISABILITY SERVICESINC: $67,230 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGLENS FALLS AREA YOUTH CENTER INC: $66,000 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE SOUTHERN ADIRONDACKS INC: $64,800 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetADIRONDACK MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCOMFORT FOOD OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC: $55,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetCraigardan Inc: $53,200 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetJOINT COUNCIL FOR ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY OF CLINTON AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFORT HUDSON NURSING CENTER INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LAKE PLACID ASSOCIATION FOR MUSIC DRAMA AND ART INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCrandall Park Beautification Committee Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetServants of the Word Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE & RAPE CRISIS SERVICES OF SARATOGA COUNTY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetGLENS FALLS AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHistoric Salem Courthouse Preservation Assocation Inc: $35,000 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetADIRONDACK FOLK SCHOOL INC: $34,200 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetADIRONDACK MEDICAL CENTER: $34,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION OF FULTON-MONTGOMERY COMMUNITY COLLEGE INC: $32,500 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetTHE DEPOT THEATRE INC: $31,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE ALBANY INC: $31,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNORTH COUNTRY HOME SERVICES INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMOREAU EMERGENCY SQUAD INC: $29,500 over 2y, 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.

Cloudsplitter FoundationNY124.8× affinity62 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cloudsplitter Foundation · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Glens Falls Foundation · The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Adirondack Foundation · Glenn and Carol Pearsall Adirondack Foun · Alfred Z Solomon Testamentary Trust · Capital District Physicians' Health Plan Inc · William Gundry Broughton Charitable Private Foundation Inc · Peckham Family Foundation · Pioneer Bank Charitable 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 Charles R Wood Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charles R Wood Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Springfield Area Parent Child Center: 53% of income from government
  • Vermont Historical Society: 51% of income from government
  • Upper Valley Haven: 38% of income from government
  • Vermont Foodbank: 13% of income from government
  • Vermont Symphony Orchestra Association Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Vna & Hospice of the Southwest Region Inc: 5% of income from government
  • The Weston Playhouse Theater: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
82report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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 Charles R Wood Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Charles R Wood 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 235 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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