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Charleys Kids Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$597k
Granted FY2024still arriving
46
Grants FY2024still arriving
18
States reached
$51k
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, FY2018 to 2024.

Youth Development$1.3MEducation$715kHuman Services$609kFood & Nutrition$330kInternational$235kReligion$189kArts & Culture$61kHousing & Shelter$41kOther$0
02FY2024 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k43 grants · $531k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
$10,192
Median grant
18
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CASA HOGAR FRIENDS OF$50,958
KID POWER INC$20,383
Individual grant recipient$20,383
CENTRAL OHIO YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC$20,383
RECOURCE CLEVELAND (FKA REFUGEE RESPONSE)$20,383
ASIAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY SERVICES$17,483
ELEVATE ORLANDO$15,287
RAPHA INTERNATIONAL$15,287
PATHWAYS INTERNATIONAL$15,287
ASIA'S HOPE$15,287
IMENTOR CHICAGO$15,287
COLLEGE BOUND DC$15,287
CHILDREN AT RISK$15,287
LIFEWISE ACADEMY$15,287
COLLEGE BOUND INC$12,230
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 (FY18–24, $574k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NATIVE AMERICAN ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 15%ENROOT INC: $10k → 8%CENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN: $5k → 11%NEHEMIAH CENTER INC: $10k → 16%PROYECTO JUAN DIEGO: $5k → 23%OUR BRIDGE: $10k → 10%HEART FOR LEBANON FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%RECOURCE CLEVELAND (FKA REFUGEE RESPONSE): $20k → 17%NATIVE AMERICAN ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 15%DIVISION OF INDIAN WORK: $9k → 11%NEHEMIAH CENTER INC: $10k → 16%RIGHT MOVES FOR YOUTH: $10k → 10%HEART FOR LEBANON FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%THE REFUGEE RESPONSE: $20k → 17%RIGHT MOVES FOR YOUTH: $10k → 10%HEART FOR LEBANON FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%THE REFUGEE RESPONSE: $15k → 17%ENROOT INC: $10k → 8%RIGHT MOVES FOR YOUTH: $10k → 10%HEART FOR LEBANON FOUNDATION: $9k → 12%THE REFUGEE RESPONSE: $15k → 17%RIGHT MOVES FOR YOUTH: $6k → 10%HEART FOR LEBANON FOUNDATION: $9k → 12%THE REFUGEE RESPONSE: $15k → 17%TEENS FOR FOOD JUSTICE: $15k → 17%HEART FOR LEBANON FOUNDATION: $6k → 12%THE REFUGEE RESPONSE: $12k → 17%TEENS FOR FOOD JUSTICE: $5k → 17%THE REFUGEE RESPONSE: $10k → 17%FOR LOVE OF CHILDREN: $10k → 14%FOR LOVE OF CHILDREN: $10k → 14%SERVING OUR NEIGHBORS MINISTRIES INC: $22k → 15%FOR LOVE OF CHILDREN: $10k → 14%SERVING OUR NEIGHBORS MINISTRIES INC: $20k → 15%FOR LOVE OF CHILDREN: $10k → 14%FOR THE LOVE OF CHILDREN: $10k → 14%FOR LOVE OF CHILDREN: $10k → 14%THE FISHING SCHOOL: $10k → 14%FOR LOVE OF CHILDREN: $10k → 14%THE FISHING SCHOOL: $10k → 14%JUST US 4 YOUTH: $5k → 14%THE FISHING SCHOOL: $10k → 14%ASIA'S HOPE: $29k → 15%ASIA'S HOPE: $15k → 15%ASIA'S HOPE: $15k → 15%ASIA'S HOPE: $15k → 15%ASIA'S HOPE: $12k → 15%ASIA'S HOPE: $12k → 15%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
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
AZ
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.2M · 78 repeat orgs$359k to everyone else

78 repeat relationships: 44 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

78
40

Total granted

$3.2M
$339k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+46%

Still filing today

72%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Youth DevelopmentHuman ServicesEducationCrime & LegalReligionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • RC
    RESOURCE CLEVELAND
    7× · 2018–2024 · $108k · revenue +488%
  • AH
    ASIA'S HOPE
    6× · 2019–2024 · $99k · revenue +2%
  • KP
    KID POWER INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $85k · revenue +101%

Funded once

  • HK
    HANHEE KIM WORLD MISSION CENTER INC
    one grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue -15%
  • YF
    YOUTH FOR CHRISTUSA INC
    one grant, 2022 · $26k · revenue -3%
  • DM
    DOCUSEN MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -36%
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
Community for Youth

Community for youth employs youth mentoring, community building, leadership development, and career exploration to help youth develop relationships that will support their lives, connect with their internal power, and help them make a…

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2
A Bridge for Kids

To build bridges to brighter futures for teenagers who have big aspirations but face barriers to achieving their full potential. provides financial benefits to teenagers based on applications demonstrating need and a worthy activity that…

Human Services
3
Global Kids Inc

Global kids educates, inspires and mobilizes youth to become global citizens who are positively engaged in the world and are prepared for their future.

Youth Development
4
Youth Guidance

A leader in social and emotional development, community engagement, and positive youth development, Youth Guidance has strategically created programs to address community needs across four delivery areas: Community & Afterschool Programs…

Education
5
Friends of the Children-Portland

Friends - portland commits to standing alongside our community's youth as they work to overcome barriers to their success. each child receives 1:1 support and guidance from a salaried, professional mentor (called a friend), from…

Youth Development
6
Youthbuild Global Inc

With love and respect, we partner with opportunity youth to build the skillsets and mindsets that lead to lifelong learning, livelihood, and leadership. youthbuild strives to create a world where all young people are seen for their…

Employment
7
Cincinnati Youth Collaborative

Cincinnati Youth Collaborative ("CYC") empowers young people to overcome barriers and excel in education, career, and life.

Education
8
Friends of the Children - San Francisco Bay Area

Impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years, no matter what.

Education
9
Friends of the Children - Philadelphia

Friends of the children philadelphia has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships and professional mentors 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in…

Education
10
Friends of the Children - Chicago

Friends of the children - chicago has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in…

Human Services
11
Youth Life Foundation of Tennessee Inc

Youth life is a christ-centered service providing distinctive personalized academic & life skills that develops tomorrow's leaders.

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12
City of Promise Inc

Our mission is to end generational poverty, and to foster a culture of achievement in which all children in our community graduate from high school, ready for college or career.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lifewise Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Pathway International. 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

83 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. 83 of the 120 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)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
80/83
Grantees still filing
52/83
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CASA HOGAR FRIENDS OF: $152,513 · OtherCASA HOGAR FRIENDS OFASIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $99,820 · OtherASIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY SERVICESNATIONAL RESTAURANT ASSOC FOUNDATION: $74,881 · OtherRAPHA HOUSE: $63,953 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $61,018 · OtherCREATE YOUR OWN DREAM: $55,820 · OtherYOUTH FOR CHRIST USA INC: $50,419 · Other+51 more: $883,732 · Other+51 moreKID POWER INC: $85,241 · Youth DevelopmentKID POWER INCFLORIDA LEADERSHIP VENTURE: $80,384 · Youth DevelopmentFLORIDA LEADERSHIP VENTUR…IMENTOR INC: $78,355 · Youth DevelopmentIMENTOR INCELEVATE PHOENIX: $65,322 · Youth DevelopmentELEVATE PHOENIXCENTRAL OHIO YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC: $50,328 · Youth DevelopmentCENTRAL OHIO YOUTH FOR CH…ELEVATE NEW YORK INC: $48,663 · Youth DevelopmentELEVATE NEW YORK INCLIFEWISE INC: $43,493 · Youth DevelopmentLIFEWISE INCA MILLION STARS INC DBA COLLEGE BOUND: $43,421 · Youth DevelopmentA MILLION STARS INC DBA C…UrbanPromise Charlotte: $40,444 · Youth DevelopmentEAST BAY ASIAN YOUTH CENTER: $35,800 · Youth DevelopmentLittle Lights Urban Ministries Inc: $30,153 · Youth DevelopmentELEVATE NEW ENGLAND INC: $29,937 · Youth Development+12 more: $172,807 · Youth Development+12 moreRESOURCE CLEVELAND: $107,519 · Human ServicesRESOURCE CLEVELANDASIA'S HOPE: $98,969 · Human ServicesASIA'S HOPEFOR LOVE OF CHILDREN: $73,742 · Human ServicesFOR LOVE OF CHILDRE…NATIVE AMERICAN ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION: $60,325 · Human ServicesNATIVE AMERICAN ADV…Heart for Lebanon Foundation: $59,428 · Human ServicesHeart for Lebanon F…SERVING OUR NEIGHBORS MINISTRIES INC: $47,023 · Human ServicesSERVING OUR NEIGHBO…Right Moves for Youth Inc: $36,474 · Human ServicesRight Moves for You…The Fishing School Inc: $30,252 · Human ServicesTEENS FOR FOOD JUSTICE INC: $24,694 · Human Services+7 more: $75,230 · Human Services+7 moreBRIGHT PROSPECT: $92,028 · EducationBRIGHT PROS…DEGREES OF CHANGE: $67,819 · EducationDEGREES OF …POMONA HOPE: $63,460 · EducationPOMONA HOPECOLLEGE BOUND INC: $50,286 · EducationCOLLEGE BOU…ACADEMIC LEARNING CENTER INC: $35,482 · EducationACADEMIC LE…REAL OPTIONS FOR CITY KIDS: $15,270 · Education+6 more: $34,049 · Education+6 moreZOE INTERNATIONAL: $70,337 · ReligionHANHEE KIM WORLD MISSION CENTER INC: $30,000 · ReligionCIUDAD NUEVA COMMUNITY OUTREACH IN: $17,749 · ReligionDOCUSEN MINISTRIES: $15,460 · ReligionARIZONA BRAINFOOD INC: $70,316 · Food & NutritionKID PACK INC: $40,442 · Food & NutritionChildren At Risk: $31,493 · Crime & LegalRAPHA HOUSE INTERNATIONAL INC: $30,309 · Crime & LegalFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN- NEW YORK: $20,214 · Crime & LegalSAFEFUTURES YOUTH CENTER: $9,923 · Crime & Legal
Other$1,442,156Youth Development$804,348Human Services$613,656Education$358,394Religion$133,546Food & Nutrition$110,758Crime & Legal$91,939

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRESOURCE CLEVELAND: $107,519 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $99,820 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetASIA'S HOPE: $98,969 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetBRIGHT PROSPECT: $92,028 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetKID POWER INC: $85,241 over 7y, 3.0% of budgetFLORIDA LEADERSHIP VENTURE: $80,384 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetIMENTOR INC: $78,355 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFOR LOVE OF CHILDREN: $73,742 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetZOE INTERNATIONAL: $70,337 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetARIZONA BRAINFOOD INC: $70,316 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetDEGREES OF CHANGE: $67,819 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetELEVATE PHOENIX: $65,322 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetPOMONA HOPE: $63,460 over 7y, 5.3% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION: $60,325 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetHeart for Lebanon Foundation: $59,428 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCENTRAL OHIO YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC: $50,328 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCOLLEGE BOUND INC: $50,286 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetELEVATE NEW YORK INC: $48,663 over 5y, 5.7% of budgetSERVING OUR NEIGHBORS MINISTRIES INC: $47,023 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetLIFEWISE INC: $43,493 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetA MILLION STARS INC DBA COLLEGE BOUND: $43,421 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetURBAN RANGER CORPS: $40,444 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetTHE WOODEN FLOOR FOR YOUTH MOVEMENT: $40,444 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetUrbanPromise Charlotte: $40,444 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCONNECTIKIDS INC: $40,442 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetKID PACK INC: $40,442 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetRight Moves for Youth Inc: $36,474 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetEAST BAY ASIAN YOUTH CENTER: $35,800 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetACADEMIC LEARNING CENTER INC: $35,482 over 4y, 8.8% of budgetChildren At Risk: $31,493 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetRAPHA HOUSE INTERNATIONAL INC: $30,309 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Fishing School Inc: $30,252 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetLittle Lights Urban Ministries Inc: $30,153 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetELEVATE NEW ENGLAND INC: $29,937 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetYOUTH FOR CHRISTUSA INC: $25,766 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PITTSBURGH PROMISE FOUNDATION: $25,367 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PATHWAY INTERNATIONAL: $25,309 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetKITCHEN GARDEN PROJECT INC GARDEN-RAISED BOUNTY: $24,781 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetTEENS FOR FOOD JUSTICE INC: $24,694 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE OUTKAST ACADEMY INC: $23,859 over 3y, 9.5% of budgetHARBOR HOUSE MINISTRIES: $22,165 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCITY HOPE COMMUNITY INC: $20,229 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetENROOT INC: $20,229 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $20,229 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBrookline Teen Outreach: $20,229 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetWINGS OF HOPE: $20,214 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOPEN DOORS INC: $20,214 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN- NEW YORK: $20,214 over 2y, 0.4% 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 RESOURCE CLEVELAND ↗
  • Who funds ASIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds ASIA'S HOPE ↗
  • Who funds BRIGHT PROSPECT ↗
  • Who funds KID POWER INC ↗
  • Who funds FLORIDA LEADERSHIP VENTURE ↗
  • Who funds IMENTOR INC ↗
  • Who funds FOR LOVE OF CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds ZOE INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds ARIZONA BRAINFOOD INC ↗
  • Who funds DEGREES OF CHANGE ↗
  • Who funds ELEVATE PHOENIX ↗
  • Who funds POMONA HOPE ↗
  • Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Heart for Lebanon Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL OHIO YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE BOUND INC ↗
  • Who funds ELEVATE NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds SERVING OUR NEIGHBORS MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds LIFEWISE INC ↗
  • Who funds A MILLION STARS INC DBA COLLEGE BOUND ↗
  • Who funds URBAN RANGER CORPS ↗
  • Who funds THE WOODEN FLOOR FOR YOUTH MOVEMENT ↗
  • Who funds UrbanPromise Charlotte ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTIKIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds KID PACK INC ↗
  • Who funds Right Moves for Youth Inc ↗
  • Who funds EAST BAY ASIAN YOUTH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ACADEMIC LEARNING CENTER INC ↗

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.

58 Partners FoundationOH19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 1 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 58 Partners Foundation · New York Life Foundation · Dollar General Literacy Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Pwc Foundation Inc · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Servant Foundation · Morgan Stanley 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 Charleys Kids Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charleys Kids Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    5get no government money at all
    40report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 Charleys Kids Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Charleys Kids 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 120 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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