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Citizens Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
1,518
Grants FY2025still arriving
45
States reached
$50k
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.

Community Improvement$1.4MEducation$826kHealth$682kHuman Services$464kHousing & Shelter$304kPhilanthropy$267kFood & Nutrition$244kPublic Safety & Disaster$195kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1518 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1508 grants · $826k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $223k
$250
Median grant
45
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY$49,800
BRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC$30,000
BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY$25,150
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL$25,000
PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC$23,541
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC$17,998
E4E RELIEF LLC$15,899
BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC$14,760
SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC$10,440
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW YORK$10,000
UNITED WAY OF RHODE ISLAND INC$9,756
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCORPORATED$9,422
DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE$9,113
RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION$8,569
CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC$8,417
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 (FY22–25, $613k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%TRANSFAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES: $10k → 11%MILITARY WARRIORS SUPPORT FOUNDATION: $15k → 16%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $2k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ARCHDIOCESE OF HARTFORD: $5k → 11%THE OASIS HAVEN FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC: $50k → 12%GLOBAL TELANGANA ASSOCIATION USA INC: $2k → 4%HEART FOR ORPHANS INC: $2k → 7%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $2k → 14%THE OASIS HAVEN FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC: $25k → 12%OPPORTUNITIES INDUSTRIALIZATION CENTER OF AMERICA INC: $10k → 22%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $2k → 14%THE OASIS HAVEN FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC: $19k → 12%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $2k → 14%RESCUE MISSION OF TRENTON: $2k → 11%NEW HAMPSHIRE CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $2k → 7%UNITED HELP UKRAINE: $5k → 8%PORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC: $5k → 9%FOCUS HOPE: $10k → 21%PORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC: $5k → 9%PROJECT FIRE BUDDIES: $5k → 14%JOSEPH'S HOME: $3k → 17%COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $2k → 16%PORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC: $3k → 9%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC: $3k → 16%HELPING HAND FOR RELIEF & DEVELOPMENT INC: $2k → 8%YOUTH SHELTER PROGRAM OF WESTCHESTER INC: $3k → 9%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $4k → 14%YOUTH SHELTER PROGRAM OF WESTCHESTER INC: $2k → 9%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $2k → 14%URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $2k → 11%URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $2k → 11%CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $3k → 8%URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $2k → 11%CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $2k → 8%PINE STREET INN INC: $65k → 16%THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $23k → 16%FOSTER FORWARD: $12k → 14%FOSTER FORWARD: $2k → 14%FOSTER FORWARD: $2k → 14%HOPEHEALTH HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE: $3k → 14%AMERICAN CORPORATE PARTNERS: $50k → 17%CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $60k → 14%CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $3k → 14%THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $13k → 16%THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $11k → 16%CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $2k → 14%RHODE ISLAND RESCUE MINISTRIES: $2k → 14%RHODE ISLAND RESCUE MINISTRIES: $2k → 14%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

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CA
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CO
NE
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KY
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VA
MD
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NM
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AR
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NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
AL
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.4M · 1344 repeat orgs$812k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

1344 repeat relationships: 951 still active in FY2025, 393 since wound down; 174 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1344
447

Total granted

$5.4M
$665k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+8%

Still filing today

87%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $147k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthAnimalsArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +25%
  • Bucknell University
    4× · 2022–2025 · $89k · revenue +47%
  • PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $84k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • UC
    UNIVERSITY CITY DISTRICT
    one grant, 2022 · $60k · revenue -7%
  • AMERICAN CORPORATE PARTNERS
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +4%
  • TI
    TECH IMPACT
    one grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue +13%
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
University of New Haven

See schedule ouniversity of new haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts & professional education.

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

Founded 131 years ago, the boston architectural college is a recognized institution providing excellence in practice-integrated design education to members of diverse communities with students representing 35 countries. the bac offers…

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3
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic

Advancing health through research, education, clinical practice, and community partnerships; providing each person the best care in the right place, at the right time, every time.

Health
4
Emmanuel College

Emmanuel college is a coed, residential catholic liberal arts and sciences college with over 2,046 undergraduate and graduate students.

Education
5
New England Lawboston

Education of students

Education
6
Georgetown University

Georgetown university is one of the world's leading academic and research institutions. established in 1789, georgetown is the nation's oldest catholic and jesuit university.

Education
7
United Food Bank

Uniting communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
8
Easter Seals Massachusetts Inc

Easter seals massachusetts is a statewide community-based organization that has been helping people with disabilities to live full and independent lives for over 75 years. our mission is to provide services to ensure that children and…

Health
9
Hampshire College Trustees

Inspire students to contribute to knowledge, justice and positive change.

Education
10
United Way of Connecticut Inc

The mission of united way of connecticut is to help the people of connecticut to thrive through trusted partnerships and innovative solutions.

Philanthropy
11
Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc

We are ct's only locally owned media organization producing tv, radio, print and internet content with a mix of educational, new, public affairs, children's and entertainment programming.

Arts & Culture
12
Hopehealth

To support its exempt affiliates.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Holy Angels Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is La Salle University. 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

1691 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. 1691 of the 2,000 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)
210
Early backer (in before they grew)
1673/1691
Grantees still filing
1055/1691
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $1,313,551 · Community ImprovementLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATI…UNIVERSITY CITY DISTRICT: $60,000 · Community Improvement+2 more: $20,300 · Community ImprovementBucknell University: $89,200 · EducationBucknell Univers…WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $64,800 · EducationWAKE FOREST UNIV…BRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC: $53,500 · EducationBRUNSWICK SCHOOL…DUKE UNIVERSITY: $47,272 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYTECH IMPACT: $40,000 · EducationTECH IMPACTYEAR UP INC: $38,138 · EducationYEAR UP INCSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $27,524 · EducationCOMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Education+29 more: $254,542 · Education+29 moreOASIS - A HAVEN FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC: $95,152 · Human ServicesOASIS - A HAVE…SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC: $73,992 · Human ServicesSAINT FRANCIS …CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $68,298 · Human ServicesCROSSROADS RHO…PINE STREET INN INC: $67,315 · Human ServicesPINE STREET IN…AMERICAN CORPORATE PARTNERS: $50,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN CORPO…THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $48,990 · Human ServicesTHE HOME FOR L…+22 more: $177,118 · Human Services+22 moreUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $101,275 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLIN…PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $83,639 · OtherPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE…Feeding America: $70,061 · OtherFeeding AmericaRHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION: $42,324 · OtherRHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA & MUSIC SCHOOL: $50,000 · Other+87 more: $755,027 · Other+87 moreST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $76,375 · HealthST JUDE CH…BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $42,091 · HealthBLOOD CANC…Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $37,060 · HealthDana-Farbe…Children's Hospital Corporation: $34,319 · HealthChildren's…CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $34,039 · HealthCROHN'S & …American Heart Association Inc: $25,866 · HealthAmerican H…NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $16,923 · HealthACCESS PSYCHOLOGY FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Health+20 more: $126,071 · Health+20 moreUNITED WAY OF RHODE ISLAND INC: $157,189 · PhilanthropyUnited Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc: $11,537 · Philanthropy+8 more: $43,078 · PhilanthropyE4E RELIEF LLC: $165,899 · Public Safety & Disaster
Community Improvement$1,393,851Education$639,976Human Services$580,865Other$1,102,326Health$407,744Philanthropy$211,804Public Safety & Disaster$165,899

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%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $1,313,551 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetE4E RELIEF LLC: $165,899 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF RHODE ISLAND INC: $157,189 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetOASIS - A HAVEN FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC: $95,152 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetBucknell University: $89,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $83,639 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $76,375 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC: $73,992 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFeeding America: $70,061 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $68,298 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC: $67,315 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $64,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY CITY DISTRICT: $60,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC: $53,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CORPORATE PARTNERS: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetRHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA & MUSIC SCHOOL: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $48,990 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $47,272 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION: $42,324 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $42,091 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTECH IMPACT: $40,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYEAR UP INC: $38,138 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $37,060 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $34,319 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA: $34,073 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $34,039 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $30,150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $29,813 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $27,524 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $25,866 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT: $20,297 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFOSTER FORWARD: $17,960 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPROVIDENCE COLLEGE: $17,681 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $16,923 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING WESTCHESTER INC: $16,536 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $16,497 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMERRIMACK COLLEGE: $15,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $15,427 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMILITARY WARRIORS SUPPORT FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Eagle Academy Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS WORLDWIDE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKABOOM INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetACCESS PSYCHOLOGY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $14,083 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOL: $13,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC: $13,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWilliam & Mary Foundation: $12,600 over 4y, 0.0% 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.

The Champlin FoundationPA92.3× affinity101 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Champlin Foundation · The Beacon Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Centreville Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation · Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Harborone Foundation Rhode Island · Ida Ballou Littlefield Memorial Trust · Amica Companies Foundation · Arbella Insurance 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 Citizens Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Citizens Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 140%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Arc Massachusetts Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Catholic Charities Inc Archdiocese of Hartford: 39% of income from government
  • The Home for Little Wanderers Inc: 38% of income from government
  • United Way of Greater New Bedford Inc: 35% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Center for Women & Enterprise Inc: 27% of income from government
  • United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Saint Francis House Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Boys and Girls Club of Stoneham Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Women's Lunch Place Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Rescue Mission of Trenton New Jersey: 8% of income from government
  • Open Table Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Economic Mobility Pathways Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Connecticut Foodshare Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Wgbh Educational Foundation: 1% of income from government
  • Merrimack College: 1% of income from government
  • Fairfield University: 1% of income from government
  • High Hopes Therapeutic Riding Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Project Just Because Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
14get no government money at all
47report 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.

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 2000 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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