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Coleman Family Charitable Foundation

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.

$503k
Granted FY2024still arriving
51
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$100k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.1MArts & Culture$359kReligion$334kHealth$293kEnvironment$258kHousing & Shelter$192kYouth Development$138kInternational$84kOther$0
02FY2024 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k33 grants · $95k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $258k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$5,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$9.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAINT ANNS SCHOOL$100,000
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS SYNAGOGUE$50,000
TRUSTEES OF AMHERST COLLEGE$25,000
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY$25,000
HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS INC$25,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC$20,000
STEEP ROCK ASSOCIATION INC$20,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS$20,000
BARD HIGH SCHOOL EARLY COLLEGE QUEENS$20,000
RED HOOK INITIATIVE$15,000
SAINT ANNS SCHOOL$15,000
ST ANDREWS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL INC$13,000
BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY$10,000
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS SYNAGOGUE$10,000
70 FACES MEDIA INC$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $144k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $3k → 14%THE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $5k → 14%THE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $3k → 14%THE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $3k → 14%THE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $3k → 14%THE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $3k → 14%BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HOUSING AND SERVICES INC: $3k → 20%THE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $5k → 14%BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HOUSING AND SERVICES INC: $3k → 20%BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HOUSING AND SERVICES INC: $3k → 20%BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HOUSING AND SERVICES INC: $3k → 20%BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HOUSING AND SERVICES INC: $1k → 20%BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HOUSING AND SERVICES INC: $1k → 20%BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HOUSING AND SERVICES INC: $1k → 20%BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HOUSING AND SERVICES INC: $750 → 20%BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HOUSING AND SERVICES INC: $250 → 20%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW YO: $1k → 17%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW YO: $1k → 17%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW YO: $1k → 17%COMMUNITY HELP IN PARK SLOPE INC: $1k → 17%RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $15k → 20%RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $15k → 20%RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $15k → 20%RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $15k → 20%RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $15k → 20%RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $10k → 20%EMMAS TORCH LTD: $5k → 20%COMMUNITY HELP IN PARK SLOPE INC: $8k → 20%COMMUNITY HELP IN PARK SLOPE INC: $1k → 20%COMMUNITY HELP IN PARK SLOPE INC: $500 → 20%COMMUNITY HELP IN PARK SLOPE INC: $500 → 20%COMMUNITY HELP IN PARK SLOPE INC: $100 → 20%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

MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
CT
MD
DC
TX
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.8M · 61 repeat orgs$62k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

61 repeat relationships: 40 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

61
9

Total granted

$2.8M
$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+10%

Still filing today

84%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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 & CultureInternationalEnvironmentOther
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

  • SA
    SAINT ANN'S SCHOOL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $552k · revenue +36%
  • SR
    STEEP ROCK ASSOCIATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $223k · revenue +453%
  • HC
    HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $178k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • SHARE OUR STRENGTHgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +60%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE SCARSDALE LIBRARY INC
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -84%
  • UNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue -42%
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
Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation

Brooklyn bridge park corporation's mission, d/b/a brooklyn bridge park ("bbp") mission is to provide an exceptional public space that connects people, nature, and the waterfront, through inclusive, innovative, and sustainable management…

Recreation & Sports
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
Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp

To manage the brooklyn navy yard for the city of new york, specifically to expand job opportunities for new yorkers by fostering the development of small businesses.

Community Improvement
4
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
5
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
6
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
7
Newyork-Presbyterianbrooklyn Methodist

To provide excellent healthcare services without regard to age, sex, race, creed, national origin or disability; to serve as an educational and research center for physicians, nurses and healthcare professionals; to provide health…

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8
Stony Brook Ophthalmology 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
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
10
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
11
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
12
Manhattanville University

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

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Side Center for Community Life; the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. 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

69 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. 69 of the 79 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
69/69
Grantees still filing
49/69
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS SYNAGOGUE: $334,320 · OtherBROOKLYN HEIGHTS SYNAGOGUEHEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $177,500 · OtherHEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS INCTHE BROOKLYN HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $150,000 · OtherTHE BROOKLYN HISTORICAL SOCIETYBARD HIGH SCHOOL EARLY COLLEGE QUEENS: $80,000 · OtherBARD HIGH SCHOOL EARLY COLLEGE QUEENSFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - AUSTIN: $44,500 · Other+32 more: $359,050 · Other+32 moreSAINT ANN'S SCHOOL: $551,500 · EducationSAINT ANN'S SCHOOLBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $150,000 · EducationBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARYBARD COLLEGE: $61,000 · EducationBARD COLLEGEAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $55,000 · EducationAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEESNew York University: $50,000 · EducationST ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $45,000 · Education+7 more: $53,500 · Education+7 moreSTEEP ROCK ASSOCIATION INC: $223,300 · EnvironmentSTEEP ROC…HOUSATONIC VALLEY ASSOCIATION INC: $25,000 · EnvironmentHOUSATONI…+2 more: $8,500 · EnvironmentThe New York and Presbyterian Hospital: $65,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC: $55,500 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC: $40,000 · HealthHartford Hospital: $30,000 · HealthThe Rogosin Institute Inc: $20,000 · HealthDanbury Hospital & New Milford Hospital Foundation Inc: $16,000 · Health+2 more: $5,000 · HealthRED HOOK INITIATIVE: $85,000 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $25,000 · Human ServicesBROOKLYN COMMUNITY HOUSING AND SERVICES: $14,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY HELP IN PARK SLOPE INC: $11,500 · Human ServicesEMMA'S TORCH LTD: $5,000 · Human ServicesDocumented LTD: $5,000 · Human Services+1 more: $3,000 · Human Services70 FACES MEDIA INC: $95,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $20,000 · Arts & CultureWNET: $20,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: $8,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $5,000 · Arts & CultureBROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $55,100 · PhilanthropyHOPEWELL FUND: $10,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $1,500 · Philanthropy
Other$1,145,370Education$966,000Environment$256,800Health$231,500Human Services$148,500Arts & Culture$148,000Philanthropy$66,600

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 budgetSAINT ANN'S SCHOOL: $551,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetSTEEP ROCK ASSOCIATION INC: $223,300 over 8y, 7.6% of budgetHEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $177,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $150,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $150,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budget70 FACES MEDIA INC: $95,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetRED HOOK INITIATIVE: $85,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetThe New York and Presbyterian Hospital: $65,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBARD COLLEGE: $61,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC: $55,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $55,100 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $55,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $45,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - AUSTIN: $44,500 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC: $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHartford Hospital: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSATONIC VALLEY ASSOCIATION INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetOFICINA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO UNIDO INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $25,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTexas Book Festival: $23,800 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetThe Children's Health Fund: $22,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $20,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGUNN MEMORIAL LIBRARY INC: $20,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetThe Rogosin Institute Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWNET: $20,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDanbury Hospital & New Milford Hospital Foundation Inc: $16,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPREP FOR PREP: $15,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $15,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN COMMUNITY HOUSING AND SERVICES: $14,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $13,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC: $12,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY HELP IN PARK SLOPE INC: $11,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE SCARSDALE LIBRARY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSADIE NASH LEADERSHIP PROJECT INC: $9,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBrooklyn Heights Association Inc: $6,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetCENTRAL QUEENS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMMA'S TORCH LTD: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDocumented LTD: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 SAINT ANN'S SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds STEEP ROCK ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BROOKLYN HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds 70 FACES MEDIA INC ↗
  • Who funds RED HOOK INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds The New York and Presbyterian Hospital ↗
  • Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC ↗
  • Who funds BROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES ↗
  • Who funds New York University ↗
  • Who funds ST ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - AUSTIN ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds Hartford Hospital ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds HOUSATONIC VALLEY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds OFICINA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO UNIDO INC ↗
  • Who funds THE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS ↗
  • Who funds Texas Book Festival ↗
  • Who funds The Children's Health Fund ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
  • Who funds GUNN MEMORIAL LIBRARY INC ↗
  • Who funds The Rogosin Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds WNET ↗
  • Who funds Danbury Hospital & New Milford Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds PREP FOR PREP ↗
  • Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HOUSING AND SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds WEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE ↗

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.

Brooklyn Community FoundationNY33.6× affinity14 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Brooklyn Community Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · The Wenden Foundation · The Kestrel Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Open Society Institute · Fjc · Murray & Susan Haber Charitable Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust

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 Coleman Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Coleman Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Housatonic Valley Association Inc: 38% of income from government
  • Steep Rock Association Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Health Care for the Homeless Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Hartford Hospital: 0% of income from government
  • Amherst College Trustees: 0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Coleman Family Charitable 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 79 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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