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Community Foundation of East Central Illinois

To promote philanthropy in an impartial, unbiased, ethical way, with a commitment to inclusiveness, and to bring together people and resources to identify and address present and emerging community needs.

$1.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
67
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$134k
Largest
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.9MHuman Services$1.1MReligion$992kYouth Development$945kHealth$862kPhilanthropy$572kArts & Culture$463kFood & Nutrition$330kOther$0
02FY2024 · 67 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 67 grants below total $1,275,834, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,707,379 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $431,545 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 $10k29 grants · $218k
  • $10k–50k33 grants · $684k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $374k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$39M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION$133,590
THE HOPE CHEST$61,000
UNITED WAY OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY$60,909
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF CHAMPAIGN$59,302
FRIENDS OF PEB INC$59,302
DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES CENTER$43,432
SPRING INITIATIVE$43,000
EASTERN ILLINOIS FOODBANK$37,025
CU CHURCH$34,000
CU ONE-TO-ONE MENTORING$32,500
DON MOYER BOYS & GIRLS CLUB$31,985
GIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS$28,675
CHAMPAIGN URBANA SYMPHONY$27,484
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS$27,284
CUNNINGHAM CHILDREN'S HOME$26,575
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, $564k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 93% 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 BABY FOLD: $9k → 11%COLES COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $8k → 18%COLES COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $5k → 18%WILLOW TREE MISSIONS: $12k → 7%MUSTARD SEED CHRISTIAN DAYCARE: $13k → 17%WILLOW TREE MISSIONS: $8k → 7%DWELLING PLACE: $7k → 17%WILLOW TREE MISSIONS: $8k → 7%WILLOW TREE MISSIONS: $5k → 7%DREAAM OPPORTUNITY CENTER: $5k → 19%CUNNINGHAM CHILDREN'S HOME: $32k → 19%CUNNINGHAM CHILDREN'S HOME: $27k → 19%CLARK LINDSEY VILLAGE: $5k → 19%COMMUNITY SERVICE CTR OF NO CHMPGN CNTY: $20k → 19%HOPE MEADOWS: $20k → 19%HOPE MEADOWS: $13k → 19%HOPE MEADOWS: $9k → 19%HOPE MEADOWS: $8k → 19%COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER OF NORTHERN CHAMPAIGN COUNTY: $7k → 19%HELEN MARY STEVICK SENIOR CENTER: $50k → 19%DREAAM: $9k → 19%THE UP CENTER OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY: $8k → 19%THE REFUGEE CENTER: $8k → 19%DREAAM: $8k → 19%THE REFUGEE CENTER: $5k → 19%DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES CENTER: $43k → 19%DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES CENTER: $37k → 19%DEVELOPMENT SERVICES CENTER: $35k → 19%DEVELOPMENT SERVICES CENTER: $31k → 19%DEVELOPMENT SERVICES CENTER: $31k → 19%DEVELOPMENT SERVICES CENTER: $29k → 19%DEVELOPMENT SERVICES CENTER: $26k → 19%DEVELOPMENT SERVICES CENTER: $25k → 19%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
MA
IN
PA
MO
VA
TN
DC
MS
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.9M · 75 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

75 repeat relationships: 46 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

75
53

Total granted

$7.9M
$818k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+31%

Still filing today

72%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $196k 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
Human ServicesEducationHealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther
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

  • University of Illinois Foundation
    8× · 2017–2024 · $959k · revenue +127%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF PEB INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $470k · revenue +15%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $470k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • CO
    CITY OF URBANA
    one grant, 2021 · $99k
  • HS
    HIGH SCHOOL OF ST THOMAS MORE OF CHAMPAIGN INC
    one grant, 2018 · $54k
  • HM
    HELEN MARY STEVICK SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -31% · 40% 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
Champaign County Community Development Corporation

Economic development within champaign county, il and surrounding communities

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2
Citizens Utility Board

To promote the health, welfare and prosperity of all the citizens of illinois by ensuring effective and democratic representation of utility consumers.

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3
Community Health Partnership of Illinois

Strive to improve the health and well being of migrant and seasonal farmworkers and other medically vulnerable populations by providing quality accessable, affordable, and culturally responsive health care within the community we serve.

Health
4
Community Shares of Illinois

Community shares of illinois represents a diverse group of charitites with a common mission, to make our world a better place. whether your passion is women's issues, protecting children, helping animals, promoting health care or curbing…

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5
Chicago Municipal Employee's Credit Union

To give members the ability to control their financial destiny by providing members with the means to satisfy their needs for financial services in a comfortable family-like environment. in doing so, the credit union strives to maintain…

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6
United Way of Central Illinois Inc

The united way of central illinois, inc. is a not-for-profit corporation with a mission to improve lives by uniting our community to adress the basic needs, education, financial stability and health of every person. vision: building…

Philanthropy
7
Champaign County Economic Partnership

A public-private partnership dedicated to fostering a cooperative, county-wide approach to economic development.

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8
Central Illinois Agency On Aging Inc

Central illinois agency on aging believes in the independence and dignity of older persons, and that each older person should be empowered to exert control over their own life & have access to needed services. we do planning, program…

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9
Commonwealth Credit Union

Commonwealth credit union, building lifelong relationships one member at a time.

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10
Champaign County Chamber of Commerce

The chamber promotes and supports the business community through their program by advocating the best interests of its membership and by delivering excellence in membership services and benefits.

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11
Central Illinois Foodbank Inc

The Foodbank's mission is to provide food, and develop awareness of and creative solutions for food insecurity. Annually, the Foodbank distributes approximately 9.5 million pounds of food to 130 food pantries, soup kitchens, children's…

Food & Nutrition
12
Children's Advocates for Change

Children's advocates for change was organized to improve the lives of children in illinois by bringing about significant changes public policies and programs for children through research, policy analysis and advocacy, public education and…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc; the most unlike its peers is Vermilion County Rape Crisis Center. 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

96 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. 96 of the 151 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
35
Early backer (in before they grew)
94/96
Grantees still filing
77/96
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VARIOUS GRANTS 5000 AND UNDER: $876,283 · OtherVARIOUS GRANTS 5000 AND UNDERFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF CHAMPAIGN: $472,835 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF CHAMPAIGNFAMILY SERVICE OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY: $161,171 · Other+95 more: $2,679,060 · Other+95 moreUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $959,237 · EducationUniversity of Illin…SPRING INITIATIVE INC: $252,000 · EducationSPRING INITIATIVE I…C-U ONE TO ONE MENTORING SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION IN: $178,500 · EducationC-U ONE TO ONE MENT…PARKLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $57,239 · Education+6 more: $80,485 · EducationTHE HOPE CHEST OF PEKIN NFP: $369,000 · Human ServicesTHE HOPE CHEST …DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES CENTER OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY INC: $257,603 · Human ServicesDEVELOPMENTAL S…CUNNINGHAM CHILDRENS HOME OF URBANA IL: $178,709 · Human ServicesCUNNINGHAM CHIL…C-U AT HOME: $138,025 · Human ServicesC-U AT HOMEDREAAM OPPORTUNITY CENTER: $93,949 · Human ServicesDREAAM OPPORTUN…HELEN MARY STEVICK SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER: $50,000 · Human ServicesHOPE MEADOWS: $49,821 · Human Services+9 more: $126,825 · Human Services+9 moreFRIENDS OF PEB INC: $470,325 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF PEB…UNITED WAY OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY: $469,703 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF …COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS: $80,513 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUN…URBANA PARKS FOUNDATION: $42,291 · Philanthropy+4 more: $72,931 · Philanthropy+4 moreEASTERN ILLINOIS FOODBANK: $227,369 · Food & NutritionSOLA GRATIA FARM: $51,385 · Food & NutritionDAILY BREAD SOUP KITCHEN INC: $35,000 · Food & NutritionTHE LAND CONNECTION FOUNDATION INC: $11,543 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $7,775 · Food & NutritionDON MOYER BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $154,076 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP UNISTAR FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentURBANA NEIGHBORHOOD CONNECTIONS CENTER: $31,907 · Youth DevelopmentFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $31,500 · Youth DevelopmentIllinois Foundation Future Farmers of America: $23,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentPROMISE HEALTHCARE NFP: $79,132 · HealthCHAMPAIGN COUNTY HEALTH CARE CONSUMERS: $43,231 · HealthVERMILION COUNTY RAPE CRISIS CENTER: $38,860 · HealthRAPE ADVOCACY COUNSELING & EDUCATION SERVICES: $36,190 · HealthDOUGLAS COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH & FAMILY COUNSELING ASSOCIATION INC: $23,010 · HealthCOMMUNITY RESOURCE & COUNSELING CEN: $12,795 · HealthThe Carle Foundation: $10,750 · Health+1 more: $7,500 · Health
Other$4,189,349Education$1,527,461Human Services$1,263,932Philanthropy$1,135,763Food & Nutrition$333,072Youth Development$297,983Health$251,468

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 budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $959,237 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF PEB INC: $470,325 over 8y, 8.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY: $469,703 over 8y, 4.7% of budgetTHE HOPE CHEST OF PEKIN NFP: $369,000 over 8y, 8.8% of budgetDEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES CENTER OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY INC: $257,603 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetSPRING INITIATIVE INC: $252,000 over 8y, 3.9% of budgetEASTERN ILLINOIS FOODBANK: $227,369 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCUNNINGHAM CHILDRENS HOME OF URBANA IL: $178,709 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetC-U ONE TO ONE MENTORING SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION IN: $178,500 over 7y, 39% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY: $161,171 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetDON MOYER BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $154,076 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetC-U AT HOME: $138,025 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS: $124,889 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetGRIOT ARTS INC: $113,000 over 8y, 4.4% of budgetCHAMPAIGN-URBANA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $107,775 over 8y, 6.0% of budgetDREAAM OPPORTUNITY CENTER: $93,949 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetORTHOPTERISTS' SOCIETY: $93,842 over 8y, 5.3% of budgetMONTICELLO RAILWAY MUSEUM INC: $83,880 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetCHAMPAIGN PARKS FOUNDATION: $83,397 over 8y, 9.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS: $80,513 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetPROMISE HEALTHCARE NFP: $79,132 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCRISIS NURSERY: $76,707 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetPARKLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $57,239 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetSOLA GRATIA FARM: $51,385 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetHELEN MARY STEVICK SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetCAMP UNISTAR FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetHOPE MEADOWS: $49,821 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetCHAMPAIGN COUNTY YMCA STEPHENS FAMILY YMCA: $46,054 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCHAMPAIGN COUNTY HEALTH CARE CONSUMERS: $43,231 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetURBANA PARKS FOUNDATION: $42,291 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetVERMILION COUNTY RAPE CRISIS CENTER: $38,860 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetElevated Access Inc: $38,250 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetRAPE ADVOCACY COUNSELING & EDUCATION SERVICES: $36,190 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetCRIS Healthy Aging: $35,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetDAILY BREAD SOUP KITCHEN INC: $35,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetCHAMPAIGN-URBANA SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $33,769 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetWILLOW TREE MISSIONS NON-PROFIT CORPORATION: $32,092 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetMahomet-Seymour Schools Foundation For Academic Ex: $31,931 over 3y, 9.4% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $31,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROSECRANCE INC: $28,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER OF NORTHERN CHAMPAIGN COUNTY INC: $27,100 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetMONTICELLO SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $26,986 over 1y, 18% of budgetGRAND PRAIRIE FRIENDS: $25,666 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC: $25,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOURAGE CONNECTION: $24,704 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetDOUGLAS COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH & FAMILY COUNSELING ASSOCIATION INC: $23,010 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetIllinois Foundation Future Farmers of America: $23,000 over 3y, 1.0% 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.

  • Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF PEB INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds THE HOPE CHEST OF PEKIN NFP ↗
  • Who funds DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES CENTER OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds SPRING INITIATIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds EASTERN ILLINOIS FOODBANK ↗
  • Who funds CUNNINGHAM CHILDRENS HOME OF URBANA IL ↗
  • Who funds C-U ONE TO ONE MENTORING SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION IN ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds DON MOYER BOYS & GIRLS CLUB ↗
  • Who funds C-U AT HOME ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS ↗
  • Who funds GRIOT ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds CHAMPAIGN-URBANA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds DREAAM OPPORTUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ORTHOPTERISTS' SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds MONTICELLO RAILWAY MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds CHAMPAIGN PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS ↗
  • Who funds PROMISE HEALTHCARE NFP ↗
  • Who funds CRISIS NURSERY ↗
  • Who funds PARKLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SOLA GRATIA FARM ↗
  • Who funds HELEN MARY STEVICK SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CAMP UNISTAR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HOPE MEADOWS ↗

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.

United Way of Champaign CountyIL85× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Champaign County · Iroquois Federal Foundation Inc · Eastern Illinois Foodbank · The Meyer Charitable Foundation · Wgrc Inc · The Carle Foundation Hospital · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Ezra Levin Foundation · The Lumpkin Family Foundation · American Water Charitable Foundationinc · Hartmann Family Foundation · Raynie 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 Community Foundation of East Central Illinois funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Community Foundation of East Central Illinois. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    45report 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.

    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 151 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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