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Community Memorial Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
84
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$471k
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$8.6MHuman Services$3.6MHousing & Shelter$2.1MFood & Nutrition$676kEducation$548kCrime & Legal$337kYouth Development$289kCivil Rights$188kOther$0
02FY2024 · 84 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k25 grants · $123k
  • $10k–50k43 grants · $1.3M
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $1.8M
  • $250k+1 grant · $471k
$31,005
Median grant
2
States reached
$102M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Pillars Community Health$470,856
BEDS Plus$245,775
Healthcare Alternative Systems Inc$230,020
NAMI Metro Suburban$207,495
Mujeres Latinas En Accion$185,970
Aging Care Connections$126,245
Center for Creative Leadership$125,000
Alivio Medical Center$118,248
People's Resource Center$91,005
Metropolitan Family Services$86,570
Health and Medicine Policy Research Group$81,755
HCS Family Services$80,500
Helping Hand Center$70,606
Bridge Communities Inc$60,480
Youth Crossroads Inc$58,975
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 (FY20–24, $3.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 72% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Hamdard Center for Health & Human Services: $40k → 7%Hamdard Center for Health & Human Services: $25k → 7%Hamdard Center for Health & Human Services: $25k → 7%Hamdard Center for Health & Human Services: $25k → 7%Hope's Front Door: $32k → 7%Hope's Front Door: $25k → 7%Aspire: $27k → 14%Metropolitan Family Services: $75k → 7%NAMI of DuPage County Illinois: $36k → 7%DuPage Federation on Human Services Reform: $31k → 7%United Cerebral Palsy Seguin of Greater Chicago (UCP Seguin): $35k → 14%Metropolitan Family Services: $87k → 14%Metropolitan Family Services: $75k → 14%Community House: $56k → 7%Community House: $50k → 7%Community House: $50k → 7%Community House: $40k → 7%COMMUNITY HOUSE: $40k → 7%Community Support Services Inc: $46k → 14%Community Support Services Inc: $40k → 14%Community Support Services Inc: $40k → 14%COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES INC: $40k → 14%Community Support Services Inc: $40k → 14%Aging Care Connections: $126k → 14%Aging Care Connections: $85k → 14%Aging Care Connections: $85k → 14%Aging Care Connections: $79k → 14%Helping Hand Center: $71k → 14%Aging Care Connections: $35k → 14%LeaderShop The: $35k → 14%LeaderShop The: $35k → 14%AGING CARE CONNECTIONS: $29k → 14%Aging Care Connections: $29k → 14%Aging Care Connections: $28k → 14%Aging Care Connections: $27k → 14%AGING CARE CONNECTIONS: $26k → 14%AGE OPTIONS: $41k → 14%Age Options: $34k → 14%Mujeres Latinas En Accion: $186k → 14%Mujeres Latinas En Accion: $75k → 14%Mujeres Latinas En Accion: $68k → 14%Mujeres Latinas En Accion: $62k → 14%Mujeres Latinas En Accion: $60k → 14%Mujeres Latinas En Accion: $60k → 14%MUJERES LATINAS EN ACCION: $53k → 14%MUJERES LATINAS EN ACCION: $45k → 14%Arab American Family Services: $55k → 14%Family Focus Inc: $36k → 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.
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$16M · 82 repeat orgs$422k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.

82 repeat relationships: 73 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

82
12

Total granted

$16M
$316k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+30%

Still filing today

87%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k 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
Human ServicesHealthCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyEducationOther
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

  • PC
    PILLARS COMMUNITY HEALTH
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +13%
  • NM
    NAMI METRO-SUBURBAN INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +152% · 44% of their budget
  • BP
    BEDS PLUS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $835k · revenue +664%

Funded once

  • MR
    MICHAEL REESE HEALTH TRUST
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +4%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -50%
  • RU
    Rush University Medical Centergraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $38k · revenue +30%
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
Infant Welfare Society of Chicago

Infant welfare society of chicago (iws) (d/b/a iws family health) provides quality medical, dental and behavioral health services for the health, physical and mental development of children and their families in the chicagoland community.

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2
Community Care Health Plan Inc

Community care health plan's mission is to develop and demonstrate innovative, flexible, community-based approaches to care for at-risk adults, in order to optimize their quality of life and optimize the allocation of community resources.

Health
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
Depaul Community Services Inc

To provide residential and rehabilitation services to clients with mental illnesses

Health
5
Sinnissippi Centers Inc

It is the mission of sinnissippi centers, inc. to provide quality, coordinated and responsive behavioral healthcare services to individuals, families and the communities we serve.

Health
6
Center for Family Services

Administering an array of critical, intensive therapeutic interventions and/or facilitation services to emotionally and behaviorally disturbed clients for whom DCFS is legally responsible in order to stabilize their traditional or home of…

Human Services
7
Center for Housing and Health

Chh honors every person's right to a home and health care, by bridging the housing and health care systems, to improve the lives of chicagoans experiencing homelessness.

Housing & Shelter
8
Illinois Partners for Human Service

Illinois Partners for Human Service's primary activities are (1) strengthening human services in communities throughout Illinois by building a unified human services sector; (2) working with leaders, the public, and others engaged in the…

Human Services
9
Heartland Community Health Clinic D/B/a Heartland Health Services

Provide affordable, high-quality health services and remove inequities to improve the lives of all.

Health
10
Dayone Pact

Dayone pact is committed to assisting individuals with disabilities live engaged and meaningful lives through independent service coordination.

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11
Ageguide Northeastern Illinois Area On Aging

We strive to make aging easier through the development of a network of services for older persons designed to optimize the quality of their lives.

Food & Nutrition
12
Lincoln Behavioral Services

To provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Helping Hand Center; the most unlike its peers is Warehouse Project & Gallery. 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

87 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. 87 of the 103 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)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
87/87
Grantees still filing
72/87
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PILLARS COMMUNITY HEALTH: $2,171,716 · HealthPILLARS COMMUNITY HEALTHNAMI METRO-SUBURBAN INC: $1,847,641 · HealthNAMI METRO-SUBURBAN INCHEALTHCARE ALTERNATIVE SYSTEMS INC: $800,763 · HealthHEALTHCARE ALTERNATIVE SYSTEMS INCALIVIO MEDICAL CENTER INC: $558,132 · HealthALIVIO MEDICAL CENTER INCHEALTH AND MEDICINE POLICY RESEARCH GROUP: $319,023 · HealthSUBURBAN PRIMARY HEALTH CARE COUNCIL D/B/A ACCESS TO CARE: $246,755 · Health+14 more: $1,253,429 · Health+14 moreMUJERES LATINAS EN ACCION: $703,387 · Human ServicesMUJERES LATINAS EN ACCIO…AGING CARE CONNECTIONS: $581,315 · Human ServicesAGING CARE CONNECTIONSTHE COMMUNITY HOUSE: $280,890 · Human ServicesTHE COMMUNITY HOUSEMetropolitan Family Services: $261,415 · Human ServicesMetropolitan Family Serv…COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES INC: $239,475 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVIC…THE LEADERSHOP: $176,140 · Human ServicesNAMI OF DUPAGE COUNTY ILLINOIS: $160,885 · Human ServicesHOPE'S FRONT DOOR: $150,460 · Human ServicesHELPING HAND CENTER: $150,241 · Human ServicesASPIRE OF ILLINOIS: $133,852 · Human ServicesHAMDARD HEALTH ALLIANCE: $125,100 · Human ServicesDUPAGE FEDERATION ON HUMAN SERVICES REFORM: $123,355 · Human Services+14 more: $588,946 · Human Services+14 moreBEDS PLUS INC: $835,171 · OtherBEDS PLUS INCPEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER: $230,550 · OtherPEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTE…TEEN PARENT CONNECTION INC: $204,410 · OtherTEEN PARENT CONNECTION …Candor Health Organization: $162,575 · OtherRAY GRAHAM ASSOCIATION FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: $160,261 · OtherCenter for Independence Through Conductive Ed: $136,250 · OtherMetropolitan Family Services DuPage: $135,000 · OtherNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $156,922 · Other+33 more: $1,450,096 · Other+33 moreDUPAGE PADS INC: $306,315 · Housing & ShelterBRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC: $299,195 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING FORWARD: $154,280 · Housing & ShelterALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS IN SUBURBAN COOK COUNTY: $124,240 · Housing & ShelterMERCY HOUSING LAKEFRONT: $105,500 · Housing & ShelterCENTER FOR CREATIVE LEADERSHIP: $428,775 · EducationChicago Workers' Collaborative NFP: $75,500 · EducationLiteracy DuPage: $18,790 · EducationSHRIVER CENTER ON POVERTY LAW: $178,265 · Crime & LegalLIFE-SPAN: $151,755 · Crime & LegalALL OUR CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER: $141,160 · Crime & LegalPRAIRIE STATE LEGAL SERVICES INC: $37,000 · Crime & Legal+2 more: $12,500 · Crime & LegalHCS FAMILY SERVICES: $286,130 · Community ImprovementPROVISO PUBLIC PARTNERSHIP NFP: $28,000 · Community Improvement
Health$7,197,459Human Services$3,675,461Other$3,471,235Housing & Shelter$989,530Education$523,065Crime & Legal$520,680Community Improvement$314,130

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 budgetPILLARS COMMUNITY HEALTH: $2,171,716 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetNAMI METRO-SUBURBAN INC: $1,847,641 over 5y, 44% of budgetBEDS PLUS INC: $835,171 over 5y, 6.5% of budgetHEALTHCARE ALTERNATIVE SYSTEMS INC: $800,763 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetMUJERES LATINAS EN ACCION: $703,387 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetAGING CARE CONNECTIONS: $581,315 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetALIVIO MEDICAL CENTER INC: $558,132 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetCENTER FOR CREATIVE LEADERSHIP: $428,775 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHEALTH AND MEDICINE POLICY RESEARCH GROUP: $319,023 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetDUPAGE PADS INC: $306,315 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetBRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC: $299,195 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetHCS FAMILY SERVICES: $286,130 over 5y, 7.3% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY HOUSE: $280,890 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetMetropolitan Family Services: $261,415 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSUBURBAN PRIMARY HEALTH CARE COUNCIL D/B/A ACCESS TO CARE: $246,755 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES INC: $239,475 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetPEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER: $230,550 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTEEN PARENT CONNECTION INC: $204,410 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetSHRIVER CENTER ON POVERTY LAW: $178,265 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetTHE LEADERSHOP: $176,140 over 5y, 8.3% of budgetWellness House: $172,410 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetSamaritan Interfaith Counseling Center: $163,725 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetNAMI OF DUPAGE COUNTY ILLINOIS: $160,885 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetRAY GRAHAM ASSOCIATION FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: $160,261 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $156,922 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSING FORWARD: $154,280 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetLIFE-SPAN: $151,755 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetHOPE'S FRONT DOOR: $150,460 over 5y, 13% of budgetHELPING HAND CENTER: $150,241 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetDUPAGE HEALTH COALITION: $142,970 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetALL OUR CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER: $141,160 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetEASTER SEALS DUPAGE & THE FOX VALLEY REGION: $135,461 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMetropolitan Family Services DuPage: $135,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetASPIRE OF ILLINOIS: $133,852 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHAMDARD HEALTH ALLIANCE: $125,100 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS IN SUBURBAN COOK COUNTY: $124,240 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetDUPAGE FEDERATION ON HUMAN SERVICES REFORM: $123,355 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetOak Park River Forest Infant Welfare S: $122,290 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF JOLIET: $115,245 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE WAY BACK INN INC: $114,410 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetFOREFRONT: $114,036 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHOPE FOR THE DAY: $106,290 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetMERCY HOUSING LAKEFRONT: $105,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS: $102,950 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetCHICAGO DENTAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION: $102,410 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $99,845 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetARAB AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES: $98,745 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetYOUTH CROSSROADS INC: $90,855 over 3y, 1.5% 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 PILLARS COMMUNITY HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds NAMI METRO-SUBURBAN INC ↗
  • Who funds BEDS PLUS INC ↗
  • Who funds HEALTHCARE ALTERNATIVE SYSTEMS INC ↗
  • Who funds MUJERES LATINAS EN ACCION ↗
  • Who funds AGING CARE CONNECTIONS ↗
  • Who funds ALIVIO MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR CREATIVE LEADERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds HEALTH AND MEDICINE POLICY RESEARCH GROUP ↗
  • Who funds DUPAGE PADS INC ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds HCS FAMILY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds Metropolitan Family Services ↗
  • Who funds SUBURBAN PRIMARY HEALTH CARE COUNCIL D/B/A ACCESS TO CARE ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds TEEN PARENT CONNECTION INC ↗
  • Who funds SHRIVER CENTER ON POVERTY LAW ↗
  • Who funds THE LEADERSHOP ↗
  • Who funds Wellness House ↗
  • Who funds Samaritan Interfaith Counseling Center ↗
  • Who funds NAMI OF DUPAGE COUNTY ILLINOIS ↗
  • Who funds RAY GRAHAM ASSOCIATION FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds HOUSING FORWARD ↗
  • Who funds LIFE-SPAN ↗
  • Who funds HOPE'S FRONT DOOR ↗
  • Who funds HELPING HAND CENTER ↗
  • Who funds DUPAGE HEALTH COALITION ↗
  • Who funds ALL OUR CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds EASTER SEALS DUPAGE & THE FOX VALLEY REGION ↗
  • Who funds Metropolitan Family Services DuPage ↗
  • Who funds ASPIRE OF ILLINOIS ↗
  • Who funds HAMDARD HEALTH ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS IN SUBURBAN COOK COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds DUPAGE FEDERATION ON HUMAN SERVICES REFORM ↗
  • Who funds Oak Park River Forest Infant Welfare S ↗

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 Metropolitan Chicago IncIL82.1× affinity41 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Dupage Community Foundation · Healthy Communities Foundation · Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago (Aka) Vna Foundation · Naffah Family Charitable Foundation · Westlake Health Foundation · Michael Reese Health Trust · Circle of Service Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities

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 Memorial Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Community Memorial Foundation. 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%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    41report 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.
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    Find your warmest path to Community Memorial 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 103 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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