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Cooperative Development Foundation

To promote and develop cooperatives to improve economic opportunities for all.

$871k
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
17
States reached
$240k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$2.2MCommunity Improvement$1.4MFood & Nutrition$790kPublic Safety & Disaster$327kArts & Culture$148kEmployment$118kHousing & Shelter$117kHuman Services$30kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 21 grants below total $800,463 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $870,870 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $70,407 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $49k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $267k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $485k
$11,450
Median grant
17
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Kansas State University Foundation$240,318
North Dakota State University$144,196
French Broad Trading Cooperative Inc$100,000
South Carolina Cooperatives Care Foundation$49,900
Human Connections Fund$49,900
NCBA CLUSA$35,000
Columinate Community Foundation$26,500
Naugatuck Valley Project Inc$25,000
Langston University Foundation$23,712
Hendersonville Community Co-op$15,800
Cooperative Development Institute Inc$11,450
Austin Cooperative Business Foundation$10,000
Ralph K Morris Foundation$10,000
Federation of Southern Cooperatives LAF$10,000
The Working World dba Seed Commons$9,800
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 77% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Columinate Community Foundation: $27k → 15%The ICA Group Inc: $50k → 12%Startcoop: $10k → 16%Food Co-op Initiative: $30k → 5%Ralph K Morris Foundation: $10k → 11%Northcountry Cooperative Foundation: $37k → 14%Langston University Foundation: $500k → 12%South Carolina Cooperatives Care Foundation: $50k → 11%Thurgood Marshall College Fund: $100k → 14%Florida Electric Cooperatives Association: $31k → 19%Kansas State University Foundation: $240k → 20%University of Wisconsin Foundation: $97k → 10%CASA of Oregon: $25k → 8%Naugatuck Valley Project Inc: $25k → 12%Human Connections Fund: $50k → 8%Tidal Creek Cooperative Food Market: $27k → 12%Hendersonville Community Co-op: $16k → 12%French Broad Trading Cooperative Inc: $100k → 12%American Indian College Fund: $300k → 10%University of Colorado Foundation: $150k → 12%Purdue University: $150k → 19%Dakota College at Bottineau: $158k → 10%North Dakota State University: $144k → 12%South Dakota State University Foundation: $350k → 13%CHS Foundation: $18k → 6%National Coop Grocers: $30k → 14%Texas Electric Cooperatives: $21k → 10%Langston University Foundation: $24k → 12%National Cooperative Business Assoc: $250k → 14%Florida Electric Cooperatives Association: $15k → 19%Kansas State University Foundation: $243k → 20%University of Wisconsin Foundation: $22k → 10%North Carolina Agricultural Foundation Inc: $148k → 8%North Dakota State University Foundation: $244k → 12%National Cooperative Business Assoc: $100k → 14%South Dakota State University Foundation: $100k → 13%National Cooperative Business Assoc: $50k → 14%UW Center for Cooperatives (CCMA): $153k → 10%South Dakota State University Foundation: $53k → 13%Cooperative Development Foundation: $40k → 14%National Cooperative Business Assoc: $35k → 14%National Cooperative Business Assoc: $35k → 14%National Cooperative Business Assoc: $35k → 14%NCBA CLUSA: $35k → 14%National Cooperative Business Assoc: $35k → 14%NCBA CLUSA: $35k → 14%National Cooperative Business Assoc: $15k → 14%National Cooperative Business Assoc: $11k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

NH
WA
ND
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
SD
IN
PA
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
KS
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
GA
TX
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 7% of Cooperative Development Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 15% of the giving stays in DC; read by stated purpose it is 9% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Cooperative Development Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 6.9% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

51%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.6M · 16 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.

16 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
36

Total granted

$2.6M
$2.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+34%

Still filing today

81%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $302k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’23’24
EducationCommunity ImprovementEmploymentFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterPublic Safety & DisasterOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • KS
    KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2019–2021 · $249k · revenue +42%
  • SD
    SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    4× · 2019–2024 · $164k · revenue +26%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2024 · $126k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • SD
    SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $350k
  • AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $300k · revenue -21%
  • DC
    DAKOTA COLLEGE AT BOTTINEAU FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $158k · revenue +512% · 32% of their budget

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Cincinnati Union Cooperative Initiative

Cincinnati union cooperative initiative partners with individuals and other organizations to develop worker-owned businesses which provide family- sustaining jobs and create economy that works for all.

Social Science
2
Community Cooperative dba Francesco Collaborative

Community Cooperative's mission is to support entrepreneurs and organizations advancing the cooperative and solidarity economy through connection to funding, training, workshops, networks, and resources that foster leadership in the…

Social Science
3
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
4
National Council of Farmer Cooperatives

To advance the business and policy interests of america's cooperatives and other farmer-owned enterprises.

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5
Cooperative Development Fund of Cds

To help start and grow cooperatively owned enterprises

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6
Cooperative Studies

To enhance cooperation, friendship, understanding, and sharing of resources among universities in the international academic community.

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Kansas Cooperative Council

The kansas cooperative council exists to promote, support and advance the interests, business success, and understanding of agricultural, utility, credit and consumer cooperatives and their members through legislation and regulatory…

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Cooperation L a

The L.A. Co-op Lab is a collective that builds capacity for worker ownership in Los Angeles as a pathway toward a more equitable and democratic economy.

Arts & Culture
9
Cooperative Network

Promote, represent & advocate for the cooperative way of doing business

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10
National Credit Union Foundation

The national credit union foundation envisions a world where everyone can achieve financial well-being. we exist to improve financial well-being with and through credit unions. we do this through two strategic priorities. first, we inspire…

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11
Center for Creation of Cooperation

Creating a cooperative culture

Education
12
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food Co-Op Initiative and the most unlike its peers is Chs Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%30%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr16%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr16%40%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/68
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,497

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

46 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 46 of the 62 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/46
Grantees still filing
30/46
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

North Dakota State University Foundation — $628,794 · EducationNorth Dakota State University FoundationLANGSTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $523,712 · EducationLANGSTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND — $300,000 · EducationAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUNDKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $248,532 · EducationKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONSOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $164,210 · EducationSOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $150,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $125,625 · EducationThurgood Marshall College Fund — $100,000 · EducationILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $98,751 · Education+3 more — $36,000 · EducationCOOPERATIVE LEAGUE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA — $650,863 · OtherCOOPERATIVE LEAGUE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERIC…SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY — $350,000 · OtherSOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITYDAKOTA COLLEGE AT BOTTINEAU FOUNDATION — $157,500 · OtherDAKOTA COLLEGE AT BOTTINEAU FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN — $152,665 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSINTRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITY — $150,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITYCURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI — $148,112 · OtherCURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURIFrench Broad Trading Cooperative Inc — $100,000 · Other+28 more — $525,082 · Other+28 moreTHE NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION INC — $148,330 · HealthTHE WORKING WORLD INC — $25,971 · Community ImprovementNAUGATUCK VALLEY PROJECT INC — $25,000 · Community ImprovementINDIANA COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $12,000 · Community ImprovementCOOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE INC — $11,450 · Community ImprovementKEYSTONE DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $8,200 · Community ImprovementCooperacin Santa Ana — $7,500 · Community ImprovementCALIFORNIA CENTER FOR COOPERATION DEVELOPMENT — $7,000 · Community ImprovementNYC NOWC Inc — $6,000 · Community ImprovementSOUTH CAROLINA COOPERATIVES CARE FOUNDATION — $49,900 · Public Safety & DisasterHUMAN CONNECTIONS FOUNDATION INC — $49,900 · Public Safety & DisasterFEDERATION OF SOUTHERN COOPERATIVES — $45,268 · Food & NutritionFOOD CO-OP INITIATIVE — $37,500 · Food & NutritionNORTHCOUNTRY COOPERATIVE FOUNDATION — $37,000 · Housing & ShelterURBAN HOMESTEADING ASSISTANCE (U-HAB) INC — $30,000 · Housing & Shelter
Education$2,375,624Other$2,234,222Health$148,330Community Improvement$103,121Public Safety & Disaster$99,800Food & Nutrition$82,768Housing & Shelter$67,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOOPERATIVE LEAGUE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA — $650,863 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetNorth Dakota State University Foundation — $628,794 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLANGSTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $523,712 over 2y, 35% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND — $300,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $248,532 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $164,210 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDAKOTA COLLEGE AT BOTTINEAU FOUNDATION — $157,500 over 1y, 32% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION INC — $148,330 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $125,625 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThurgood Marshall College Fund — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ICA GROUP INC — $60,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA COOPERATIVES CARE FOUNDATION — $49,900 over 1y, 32% of budgetHUMAN CONNECTIONS FOUNDATION INC — $49,900 over 1y, 16% of budgetFLORIDA ELECTRIC COOPERATIVES ASSOCIATION INC — $45,770 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetFEDERATION OF SOUTHERN COOPERATIVES — $45,268 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetRALPH K MORRIS FOUNDATION — $45,000 over 6y, 31% of budgetCOOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetFOOD CO-OP INITIATIVE — $37,500 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetNORTHCOUNTRY COOPERATIVE FOUNDATION — $37,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetURBAN HOMESTEADING ASSISTANCE (U-HAB) INC — $30,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE WORKING WORLD INC — $25,971 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNAUGATUCK VALLEY PROJECT INC — $25,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY AND SHELTER ASSISTANCE CORP — $24,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHS FOUNDATION — $18,315 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOLLECTIVE REMAKE ART BUSINESS EDUCATION JOBS NEWS PEOPLE AND REC — $18,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetINDIANA COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $12,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCOOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE INC — $11,450 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOOPERATIONWORKS — $11,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetNEXUS COMMUNITY PARTNERS — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetProspera Community Development — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetASSOCIATION OF LOUISIANA ELECTRIC COOPERATIVES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAUSTIN MEMBER-OWNED BUSINESS FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetKEYSTONE DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $8,200 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetECOLOGICAL DEMOCRACY INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA — $8,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetCooperacin Santa Ana — $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCALIFORNIA CENTER FOR COOPERATION DEVELOPMENT — $7,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNYC NOWC Inc — $6,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCOOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT SERVICES INC — $6,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetUnited States Federation for Worker Cooperation — $5,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Amalgamated Charitabl…The Cooperative Chari…Roc USA LLCThe Kendeda FundWK Kellogg FoundationImpactassetsincCharities Aid Foundat…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC15.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Cooperative Charitable Trust · Roc USA LLC · The Kendeda Fund · WK Kellogg Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Cooperative Development Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 58%
  • Cooperative Development Institute Inc — 58% of income from government
  • Community and Shelter Assistance Corp — 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
12report 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

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Cooperative Development Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Cooperative Development 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 62 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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