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Ctia - the Wireless Association

Ctia-the wireless association ("ctia") is a nonprofit membership organization that represents the u.s.

$3.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
44
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$1.4M
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.

Civil Rights$13MPublic Benefit$3.1MCommunity Improvement$1.0MHealth$420kArts & Culture$407kEducation$346kPhilanthropy$324kScience & Tech$322kOther$0
02FY2024 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 44 grants below total $2,642,610, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,178,872 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $536,262 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 $10k7 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k32 grants · $705k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $165k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.7M
$20,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$311M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MYWIRELESSORG$1,382,400
NCSL FOUNDATION FOR STATE LEGISLATURES$345,000
MULTICULTURAL MEDIA TELECOM AND INTER (MMTC)$60,000
NATIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS OF STATE LEGISLATORS$55,000
AFRICAN AMERICAN MAYORS ASSOCIATION$50,000
CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION$45,000
ASURION COMPASSION FUND$44,500
NATIONAL BLACK CAUCUS OF STATE LEGISLATORS$40,000
CENTER FORWARD$35,000
THE RIPON SOCIETY$33,500
EVERYBODY WINS DC$31,911
US BLACK CHAMBERS$30,000
US HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$30,000
FCBA FOUNDATION$29,735
CONGRESSIONAL INSTITUTE$27,500
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, $538k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 64% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $20k → 14%G3ICT: $13k → 13%HEARING LOSS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $15k → 8%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $15k → 14%G3ICT: $13k → 13%HEARING LOSS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $15k → 8%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE: $50k → 17%G3ICT: $13k → 13%HEARING LOSS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $15k → 8%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE: $50k → 17%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $15k → 14%HEARING LOSS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $16k → 8%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE: $50k → 17%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $15k → 14%HEARING LOSS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $15k → 8%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE: $50k → 17%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $15k → 14%HEARING LOSS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $15k → 8%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $15k → 14%HEARING LOSS ASSOC OF AMERICA: $15k → 8%MIRIAMS'S KITCHEN: $14k → 14%HEARING LOSS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $15k → 8%NGS: $10k → 9%CRITTENTON SERVICES OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $10k → 8%CRITTENTON SERVICES OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $10k → 8%FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES: $10k → 8%CRITTENTON SERVICES OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $10k → 8%CRITTENTON SERVICES OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $10k → 8%CRITTENTON SERVICES OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $10k → 8%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

IL
NY
MA
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
DE
TN
DC
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$19M · 60 repeat orgs$843k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

60 repeat relationships: 39 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

60
34

Total granted

$19M
$754k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+5%

Still filing today

92%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k 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
Arts & CultureCivil RightsPublic BenefitHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementHealthOther
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

  • M
    MYWIRELESSORG
    8× · 2017–2024 · $12M · revenue +30% · 98% of their budget
  • NF
    NCSL FOUNDATION FOR STATE LEGISLATURES
    8× · 2017–2024 · $845k · revenue +182%
  • NH
    NATIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS OF STATE LEGISLATORS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $328k · revenue +234%

Funded once

  • PC
    PHOENIX CENTER FOR ADVANCED LEGAL & ECONOMIC PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +41%
  • GC
    GONZAGA COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • C
    CALINNOVATES-ORG
    one grant, 2018 · $75k · revenue -90%
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
Techcongress Foundation

Techcongress gives talented technologists the opportunity to gain first-hand experience in federal policymaking and shape the future of tech policy through fellowships with members of congress and congressional committees.

Community Improvement
2
National Cable Satellite Corporation

Provide the public access to the live gavel-to-gavel proceedings of both houses of the us congress, and other forums where public policy is discussed, debated, and decided - all without editing, commentary or analysis and with a balanced…

Arts & Culture
3
Council for National Policy

To provide information about public policy and national policy alternatives to leaders in business, government, religion, and academia.

Public Benefit
4
National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners

Founded in 1889, the national association of regulatory utility commisioners (naruc) is a non-profit organization dedicated to representing the state public service commisions who regulate the utilities that provide essential services such…

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5
United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

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6
Comptel

Incompas is the leading national trade association for competitive network and technology companies. incompas advocates for laws and policies that promote competition, innovation, and economic development.

Community Improvement
7
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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8
National Center for Apec

Ncapec is the only u.s. business association focused exclusively on facilitating american private sector input to the apec process. programs typically feature discussions between business, government and academia on key trade and economic…

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9
National Academy of Public Administration

The National Academy of Public Administration is an independent, 501(c)(3) nonprofit, non partisan Organization established in 1967 and chartered by Congress in 1984. See Schedule O

Public Benefit
10
Institute of International Bankers

The iib represents the interests of the international banking community before u.s. legislative/regulatory bodies liaises with international regulatory bodies serves as a source of information to the media and other interested parties…

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11
News Media Alliance

The news media alliance (nma) is a nonprofit organization representing nearly 2,000 news media organizations and their multi-media platform businesses in the us, canada and europe.

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12
National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities

The National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU) serves as the unified voice for the 1,700 private, nonprofit colleges and universities in our nation. (continued on Schedule O)

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ncsl Foundation for State Legislatures; the most unlike its peers is National Rural Education Association. 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

93 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. 93 of the 100 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
89/93
Grantees still filing
59/93
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MYWIRELESSORG: $11,743,421 · Civil RightsMYWIRELESSORG+7 more: $1,026,955 · Civil Rights+7 moreNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF STATE LEGISLATURES: $1,190,000 · OtherNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF …National Black Caucus of State Legislators: $247,500 · OtherNational Black Caucus o…UNITED STATES HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $150,000 · OtherThe Economic Club of Washington DC: $137,500 · OtherFAMILIES OF SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY DBA CURE SMA: $140,000 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR CALIFORNIA'S TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION ECONOMY: $195,000 · Other+52 more: $2,045,739 · Other+52 moreNCSL FOUNDATION FOR STATE LEGISLATURES: $845,000 · Public BenefitAMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL: $136,000 · Public Benefit+5 more: $83,000 · Public BenefitNATIONAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HOTLINE: $203,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $200,000 · Human ServicesHEARING LOSS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $121,251 · Human ServicesMIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $109,400 · Human ServicesFlorence Crittenton Services of Greater Washington: $60,000 · Human ServicesG3ICT - GLOBAL INITIATIVE FOR INCLUSIVE: $37,500 · Human Services+1 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesAfrican American Mayors Assocation: $310,000 · Community ImprovementUS Black Chambers Inc: $150,000 · Community ImprovementNATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF BLACK ELECTED LEGISLATIVE: $96,000 · Community ImprovementBUSINESS FORWARD INC: $75,000 · Community ImprovementSTATE GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS COUNCIL: $52,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $10,000 · Community ImprovementFORD'S THEATRE SOCIETY: $141,666 · Arts & CultureFAITH AND POLITICS INSTITUTE: $100,000 · Arts & CultureWireless History Foundation: $92,000 · Arts & CultureNG9-1-1 INSTITUTE: $80,000 · Arts & CultureTRUST FOR THE NATIONAL MALL: $29,300 · Arts & CultureTHE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION: $25,000 · Arts & CultureCadet Air Corps Museum: $20,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $20,000 · Arts & CultureFEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS BAR ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $177,400 · PhilanthropyASURION COMPASSION FUND: $125,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $15,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $16,396 · Philanthropy
Civil Rights$12,770,376Other$4,105,739Public Benefit$1,064,000Human Services$741,151Community Improvement$693,000Arts & Culture$507,966Philanthropy$333,796

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 budgetMYWIRELESSORG: $11,743,421 over 8y, 98% of budgetNCSL FOUNDATION FOR STATE LEGISLATURES: $845,000 over 8y, 5.3% of budgetNATIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS OF STATE LEGISLATORS: $327,500 over 8y, 4.2% of budgetMulticultural Media Telecom & Internet Council: $320,000 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetAfrican American Mayors Assocation: $310,000 over 8y, 4.9% of budgetNational Black Caucus of State Legislators: $247,500 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetNATIONAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HOTLINE: $203,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $200,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR CALIFORNIA'S TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION ECONOMY: $195,000 over 6y, 40% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION INC: $185,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetFEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS BAR ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $177,400 over 8y, 6.5% of budgetUNITED STATES HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $150,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetUS Black Chambers Inc: $150,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetFORD'S THEATRE SOCIETY: $141,666 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetFAMILIES OF SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY DBA CURE SMA: $140,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetThe Economic Club of Washington DC: $137,500 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL: $136,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetRipon Society Inc: $135,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetASURION COMPASSION FUND: $125,000 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetHEARING LOSS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $121,251 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetMIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $109,400 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CONGRESSIONAL INSTITUTE INC: $109,250 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetEVERYBODY WINS DC INC: $103,411 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetChamber of Commerce of the USA: $100,850 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPHOENIX CENTER FOR ADVANCED LEGAL & ECONOMIC PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES INC: $100,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetFAITH AND POLITICS INSTITUTE: $100,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetNATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF BLACK ELECTED LEGISLATIVE: $96,000 over 5y, 6.8% of budgetGLOBAL WOMENS INNOVATION NETWORK: $95,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetWireless History Foundation: $92,000 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetThe Media Institute: $90,950 over 7y, 3.7% of budgetSTATE LEGISLATIVE LEADERS FOUNDATION INC: $85,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetNG9-1-1 INSTITUTE: $80,000 over 8y, 17% of budgetAsian Pacific Amer InstitCongressional: $75,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS INSTITUTE INC: $75,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBUSINESS FORWARD INC: $75,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCALINNOVATES-ORG: $75,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetNational Emergency Number Association: $66,167 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetDownload Fairness Coalition: $60,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR STATE POLICY LEADERS: $60,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetFlorence Crittenton Services of Greater Washington: $60,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetNALEO EDUCATIONAL FUND: $60,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWOMENS HIGH TECH COALITION: $60,000 over 6y, 10% of budgetSTATE GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS COUNCIL: $52,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetSENATE WORKING GROUP INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTDIFORACCESS INC: $49,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetNATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF BLACK COUNTY OFFICIALS INC: $40,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetNATIONAL RURAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $40,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetMULTIPLE MYELOMA CHARITY CLASSIC: $40,000 over 4y, 26% 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 MYWIRELESSORG ↗
  • Who funds NCSL FOUNDATION FOR STATE LEGISLATURES ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS OF STATE LEGISLATORS ↗
  • Who funds Multicultural Media Telecom & Internet Council ↗
  • Who funds African American Mayors Assocation ↗
  • Who funds National Black Caucus of State Legislators ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HOTLINE ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR CALIFORNIA'S TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION ECONOMY ↗
  • Who funds CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS BAR ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
  • Who funds US Black Chambers Inc ↗
  • Who funds FORD'S THEATRE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds FAMILIES OF SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY DBA CURE SMA ↗
  • Who funds The Economic Club of Washington DC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds Ripon Society Inc ↗
  • Who funds ASURION COMPASSION FUND ↗
  • Who funds HEARING LOSS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds MIRIAM'S KITCHEN ↗
  • Who funds THE CONGRESSIONAL INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds EVERYBODY WINS DC INC ↗
  • Who funds Chamber of Commerce of the USA ↗
  • Who funds PHOENIX CENTER FOR ADVANCED LEGAL & ECONOMIC PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES INC ↗
  • Who funds FAITH AND POLITICS INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF BLACK ELECTED LEGISLATIVE ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL WOMENS INNOVATION NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds Wireless History Foundation ↗
  • Who funds The Media Institute ↗
  • Who funds STATE LEGISLATIVE LEADERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NG9-1-1 INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Asian Pacific Amer InstitCongressional ↗
  • Who funds CONGRESSIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds BUSINESS FORWARD INC ↗
  • Who funds CALINNOVATES-ORG ↗
  • Who funds National Emergency Number Association ↗
  • Who funds Download Fairness Coalition ↗

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.

Ncta - the Internet & Television AssociationDC46.8× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ncta - the Internet & Television Association · Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America · Edison Electric Institute Inc · AARP · Consumer Technology Association · Nuclear Energy Institute Inc · Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund Inc · American Petroleum Institute · United States Telecom Association · American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers · The Business Roundtable Inc · Entertainment Software Association

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 Ctia - the Wireless Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ctia - the Wireless Association. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • The New England Council Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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 100 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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