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Earl and Kathryn Congdon Family Foundation at a glance

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Earl and Kathryn Congdon Family 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.

$6.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
244
Grants FY2024still arriving
36
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$12MHuman Services$4.9MYouth Development$4.9MPhilanthropy$3.0MReligion$2.9MHealth$2.6MCommunity Improvement$1.1MArts & Culture$927kOther$0
02FY2024 · 244 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k198 grants · $1.1M
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $649k
  • $50k–250k18 grants · $1.8M
  • $250k+5 grants · $2.4M
$6,000
Median grant
36
States reached
$89M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER HIGH POINT INC$1,023,400
HIGH POINT POLICE FOUNDATION$500,000
PIEDMONT SCHOOL INC$325,000
HIGH POINT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$300,000
NORTH CAROLINA TEXTILE FOUNDATION INC$250,000
HIGH POINT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$200,000
OPEN DOOR MINISTRIES OF HIGH POINT FOUNDATION INC$200,000
MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATES OF THE TRIAD$150,000
THEBLAKE E ODUM MOTIVATIONAL FOUNDATION$125,000
MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATES OF THE TRIAD$115,000
THEATRE ART GALLERIES$113,066
NC TRIAD FUSION INC$110,000
HIGH POINT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$100,000
HIGH POINT CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC$100,000
COMMUNITY COLLABORATION FOR CHILDREN INC$100,000
02The need
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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 (FY18–24, $5.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF JERUS: $10k → 9%DOTTIE ROSE FOUNDATION: $30k → 10%HELPING HANDS HIGH POINT: $268k → 14%MARYFIELD INC: $1.5M → 16%HELPING HANDS HIGH POINT: $30k → 14%NEWTONS ATTIC: $100k → 15%FAMILY SERVICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC: $34k → 16%BACKPACK BEGINNINGS: $100k → 16%COMMUNITY COLLABORATION FOR CHILDREN INC: $100k → 16%BACKPACK BEGINNINGS: $100k → 16%BARNABAS NETWORK: $5k → 16%BARNABAS NETWORK: $1k → 16%NEHEMIAH COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT CENTER INC: $4k → 16%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HIGH POINT: $500k → 16%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HIGH POINT: $500k → 16%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HIGH POINT: $500k → 16%YMCA OF GREATER HIGH POINT FOUNDATION INC: $401k → 16%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HIGH POINT: $202k → 16%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HIGH POINT: $200k → 16%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HIGH POINT: $200k → 16%YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HIGH POINT N: $100k → 16%YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HIGH POINT N: $100k → 16%YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HIGH POINT N: $100k → 16%YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HIGH POINT N: $100k → 16%YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HIGH POINT N: $100k → 16%YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HIGH POINT N: $75k → 16%MACEDONIA FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $21k → 16%YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HIGH POINT N: $20k → 16%HEROES CENTER INC: $5k → 16%YMCA OF GREATER HIGH POINT FOUNDATION INC: $4k → 16%YMCA OF GREATER HIGH POINT FOUNDATION INC: $4k → 16%HEROES CENTER INC: $3k → 16%YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HIGH POINT N: $3k → 16%YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HIGH POINT N: $3k → 16%YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HIGH POINT N: $42 → 16%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

VT
NH
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MI
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OR
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IN
OH
PA
NJ
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CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
OK
LA
MS
AL
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$26M · 125 repeat orgs$5.5M to everyone else

125 repeat relationships: 115 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 104 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

125
55

Total granted

$26M
$3.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+26%

Still filing today

25%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentHealthCommunity ImprovementArts & 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

  • WC
    Westchester Country Day School Inc
    6× · 2018–2023 · $4.8M · revenue +6%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE GREATER TRIAD Inc
    4× · 2020–2024 · $4.0M · revenue +92% · 42% of their budget
  • YM
    Young Mens Christian Association of High Point Inc
    4× · 2019–2023 · $2.1M · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • MI
    Maryfield Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1.5M · revenue +30%
  • SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $366k · revenue +39%
  • GS
    GIRL SCOUTS CAROLINAS PEAKS TO PIEDMONT INC
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +12%
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.

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Forward High Point Inc

To transform the high point, north carolina core-city area into an extraodinary and vibrant destination to live, work, study and play.

Community Improvement
2
Habitat for Humanity of High Point Archdale & Trinity Inc

Habitat for Humanity of High Point, Archdale and Trinity is an ecumenical Christian movement whose goal is to build safe, decent, affordable homes for our neighbors in need. Through conscience and action, Habitat utilizes volunteer labor…

Housing & Shelter
3
High Point Convention & Visitors Bureau Inc Dba Visit High Point

The mission of Visit High Point is to position High Point as a destination that visitors will enjoy and that locals will want to promote.

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4
The North Carolina Leadership Charter Academy Inc

The north carolina leadership academy provides its k-12 students with a solid foundation of skills, knowledge, and information as part of their college preparatory program. additionally, ncla seeks the acceptance of all high school…

Education
5
Business High Point Inc D/B/a High Point Chamber of Commerce

Business high point, inc. is dedicated to encouraging economic growth in the piedmont triad region of north carolina. the chamber is an advocate for our members and our community on business-related issues and participates in initiatives…

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6
Highpoint Center for Printmaking

Highpoint Center for Printmaking is dedicated to advancing the art of printmaking. We create pathways for artists, learners, and the public to increase their understanding and appreciation of printmaking through artistic and educational…

Arts & Culture
7
Turning Point Community Development Corporation

To serve as a catalyst for the continued development, transformation, and empowerment of communities in vance, granville, warren, and franklin counties in north carolina through the provision of leadership and programs in the areas of…

Human Services
8
High Point Academy

High point academy awakens the joy of learning in each child. the school provides a nurturing environment that enables each student to flourish academically, emotionally, morally, physically, and socially. the challenging curriculum…

Education
9
Nido & Mariana Qubein Childrens Museum

Provide an outlet for the children of the high point, nc area to learn, grow, play and explore.

Arts & Culture
10
Research Triangle Regional Partnership

The research triangle regional partnership is an association of area economic development agencies dedicated to keeping the research triangle region economically strong by collectively marketing the region's competitive advantages and…

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11
Junior Achievement of Central Carolinas Inc

Junior achievement is the world's largest organization dedicated to educating private and public school students in grades k-12 about entrepreneurship, workforce readiness, and financial literacy, through experiential, hands-on programs.

International
12
North Carolina Business Leaders for Educ

The mission of north carolina business leaders for education (dba best nc) is to unite an engaged and informed business perspective to dramatically transform and improve north carolina's education system. our goal is for every student to…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Mens Christian Association of High Point Inc; the most unlike its peers is Lyons Austin E Tuw. 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 287 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)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/69
Grantees still filing
43/69
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAINT MARYS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $1,410,000 · OtherSAINT MARYS EPISCOPAL CHURCHSCHOLARSHIP AMERICA: $1,367,500 · OtherSCHOLARSHIP AMERICATHE PIEDMONT SCHOOL INC: $1,150,000 · OtherTHE PIEDMONT SCHOOL INCD-UP INC: $736,000 · OtherD-UP INCTechnology Student Association Kentucky Tech: $416,040 · OtherGROWING HIGH POINT: $457,785 · OtherHIGH POINT DISCOVERED INC: $378,700 · OtherHIGH POINT POLICE FOUNDATION: $500,000 · Other+151 more: $4,272,241 · Other+151 moreWestchester Country Day School Inc: $4,795,648 · EducationWestchester Country D…GUILFORD EDUCATION ALLIANCE: $392,750 · EducationGUILFORD EDUCATION AL…SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC: $365,600 · EducationSCHOLARSHIP AMERICA I…NORTH CAROLINA TEXTILE FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 · Education+5 more: $512,722 · Education+5 moreYoung Mens Christian Association of High Point Inc: $2,101,792 · Human ServicesYoung Mens Christ…Maryfield Inc: $1,452,871 · Human ServicesMaryfield IncYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HIGH POINT NC INC: $601,042 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMEN'S CHR…The YMCA of Greater High Point Foundation Inc (4563-SO1): $409,170 · Human ServicesThe YMCA of Great…HELPING HANDS HIGH POINT INC: $298,315 · Human ServicesHELPING HANDS HIG…BACKPACK BEGINNINGS: $200,000 · Human Services+8 more: $308,600 · Human Services+8 moreBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE GREATER TRIAD Inc: $3,990,481 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLU…GIRL SCOUTS CAROLINAS PEAKS TO PIEDMONT INC: $250,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER OF KENTUCKY INC: $240,000 · Youth Development+5 more: $383,500 · Youth Development+5 moreHigh Point Community Foundation: $2,878,815 · PhilanthropyHigh Point…HIGH POINT CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $150,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $106,417 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY CLINIC OF HIGH POINT INC: $1,555,268 · HealthHIGH POINT REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $625,000 · HealthMental Health Associates of the Triad: $271,000 · Health+1 more: $30,000 · HealthOPEN DOOR MINISTRIES OF HIGH POINT FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,293 · ReligionMEGA MISSION MINISTRIES: $75,000 · Religion
Other$10,688,266Education$6,316,720Human Services$5,371,790Youth Development$4,863,981Philanthropy$3,135,232Health$2,481,268Religion$1,075,293

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetWestchester Country Day School Inc: $4,795,648 over 6y, 7.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE GREATER TRIAD Inc: $3,990,481 over 4y, 42% of budgetHigh Point Community Foundation: $2,878,815 over 6y, 50% of budgetYoung Mens Christian Association of High Point Inc: $2,101,792 over 4y, 9.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY CLINIC OF HIGH POINT INC: $1,555,268 over 6y, 15% of budgetMaryfield Inc: $1,452,871 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetTHE PIEDMONT SCHOOL INC: $1,150,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetOPEN DOOR MINISTRIES OF HIGH POINT FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,293 over 7y, 47% of budgetHIGH POINT REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $625,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HIGH POINT NC INC: $601,042 over 6y, 8.6% of budgetHIGH POINT POLICE FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetGROWING HIGH POINT: $457,785 over 4y, 47% of budgetTechnology Student Association Kentucky Tech: $416,040 over 3y, 50% of budgetThe YMCA of Greater High Point Foundation Inc (4563-SO1): $409,170 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetGUILFORD EDUCATION ALLIANCE: $392,750 over 5y, 11% of budgetHIGH POINT DISCOVERED INC: $378,700 over 4y, 50% of budgetSCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC: $365,600 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHEATRE ART GALLERIES INC: $339,066 over 3y, 26% of budgetHELPING HANDS HIGH POINT INC: $298,315 over 2y, 22% of budgetMental Health Associates of the Triad: $271,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS CAROLINAS PEAKS TO PIEDMONT INC: $250,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA TEXTILE FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetCHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER OF KENTUCKY INC: $240,000 over 4y, 26% of budgetHIGH POINT UNIVERSITY: $202,722 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBACKPACK BEGINNINGS: $200,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetEL HOGAR MINISTRIES INC: $200,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetGREATER HIGH POINT FOOD ALLIANCE: $156,448 over 5y, 16% of budgetREADY FOR SCHOOL READY FOR LIFE: $150,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetHIGH POINT CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetGO FAR Inc: $136,750 over 4y, 32% of budgetUDT - SEAL MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC: $126,343 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetNC TRIAD FUSION INC: $116,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetHIGH POINT PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 42% of budgetHOMEGROWN HEROES INC: $100,000 over 1y, 82% of budgetCOMMUNITY COLLABORATION FOR CHILDREN INC: $100,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetNewton's Attic Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetCollege Preparatory and Leadership Academy of High Point: $79,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetPEAK Adventure Ministries: $76,008 over 4y, 32% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC: $62,250 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPIEDMONT TRIAD PARTNERSHIP: $50,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetAMERICAN TRUCK HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $50,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE TRIAD INC: $50,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER HIGH POINT INC: $44,167 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE CENTRAL PIEDMONT INC: $36,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC: $33,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMANDER PEACE ACADEMY: $31,750 over 1y, 16% of budgetHOSPICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC: $30,000 over 3y, 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.

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.

Tannenbaum-Sternberge…High Point Community …The Apat & Kathryne L…Lincoln Financial Fou…McInnis Family Founda…Reynolds American Fou…Amg Charitable Gift F…United Way of Greater…The Edward M Armfield…The Cemala Foundation…Moses H Cone Memorial…Duke Energy Foundation
Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation IncNC40.6× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation Inc · High Point Community Foundation · The Apat & Kathryne Lbrown Foundation · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · McInnis Family Foundation · Reynolds American Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · United Way of Greater High Point Inc · The Edward M Armfield Sr Foundation I · The Cemala Foundation Inc · Moses H Cone Memorial Hospital Operating Corporation · Duke Energy 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 Earl and Kathryn Congdon Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Earl and Kathryn Congdon Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    28report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Earl and Kathryn Congdon Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Earl and Kathryn Congdon Family 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 287 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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