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Edmond and Alice Opler Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
40
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$77k
Largest
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$2.1MHuman Services$771kEducation$715kArts & Culture$463kAnimals$355kYouth Development$325kEnvironment$215kHousing & Shelter$184kOther$0
02FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 40 grants below total $919,925, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,004,925 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $85,000 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 $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k36 grants · $738k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $177k
$20,782
Median grant
1
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Hinsdale Hospital Foundation$77,038
Chicago Zoological Society$50,000
Wellness House$50,000
Chicago Horticultural Society$40,000
Communities in Schools$35,000
Ronald McDonald Charities of Chicagoland and Northwest Indiana$35,000
Cancer Wellness Center$30,000
Junior Achievement of Chicago$30,000
Keshet$30,000
College Bound Opportunities$30,000
Chicago Jesuit Academy$30,000
St. Coletta's of Illinois, Inc.$25,000
Children's Museum in Oak Lawn$25,000
WTTW$25,000
JDRF$25,000
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 (FY17–18, $425k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SHARING CONNECTIONS INC: $12k → 7%MARKLUND CHILDER'S HOME INC: $20k → 8%SHARING CONNECTIONS INC: $12k → 7%MARKLUND CHILDER'S HOME INC: $16k → 8%MARILLAC ST VINCENT FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 14%MARILLAC ST VINCENT FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 14%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHICAGOLAND AND NW INDIANA: $15k → 7%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHICAGOLAND AND NW INDIANA: $10k → 7%CRISIS CENTER FOR SOUTH SUBURBIA: $10k → 14%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $10k → 14%MARYVILLE ACADEMY: $15k → 14%CENTER OF CONCERN: $5k → 14%CENTER OF CONCERN: $5k → 14%CORAZON A CORAZON: $10k → 14%CORAZON A CORAZON: $10k → 14%THE CHICAGO LIGHT HOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $30k → 14%THE CHICAGO LIGHT HOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $20k → 14%JEWISH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 14%JEWISH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 14%LITTLE CITY FOUNDATION: $24k → 14%LITTLE CITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%JOURNEYCARE: $20k → 14%LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR ST JOSEPH'S HOME FOR THE ELDERLY: $10k → 14%JOURNEYCARE: $15k → 14%LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR ST JOSEPH'S HOME FOR THE EDLERLY: $10k → 14%LYDIA HOME ASSOCIATION: $20k → 14%LYDIA HOME ASSOCIATION: $20k → 14%PARK LAWN ASSOCIATION: $16k → 14%PARK LAWN ASSOCIATION: $10k → 14%CRISIS CENTER FOR SOUTH SUBURBIA: $10k → 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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.2M · 78 repeat orgs$388k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.

78 repeat relationships: 35 still active in FY2024, 43 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

78
20

Total granted

$5.2M
$323k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+32%

Still filing today

79%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterArts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • Chicago Zoological Society
    6× · 2017–2024 · $240k · revenue +43%
  • WH
    Wellness House
    6× · 2017–2024 · $240k · revenue +63%
  • TC
    THE CHILDRENS MUSEUM IN OAK LAWN
    6× · 2017–2024 · $185k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • AH
    Adventist Hinsdale Hospital
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • AH
    AMITA HealthAdventist Medical Center Hinsdale
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • LS
    LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR CHICAGO ST MARY'S HOME
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -18%
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
Oak Leyden Developmental Services Inc

To help people with developmental disabilities meet life's challenges and reach their highest potential.

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2
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
3
Child Link Inc

Child Link provides foster care, family counseling, and therapy services to Chicago area adolescents who are at risk of homelessness. Child Link also refers adolescents to other agencies that are able to provide additional resources and…

Human Services
4
Lutheran Community Services for the Aged Inc

To provide community services including adult day, child care and home care .

—
5
Depaul Community Services Inc

To provide residential and rehabilitation services to clients with mental illnesses

Health
6
Lutheran Care Center

To provide services and facilities for people whose capabilities and needs vary widely. lcc strives to make the lives of people more independent, healthful, meaningful and secure through development of innovative programs delivered with…

Health
7
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
8
House of the Good Shepherd

House of Good Shepherd serves with love and compassion women and children affected by domestic violence by offering a safe place with opportunities for emotional, educational and spiritual growth, giving hope and continued support for a…

Human Services
9
Living Well Disability Services

Living Well Disability Services transforms the lives of people impacted by disabilities through the delivery of exceptional services.

—
10
Garden Center Services

Advancing lives of connection, contribution and meaning for persons with developmental disabilities and the individuals that support them.

—
11
Rimland Services Nfp

Provide community-based residential housing to adults with autism and/or severe developmental disabilities. also provide developmental training and other supports to this same population.

Human Services
12
Chicago Children's Advocacy Center

The chicago children's advocacy center unites public, private, and community partners to ensure the safety, health, and well-being of abused children.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Chicago Lighthouse for People Who Are Blind Or Visually Impaired; the most unlike its peers is Breakthrough T1D. 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

77 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. 77 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
75/77
Grantees still filing
60/77
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KESHET: $150,000 · OtherKESHETCHICAGO JESUIT ACADEMY: $135,000 · OtherCHICAGO JESUIT ACADEMYRonald McDonald Charities of Chicagoland and Northwest Indiana: $130,650 · OtherST COLETTA'S OF ILLINOIS: $122,500 · OtherGOOD SHEPHERD MANOR INC: $120,000 · OtherCommunities in Schools: $85,000 · OtherCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $165,000 · OtherCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY+51 more: $1,548,879 · Other+51 moreTHE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $120,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHICAGO LIGHTHOU…MARKLUND CHILDRENS HOME: $107,605 · Human ServicesMARKLUND CHILDRENS H…MISERICORDIA HOME: $100,000 · Human ServicesMISERICORDIA HOMEMaryville Academy: $78,400 · Human ServicesMaryville AcademySHARING CONNECTIONS INC: $63,000 · Human ServicesSHARING CONNECTIONS …Park Lawn Association Inc: $55,779 · Human ServicesPark Lawn Associatio…Crisis Center for South Suburbia: $55,000 · Human ServicesCrisis Center for So…Jewish Child and Family Services: $40,000 · Human ServicesLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR PALATINE ST JOSEPHS HOME FOR THE ELDERLY: $40,000 · Human ServicesLYDIA HOME ASSOCIATION: $40,000 · Human ServicesElea Institute: $35,000 · Human ServicesLITTLE CITY FOUNDATION: $34,000 · Human Services+11 more: $241,300 · Human Services+11 moreWellness House: $240,000 · HealthWellness HouseHINSDALE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $158,624 · HealthHINSDALE HOSPITAL F…Childrens Oncology Services Inc: $115,000 · HealthChildrens Oncology …LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $85,000 · HealthLOYOLA UNIVERSITY M…La Rabida Children's Hospital: $80,000 · HealthLa Rabida Children'…CANCER WELLNESS CENTER: $70,000 · HealthCANCER WELLNESS CEN…GREAT LAKES ADAPTIVE SPORTS ASSOCIATION: $67,000 · HealthGREAT LAKES ADAPTIV…CANDOR HEALTH EDUCATION: $60,000 · HealthCANDOR HEALTH EDUCA…BREAKTHROUGH T1D: $50,000 · HealthCANINE THERAPY CORPS INC: $42,000 · Health+1 more: $15,000 · HealthChicago Zoological Society: $240,000 · AnimalsLINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $115,000 · AnimalsTHE CHILDRENS MUSEUM IN OAK LAWN: $185,000 · Arts & CultureWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureKOHL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF GREATER CHICAGO INC: $55,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $7,500 · Arts & CultureCOLLEGE BOUND OPPORTUNITIES: $125,000 · EducationCenter for Independence through Conductive Education Inc: $75,000 · EducationSAN MIGUEL FEBRES CORDERO SCHOOL INC: $53,732 · EducationPARK LAWN SCHOOL AND ACTIVITY CENTER IN C: $10,000 · EducationJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CHICAGO: $175,000 · International
Other$2,457,029Human Services$1,010,084Health$982,624Animals$355,000Arts & Culture$347,500Education$263,732International$175,000

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 budgetChicago Zoological Society: $240,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWellness House: $240,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetTHE CHILDRENS MUSEUM IN OAK LAWN: $185,000 over 6y, 10% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CHICAGO: $175,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $165,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHINSDALE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $158,624 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetKESHET: $150,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCOLLEGE BOUND OPPORTUNITIES: $125,000 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetST COLETTA'S OF ILLINOIS: $122,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $120,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD MANOR INC: $120,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetChildrens Oncology Services Inc: $115,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetLINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $115,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMARKLUND CHILDRENS HOME: $107,605 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC: $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMISERICORDIA HOME: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $85,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLa Rabida Children's Hospital: $80,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMaryville Academy: $78,400 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDEBORAH'S PLACE: $75,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCenter for Independence through Conductive Education Inc: $75,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetCANCER WELLNESS CENTER: $70,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetGREAT LAKES ADAPTIVE SPORTS ASSOCIATION: $67,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetTHE THRESHOLDS: $65,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSHARING CONNECTIONS INC: $63,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCANDOR HEALTH EDUCATION: $60,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetSERTOMA CENTRE INC: $60,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPark Lawn Association Inc: $55,779 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetKOHL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF GREATER CHICAGO INC: $55,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCrisis Center for South Suburbia: $55,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSAN MIGUEL FEBRES CORDERO SCHOOL INC: $53,732 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetLittle Company of Mary Hospital Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLESTER AND ROSALIE ANIXTER CENTER: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNION LEAGUE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS: $50,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetALIVE CENTER NFP: $45,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetCANINE THERAPY CORPS INC: $42,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetJewish Child and Family Services: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR PALATINE ST JOSEPHS HOME FOR THE ELDERLY: $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDISABLED PATRIOT FUND INC: $40,000 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetLYDIA HOME ASSOCIATION: $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Cara Program: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF FISHER HOUSE - ILLINOIS INC: $40,000 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetElea Institute: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE CITY FOUNDATION: $34,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOperation Blessing of Southwest Chicagoland: $31,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetTHE NIGHT MINISTRY: $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.

  • Who funds Chicago Zoological Society ↗
  • Who funds Wellness House ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDRENS MUSEUM IN OAK LAWN ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds HINSDALE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KESHET ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE BOUND OPPORTUNITIES ↗
  • Who funds ST COLETTA'S OF ILLINOIS ↗
  • Who funds THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED ↗
  • Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD MANOR INC ↗
  • Who funds Childrens Oncology Services Inc ↗
  • Who funds LINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds MARKLUND CHILDRENS HOME ↗
  • Who funds WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds MISERICORDIA HOME ↗
  • Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds La Rabida Children's Hospital ↗
  • Who funds Maryville Academy ↗
  • Who funds DEBORAH'S PLACE ↗
  • Who funds Center for Independence through Conductive Education Inc ↗
  • Who funds CANCER WELLNESS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds GREAT LAKES ADAPTIVE SPORTS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds THE THRESHOLDS ↗
  • Who funds SHARING CONNECTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds CANDOR HEALTH EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds SERTOMA CENTRE INC ↗
  • Who funds Park Lawn Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds KOHL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF GREATER CHICAGO INC ↗
  • Who funds Crisis Center for South Suburbia ↗
  • Who funds SAN MIGUEL FEBRES CORDERO SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds Little Company of Mary Hospital Inc ↗
  • Who funds LESTER AND ROSALIE ANIXTER CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
  • Who funds UNION LEAGUE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS ↗

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.

George M Eisenberg Foundation for CharitiesIL46.7× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Andrew and Alice Fischer Charitable Trust · The Coleman Foundation Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Dr Scholl Foundation · Rice Foundation · Helen V Brach Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Circle of Service Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The Service Club of Chicago

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 Edmond and Alice Opler Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edmond and Alice Opler Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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    Find your warmest path to Edmond and Alice Opler 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.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $945k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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