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Edward St John Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$325k
Granted FY2024still arriving
74
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$63k
Largest
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$2.4MScience & Tech$726kHealth$317kYouth Development$48kHuman Services$43kRecreation & Sports$26kCrime & Legal$25kEnvironment$22kOther$0
02FY2024 · 74 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k67 grants · $68k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $83k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $175k
$510
Median grant
13
States reached
$105k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC$62,500
UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$62,500
THE BOYS' LATIN SCHOOL OF MARYLAND$50,250
LOYOLA BLAKEFIELD$25,000
BALTIMORE WASHINGTON MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$24,285
MCDONOGH SCHOOL$20,000
UMMS FOUNDATION$13,500
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION$6,000
METRO MARYLAND YOUTH FOR CHRIST$5,000
HONEYGO REGIONAL VETERANS MEMORIAL$5,000
CROSS VICTORY MINISTRIES$5,000
JOSEPH MEYERHOFF SYMPHONY HALL$5,000
NATIONAL AQUARIUM$3,500
LIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATION$3,000
MOTHER MARY LANGE CATHOLIC SCHOOL$2,500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SOLDIERS TO SIDELINES: $250 → 10%BOYS TOWN: $50 → 12%SILENCE OF MARY HOME: $50 → 8%REDISTRIBUTION CENTER INC: $250 → 7%ADOPT TOGETHER: $50 → 6%THE SILENCE OF MARY HOME: $50 → 8%SILENCE OF MARY HOME: $50 → 8%SILENCE OF MARY HOME: $50 → 8%RIDERWOOD VILLAGE INC: $150 → 8%FREDERICK HEALTH HOSPICE: $100 → 6%BELOVED COMMUNITY SERVICES CORPORATION: $5k → 19%BELOVED COMMUNITY SERVICES CORPORATION: $5k → 19%WALK THE WALK FOUNDATION: $150 → 6%CHIMES FOUNDATION: $100 → 19%ART WITH A HEART: $100 → 19%HAPPY HELPERS FOR THE HOMELESS: $500 → 11%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

MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IA
OH
PA
CT
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
DE
TN
NC
SC
DC
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.3M · 116 repeat orgs$356k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

116 repeat relationships: 44 still active in FY2024, 72 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

116
160

Total granted

$3.3M
$328k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+12%

Still filing today

55%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyYouth 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

  • MA
    MARYLAND ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    7× · 2017–2023 · $726k · revenue +35%
  • TU
    TOWSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $200k · revenue +76%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $138k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • PG
    PLEASANT GROVE LIBRARY FOUNDATION CORPORATION
    one grant, 2019 · $85k
  • UF
    UMB FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $55k
  • CF
    CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION - MARYLAND CHAPTER
    one grant, 2019 · $36k
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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University of Maryland Physicians Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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2
University of Maryland Oncology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
3
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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4
University of Maryland Surgical Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
5
University of Maryland Pediatric Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
6
University of Maryland Family Medicine Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Education
8
University of Maryland Facultyphysicians Inc

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland, school of medicine, administrative support services are provided to the physician practices of the university of maryland, including but not limited to information technology,…

Health
9
University of Maryland Dermatologists Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
10
University of Maryland Otorhino-Laryngology-Head & Neck Surgery Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
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University of Maryland Neurology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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12
University of Maryland Eye Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women; the most unlike its peers is United States Wheelchair Pickleball 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

169 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. 169 of the 309 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)
34
Early backer (in before they grew)
164/169
Grantees still filing
114/169
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Alpine School District: $1,000,000 · OtherAlpine School DistrictLOYOLA BLAKEFIELD: $201,950 · OtherLOYOLA BLAKEFIELDPLEASANT GROVE LIBRARY FOUNDATION CORPORATION: $84,715 · Other+139 more: $569,795 · Other+139 moreTOWSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 · EducationTOWSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO…UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC: $137,800 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALT…UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 · EducationUTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY FOUN…THE BOYS' LATIN SCHOOL OF MARYLAND INC: $100,250 · EducationTHE BOYS' LATIN SCHOOL OF M…MCDONOGH SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $100,100 · EducationMCDONOGH SCHOOL INCORPORATE…University of Maryland Medical System Foundation Inc: $54,000 · EducationUniversity of Maryland Medi…UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC: $47,450 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLL…+20 more: $106,507 · Education+20 moreMARYLAND ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $725,500 · Arts & CultureMARYLAND ACADEMY OF SCI…+5 more: $41,750 · Arts & Culture+5 moreCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $55,050 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $8,128 · HealthBelieve Big Inc: $5,128 · HealthUNIFIED COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS INC: $5,000 · HealthHope In South Africa Inc: $2,750 · Health+7 more: $6,030 · HealthThe Hampden Family Center Inc: $20,000 · Crime & LegalCENTER FOR HOPE INC: $15,000 · Crime & LegalNATIONAL AQUARIUM INC: $21,000 · Animals+3 more: $1,206 · AnimalsFORT MEADE ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC: $7,250 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ANNE ARUNDEL CO: $3,000 · PhilanthropyBWI COMMUNITY DEVELOP FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · PhilanthropyThe IV Maidens Fund: $1,750 · PhilanthropyTHE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC: $1,050 · Philanthropy+2 more: $750 · Philanthropy
Other$1,856,460Education$871,107Arts & Culture$767,250Health$82,086Crime & Legal$35,000Animals$22,206Philanthropy$15,800

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%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMARYLAND ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $725,500 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetTOWSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC: $137,800 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BOYS' LATIN SCHOOL OF MARYLAND INC: $100,250 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMCDONOGH SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $100,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $55,050 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Maryland Medical System Foundation Inc: $54,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC: $47,450 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBaltimore Washington Medical Center Foundation Inc: $39,285 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $25,150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE PARK ACADEMY INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMETRO-MARYLAND YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetYUMI CARES FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 5y, 34% of budgetNATIONAL AQUARIUM INC: $21,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Hampden Family Center Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetCENTER FOR HOPE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE BALTIMORE LEADERSHIP SCHOOL FOR YOUNG WOMEN: $12,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWOMENS EDUCATION ALLIANCE INC: $10,850 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetBELOVED COMMUNITY SERVICES CORPORATION: $10,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MARYLAND INC: $8,884 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF INDUSTRY INC: $8,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $8,128 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBALTIMORE COUNTY POLICE FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetFORT MEADE ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC: $7,250 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCARSON SCHOLARS FUND INC: $5,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCASEY CARES FOUNDATION INC: $5,450 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBelieve Big Inc: $5,128 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUNIFIED COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALVERT SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHONEYGO REGIONAL VETERANS MEMORIAL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetAraminta Freedom Initiative: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFIRST FRUITS FARM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetANNE ARUNDEL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MARYLAND SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $4,950 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $4,950 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBALTIMORE AREA COUNCIL #220 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST JOSEPH'S NURSING HOME INC: $3,125 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetREADING PARTNERS: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH CENTER INC: $3,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ANNE ARUNDEL CO: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHope In South Africa Inc: $2,750 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetCAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC: $2,507 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTUDENT SUPPORT NETWORK INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLIVE BALTIMORE HOME CENTER INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetB&O RAILROAD MUSEUM INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBWI COMMUNITY DEVELOP FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTOGETHER RISING: $1,970 over 3y, 0.0% 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 MARYLAND ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
  • Who funds TOWSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BOYS' LATIN SCHOOL OF MARYLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds MCDONOGH SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds University of Maryland Medical System Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Baltimore Washington Medical Center Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE PARK ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds METRO-MARYLAND YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC ↗
  • Who funds YUMI CARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL AQUARIUM INC ↗
  • Who funds The Hampden Family Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE BALTIMORE LEADERSHIP SCHOOL FOR YOUNG WOMEN ↗
  • Who funds WOMENS EDUCATION ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds BELOVED COMMUNITY SERVICES CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MARYLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF INDUSTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds BALTIMORE COUNTY POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FORT MEADE ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗

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.

The United Way of Central Maryland IncMD83× affinity47 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The Kahlert Foundation Inc · The Marion I & Henry J Knott Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc · The John J Leidy Foundation Inc · Dr Frank C Marino Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · The Bunting Family Foundation · Campbell Foundation Inc

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 Edward St John Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edward St John Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 540%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Open Works Inc: 96% of income from government
  • The Maryland School for the Blind: 47% of income from government
  • Community Action Council of Howard County Maryland Inc: 44% of income from government
  • Araminta Freedom Initiative: 26% of income from government
  • First Fruits Farm Inc: 26% of income from government
  • Everyman Theatre Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Harford Family House Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Thread Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc: 12% of income from government
  • The Maryland Food Bank Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Maryland Academy of Sciences: 9% of income from government
  • Baltimore Museum of Industry Inc: 7% of income from government
  • B&o Railroad Museum Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Helping Up Mission Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Loyola University Maryland Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Art With a Heart Inc: 4% of income from government
  • University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Beloved Community Services Corporation: 3% of income from government
  • Health Care for the Homeless Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The United Way of Central Maryland Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Center for Hope Inc: 1% of income from government
  • National Aquarium Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Mount Saint Mary's University Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of Maryland Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Mcdaniel College Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Mcdonogh School Incorporated: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
54get no government money at all
37report 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
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 Edward St John Foundation Inc 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 309 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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