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Fca 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.

$25k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Science & Tech$48MPhilanthropy$7.6MEducation$4.9MYouth Development$3.1MHuman Services$2.8MRecreation & Sports$1.8MCommunity Improvement$1.3MArts & Culture$735kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$396k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PARTNERS IN EDUCATION$25,000
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.

Your US giving — 25% of grant dollars ($18M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 75% that went abroad ($55M) is mapped below.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $100k → 14%NATIONAL CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF CRIME: $25k → 9%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $75k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $75k → 21%VETERANS MATTER: $100k → 18%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $75k → 21%VETERANS MATTER: $75k → 18%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $75k → 21%VETERANS MATTER: $50k → 18%CENTER OF HOPE FAMILY SERVICES: $30k → 18%FOCUS HOPE: $10k → 21%FOCUS HOPE: $8k → 21%FOCUS HOPE: $8k → 21%OAKLAND FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $5k → 8%OAKLAND FAMILY SERVICES: $8k → 8%OAKLAND FAMILY SERVICES: $8k → 8%DREAM CENTERS OF MICHIGAN: $25k → 8%DREAM CENTERS OF MICHIGAN: $10k → 8%ARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC & SOCIAL SERVICES: $75k → 21%ARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC & SOCIAL SERVICES: $75k → 21%DETROIT POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE: $40k → 21%ORCHARDS CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $10k → 8%ORCHARDS CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $8k → 8%ARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC & SOCIAL SERVICES: $50k → 21%ORCHARDS CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $8k → 8%URBAN NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVES INC: $8k → 21%DETROIT POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE: $40k → 21%DETROIT POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE: $40k → 21%DETROIT POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE: $40k → 21%BALDWIN CENTER: $5k → 8%ARAB AMERICAN AND CHALDEAN COUNCIL: $50k → 8%ARAB AMERICAN AND CHALDEAN COUNCIL: $50k → 8%JUDSON CENTER: $10k → 8%ARAB AMERICAN AND CHALDEAN COUNCIL: $25k → 8%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
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
UT
MO
VA
AZ
DC
GA
TX
FL

Beyond the US — 75% of all-years giving ($55M)

3 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Switzerland$48M · 4 grants
Italy$7.0M · 5 grants
Canada$110k · 2 grants

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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

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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 20% of Fca 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, 13% of the giving stays in MI; read by stated purpose it is 15% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Fca Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 76% 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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$70M · 80 repeat orgs$2.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.

80 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 79 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

80
50

Total granted

$70M
$2.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+29%

Still filing today

81%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsPublic Safety & DisasterFood & NutritionOther

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

  • FI
    FIRST IN MICHIGAN
    4× · 2017–2020 · $1.2M · revenue +72%
  • CITY YEAR INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $950k · revenue +15%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA
    3× · 2017–2019 · $700k · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGANgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $500k · revenue +55%
  • TM
    THE MISSION CONTINUES
    one grant, 2017 · $250k · revenue -68%
  • NC
    NATIONAL COLLEGE ATTAINMENT NETWORKgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $200k · revenue +50%

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.

1
Business Leaders for Michigan

Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…

2
Community Education Commission

CEC works with diverse stakeholders across Detroit to develop critical resources and system-level solutions that address common challenges faced by Detroit families in accessing quality education.

Education
3
Business Leaders for Michigan Foundation

Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…

Community Improvement
4
Detroit Economic Growth Corporation

Promotion of activities to spur economic growth and revitalization in the city of detroit

5
Michigan Enviromental Council

Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.

Environment
6
Local Circles

Local circles offers young detroiters an employment opportunity in youth- led research. by employing youth to do research, local circles intervenes on two simultaneous social issues facing young detroiters today: youth unemployment and…

7
Michigan State Afl-Cio Workforce Development Institute

To apply the principles of workforce development to grow michigan's economy while improving the lives of michigan workers.

Employment
8
Detroit Historical Society

The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.

Arts & Culture
9
Michigan Chamber of Commerce

To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.

10
Mid Michigan Community Action Agency Inc

Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.

11
Urban League of Detroit and Southeastern Michigan

To enable african americans and people in need to reach their full human potential

12
Diploma Equity Project

The organization works with k-12, higher education and other community partners to design and implement programs to improve rates of college persistence and completion.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alternatives for Girls and the most unlike its peers is Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadySchool District FoundationsElementary Literacy TutoringAffordable Housing Developm…Youth Development CentersChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Youth Sports ProgramsMilitary Veterans SupportIndependent K-12 SchoolsYmca Youth DevelopmentSchool Parent OrganizationsPolicy Research and AdvocacyWomen & Girls Leadership De…Community FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …Lgbtq+ Community SupportVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Developmental Disabilities …Community Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr13%3%5–10yr20%24%10–20yr15%26%20–35yr14%28%35–55yr18%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr13%6%5–10yr20%22%10–20yr15%31%20–35yr14%21%35–55yr18%19%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.9% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.9%1/108
the rest of the field
12%
6,511/53,748

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

107 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 107 of the 134 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)
30
Early backer (in before they grew)
105/107
Grantees still filing
82/107
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE CERN & SOCIETY FOUNDATION — $47,670,578 · OtherTHE CERN & SOCIETY FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient — $6,980,499 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+74 more — $8,545,800 · Other+74 moreCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS — $700,000 · EducationDETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $600,000 · EducationMath Corps — $300,000 · EducationWINNING FUTURES — $250,000 · EducationTeach for America Inc — $245,000 · EducationNATIONAL COLLEGE ATTAINMENT NETWORK — $200,000 · EducationMICHIGAN SCIENCE CENTER — $150,000 · EducationPARTNERS IN EDUCATION OF TOLEDO — $145,000 · EducationMICHIGAN COLLEGE ACCESS NETWORK — $140,000 · EducationSME EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $107,500 · Education+7 more — $297,000 · EducationUNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN — $500,000 · Public Safety & DisasterTHE FIRST RESPONSE TEAM OF AMERICA CORP — $350,000 · Public Safety & DisasterTEAM RUBICON INC — $350,000 · Public Safety & DisasterSOLDIERS' ANGELS — $275,000 · Public Safety & DisasterALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC — $75,000 · Public Safety & Disaster+1 more — $10,000 · Public Safety & DisasterFIRST IN MICHIGAN — $1,190,000 · Recreation & SportsRUTH ELLIS CENTER — $150,000 · Recreation & SportsDOWNTOWN BOXING GYM YOUTH PROGRAM — $75,000 · Recreation & Sports+3 more — $72,500 · Recreation & Sports1MATTERSORG — $225,000 · Human ServicesYMCA of Metropolitan Detroit — $225,000 · Human ServicesARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND S — $200,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $175,000 · Human ServicesDETROIT POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INCORPORATED — $160,000 · Human ServicesARAB AMERICAN AND CHALDEAN COUNCIL — $125,000 · Human Services+11 more — $200,000 · Human ServicesBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA — $700,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN — $135,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTH OAKLAND COUNTY — $120,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF TIPTON COUNTY — $90,000 · Youth DevelopmentRHONDA WALKER FOUNDATION — $62,000 · Youth Development+4 more — $77,500 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF TEACH FOR ITALY — $540,000 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $250,000 · InternationalWORLD MEDICAL RELIEF INCORPORATED — $42,500 · International
Other$63,196,877Education$3,134,500Public Safety & Disaster$1,560,000Recreation & Sports$1,487,500Human Services$1,310,000Youth Development$1,184,500International$832,500

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 budgetFIRST IN MICHIGAN — $1,190,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetM-1 RAIL — $1,000,000 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetCITY YEAR INC — $950,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetDETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $720,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA — $700,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC — $700,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS — $700,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters Of America — $650,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetDETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $600,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF TEACH FOR ITALY — $540,000 over 3y, 96% of budgetUNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN — $500,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE FIRST RESPONSE TEAM OF AMERICA CORP — $350,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC — $350,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMath Corps — $300,000 over 3y, 44% of budgetSOLDIERS' ANGELS — $275,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $250,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MISSION CONTINUES — $250,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetWINNING FUTURES — $250,000 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $245,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budget1MATTERSORG — $225,000 over 3y, 9.1% of budgetNEW HORIZONS REHABILITATION SERVICES INC — $225,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetYMCA of Metropolitan Detroit — $225,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL COLLEGE ATTAINMENT NETWORK — $200,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND S — $200,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF HOWARD COUNTY — $180,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $175,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN OF TOMORROW MENTOR & SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM DETROIT METRO — $160,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC — $160,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Toledo — $160,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDETROIT POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INCORPORATED — $160,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetMICHIGAN SCIENCE CENTER — $150,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetDETROIT CHILDREN'S FUND — $150,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetRUTH ELLIS CENTER — $150,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetPARTNERS IN EDUCATION OF TOLEDO — $145,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetMICHIGAN COLLEGE ACCESS NETWORK — $140,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN — $135,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetARAB AMERICAN AND CHALDEAN COUNCIL — $125,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetLATIN AMERICANS FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC — $125,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTH OAKLAND COUNTY — $120,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetSME EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $107,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY — $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT — $100,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetENGINEERING SOCIETY OF DETROIT — $95,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetBELVIDERE FAMILY YMCA — $95,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF TIPTON COUNTY — $90,000 over 4y, 7.6% of budgetDOWNTOWN BOXING GYM YOUTH PROGRAM — $75,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC — $75,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF MICHIGAN — $67,000 over 1y, 2.8% 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.

Dte Energy FoundationMI78.1× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dte Energy Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Ford Philanthropy · The Kresge Foundation · The Skillman Foundation · Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation · The Barton Malow Foundation · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · The Carls Foundation · Comerica Charitable Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation

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 Fca 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
202122232425
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 10%
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of America21% of income from government
  • City Year Inc11% of income from government
  • National Center for Victims of Crime Inc10% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
38report 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, FY2025

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

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How do I get to Fca Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Fca 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 134 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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