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Fine Family Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$188k
Granted FY2025still arriving
32
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$76k
Largest

Read this first · the figures below need context

53% of Fine Family Charitable Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Combined Jewish Philanthropies Of Greater Boston Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 25 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$733kInternational$528kEducation$176kArts & Culture$175kHuman Services$133kHealth$32kEnvironment$28kReligion$19kOther$0
02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k27 grants · $72k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $76k
$2,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston$76,000
Boston Jewish Film Festival$10,000
PEF Israel Endowment Funds$10,000
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces$10,000
AID Coalition$10,000
Jewish National Fund$8,000
Vilna Shul Boston's Center for Jewish Culture$6,100
Reut USA$5,000
Israeli-American Council$5,000
Brandeis University$5,000
Jewish Community Center of Greater Boston$5,000
American Friends of Maoz-Seal$5,000
Gann Academy$4,000
Impact Israel Inc$3,600
Boston Public Art Triennial$3,000
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 (FY17–25, $136k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TIKVOT: $6k → 9%Shalva: $1k → 14%Israeli American Council: $20k → 14%Israeli American Council: $14k → 14%Israeli American Council: $13k → 14%ISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL: $5k → 14%Israeli-American Council: $5k → 14%Jewish Family Service of MetroWest: $1k → 8%Israeli American Council: $5k → 14%Israeli American Council: $5k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON: $15k → 8%Jewish Community Center of Greater Boston: $7k → 8%Jewish Community Center of Greater Boston: $7k → 8%Jewish Community Center of Greater Boston: $7k → 8%Jewish Community Center of Greater Boston: $5k → 8%Jewish Community Center of Greater Boston: $5k → 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON: $4k → 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON: $4k → 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON: $4k → 8%Jewish Community Center of Greater Boston: $3k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
WA
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
DC
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$784k · 36 repeat orgs$146k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

36 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
30

Total granted

$784k
$127k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+7%

Still filing today

83%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

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InternationalArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
    9× · 2017–2025 · $85k · revenue +53%
  • IC
    ISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL
    7× · 2018–2025 · $67k · revenue +11%
  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON
    9× · 2017–2025 · $62k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • TM
    THE MIDDLE EAST PEACE DIALOGUE NETWORK INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -83%
  • SS
    SOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL INC
    one grant, 2017 · $16k
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TIKVOT INC CO ARMEL LESLIE
    one grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue -22%
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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The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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Sherit Isroel
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The Jerusalem Connection
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The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
5
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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University of Judaism Foundation
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The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.

Arts & Culture
8
American Friends of Bar-Ilan University

We fundraise in the u.s. to support, and raise awareness of, bar-ilan university in israel.

Education
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American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
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Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
11
American Friends of Torah and Tefilah Ramat Eshkol Inc

To promote and support jewish religious charitable and educational activities in israel & usa.

Religion
12
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc; the most unlike its peers is New London Police Benevolent 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

66 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. 66 of the 81 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
66/66
Grantees still filing
43/66
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $726,500 · PhilanthropyCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston I…PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $80,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC+6 more: $29,700 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $85,100 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL D…JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $84,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (K…THE MIDDLE EAST PEACE DIALOGUE NETWORK INC: $50,000 · InternationalTHE MIDDLE EAST PEACE D…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAOZ-SEAL INC: $42,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAO…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF REICHMAN UNIVERSITY INC: $34,844 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF REI…THE GESHER FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · InternationalTHE GESHER FOUNDATION I…AMERICAN SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA: $17,000 · InternationalIMPACTISRAEL INC: $12,900 · International+5 more: $27,100 · International+5 moreBOSTON JEWISH FILM INC: $90,000 · OtherBOSTON JEWISH FIL…Gann Academy: $58,100 · OtherGann AcademySOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL INC: $16,000 · OtherSOLOMON SCHECHTER…JEWISH ARTS COLLABORATIVE INC: $15,000 · OtherNEWTON-WELLESLEY HOSPITAL: $12,000 · OtherISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL: $11,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAOZ-SEAL: $11,000 · OtherJOHN HAY ESTATE AT THE FELLS: $13,000 · Other+26 more: $57,480 · Other+26 moreISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL: $66,557 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON: $61,500 · Human ServicesAMERICAN FRIENDS OF TIKVOT INC CO ARMEL LESLIE: $6,000 · Human Services+2 more: $2,000 · Human ServicesREUT USA: $54,000 · Arts & CultureNEW LONDON BARN PLAYHOUSE INC: $28,000 · Arts & CultureTHE VILNA SHUL BOSTONS CENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE INC: $15,100 · Arts & CultureBOSTON PUBLIC ART TRIENNIAL INC: $9,500 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $17,350 · Arts & CultureBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $45,000 · EducationGATEWAYS ACCESS TO JEWISH EDUCATION INC: $19,667 · EducationThe President and Trustees of Colby College: $8,600 · Education+4 more: $6,160 · EducationLAKE SUNAPEE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION: $15,500 · EnvironmentAUSBON SARGENT LAND PRESERVATION TRUST: $11,500 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF ARAVA THE INSTITUTE LTD: $1,360 · Environment
Philanthropy$836,200International$382,944Other$283,580Human Services$136,057Arts & Culture$123,950Education$79,427Environment$28,360

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $726,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON JEWISH FILM INC: $90,000 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $85,100 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $84,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $80,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL: $66,557 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON: $61,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetREUT USA: $54,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetTHE MIDDLE EAST PEACE DIALOGUE NETWORK INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $45,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAOZ-SEAL INC: $42,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF REICHMAN UNIVERSITY INC: $34,844 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GESHER FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetNEW LONDON BARN PLAYHOUSE INC: $28,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetGATEWAYS ACCESS TO JEWISH EDUCATION INC: $19,667 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA: $17,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetLAKE SUNAPEE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION: $15,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetTHE VILNA SHUL BOSTONS CENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE INC: $15,100 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH ARTS COLLABORATIVE INC: $15,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetJOHN HAY ESTATE AT THE FELLS: $13,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetIMPACTISRAEL INC: $12,900 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF ISRAEL DISABLED VETERANS INC: $11,800 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAUSBON SARGENT LAND PRESERVATION TRUST: $11,500 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetBOSTON PUBLIC ART TRIENNIAL INC: $9,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH BIG BROTHER & BIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON: $9,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe President and Trustees of Colby College: $8,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF TIKVOT INC CO ARMEL LESLIE: $6,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LIBI INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Shalem Foundation: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROFEH INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $3,980 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC: $3,550 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $3,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTEL AVIV MUSEUM'S AMERICAN FRIENDS INC: $3,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF PEACE OF MIND INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFrom The Heart Productions: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARNEGIE INSTITUTE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBrothers for Life: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget2LIFE COMMUNITIES SERVICES INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEBREW COLLEGE: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF GREATER BOSTON INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEAM IMPACT INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF ARAVA THE INSTITUTE LTD: $1,360 over 2y, 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 Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON JEWISH FILM INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
  • Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
  • Who funds ISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON ↗
  • Who funds REUT USA ↗
  • Who funds THE MIDDLE EAST PEACE DIALOGUE NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAOZ-SEAL INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF REICHMAN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE GESHER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW LONDON BARN PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds GATEWAYS ACCESS TO JEWISH EDUCATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA ↗
  • Who funds LAKE SUNAPEE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds THE VILNA SHUL BOSTONS CENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH ARTS COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds JOHN HAY ESTATE AT THE FELLS ↗
  • Who funds IMPACTISRAEL INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DISABLED VETERANS INC ↗
  • Who funds AUSBON SARGENT LAND PRESERVATION TRUST ↗
  • Who funds AMERICA ISRAEL DEMOCRACY COALITION ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON PUBLIC ART TRIENNIAL INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH BIG BROTHER & BIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON ↗
  • Who funds The President and Trustees of Colby College ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TIKVOT INC CO ARMEL LESLIE ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LIBI INC ↗
  • Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds The Shalem Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ROFEH 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.

Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston IncMA57.1× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Joseph and Rae Gann Charitable Foundation · Ruderman Family Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Krupp Family Foundation · The Beker Foundation · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · Rosalyn and Richard Slifka Charitable Trust · Justin & Genevieve Wyner Trust · One8 Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma

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 Fine Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fine Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 170%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
  • Gateways Access to Jewish Education Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Jewish Community Day School Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
17get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 81 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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