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First Citizens Charitable Foundation Inc

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.

$134k
Granted FY2025still arriving
77
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Human Services$182kFood & Nutrition$117kEducation$104kHealth$65kYouth Development$50kReligion$46kHousing & Shelter$36kArts & Culture$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 77 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k76 grants · $114k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MY BROTHERS KEEPER$20,000
ASCENSION CAREER TRAINING$5,000
BUZZARDS BAY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$5,000
YMCA FULL PLATE PROJECT$4,752
ELEMENTS LEARNING COLLABORATIVE$3,910
BRISTOL AGING & WELLNESS$3,090
CORLINE CRONAN'S FAMILY$3,000
TAUNTON PERFORMING ARTS CENTER$3,000
FRIENDS OF BOURNE COUNCIL ON AGING$3,000
GNOME SURF$2,540
OUR SISTER SCHOOL$2,500
NEW BEDFORD ART MUSEUM$2,500
APACHE WAY FARM RESCUE$2,500
DENNIS CONSERVATION LAND TRUST$2,500
LINES AND SPACES$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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $139k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%NORTH STAR LEARNING CENTERS: $10k → 11%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $375 → 16%FAMILY PANTRY - DAMIENS PLACE: $1k → 8%BRISTOL AGING & WELLNESS: $3k → 11%COMMUNITY SYSTEMS INC: $3k → 8%ARC OF GREATER PLYMOUTH: $2k → 8%NORTHSTAR LEARNING CENTER: $3k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 8%INDEPENDENCE HOUSE: $1k → 8%INDEPENDENCE HOUSE INC: $1k → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 11%INDEPENDENCE HOUSE: $1k → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 11%THE BRIDGE: $1k → 11%LOWER CAPE OUTREACH COUNCIL: $1k → 8%LOWER CAPE OUTREACH COUNCIL: $1k → 8%MY BROTHER'S KEEPER: $36k → 11%LOWER CAPE OUTREACH COUNCIL: $541 → 8%MY BROTHERS KEEPER: $20k → 11%LOWER CAPE OUTREACH COUNCIL: $500 → 8%MY BROTHER'S KEEPER: $20k → 11%LOWER CAPE OUTREACH COUNCIL: $500 → 8%LOWER CAPE OUTREACH COUNCIL: $406 → 8%ELDER SERVICES OF CAPE COD: $1k → 8%THE LILY HOUSE: $388 → 8%MY BROTHERS KEEPER: $3k → 11%FRIENDS OF BOURNE COUNCIL ON AGING: $3k → 8%ASSOCIATES FOR HUMAN SERVICES: $1k → 11%OLD COLONY YMCA: $1k → 11%KENNEDY DONOVAN CENTER: $5k → 11%THE INTER-CHURCH COUNCIL OF GREATER NEW BEDFORD: $3k → 11%MOBILE MINISTRIES: $1k → 11%MOBILE MINISTRIES: $1k → 11%IMMIGRANTS ASSISTANCE CENTER: $1k → 11%KENNEDY-DONOVAN CENTER: $1k → 11%IMMIGRANTS ASSISTANCE CENTER: $1k → 11%MOBILE MINISTRIES: $1k → 11%MOBILE MINISTRIES: $1k → 11%MOBILE MINISTRIES: $1k → 11%IMMIGRANTS ASSISTANCE CENTER: $750 → 11%MOBILE MINISTRIES: $500 → 11%MOBILE MINISTRIES: $250 → 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.
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.

38%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$346k · 59 repeat orgs$563k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

59 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 47 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

59
159

Total granted

$346k
$480k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+15%

Still filing today

44%
23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionEducationEnvironmentArts & 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

  • MB
    My Brothers Keeper Inc
    4× · 2021–2025 · $79k · revenue +17%
  • CF
    COASTAL FOODSHED
    5× · 2019–2023 · $21k · revenue +282%
  • NL
    NORTHSTAR LEARNING CENTERS INC
    2× · 2019–2023 · $13k · revenue +262%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $117k
  • MC
    MANET COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC
    one grant, 2022 · $14k · revenue +18%
  • WS
    WASHBURN STREET FIRE FUNDCSS
    one grant, 2020 · $14k
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
Community Action Committee of Cape Cod & Islands Inc

Provide resources and skills to individuals and families in the cape and islands to attain and retain independence and economic stability and self-sufficiency through personal growth, family stabilization, life skills and employment…

Community Improvement
2
Coastline Elderly Services Inc

Enhance the lives of seniors, caregivers and those with similar needs by assisting them to remain independent through a range of quality services.

Human Services
3
Community Health Center of Cape Cod Inc

To improve the health of our community through the provision of equitable, patient centered, high quality, compassionate care to all, regardless of ability to pay.

Health
4
Community Counseling of Bristol County Inc

The purpose and mission of community counseling of bristol county, inc. (ccbc) is to develop and deliver compassionate, responsive, culturally competent, and quality mental health and substance abuse services to meet the…

Health
5
Massachusetts Council of Human Services Providers Inc

To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.

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6
Nantucket Community Service Inc

Provide low income elderly housing.

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7
Southeast Center for Independent Living Inc

The philosophy of independent living, maintains that individuals with disabilities have the right to choose services and make decisions for themselves. this belief is the foundation and guiding principle in all of the policies and…

Housing & Shelter
8
Cape Counseling Services

To partner with individuals, families and the community to provide recovery-focused, trauma-informed, integrated primary and behavioral healthcare and to promote wellness, resiliency and hope for positive change.

—
9
Arc of Cape Cod Inc

Promotes and protects the human rights of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and actively supports their full inclusion and participation in the community throughout their lifetimes.

—
10
Homehealth & Child Care Services Inc

Committed to the healthy development,education,childcare,respectful eldercare, and to provide support & empowerment of all families of southeastern massachusetts, cape cod and the islands

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11
Community Cooks Inc

Community cooks mobilizes individuals, businesses, civic educational and faith-based groups to prepare home-cooked food for vulnerable populations seeking assistance from human service agencies throughout greater boston. the agency…

Food & Nutrition
12
Bay Cove Human Services Inc

Bay cove human services' mission is to partner with people to overcome challenges and realize personal potential. bay cove pursues this mission by providing individualized and compassionate services to people facing the challenges…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Bedford Women's Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Taunton Civic Chorus Inc. 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

93 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. 93 of the 265 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)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
88/93
Grantees still filing
55/93
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $117,168 · OtherIndividual grant recipientVETERANS TRANSITION HOUSE: $29,800 · Other+154 more: $454,396 · Other+154 moreMy Brothers Keeper Inc: $78,500 · Human ServicesMy Brothers Keepe…NORTHSTAR LEARNING CENTERS INC: $12,500 · Human ServicesNORTHSTAR LEARNIN…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $7,500 · Human ServicesAmerican National…KENNEDY-DONOVAN CENTER INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesMobile Ministries Inc: $5,750 · Human Services+13 more: $27,683 · Human Services+13 moreMANET COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $13,512 · HealthCommunity Nurse Inc: $7,000 · HealthDUFFY HEALTH CENTER INC: $5,000 · HealthHEROES IN TRANSITION INC: $5,000 · HealthPositive Action Against Chemical Addiction Inc: $5,000 · HealthBETTER COMMUNITY LIVING INC: $5,000 · HealthCAPE WELLNESS COLLABORATIVE INC: $2,726 · HealthAIDS SUPPORT GROUP OF CAPE COD INC: $2,500 · HealthFRIENDS OF JACK FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · HealthFALL RIVER DEACONESS HOME: $2,000 · HealthCOASTAL FOODSHED: $21,250 · Food & NutritionMERCY MEALS AND MORE: $6,000 · Food & NutritionRAYNHAM FOOD BASKET INC: $4,750 · Food & NutritionCAPE KID MEALS INC: $3,250 · Food & NutritionTHE FAMILY PANTRY OF CAPE COD CORP: $3,083 · Food & NutritionSHEPHERDS PANTRY INC: $2,500 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $1,000 · Food & NutritionOUR SISTERS SCHOOL: $7,500 · EducationELEMENTS LEARNING COLLABORATIVE INC: $3,910 · EducationTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $3,000 · EducationSAGE MONTESSORI INC: $2,500 · EducationCAPE COD TOY LIBRARY INC: $1,615 · EducationHOUSING ASSISTANCE CORPORATION: $9,500 · Housing & ShelterA Life Worth Living Corp: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterPRO-HOME INC: $1,500 · Housing & ShelterSOUTH COAST LGBTQ NETWORK INC: $9,584 · Civil Rights
Other$601,364Human Services$137,933Health$49,738Food & Nutrition$41,833Education$18,525Housing & Shelter$16,000Civil Rights$9,584

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%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMy Brothers Keeper Inc: $78,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCOASTAL FOODSHED: $21,250 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetMANET COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $13,512 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHSTAR LEARNING CENTERS INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTH COAST LGBTQ NETWORK INC: $9,584 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHOUSING ASSISTANCE CORPORATION: $9,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOUR SISTERS SCHOOL: $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Nurse Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMERCY MEALS AND MORE: $6,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetKENNEDY-DONOVAN CENTER INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOUTREACH INC: $5,780 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMobile Ministries Inc: $5,750 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetYouth Opportunities Unlimited Inc: $5,260 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetA Life Worth Living Corp: $5,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetDUFFY HEALTH CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEROES IN TRANSITION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPositive Action Against Chemical Addiction Inc: $5,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBETTER COMMUNITY LIVING INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAYNHAM FOOD BASKET INC: $4,750 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetLOWER CAPE OUTREACH COUNCILINC: $4,343 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFALMOUTH SERVICE CENTER INC: $3,978 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetELEMENTS LEARNING COLLABORATIVE INC: $3,910 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetCHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $3,834 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARION INSTITUTE INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCAPE KID MEALS INC: $3,250 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBRISTOL AGING & WELLNESS INC: $3,090 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FAMILY PANTRY OF CAPE COD CORP: $3,083 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINDEPENDENCE HOUSE INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF BOURNE COUNCIL ON AGING: $3,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CAPE COD INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIMMIGRANTS' ASSISTANCE CENTER INC: $2,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCAPE WELLNESS COLLABORATIVE INC: $2,726 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLINES AND SPACES INC: $2,500 over 1y, 11% of budgetFALMOUTH HOUSING TRUST: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHEPHERDS PANTRY INC: $2,500 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetSAGE MONTESSORI INC: $2,500 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAIDS SUPPORT GROUP OF CAPE COD INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTER-CHURCH COUNCIL OF GREATER NEW BEDFORDINC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY SYSTEMS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW BEDFORD LIGHT: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAPACHE WAY FARM RESCUE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 14% of budgetFRIENDS OF JACK FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGREATER NEW BEDFORD ADULT DAY HEALTH CARE CENTER INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew Bedford Festival Theatre Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFALL RIVER DEACONESS HOME: $2,000 over 1y, 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 My Brothers Keeper Inc ↗
  • Who funds COASTAL FOODSHED ↗
  • Who funds MANET COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHSTAR LEARNING CENTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH COAST LGBTQ NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds HOUSING ASSISTANCE CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds OUR SISTERS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds Community Nurse Inc ↗
  • Who funds MERCY MEALS AND MORE ↗
  • Who funds KENNEDY-DONOVAN CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds OUTREACH INC ↗
  • Who funds Mobile Ministries Inc ↗
  • Who funds Youth Opportunities Unlimited Inc ↗
  • Who funds A Life Worth Living Corp ↗
  • Who funds DUFFY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds HEROES IN TRANSITION 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.

Southcoast Community Foundation IncMA73.9× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Southcoast Community Foundation Inc · Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Cape Cod Foundation Inc · Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust · The Carney Family Charitable Foundation · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Cape & Coast Bank Foundation · Lyndon Paul Lorusso Charitable Foundatio · Edward Bangs Kelley and Elza Kelley 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 First Citizens Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from First Citizens Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 270%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 33%
  • Better Community Living Inc: 95% of income from government
  • The Arc of Greater Plymouth Inc: 95% of income from government
  • Molife Inc: 95% of income from government
  • Community Systems Inc: 92% of income from government
  • Independence House Inc: 85% of income from government
  • New Bedford Women's Center Inc: 84% of income from government
  • Fall River Deaconess Home: 78% of income from government
  • Coastal Foodshed: 66% of income from government
  • Associates for Human Services Inc: 64% of income from government
  • Northstar Learning Centers Inc: 63% of income from government
  • Kennedy-Donovan Center Inc: 62% of income from government
  • South Eastern Economic Development Corporation: 59% of income from government
  • Duffy Health Center Inc: 51% of income from government
  • Justice Resource Institute Inc: 48% of income from government
  • Buzzards Bay Coalition: 37% of income from government
  • Friends of Jack Foundation Inc: 36% of income from government
  • The Family Pantry- Damien's Place: 36% of income from government
  • United Way of Greater New Bedford Inc: 35% of income from government
  • Aids Support Group of Cape Cod Inc: 33% of income from government
  • South Coast Lgbtq Network Inc: 29% of income from government
  • Wareham Land Trust Inc: 27% of income from government
  • Manet Community Health Center Inc: 25% of income from government
  • Child and Family Services Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Horizons for Homeless Children: 21% of income from government
  • South Shore Community Action Council Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Immigrants' Assistance Center Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Cape Cod Toy Library Inc: 13% of income from government
  • The Lily House Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Round the Bend Farm Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Housing Assistance Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Lower Cape Outreach Councilinc: 6% of income from government
  • Barnstable Land Trust Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Greater New Bedford Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
  • The Marion Institute Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Heroes in Transition Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Our Sisters School: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
27get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
13rely 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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How do I get to First Citizens Charitable Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to First Citizens Charitable 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 265 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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