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First Fruit Inc

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.

$3.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
108
Grants FY2024still arriving
22
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Religion$9.8MInternational$6.2MPhilanthropy$2.1MHuman Services$644kCommunity Improvement$581kEducation$562kFood & Nutrition$534kEnvironment$244kOther$0
02FY2024 · 108 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k37 grants · $208k
  • $10k–50k50 grants · $829k
  • $50k–250k18 grants · $1.8M
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.1M
$11,800
Median grant
22
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LIFE IN ABUNDANCE INTERNATIONAL$500,000
RECONCILED WORLD$330,000
STRATEGIC GLOBAL ASSISTANCE INC$255,000
ELAM MINISTRIES$200,000
VILLAGE SCHOOLS INTERNATIONAL$200,000
INTERNATIONAL GENEROSITY FOUNDATION$160,776
EVERY GENERATION MINISTRIES$125,000
THORNSTON EDUCATIONAL FUND$118,000
NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION$116,250
DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATES INTERNATIONAL$100,000
REDEEM INTERNATIONAL$100,000
FAR EAST BROADCASTING COMPANY$100,000
INSTITUTE OF CHINESE STUDIES$90,000
ALPHA USA$80,000
LIFENET INTERNATIONAL$77,500
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 (FY20–24, $623k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 43% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%FREELY IN HOPE: $15k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $2k → 10%PEOPLE CARE INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 8%HUMRAHI INC: $2k → 8%WINGS OF REFUGE: $10k → 15%FREELY IN HOPE: $9k → 10%CHRIST'S HOPE INTERNATIONAL: $13k → 10%HEART FOR LEBANON FOUNDATION: $50k → 12%STARFISH PROJECT: $20k → 13%BENGALI CHRISTIAN MINISTRY: $9k → 8%FREELY IN HOPE: $5k → 10%CHRIST'S HOPE INTERNATIONAL: $8k → 10%HEART FOR LEBANON FOUNDATION: $50k → 12%BENGALI CHRISTIAN MINISTRY: $9k → 8%CHRIST'S HOPE INTERNATIONAL: $7k → 10%HEART FOR LEBANON FOUNDATION: $25k → 12%BENGALI CHRISTIAN MINISTRY: $8k → 8%LIVADA ORPHAN CARE: $20k → 5%HEART FOR LEBANON FOUNDATION: $20k → 12%TEARFUND USA: $6k → 8%LIVADA ORPHAN CARE: $18k → 5%LIVADA ORPHAN CARE: $1k → 5%HEART FOR LEBANON FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%HEART FOR LEBANON FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%HEART FOR LEBANON FOUNDATION: $8k → 12%HEART FOR LEBANON FOUNDATION: $3k → 12%CHRISTIAN ALLIANCE FOR ORPHANS: $92k → 6%HEART FOR LEBANON FOUNDATION: $3k → 12%CHRISTIAN ALLIANCE FOR ORPHANS: $60k → 6%CHRISTIAN ALLIANCE FOR ORPHANS: $55k → 6%CHRISTIAN ALLIANCE FOR ORPHANS: $40k → 6%CHRISTIAN ALLIANCE FOR ORPHANS: $15k → 6%CHRISTIAN ALLIANCE FOR ORPHANS: $12k → 6%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

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MA
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IN
OH
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CA
CO
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
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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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 12% of First Fruit Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 16% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 12%.

First Fruit Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 20% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$19M · 112 repeat orgs$2.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

112 repeat relationships: 45 still active in FY2024, 67 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

112
87

Total granted

$19M
$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+20%

Still filing today

80%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $841k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionInternationalHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyYouth 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

  • NC
    NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.9M · revenue ×103
  • NG
    NEW GENERATIONS
    4× · 2020–2023 · $737k · revenue +42%
  • DA
    Development Assoc International
    4× · 2020–2024 · $629k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • TB
    Theological Book Network
    one grant, 2022 · $110k · revenue +9%
  • IF
    Institute for Global Engagement
    one grant, 2020 · $90k · revenue -32%
  • AH
    Al Hayat Ministriesgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue +35%
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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Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
2
Global City Missions Initiative Incorporated

Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…

Religion
3
Asia Us Impact

Religious

Religion
4
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

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5
Crossing Cultures International Inc

Crossing Cultures International, Inc. exists to glorify God by equipping Christ followers globally with comprehensive training for effective ministry.

Religion
6
Timothy Two Project International

Reaching and teaching pastors in the majority world.

Religion
7
Heart Bridge International

Heart Bridge International exists to equip and empower Christians around the world to fulfill the Great Commission. The organization provides free ministry training, discipleship resources, and practical coaching to under-resourced…

Religion
8
Serving Beyond Borders

Serving and pastoring overseas workers on their own turf and equipping nationals by training and empowering them in their work of advancing the gospel.

Human Services
9
International Leadership Institute

The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…

Religion
10
Raise Up Global Ministries

Raise Up Global Ministries is committed to educating Christian leaders in communities around the world. The three programs of Raise Up equip the global church by 1 Developing biblically based interactive materials and 2 Training…

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11
Asia Connect

The organizations mission is the support, training, and equipping of Christian missionaries to Asia, the Middle East, and Africa

Religion
12
Next Worldwide Inc

With a desire to see the Gospel proclaimed in all nations, we exist to make and multiply disciples of the next generation through the vehicles of church-planting missions and missional leadership training.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Development Assoc International; the most unlike its peers is Tijeras Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

173 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. 173 of the 232 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)
40
Early backer (in before they grew)
168/173
Grantees still filing
124/173
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW GENERATIONS: $736,565 · ReligionNEW GENERATIONSDevelopment Assoc International: $629,200 · ReligionDevelopment Assoc InternationalLAUSANNE COMMITTEE FOR WORLD EVANGELIZATION: $571,000 · ReligionLAUSANNE COMMITTEE FOR WORLD EVANG…NEW INDIA EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION: $510,000 · ReligionNEW INDIA EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATIONRECONCILED WORLD INC: $453,000 · ReligionRECONCILED WORLD INCFAR EAST BROADCASTING COMPANY: $360,500 · ReligionFAR EAST BROADCASTING COMPANYEVERY GENERATION MINISTRIES INC: $345,000 · ReligionEVERY GENERATION MINISTRIES INCLuis Palau Association: $301,000 · ReligionAlpha USA: $235,600 · Religion+48 more: $2,298,230 · Religion+48 moreD O O R INTERNATIONAL: $909,000 · OtherD O O R INTERNATIONALLIFE IN ABUNDANCE: $599,267 · OtherLIFE IN ABUNDANCELIFE IN ABUNDANCE INTERNATIONAL: $579,500 · OtherLIFE IN ABUNDANCE INTERNATIONALELAM MINISTRIES: $523,500 · OtherELAM MINISTRIESWEC INTERNATIONAL: $430,000 · OtherWEC INTERNATIONALLEADERSOURCE SGA: $350,000 · OtherLEADERSOURCE SGAINTERNATIONAL GENEROSITY FOUNDATION: $337,496 · OtherASIAN ACCESS: $217,366 · Other+66 more: $2,527,295 · Other+66 moreVSI: $523,000 · InternationalVSICURE INTERNATIONAL INC: $452,850 · InternationalCURE INTERNATIONAL IN…CHALMERS CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: $450,000 · InternationalCHALMERS CENTER FOR E…LIFENET INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION: $307,500 · InternationalLIFENET INTERNATIONAL…Redeem International: $290,000 · InternationalRedeem InternationalVIVA NETWORK - NORTH AMERICA: $240,500 · InternationalVIVA NETWORK - NORTH …PROJECT MERCY INC: $238,500 · InternationalPROJECT MERCY INCINSTITUTE OF CHINESE STUDIES: $205,000 · InternationalKids Alive International Inc: $190,000 · InternationalAlliance for Children Everywhere: $148,900 · International+27 more: $939,510 · International+27 moreNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC: $1,915,750 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL CHR…STRATEGIC GLOBAL ASSISTANCE INC: $255,000 · PhilanthropySTRATEGIC GL…Givers Legacy Foundation Inc: $107,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $15,000 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF SAIACS: $230,000 · EducationTHORNSTON EDUCATIONAL FUND: $229,800 · EducationScholar Leaders International: $165,000 · EducationSINAPIS GROUP INC: $160,000 · EducationMIDDLE EAST BIBLE OUTREACH: $75,000 · EducationCONGO INITIATIVE USA INC: $55,300 · Education+3 more: $30,350 · EducationChristian Alliance for Orphans: $274,000 · Human ServicesHorizons International: $192,000 · Human ServicesHeart for Lebanon Foundation: $183,285 · Human ServicesINTERNATIONAL CRISIS AID INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesLIVADA ORPHAN CARE INC: $39,000 · Human ServicesStarfish Project Incorporated: $32,200 · Human Services+9 more: $135,650 · Human ServicesHelping Children Worldwide Inc: $198,000 · Youth DevelopmentCARE FOR CHILDREN CARE FOR CHILDREN - USA INC: $75,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $5,000 · Youth Development
Religion$6,440,095Other$6,473,424International$3,985,760Philanthropy$2,292,750Education$945,450Human Services$906,135Youth Development$278,000

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 budgetNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC: $1,915,750 over 5y, 9.4% of budgetNEW GENERATIONS: $736,565 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetDevelopment Assoc International: $629,200 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetLAUSANNE COMMITTEE FOR WORLD EVANGELIZATION: $571,000 over 4y, 9.8% of budgetVSI: $523,000 over 5y, 6.8% of budgetNEW INDIA EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION: $510,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetRECONCILED WORLD INC: $453,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetCURE INTERNATIONAL INC: $452,850 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCHALMERS CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: $450,000 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetFAR EAST BROADCASTING COMPANY: $360,500 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetEVERY GENERATION MINISTRIES INC: $345,000 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetLIFENET INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION: $307,500 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetLuis Palau Association: $301,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetRedeem International: $290,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetChristian Alliance for Orphans: $274,000 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetSTRATEGIC GLOBAL ASSISTANCE INC: $255,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetVIVA NETWORK - NORTH AMERICA: $240,500 over 3y, 27% of budgetPROJECT MERCY INC: $238,500 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetAlpha USA: $235,600 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF SAIACS: $230,000 over 2y, 41% of budgetTHORNSTON EDUCATIONAL FUND: $229,800 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetINSTITUTE OF CHINESE STUDIES: $205,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetElam Ministries: $200,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHelping Children Worldwide Inc: $198,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetHorizons International: $192,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetKids Alive International Inc: $190,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHeart for Lebanon Foundation: $183,285 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetScholar Leaders International: $165,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTHE VERITAS FORUM INC: $160,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetLANGHAM PARTNERSHIP USA INC NFP: $160,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSINAPIS GROUP INC: $160,000 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF EVANGELICAL STUDENTS USA INC: $152,600 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetA ROCHA USA INC A ROCHA USA: $152,400 over 2y, 16% of budgetAlliance for Children Everywhere: $148,900 over 4y, 8.7% of budgetLEAD TO SERVE INC: $148,635 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetENTRUST: $134,200 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetChildren of Character Inc: $133,070 over 4y, 12% of budgetBRIGHT HOPE INTERNATIONAL: $114,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetTheological Book Network: $110,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetGivers Legacy Foundation Inc: $107,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHRIVE MINISTRY: $105,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetOASIS INTERNATIONAL LTD NFP: $103,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetNEAR EAST ORGANIZATION INC: $100,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSOUTH ASIA ADVOCATES: $95,550 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetGLOBAL EVANGELICAL TEAM INC: $90,500 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetInstitute for Global Engagement: $90,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetMIDDLE EAST BIBLE OUTREACH: $75,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCARE FOR CHILDREN CARE FOR CHILDREN - USA INC: $75,000 over 2y, 7.4% 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 NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW GENERATIONS ↗
  • Who funds Development Assoc International ↗
  • Who funds LAUSANNE COMMITTEE FOR WORLD EVANGELIZATION ↗
  • Who funds VSI ↗
  • Who funds NEW INDIA EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds RECONCILED WORLD INC ↗
  • Who funds CURE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds CHALMERS CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ↗
  • Who funds FAR EAST BROADCASTING COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds EVERY GENERATION MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds LIFENET INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Luis Palau Association ↗
  • Who funds Redeem International ↗
  • Who funds Christian Alliance for Orphans ↗
  • Who funds STRATEGIC GLOBAL ASSISTANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds VIVA NETWORK - NORTH AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT MERCY INC ↗
  • Who funds Alpha USA ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF SAIACS ↗
  • Who funds THORNSTON EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE OF CHINESE STUDIES ↗
  • Who funds Elam Ministries ↗
  • Who funds Helping Children Worldwide Inc ↗
  • Who funds Horizons International ↗
  • Who funds Kids Alive International Inc ↗
  • Who funds Heart for Lebanon Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Scholar Leaders International ↗
  • Who funds THE VERITAS FORUM INC ↗
  • Who funds LANGHAM PARTNERSHIP USA INC NFP ↗
  • Who funds SINAPIS GROUP 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.

International Generosity Foundation TrustFL94.5× affinity47 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: International Generosity Foundation Trust · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · Tyndale House Ministries · G II Charities · Henry P & Susan C Crowell Trust · Gordon Christian Trust · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Summit Foundation · Servant Foundation · The Harry J Lloyd Charitable Trust · The Signatry Charitable Trust

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 Fruit Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from First Fruit Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 150%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • Medical Teams International: 14% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
15get no government money at all
7report 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, 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 Fruit Inc?

Find your warmest path to First Fruit 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 232 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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