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Florence and Laurence Spungen Family Foundation at a glance

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Florence and Laurence Spungen Family Foundation

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.

$927k
Granted FY2025still arriving
58
Grants FY2025still arriving
16
States reached
$95k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$897kHuman Services$633kPhilanthropy$410kArts & Culture$346kInternational$265kHousing & Shelter$207kReligion$191kFood & Nutrition$140kOther$0
02FY2025 · 58 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k24 grants · $113k
  • $10k–50k30 grants · $552k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $262k
$10,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHICAGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$95,000
NEW ISRAEL FUND$65,000
SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION$52,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HAND IN HAND$50,000
Individual grant recipient$45,000
FOOD BANK OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY$45,000
FUND FOR SANTA BARBARA INC$40,000
WILDERNESS YOUTH PROJECT$26,800
COUNCIL ON ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE$26,800
CASA LAKE COUNTY INC$25,000
SHARSHERET$25,000
ERIE FAMILY HEALTH CENTERS (FOUNDATION)$20,000
LAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER FOR THE PREVENTION OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE$20,000
PADS LAKE COUNTY$20,000
THE FAMILY SCHOOL$20,000
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 (FY20–25, $308k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%KAVOD: $10k → 17%WORLD OUTSIDE MY SHOES: $18k → 12%Kavod Ensuring Dignity for Holocaust Survivors: $5k → 17%WORLD OUTSIDE MY SHOES: $7k → 12%World Outside My shoes: $20k → 12%Interface Children & Family Services: $3k → 10%KAVOD: $10k → 12%World Outside My shoes: $19k → 12%KAVOD: $10k → 12%KAVOD: $10k → 12%JourneyCare: $5k → 14%CHANNEL ISLANDS YMCA: $2k → 14%Jewish Family and Children Services: $10k → 10%Jewish Family and Children Services: $6k → 10%RIVERSIDE FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%RIVERSIDE FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%The Chicago Lighthouse: $10k → 14%Riverside Foundation: $3k → 8%Riverside Foundation: $3k → 8%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $25k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $25k → 14%THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE: $10k → 14%THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE: $10k → 14%Chicago Lighthouse: $10k → 14%THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE: $10k → 14%Chicago Lighthouse: $10k → 14%JEWISH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 14%JEWISH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 14%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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VT
NH
WA
MT
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
NE
MO
MD
NM
TN
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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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 10% of Florence and Laurence Spungen Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 38% of the giving stays in IL; by stated purpose, 35%.

Florence and Laurence Spungen Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 7.7% 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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.2M · 61 repeat orgs$747k to everyone else

61 repeat relationships: 35 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

61
80

Total granted

$3.2M
$532k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+31%

Still filing today

75%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $215k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationInternationalOther
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

  • FO
    Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $145k · revenue +5%
  • DIRECT RELIEF
    5× · 2020–2025 · $103k · revenue +20%
  • SI
    Sharsheret Inc
    4× · 2020–2025 · $100k · revenue +123%

Funded once

  • EU
    Emory Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +54%
  • JC
    JCFS Chicago
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • FS
    Family Service of Santa Barbara County
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
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
University of Southern California Hillel Foundation

To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…

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2
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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3
Jewish Family Service

Jewish Family Service is a nonprofit social service organization that supports people of all faiths as they navigate through lifes's challenges - illness, aging , finanical uncertainty, mental health concerns, family problems, or personal…

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4
Jewish Family and Community Services East Bay

Guided by jewish values and in collaboration with the diverse communities we serve, jfcs east bay contributes to the resilience of communities, families, and individuals through advocacy and comprehensive support services at every stage of…

Health
5
Bureau of Jewish Education of Greater Los Angeles Inc

Bje enhances the quality of, increases access to, and encourages participation in jewish education throughout the jewish communities of greater los angeles. bje is an advocate, planner, catalyst, and creative leader for strengthening and…

Religion
6
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
7
Jewish Federation of San Diego County

Jewish federation of san diego county is dedicated to building a vibrant, caring, connected, and enduring jewish community.

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8
Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles

We steward $1.5 billion in charitable assets through donor-advised funds, endowments, and other giving vehicles. partnering with 1,400 individuals, families, and organizations, we build enduring legacies and multigenerational impact. in…

Philanthropy
9
Jewish Board of Family & Children's Services Inc

To empower new yorkers, providing integrated mental health and social services with compassion and expertise.

Human Services
10
Jewish Family Service of San Diego

Jewish family service is a client-centered, impact-driven organization working to build a stronger, healthier, more resilient san diego.

Human Services
11
Jewish Film Institute

The Jewish Film Institute champions bold films and filmmakers that expand and evolve the Jewish story for audiences everywhere. Through its exhibition and artist development programs, JFI celebrates the spirit of film, inquiry,…

Arts & Culture
12
Jewish Family Service

Mission: Inspired by their history and values, Jewish Family Service supports the needs of Jewish individuals and families, refugees and immigrants, and the broader community to achieve well-being, health, and stability. From food security…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family and Children's Services; the most unlike its peers is Lauri S Bauer 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

104 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. 104 of the 169 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)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
102/104
Grantees still filing
75/104
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $197,205 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCHICAGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $160,000 · OtherCHICAGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONCONGREGATION BNAI BRITH: $128,600 · OtherCONGREGATION BNAI BRITHFAMILY SERVICE OF LAKE COUNTY: $86,200 · OtherCANDLES: $85,995 · OtherEQUAL HOPE (METRO CHICAGO BREAST TASK FORCE): $75,000 · OtherHELPING HANDS NETWORK INC: $82,000 · OtherISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC: $83,000 · OtherDIGNITYMOVES: $75,000 · Other+95 more: $1,207,700 · Other+95 moreSharsheret Inc: $100,000 · HealthSharsheret IncMINDING YOUR MIND: $87,500 · HealthMINDING YOUR MINDPADS Lake County Inc: $85,000 · HealthPADS Lake County …MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION IN SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $70,000 · HealthMENTAL HEALTH ASS…Childrens Oncology Services Inc: $70,000 · HealthChildrens Oncolog…THE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP: $60,000 · HealthTHE JOSSELYN CENT…CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA: $50,000 · HealthCANCER FOUNDATION…Erie Family Health Center Inc: $45,000 · HealthErie Family Healt…Doctors Without Walls Santa Barbara Street Medicine: $30,000 · HealthCasa Serena: $25,000 · Health+5 more: $38,250 · Health+5 moreSANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $153,000 · PhilanthropySANTA BARBARA…THE LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyTHE LAKE COUN…JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK: $60,850 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FUNDER…FUND FOR SANTA BARBARA INC: $40,000 · PhilanthropyFUND FOR SANT…JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $30,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERA…JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER SANTA BARBARA: $26,800 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERA…THE CANARY FUND DBA CANARY FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Philanthropy+11 more: $69,198 · Philanthropy+11 moreWorld Outside My Shoes: $63,050 · Human ServicesTHE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $60,000 · Human ServicesJewish Child and Family Services: $50,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $50,000 · Human ServicesKAVOD: $45,000 · Human ServicesSHELTERBOX USA INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $15,500 · Human ServicesRIVERSIDE FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Human Services+3 more: $9,300 · Human ServicesHAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA: $105,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEF: $103,000 · InternationalNEW ISRAEL FUND: $65,000 · InternationalEDUCATORS INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN: $41,500 · International+4 more: $18,500 · InternationalFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc: $145,000 · Food & NutritionVITAMIN ANGEL ALLIANCE INC: $30,000 · Food & Nutrition+2 more: $7,500 · Food & NutritionHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC: $65,477 · Arts & Culture1761 ARTS INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture70 FACES MEDIA INC: $8,500 · Arts & CultureTHE SINO JUDAIC INSTITUTE: $4,100 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $4,680 · Arts & Culture
Other$2,180,700Health$660,750Philanthropy$499,848Human Services$337,850International$333,000Food & Nutrition$182,500Arts & Culture$117,757

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 budgetSANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $153,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc: $145,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA: $105,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $103,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSharsheret Inc: $100,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetMINDING YOUR MIND: $87,500 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE OF LAKE COUNTY: $86,200 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetCANDLES: $85,995 over 4y, 8.6% of budgetPADS Lake County Inc: $85,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC: $83,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHELPING HANDS NETWORK INC: $82,000 over 6y, 8.8% of budgetDIGNITYMOVES: $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION IN SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $70,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetChildrens Oncology Services Inc: $70,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC: $65,477 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUrban Adamah: $64,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetWorld Outside My Shoes: $63,050 over 4y, 25% of budgetLAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER: $62,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK: $60,850 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP: $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetALABAMA HOLOCAUST EDUCATION CENTER: $50,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetCANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA: $50,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJewish Child and Family Services: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKAVOD: $45,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetErie Family Health Center Inc: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE OF SANTA BARBARA INC: $45,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetEDUCATORS INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN: $41,500 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetDoctors Without Walls Santa Barbara Street Medicine: $30,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetSHELTERBOX USA INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVITAMIN ANGEL ALLIANCE INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJUDAISM YOUR WAY: $30,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER SANTA BARBARA: $26,800 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetElyssas Mission NFP: $26,477 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetEmory University: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCasa Serena: $25,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budget1761 ARTS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 58% of budgetCASA LAKE COUNTY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAT THE WELL PROJECT INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $22,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF OGEN INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE FAMILY SCHOOL: $20,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetIsla Vista Youth Projects Inc dba LEAP LearnEngageAdvocatePartner: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CANARY FUND DBA CANARY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY: $18,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Santa Barbara Foundat…Hutton Foundation Dba…Circle of Service Fou…Jewish Federation of …Towbes FoundationThe Chicago Community…United Way of Santa B…James S Bower Foundat…Mosher FoundationWilliams-Corbett Foun…California Community …Santa Barbara Cottage…
Santa Barbara FoundationCA29× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Santa Barbara Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Towbes Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · United Way of Santa Barbara County Inc · James S Bower Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · California Community Foundation · Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital

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 Florence and Laurence Spungen Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Florence and Laurence Spungen Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • The Center for Independent Documentary Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Sharsheret Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 Florence and Laurence Spungen Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Florence and Laurence Spungen Family 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 169 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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