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Food Research & Action Center

We improve the nutrition, health, and well-being of people struggling against poverty-related hunger in the united states through advocacy, partnerships, and by advancing bold and equitable policy solutions.

$13M
Granted FY2024still arriving
73
Grants FY2024still arriving
35
States reached
$942k
Largest
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 2024.

Food & Nutrition$42MPhilanthropy$1.1MEducation$990kHealth$545kCrime & Legal$190kCivil Rights$125kHousing & Shelter$28kHuman Services$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 73 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k21 grants · $305k
  • $50k–250k36 grants · $5.3M
  • $250k+16 grants · $7.4M
$122,270
Median grant
35
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Cherokee Nation$941,763
GRETCHEN SWANSON CENTER FOR NUTRITION$779,614
University of South Dakota$642,347
Rhode Island Department of Health$569,927
UnidosUS$503,475
The Opportunity Alliance$460,991
Blue Valley Community Action Inc$415,753
Community Progress Council$406,592
Tennessee Justice Center$401,392
Hawai'i Children's Action Network$395,840
Mississippi State Department of Health$366,612
Inter-Tribal Council of Arizona Inc$344,429
State of NJ Treasurer$324,900
The Praxis Project$305,748
Health Imperatives Inc$300,338
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 (FY17–24, $5.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 42% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%ICM FOOD AND CLOTHING BANK: $25k → 11%Blue Valley Community Action Inc: $416k → 11%Community Progress Council: $407k → 9%INFO LINE of San Diego County: $100k → 11%Community Link Capital Region: $75k → 12%Help Central Inc: $80k → 18%Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCESS): $204k → 21%GREATER SOMERSET COUNTY YMCA: $73k → 5%FOODBANK OF MONMOUTHOCEAN CTY: $40k → 6%HUNGER FREE NEW JERSEY: $251k → 7%CUMACECHO Inc: $75k → 12%MERCY CHEFS INC: $50k → 20%PREBLE STREET: $30k → 7%YMCA of Metro North Inc: $50k → 10%Blue Valley Community Action Inc: $59k → 11%IDAHO HUNGER RELIEF TASK FORCE: $60k → 8%Community Progress Council: $82k → 9%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS: $56k → 14%Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCESS): $68k → 21%HUNGER FREE NEW JERSEY: $135k → 7%PREBLE STREET: $29k → 7%Coco Kids: $65k → 9%Hawaii Appleseed Center for Law and Economic Justi: $213k → 9%PRESERVATION OF LIFE INC: $75k → 16%FEEDING INDIANA'S HUNGRY: $40k → 16%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON: $30k → 9%NEW JERSEY ANTI-HUNGER COALITION: $80k → 7%Preble Street: $25k → 7%CAROL'S KITCHEN INC: $60k → 11%HAWAII APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE: $111k → 9%Gads Hill Center: $221k → 14%HUNGER FREE NEW JERSEY (CENTER FOR FOOD ACTION): $55k → 7%Hawaii Appleseed Center for Law and Economic Justi: $101k → 9%Gads Hill Center: $96k → 14%NEW JERSEY ANTI-HUNGER COALITION: $45k → 7%Hawaii Appleseed Center for Law and Economic Justice: $100k → 9%Center for Food Action in New Jersey: $40k → 7%HAWAII APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW & ECONOMIC JUSTICE: $96k → 9%Hunger Free New Jersey: $35k → 7%The Opportunity Alliance: $461k → 7%Hawaii Appleseed Center for Law and Economic Justice: $65k → 9%Hunger Free New Jersey: $35k → 7%The Opportunity Alliance: $133k → 7%Hunger Free New Jersey: $35k → 7%McGaw YMCA: $50k → 14%Feast Of Justice Ministries: $45k → 22%McGaw YMCA: $40k → 14%Feast Of Justice Ministries: $34k → 22%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

AK
ME
VT
NH
WA
ID
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$35M · 112 repeat orgs$8.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.

112 repeat relationships: 56 still active in FY2024, 56 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

112
235

Total granted

$35M
$7.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+34%

Still filing today

82%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $980k 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
Food & NutritionHuman ServicesHealthEducationPhilanthropyCrime & LegalOther
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

  • FT
    FEEDING TEXAS
    5× · 2017–2022 · $1.6M · revenue +107%
  • CN
    CHN NEBRASKA
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +60%
  • TJ
    TENNESSEE JUSTICE CENTER INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $928k · revenue +98%

Funded once

  • SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $577k · revenue +49%
  • DENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $255k · revenue +45%
  • CC
    CLAYTON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2018 · $136k
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
The Food Bank for Larimer County

To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.

Food & Nutrition
2
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition
3
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
4
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition
5
Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc

To end hunger and transform the health of our community by providing nourishment to those in need by acquiring and distributing safe nutritious food via local agencies and by providing education to solve hunger and nutritional problems in…

Food & Nutrition
6
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
7
Idaho Foodbank Warehouse

To help feed, educate and advocate for Idaho's hungry through collaborative partnerships to develop efficient solutions that strengthen individuals, families, and communities.

Food & Nutrition
8
Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc

Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.

Food & Nutrition
9
Harvesters - the Community Food Network

Harvesters mobilizes the power of our community to create equitable access to nutritious food and address the root causes and impact of hunger.

Food & Nutrition
10
America's Second Harvest of the Big Bend Inc

To advance change by feeding the hungry and educating and engaging the community in the fight to end hunger.

Food & Nutrition
11
Second Harvest Food Bank Santa Cruz County

Second harvest food bank's mission is to end hunger and malnutrition by educating and involving the community.

Food & Nutrition
12
Regional East Texas Food Bank

Etfb's mission is to fight hunger and feed hope in east texas.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is 1000 Days; the most unlike its peers is Cornerstone Mission Project 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

234 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. 234 of the 366 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)
55
Early backer (in before they grew)
227/234
Grantees still filing
168/234
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Cherokee Nation: $1,000,000 · OtherCherokee NationSOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $869,789 · OtherFRAC Action Council: $825,000 · OtherUNIDOSUS: $824,489 · OtherEND HUNGER CONNECTICUT INC: $829,513 · Other+98 more: $13,525,750 · Other+98 morePARTNERS FOR A HUNGER FREE OREGON: $1,884,540 · Food & NutritionPARTNERS FOR A HUNGER…CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF FOOD BANKS: $678,500 · Food & NutritionCALIFORNIA ASSOCIATIO…HUNGER FREE COLORADO: $628,192 · Food & NutritionHUNGER FREE COLORADOHUNGER SOLUTIONS NEW YORK INC: $611,690 · Food & NutritionHUNGER SOLUTIONS NEW …THE FOOD TRUST: $552,500 · Food & NutritionTHE FOOD TRUSTILLINOIS HUNGER COALITION: $415,757 · Food & NutritionSCHOOL NUTRITION FOUNDATION: $405,000 · Food & NutritionHUNGER SOLUTIONS MINNESOTA: $327,500 · Food & Nutrition+24 more: $2,499,881 · Food & Nutrition+24 moreHAWAII APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE: $815,393 · Human ServicesHAWAII APPLES…CENTER FOR FOOD ACTION IN NEW JERSEY: $733,509 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR FO…The Opportunity Alliance: $593,684 · Human ServicesThe Opportuni…COMMUNITY PROGRESS COUNCIL INC: $488,842 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY PRO…BLUE VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $474,516 · Human ServicesBLUE VALLEY C…GADS HILL CENTER: $316,349 · Human ServicesGADS HILL CEN…ARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND S: $271,344 · Human Services+23 more: $1,516,567 · Human Services+23 moreCHN NEBRASKA: $1,206,539 · HealthCHN NEBRASKATHE PRAXIS PROJECT INC: $461,298 · HealthTHE PRAXIS P…OPEN DOOR FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER INC: $423,715 · HealthOPEN DOOR FA…HEALTH IMPERATIVES INC: $374,495 · HealthHEALTH IMPER…Southcentral Foundation: $347,325 · HealthSouthcentral…NORTHEAST VALLEY HEALTH CORPORATION: $290,733 · HealthNORTHEAST VA…HENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MILITARY MEDICINE: $265,262 · HealthHENRY M JACK…COLLIER HEALTH SERVICES INC: $264,357 · HealthCOLLIER HEAL…CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $254,558 · HealthCHILDREN'S H…HEALTH LEADS INC: $250,000 · HealthHEALTH LEADS…LA CLINICA DEL PUEBLO INC: $150,000 · Health+3 more: $205,000 · HealthTENNESSEE JUSTICE CENTER INC: $927,623 · Crime & LegalVIRGINIA POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $435,417 · Crime & LegalNEBRASKA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST: $381,500 · Crime & LegalWestern Center on Law & Poverty Inc: $374,000 · Crime & LegalMASSACHUSETTS LAW REFORM INSTITUTE INC: $305,000 · Crime & LegalKansas Appleseed Center for Law and Justice Inc: $240,500 · Crime & Legal+3 more: $104,007 · Crime & LegalFEEDING TEXAS: $1,633,327 · Community ImprovementPartnership for Children & Youth: $473,105 · Community ImprovementNEW MEXICO APPLESEED: $125,000 · Community Improvement+2 more: $120,000 · Community ImprovementUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $1,136,614 · PhilanthropyTULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $141,500 · PhilanthropyWYOMING COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $115,972 · PhilanthropyTHE JUST ONE PROJECT: $100,000 · PhilanthropyAPPLESEED FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · PhilanthropyCommunities Revolutionizing Open Public Spaces: $65,577 · Philanthropy+1 more: $45,000 · Philanthropy
Other$17,874,541Food & Nutrition$8,003,560Human Services$5,210,204Health$4,493,282Crime & Legal$2,768,047Community Improvement$2,351,432Philanthropy$1,679,663

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%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPARTNERS FOR A HUNGER FREE OREGON: $1,884,540 over 8y, 30% of budgetFEEDING TEXAS: $1,633,327 over 5y, 6.4% of budgetCHN NEBRASKA: $1,206,539 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $1,136,614 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTENNESSEE JUSTICE CENTER INC: $927,623 over 8y, 8.1% of budgetEND HUNGER CONNECTICUT INC: $829,513 over 7y, 28% of budgetFRAC Action Council: $825,000 over 2y, 100% of budgetUNIDOSUS: $824,489 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetHAWAII APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE: $815,393 over 7y, 26% of budgetCENTER FOR FOOD ACTION IN NEW JERSEY: $733,509 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF FOOD BANKS: $678,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetHUNGER FREE COLORADO: $628,192 over 5y, 12% of budgetHUNGER SOLUTIONS NEW YORK INC: $611,690 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetThe Opportunity Alliance: $593,684 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetFLORIDA IMPACT INC: $586,832 over 6y, 39% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $577,234 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE FOOD TRUST: $552,500 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetHAWAII CHILDREN'S ACTION NETWORK: $502,820 over 2y, 11% of budgetCOMMUNITY PROGRESS COUNCIL INC: $488,842 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetBLUE VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $474,516 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetPartnership for Children & Youth: $473,105 over 3y, 13% of budgetTHE PRAXIS PROJECT INC: $461,298 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetINTER TRIBAL COUNCIL OF ARIZONA INC: $446,072 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetVIRGINIA POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $435,417 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetHUNGER TASK FORCE INC: $425,762 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetOPEN DOOR FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER INC: $423,715 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetILLINOIS HUNGER COALITION: $415,757 over 6y, 20% of budgetSCHOOL NUTRITION FOUNDATION: $405,000 over 2y, 34% of budgetNEBRASKA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST: $381,500 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetHEALTH IMPERATIVES INC: $374,495 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetWestern Center on Law & Poverty Inc: $374,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetCOMUNIDAD MATERNA EN UTAH: $372,384 over 2y, 43% of budgetSouthcentral Foundation: $347,325 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKENTUCKY YOUTH ADVOCATES INC: $330,865 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetHUNGER SOLUTIONS MINNESOTA: $327,500 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetGADS HILL CENTER: $316,349 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS LAW REFORM INSTITUTE INC: $305,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetNORTHEAST VALLEY HEALTH CORPORATION: $290,733 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBeans Cafe Inc: $286,490 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND S: $271,344 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA APPLESEED LEGAL JUSTICE CENTER: $269,500 over 6y, 7.1% of budgetHENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MILITARY MEDICINE: $265,262 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLIER HEALTH SERVICES INC: $264,357 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION: $255,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $254,558 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTH LEADS INC: $250,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetCommunity Bridges: $244,189 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetKansas Appleseed Center for Law and Justice Inc: $240,500 over 6y, 10.0% 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.

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.

The Albertsons Companies FoundationCA113.7× affinity110 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Albertsons Companies Foundation · MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger · Share Our Strength · Center on Budget and Policy Priorities · GenYOUTH Incorporated · Center for Law and Social Policy · The Kroger Co Zero Hunger Zero Waste Foundation · National Council of YMCAs of the USA · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The Kroger Co Foundation · American Heart Association Inc · Feeding America

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 Food Research & Action Center funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Food Research & Action Center. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 24%
  • Henry M Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine: 100% of income from government
  • City Green Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Health Imperatives Inc: 79% of income from government
  • Muslim Social Services Agency: 65% of income from government
  • Legal Services of New Jersey Inc: 53% of income from government
  • Ywca Delaware Inc: 50% of income from government
  • Partners for a Hunger Free Oregon: 31% of income from government
  • Food Bank of South Jersey Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Integral Youth Services: 29% of income from government
  • Nourishnj Inc: 27% of income from government
  • Cumacecho Inc: 25% of income from government
  • Hunger Free Vermont Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation: 23% of income from government
  • Somerset County Young Men's Christian Association Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Latino Network: 15% of income from government
  • Collier Health Services Inc: 15% of income from government
  • The Open Door Shelter Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Tulsa Community Foundation: 11% of income from government
  • The Maryland Food Bank Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Person to Person Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Communities Revolutionizing Open Public Spaces: 3% of income from government
  • Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Center for Food Action in New Jersey: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
71report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
5rely 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.

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 366 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 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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