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Fremont Area Community Foundation

To enhance the quality of life for all people of newaygo county and surrounding communities.

$8.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
137
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$1.5M
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.

Education$20MHuman Services$17MArts & Culture$8.9MHousing & Shelter$4.0MFood & Nutrition$3.9MHealth$3.6MReligion$2.9MEnvironment$2.7MOther$0
02FY2024 · 137 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k37 grants · $245k
  • $10k–50k62 grants · $1.3M
  • $50k–250k33 grants · $3.6M
  • $250k+5 grants · $3.6M
$19,592
Median grant
2
States reached
$307M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TrueNorth Community Services$1,458,846
Newaygo County Regional Educational Service Agency$1,035,549
Arts Center for Newaygo County$458,710
Fremont Public Schools$326,137
Love In the Name of Christ - Newaygo County$293,100
County of Newaygo$247,600
City of Fremont$227,250
Trout Unlimited$190,141
Newaygo County Council for the Arts Inc$188,575
Feeding America West Michigan Food Bank$179,450
Second Christian Reformed Church$176,811
Heritage Museum of Newaygo County$159,750
Bellwether Harbor Animal Shelter$153,309
Frey Management LLC$150,000
Stone Hill Estates$150,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $11.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc: $21k → 10%FiveCAP Inc: $30k → 10%Avow Hospice Inc: $35k → 10%Women's Information Service Inc: $174k → 20%American Red Cross: $32k → 11%Women's Information Service Inc: $137k → 20%Camp Sunshine: $20k → 8%Women's Information Service Inc: $116k → 20%Women's Information Service Inc: $115k → 20%Women's Information Service Inc: $114k → 20%Women's Information Service Inc: $113k → 20%Women's Information Service Inc: $93k → 20%Women's Information Service Inc: $93k → 20%The Hope Project Inc: $36k → 15%The Hope Project Inc: $36k → 15%Hope Network: $30k → 11%Hospice of Michigan: $50k → 11%Hospice of Michigan: $47k → 11%Hospice of Michigan: $41k → 11%Meceola Currie Comfort Home: $35k → 16%The Comfort Home MI: $25k → 16%Hospice of Michigan: $38k → 11%Hospice of Michigan: $37k → 11%Hospice of Michigan: $37k → 11%Hospice of Michigan: $35k → 11%Arbor Circle Corporation: $40k → 11%Arbor Circle Corporation: $36k → 11%American Red Cross: $33k → 11%TrueNorth Community Services: $1.5M → 13%American Red Cross: $25k → 11%TrueNorth Community Services: $1.4M → 13%American Red Cross: $25k → 11%TrueNorth Community Services: $1.3M → 13%TrueNorth Community Services: $1.1M → 13%TrueNorth Community Services: $1.1M → 13%TrueNorth Community Services: $1.1M → 13%TrueNorth Community Services: $938k → 13%TrueNorth Community Services: $919k → 13%Newaygo County Compassion Home for the Terminally Ill: $93k → 13%Newaygo County Compassion Home for the Terminally Ill: $87k → 13%Newaygo County Compassion Home for the Terminally Ill: $85k → 13%Insight Pregnancy Services: $47k → 13%Insight Pregnancy Services: $45k → 13%Insight Pregnancy Services: $43k → 13%Insight Pregnancy Services: $43k → 13%Insight Pregnancy Services: $28k → 13%Insight Pregnancy Services: $21k → 13%Insight Pregnancy Services: $59k → 13%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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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 16% of Fremont Area Community Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in MI; by stated purpose, 78%.

Fremont Area Community Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 7.3% 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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$69M · 183 repeat orgs$2.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

183 repeat relationships: 113 still active in FY2024, 70 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

183
81

Total granted

$69M
$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+10%

Still filing today

48%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M 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
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureEnvironmentFood & NutritionOther
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

  • TC
    TRUENORTH COMMUNITY SERVICES
    8× · 2017–2024 · $10M · revenue +17%
  • AC
    ARTS CENTER FOR NEWAYGO COUNTY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $4.9M · revenue +23% · 77% of their budget
  • LI
    LOVE IN THE NAME OF CHRIST
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +41% · 36% of their budget

Funded once

  • HN
    HOPE NETWORK AFFORDABLE INDEPENDENT LIVING FKA 54TH STREET NPHCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $163k · revenue +188%
  • AE
    Allen Edwin Homes
    one grant, 2023 · $150k
  • BP
    Big Prairie Township
    one grant, 2022 · $134k
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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Michigan Christian Home

The michigan christian home dba beacon hill at eastgate, a not-for-profit corporation, provides housing and health services in a christian environment for older adults, thus enabling them to meet their ongoing physical, social and…

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2
The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education
3
Michigan Chamber of Commerce

To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.

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4
Midmichigan Health Services

To provide high quality community-oriented, patient-centered health services for all.

Health
5
Movement West Michigan

Uniting christian faith leaders to serve with humility and love for the flourishing of all in our community.

Religion
6
Business Leaders for Michigan

Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…

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7
Area Agency On Aging of Western Michigan Inc

Through internal expertise, external partnerships, and advocacy, the area agency on aging of western michigan provides older adults, adults with disabilities, and their caregivers equitable access to services that promote independence and…

Human Services
8
Michigan Assoc of Community Mental Health Boards

Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.

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9
Michigan West Coast Chamber of Commerce

The west coast chamber exists to be a catalyst for business growth and development, a convener of leaders and influencers, and a champion for a thriving community.

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10
Harbor Country Chamber of Commerce

To promote business and economic development for eight towns in southwest michigan.

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11
Northwest Michigan Community Action

The organization's mission is to foster positive change by providing opportunities that promote self-sufficiency, improving the quality of life and building stronger, more connected communitites. northwest michigan community action agency,…

Human Services
12
West Michigan Christian Foundation

None

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fremont Area Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Gerber 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

137 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 137 of the 289 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.

26
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
34
Early backer (in before they grew)
129/137
Grantees still filing
92/137
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Newaygo County Regional Educational Service Agency: $7,292,082 · OtherNewaygo County Regional Educational Service AgencyCounty of Newaygo Office of Administration: $3,445,251 · OtherCounty of Newaygo Office of AdministrationFremont Public Schools: $2,664,158 · OtherFremont Public SchoolsGrant Public Schools: $2,467,896 · OtherLOVE IN THE NAME OF CHRIST: $2,441,321 · OtherTRUENORTH CENTER FOR NONPROFIT HOUSING: $2,035,174 · OtherNEWAYGO COUNTY PREVENTION OF CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT: $1,605,762 · Other+144 more: $24,711,549 · Other+144 moreTRUENORTH COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10,201,863 · Human ServicesTRUENORTH COMMUNITY …WOMENS INFORMATION SERVICES INC: $1,068,564 · Human ServicesWOMENS INFORMATION S…+15 more: $1,761,372 · Human Services+15 moreARTS CENTER FOR NEWAYGO COUNTY: $4,897,915 · Arts & CultureARTS CENTER F…HERITAGE MUSEUM OF NEWAYGO COUNTY: $1,670,726 · Arts & CultureHERITAGE MUSE…NEWAYGO COUNTY COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS INC: $1,609,609 · Arts & CultureNEWAYGO COUNT…+3 more: $185,445 · Arts & CultureDISABILITY NETWORK WEST MICHIGAN: $406,529 · HealthChristian Healthcare Centers Inc: $123,200 · HealthCOREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION WEST MICHIGAN: $65,700 · HealthRANDY'S HOUSE: $57,000 · HealthMichigan Physical Fitness Health and Sports Foundation: $55,000 · HealthMARY FREE BED REHABILITATION HOSPITAL: $50,000 · HealthCARIBBEAN CHRISTIAN CENTRE FOR THE DEAF: $33,000 · HealthASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $32,000 · HealthCOREWELL HEALTH: $30,000 · Health+2 more: $47,350 · HealthFremont Area Community Foundation: $250,118 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF THE LAKESHORE: $234,583 · PhilanthropyBELLWETHER FOUNDATION: $185,689 · PhilanthropyTHE GERBER FOUNDATION: $52,837 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MUSKEGON COUNTY: $50,000 · PhilanthropyMECOSTA - OSCEOLA UNITED WAY INC: $35,900 · Philanthropy+1 more: $20,000 · PhilanthropyNEWAYGO COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION: $332,441 · Food & NutritionANGELS OF ACTION INC: $226,376 · Food & NutritionWEST MICHIGAN FOOD PROCESSING ASSOCIATION: $124,000 · Food & NutritionLake County Area Churches Charities: $71,500 · Food & NutritionHAND2HAND: $35,500 · Food & NutritionMANNA PANTRY OF BIG RAPIDS INC: $28,050 · Food & NutritionRIGHT PLACE FOUNDATION: $543,853 · Community ImprovementRIVER COUNTRY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF NEWAYGO COUNTY: $103,500 · Community Improvement
Other$46,663,193Human Services$13,031,799Arts & Culture$8,363,695Health$899,779Philanthropy$829,127Food & Nutrition$817,867Community Improvement$647,353

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 budgetTRUENORTH COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10,201,863 over 8y, 6.7% of budgetARTS CENTER FOR NEWAYGO COUNTY: $4,897,915 over 8y, 77% of budgetLOVE IN THE NAME OF CHRIST: $2,441,321 over 8y, 36% of budgetTRUENORTH CENTER FOR NONPROFIT HOUSING: $2,035,174 over 7y, 95% of budgetHERITAGE MUSEUM OF NEWAYGO COUNTY: $1,670,726 over 8y, 87% of budgetNEWAYGO COUNTY COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS INC: $1,609,609 over 8y, 67% of budgetNEWAYGO COUNTY PREVENTION OF CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT: $1,605,762 over 8y, 86% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN: $1,181,823 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetEagle Village Inc: $1,103,483 over 8y, 13% of budgetWOMENS INFORMATION SERVICES INC: $1,068,564 over 8y, 26% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES WEST MICHIGAN: $822,428 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetFremont Christian School Society: $544,317 over 8y, 6.1% of budgetRIGHT PLACE FOUNDATION: $543,853 over 7y, 22% of budgetBALDWIN FAMILY HEALTH CARE INC: $510,366 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetOPEN ARMS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $497,723 over 6y, 65% of budgetDISABILITY NETWORK WEST MICHIGAN: $406,529 over 8y, 7.0% of budgetNEWAYGO COUNTY COMPASSION HOME FOR THE TERMINALLY ILL: $393,007 over 7y, 69% of budgetNEWAYGO COUNTY TOURISM COUNCIL: $341,000 over 6y, 83% of budgetALPHA FAMILY CENTER OF NEWAYGO: $335,258 over 8y, 28% of budgetTROUT UNLIMITED INC: $334,163 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNEWAYGO COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION: $332,441 over 2y, 24% of budgetHospice of Michigan Inc: $312,614 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES WESTERN MICHIGAN: $282,995 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetMUSKEGON RIVER WATERSHED ASSEMBLY: $282,755 over 8y, 30% of budgetFremont Area Community Foundation: $250,118 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetTERRY WANTZ HISTORICAL RESEARCH CEN: $234,662 over 5y, 69% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE LAKESHORE: $234,583 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetANGELS OF ACTION INC: $226,376 over 5y, 32% of budgetOur Brothers Keeper Shelter: $212,936 over 6y, 24% of budgetHOPE 101 MINISTRY INC: $208,689 over 6y, 85% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE MICHIGAN GREAT LAKES INC: $188,590 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetBELLWETHER FOUNDATION: $185,689 over 6y, 13% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $181,041 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE NETWORK AFFORDABLE INDEPENDENT LIVING FKA 54TH STREET NPHC: $163,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetMICHIGAN ASSOCIATION OF CONSERVATION DISTRICTS: $154,750 over 2y, 36% of budgetBELLWETHER HARBOR ANIMAL SHELTER: $153,309 over 1y, 28% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF NEWAYGO COUNTY INC: $139,161 over 3y, 49% of budgetMUSKEGON LAKESHORE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION: $135,000 over 3y, 28% of budgetLand Conservancy of West Michigan: $125,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetWEST MICHIGAN FOOD PROCESSING ASSOCIATION: $124,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetChristian Healthcare Centers Inc: $123,200 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetPROJECT STARBURST: $122,861 over 8y, 15% of budgetNEWAYGO NATIONALS ASSOCIATION: $115,000 over 3y, 70% of budgetSOLID ICE INC: $103,587 over 7y, 80% of budgetRIVER COUNTRY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF NEWAYGO COUNTY: $103,500 over 7y, 13% of budgetROSE LAKE YOUTH CAMP: $100,575 over 8y, 44% of budgetIndiana State University Foundation Inc: $100,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMIGRANT LEGAL AID INC: $98,000 over 2y, 18% 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 TRUENORTH COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds ARTS CENTER FOR NEWAYGO COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds LOVE IN THE NAME OF CHRIST ↗
  • Who funds TRUENORTH CENTER FOR NONPROFIT HOUSING ↗
  • Who funds HERITAGE MUSEUM OF NEWAYGO COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds NEWAYGO COUNTY COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds NEWAYGO COUNTY PREVENTION OF CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT ↗
  • Who funds FEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds Eagle Village Inc ↗
  • Who funds WOMENS INFORMATION SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES WEST MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds Fremont Christian School Society ↗
  • Who funds RIGHT PLACE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BALDWIN FAMILY HEALTH CARE INC ↗
  • Who funds OPEN ARMS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds DISABILITY NETWORK WEST MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds NEWAYGO COUNTY COMPASSION HOME FOR THE TERMINALLY ILL ↗
  • Who funds NEWAYGO COUNTY TOURISM COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds ALPHA FAMILY CENTER OF NEWAYGO ↗
  • Who funds TROUT UNLIMITED INC ↗
  • Who funds NEWAYGO COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Hospice of Michigan 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.

Feeding America West MichiganMI54.9× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Feeding America West Michigan · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Community Foundation for Muskegon County · The Gerber Foundation · Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · Consumers Energy Foundation · Frey Foundation · United Way of the Lakeshore · The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · The Fremont Area Elderly Needs Fund · DTE Energy Foundation · Heart of West Michigan United Way

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 Fremont Area Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fremont Area Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Avow Hospice Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
30report 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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Find your warmest path to Fremont Area Community 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 289 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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