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Fund for the City of New York Inc

The fund for the city of new york was created in 1968 by the ford foundation to be responsive to opportunities to improve the quality of life by working to improve the performance of government and nonprofit organizations.

$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
33
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$175k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Health$10.0MCrime & Legal$3.8MEnvironment$1.7MRecreation & Sports$1.6MCommunity Improvement$1.4MHuman Services$1.2MArts & Culture$1.1MEducation$929kOther$0
02FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 33 grants below total $1,822,936 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,975,396 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $152,460 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $48k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $210k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $1.6M
$22,936
Median grant
6
States reached
$172M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATURAL AREAS CONSERVANCY$175,000
YOUTH ACTION PROGRAMS AND HOMES$150,000
TECH KIDS UNLIMITED INC$150,000
LEAP INC DBA BROOKLYN WORKFORCE INNOVATIONS$150,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER$150,000
CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES (CEO)$150,000
MARCY LAB INC$150,000
FOUNDATION FOR TACOMA STUDENTS$100,000
NEW SETTLEMENT APARTMENTS$85,000
FLATBUSH DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$85,000
GODDARD RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER$85,000
CATHOLIC MIGRATION SERVICES$85,000
AT THE TABLE INC$50,000
THE RESEARCH FOUND FOR THE SUNY SPONSORED PROG$30,000
HARMONY HEALTHCARE LONG ISLANDLONG ISLAND PQHC INC$30,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER: $50k → 10%THE CHILDREN'S VILLAGE INC: $7k → 9%Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island co The Coney Island Anti-: $15k → 20%IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER: $17k → 10%DETENTION WATCH NETWORK: $8k → 14%IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER: $14k → 10%ALLEN WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER INC: $5k → 13%DETENTION WATCH NETWORK: $6k → 14%THE GATHERING FOR JUSTICE: $55k → 17%SAFE HORIZON: $89k → 17%Safe Horizon: $45k → 17%RISEBORO COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP: $75k → 20%RISEBORO COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP: $75k → 20%RISEBORO COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP: $50k → 20%ARAB AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK: $53k → 20%Arab American Association of New York: $25k → 20%RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $55k → 20%Red Hook Initiative: $31k → 20%THE NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%YOUTH JUSTICE NETWORK INC: $10k → 17%THE BRIDGE: $10k → 17%WARM INC: $5k → 17%CITY LIVING NY: $100k → 20%NEW YORK TAXI WORKERS ALLIANCE: $100k → 17%CITY LIVING NY: $10k → 20%HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE: $107k → 17%HUDSON GUILD: $73k → 17%Hetrick-Martin Institute: $60k → 17%NEW YORK TAXI WORKERS ALLIANCE: $50k → 17%Hudson Guild: $35k → 17%COUNCIL OF PEOPLES ORGANIZATION: $5k → 20%PEOPLE IN NEED: $5k → 20%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $24k → 17%THE COMMITTEE FOR HISPANIC CHILDREN AND FAM (CHCF): $51k → 17%The Committee for Hispanic Children and Fam (CHCF): $28k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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IL
NY
MA
NJ
CA
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AZ
DC
GA
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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 16% of Fund for the City of New York Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Fund for the City of New York Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$12M · 62 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

62 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 40 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

62
74

Total granted

$12M
$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+16%

Still filing today

98%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $636k 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 ServicesArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEducationEnvironmentHousing & ShelterOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • CP
    CITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2018–2021 · $1.5M · revenue +45%
  • FD
    FLATBUSH DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +42%
  • GR
    GODDARD RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $925k · revenue +81%

Funded once

  • TN
    The New School's Center for New York City Affairs
    one grant, 2017 · $125k
  • SM
    SEAPORT MUSEUM NEW YORKgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +89%
  • PP
    PUBLIC POLICY LAB INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $91k · revenue +147%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp

To manage the brooklyn navy yard for the city of new york, specifically to expand job opportunities for new yorkers by fostering the development of small businesses.

Community Improvement
2
Legal Services Nyc

Legal services nyc is a non-profit organization that provides free civil legal assistance to low-income people in new york city. a community-based organization serving more than 100,000 people annually, lsnyc is the nation's largest…

Crime & Legal
3
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
4
Community Development Project Inc

Takeroot justice provides legal, participatory research and policy support to strengthen the work of grassroots and community-based groups in new york city to dismantle racial, economic and social oppression.

Community Improvement
5
New York Legal Assistance Group Inc

Please see schedule o for full mission statement

6
Co-Counsel Nyc Inc

To transform our collective capacity to navigate complex legal systems and support safe, thriving, and engaged immigrant communities.

Crime & Legal
7
Justice Innovation Inc

The center for justice innovation is a non-profit organization that works to create a fair, effective, and humane justice system and build strong, thriving communities.

Crime & Legal
8
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

9
New York City Energy Efficiency Corporation

Nyceec's mission is to deliver financing solutions and advance markets for energy efficiency and clean energy in communities.

Environment
10
The Architectural League of New York

The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…

11
Office of the Appellate Defender

Oad strives to ensure that poor people convicted of felonies receive full and equal access to justice by providing exceptional appellate representation, improving the quality of indigent defense representation through education & training,…

Crime & Legal
12
New York City Center Inc

The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fund for Public Housing Inc and the most unlike its peers is Edwin Gould Foundation for Children. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr15%9%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr20%20%20–35yr14%35%35–55yr10%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr15%2%5–10yr20%10%10–20yr20%7%20–35yr14%73%35–55yr10%9%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 3% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%4/148
the rest of the field
12%
8,365/70,498

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 142 of the 148 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
34
Early backer (in before they grew)
136/142
Grantees still filing
95/142
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $9,584,500 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF…+13 more — $1,153,680 · Education+13 moreGODDARD RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER — $924,750 · OtherGODDARD RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY…CATHOLIC MIGRATION SERVICES INC — $919,000 · OtherCATHOLIC MIGRATION SERVICES…YOUTH ACTION PROGRAMS AND HOMES INC — $270,000 · OtherTHE CRENULATED COMPANY LTD — $460,000 · OtherTHE CRENULATED COMPANY LTDCENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC — $225,000 · OtherNEO Philanthropy Inc — $255,792 · OtherMONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER — $197,936 · Other+61 more — $2,597,922 · Other+61 moreFLATBUSH DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $1,099,000 · Community ImprovementFLATBUSH …Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition Inc — $577,250 · Community ImprovementNorthwest…NORTHERN MANHATTAN IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION — $99,000 · Community ImprovementCAMBA INC — $90,000 · Community Improvement+10 more — $117,500 · Community Improvement+10 moreCITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC — $1,488,745 · Recreation & SportsBike New York Inc — $100,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more — $25,000 · Recreation & SportsNATURAL AREAS CONSERVANCY INC — $694,500 · EnvironmentAMERICAN LITTORAL SOCIETY — $257,720 · EnvironmentCLEAN AIR COALITION OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC — $220,792 · EnvironmentSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — $155,792 · EnvironmentENERGY VISION — $80,000 · Environment+1 more — $7,500 · EnvironmentRISEBORO COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC — $200,000 · Human ServicesTHE HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE INC — $167,000 · Human ServicesNew York Taxi Workers Alliance — $150,000 · Human ServicesSAFE HORIZON INC — $134,000 · Human ServicesCITY LIVING NY INC — $110,000 · Human ServicesHUDSON GUILDINC — $108,000 · Human ServicesRED HOOK INITIATIVE — $86,000 · Human ServicesIMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER — $80,000 · Human ServicesTHE COMMITTEE FOR HISPANIC CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC — $79,000 · Human ServicesARAB AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NY INC — $78,000 · Human ServicesTHE GATHERING FOR JUSTICE INC — $55,000 · Human Services+11 more — $104,000 · Human ServicesRED BULL THEATER INC — $110,000 · Arts & CultureSEAPORT MUSEUM NEW YORK — $100,000 · Arts & CultureWHITE WAVE RISING-YOUNG SOON KIM DANCE COMPANY INC — $85,000 · Arts & CultureHome for Contemporary Theatre and Art Ltd dba HERE Art Center — $80,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WATERFRONT MUSEUM — $75,000 · Arts & CultureHAMILTON-MADISON HOUSE INC — $75,000 · Arts & CultureNEW AMSTERDAM PRESENTS INC — $65,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK CLASSICAL THEATRE INC — $60,000 · Arts & CultureMIJENTE SUPPORT COMMITTEE — $50,000 · Arts & CultureBRONX OPERA COMPANY INC — $45,000 · Arts & CultureBILLIE HOLIDAY THEATRE INC — $40,000 · Arts & CultureBROOKLYN ARTS EXCHANGE INC — $40,000 · Arts & Culture+9 more — $163,754 · Arts & Culture
Education$10,738,180Other$5,850,400Community Improvement$1,982,750Recreation & Sports$1,613,745Environment$1,416,304Human Services$1,351,000Arts & Culture$988,754

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $9,584,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC — $1,488,745 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetFLATBUSH DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $1,099,000 over 8y, 5.1% of budgetGODDARD RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER — $924,750 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetCATHOLIC MIGRATION SERVICES INC — $919,000 over 8y, 3.4% of budgetNATURAL AREAS CONSERVANCY INC — $694,500 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetNorthwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition Inc — $577,250 over 7y, 3.9% of budgetTHE CRENULATED COMPANY LTD — $460,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York — $303,680 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBILLION OYSTER PROJECT INC — $280,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetYOUTH ACTION PROGRAMS AND HOMES INC — $270,000 over 7y, 9.8% of budgetAMERICAN LITTORAL SOCIETY — $257,720 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc — $255,792 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC — $225,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCLEAN AIR COALITION OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC — $220,792 over 3y, 15% of budgetRISEBORO COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC — $200,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER — $197,936 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE INC — $167,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — $155,792 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMARCY LAB INC — $150,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetNew York Taxi Workers Alliance — $150,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetLEAP INC — $150,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTECH KIDS UNLIMITED INC — $150,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetCommunity Aid and Development Corp — $135,792 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetCommunity Voices Heard Inc — $135,792 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetSAFE HORIZON INC — $134,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTRIVE INTERNATIONAL INC — $122,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC — $114,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetRED BULL THEATER INC — $110,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetCITY LIVING NY INC — $110,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetHUDSON GUILDINC — $108,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetAT THE TABLE INC — $100,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetBike New York Inc — $100,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetSEAPORT MUSEUM NEW YORK — $100,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR TACOMA STUDENTS — $100,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetNORTHERN MANHATTAN IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION — $99,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE HOPE PROGRAM INC — $98,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetHOUSING COURT ANSWERS INC — $95,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetVOCES LATINAS CORPORATION — $92,500 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetPUBLIC POLICY LAB INC — $91,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetCAMBA INC — $90,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRESTAURANT OPPORTUNITIES CENTERS UNITED INC — $90,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetBATTERY DANCE CORPORATIN DBA BATTERY D — $90,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetRED HOOK INITIATIVE — $86,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetSHELTERING ARMS CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES INC — $86,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWHITE WAVE RISING-YOUNG SOON KIM DANCE COMPANY INC — $85,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetBedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation — $81,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetIMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER — $80,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Pinkerton FoundationNY47× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pinkerton Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Robin Hood Foundation · Brooklyn Community Foundation · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · New York Women's Foundation Inc · Hispanic Federation Inc · New York Foundation · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · United Way of New York City

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Fund for the City of New York Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • American Littoral Society1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
49report 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, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 148 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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