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Generac Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
312
Grants FY2025still arriving
25
States reached
$100k
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, FY2023 to 2024.

Education$507kArts & Culture$187kPublic Safety & Disaster$164kYouth Development$116kEnvironment$108kHuman Services$69kScience & Tech$64kRecreation & Sports$63kOther$0
02FY2025 · 312 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k277 grants · $438k
  • $10k–50k31 grants · $378k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $250k
$1,000
Median grant
25
States reached
$82k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INDEPENDENT ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS FOUNDATION$100,000
INDEPENDENT ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS FOUNDATION$50,000
GPS EDUCATION PARTNERS INC$50,000
INDEPENDENT ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS FOUNDATION$50,000
ALL-IN MILWAUKEE INC$25,000
DISCOVERY WORLD LTD$22,500
AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA$18,000
MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING$15,000
AMERICAN LOGISTICS AID NETWORK$15,000
TOOLBANK USA INC$15,000
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DISASTER RESOURCE CENTER IN$15,000
CITY OF WAUKESHA$12,000
INNOVATORS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$10,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF$10,000
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 (FY23–25, $140k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $20k → 14%COMMUNITY CLOTHES CLOSET INC: $800 → 6%CENTRAL WISCONSIN COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC: $500 → 16%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $1k → 15%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $15k → 14%COMMUNITY CLOTHES CLOSET INC: $500 → 6%NEIGHBORIMPACT: $500 → 10%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $10k → 14%FAMILY PROMISE OF AUGUSTA INC: $800 → 7%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $750 → 12%SUPPORT TO ENCOURAGE LOW INCOME FAMILIES: $750 → 12%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $10k → 14%VETERANS OUTREACH OF WISCONSIN: $3k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE OF AUGUSTA INC: $500 → 7%SUPPORT TO ENCOURAGE LOW INCOME FAMILIES: $650 → 12%EDDY HOUSE: $500 → 10%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $5k → 14%SUPPORT TO ENCOURAGE LOW INCOME FAMILIES: $500 → 12%SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE: $1k → 14%VETERANS OUTREACH OF WISCONSIN: $1k → 10%DAY BY DAY WARMING SHELTER INC: $500 → 11%DAY BY DAY WARMING SHELTER INC: $450 → 11%EVERYONE COOPERATING TO HELP OTHERS INC: $500 → 10%PROFESSIONAL FIRE FIGHTERS OF WISCONSIN CHARITABLE: $3k → 10%PROFESSIONAL FIRE FIGHTERS OF WISCONSIN CHARITABLE: $3k → 10%PREBLE STREET: $500 → 7%JEFFERSON AREA FOOD PANTRY INC: $1k → 8%OPEN DOORS FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 10%PROFESSIONAL FIRE FIGHTERS OF WISCONSIN CHARITABLE: $3k → 10%JOURNEY HOUSE INC: $5k → 17%JOURNEY HOUSE INC: $5k → 17%JEFFERSON AREA FOOD PANTRY INC: $500 → 8%READY KIDS FOR SCHOOL: $500 → 8%JEFFERSON COUNTY CHRISTMAS NEIGHBORS INC: $500 → 8%JOURNEY HOUSE INC: $1k → 17%JEFFERSON COUNTY CHRISTMAS NEIGHBORS INC: $500 → 8%COMMUNITY SPACE INC: $500 → 10%LIFES CONNECTION - MUKWONAGO CENTER INC: $1k → 5%MILWAUKEE URBAN LEAGUE: $1k → 17%SHARP LITERACY INC: $10k → 17%SHARP LITERACY INC: $10k → 17%SHARP LITERACY INC: $8k → 17%WAUKESHA COUNTY CHRISTMAS CLEARING COUNCIL INC: $3k → 5%WAUKESHA COUNTY CHRISTMAS CLEARING COUNCIL INC: $1k → 5%WAUKESHA COUNTY CHRISTMAS CLEARING COUNCIL INC: $1k → 5%WAUKESHA COUNTY CHRISTMAS CLEARING COUNCIL INC: $1k → 5%WALKERS POINT YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTER INC: $1k → 17%THE WOMENS CENTER INC: $1k → 5%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
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
PA
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
NC
SC
DC
HI
LA
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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 13% of Generac Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 66% of the giving stays in WI; by stated purpose, 69%.

Generac Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 178 repeat orgs$612k to everyone else

178 repeat relationships: 157 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 110 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

178
138

Total granted

$1.8M
$186k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+6%

Still filing today

62%
66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $427k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsArts & CultureHealthOther
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

  • GPS EDUCATION PARTNERS INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $180k · revenue +28%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    3× · 2023–2025 · $60k · revenue +22%
  • MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
    3× · 2023–2025 · $53k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • GB
    GREEN BAY METRO FIRE DEPARTMENT
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • AR
    AMERICAN RED CROSS
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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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Wisconsin Policy Forum Inc

We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.

Public Benefit
2
Wisconsin Council On Economic Education Inc

To enhance the quality and quantity of economics education in wisconsin.

Social Science
3
Employ Milwaukee Inc

The mission of employ milwaukee, inc. is to build a strong workforce development system by planning, coordinating, collaborating and monitoring workforce initiatives with businesses, partners and community stakeholders at the local,…

Employment
4
Northwest Wisconsin Workforce Investment Board Inc

The northwest wisconsin workforce investment board (nwwib) will create, and continue to improve, an innovative and quality strategic direction for the regional workforce development system.

Public Benefit
5
Goodwill Industries of South Central Wisconsin Inc

Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…

Employment
6
United Way of Wisconsin Inc

United way of wisconsin is dedicated to supporting and enriching a strong statewide united way network that maximizes the capacity of local united ways to address human needs, improve lives and create lasting positive change across…

Philanthropy
7
Wisconsin Women's Business Initiative Corporation

Wwbic opens the doors of opportunity by providing any individuals who are interested in starting, strengthening, or expanding businesses with access to resources such as financial products and quality business and personal financial…

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8
Uwm Research Foundation Inc

Support research and innovation at the university of wisconsin - milwaukee by providing reserach funding, entrepreneurship support, and by engaging in corporate partnering activities to that end.

Community Improvement
9
Wisconsin Youth Company Inc

Wisconsin youth company's mission is to engage youth in opportunities to encourage them to be their best selves.

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10
Goodwill Industries of Metropolitan Chicago Inc

Goodwill industries of metropolitan chicago, inc. ("goodwill-chicago") is a nonstock, not-for-profit illinois corporation, whose sole member is goodwill industries of southeastern wisconsin, inc. ("goodwill"), a wisconsin nonstock,…

Human Services
11
Goodwill Industries of North Central Wisconsin Inc

Eliminating barriers to employment by providing pathways for those who are underserved, underrepresented and disadvantaged who have a goal of building skills that lead to sustained employment and improved financial stability.

Human Services
12
Goodwill Manufacturing Inc

Goodwill manufacturing, inc. ("goodwill manufacturing") is a nonstock, not-for-profit wisconsin corporation, whose sole member is goodwill industries of southeastern wisconsin, inc. ("goodwill"), a wisconsin nonstock, not-for-profit…

Employment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Wisconsin Inc; the most unlike its peers is Pta Wisconsin Congress. 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

284 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. 284 of the 434 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)
41
Early backer (in before they grew)
279/284
Grantees still filing
145/284
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF WAUKESHA: $53,650 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $38,000 · OtherToolbank USA Inc: $35,000 · Other+143 more: $904,340 · Other+143 moreMILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING: $52,750 · EducationMILWAUKEE SCHO…UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $48,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF …DISCOVERY WORLD LTD: $47,500 · EducationDISCOVERY WORL…VERMONT ENERGY EDUCATION PROGRAM INC: $30,000 · EducationVERMONT ENERGY…THE UWM FOUNDATION INC: $26,500 · EducationTHE UWM FOUNDA…ALL-IN MILWAUKEE INC: $25,000 · EducationALL-IN MILWAUK…COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $15,000 · EducationCARROLL UNIVERSITY INC: $15,000 · EducationOHIO ENERGY PROJECT: $10,940 · Education+7 more: $49,050 · Education+7 moreGPS EDUCATION PARTNERS INC: $180,000 · Arts & CultureGPS EDUCATION…NATIONAL ENERGY EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT PROJECT INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL ENER…LEAHY CENTER FOR LAKE CHAMPLAIN INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureLEAHY CENTER …MILWAUKEE COUNTY WAR MEMORIAL INC: $16,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE COU…WISCONSIN VETERANS MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $14,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $21,100 · Arts & Culture+3 moreWCTC FOUNDATION INC: $215,000 · PhilanthropyWCTC FOUNDAT…WAUKESHA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $19,500 · PhilanthropyWAUKESHA EDU…Foundation for Portland Public Schools: $15,500 · PhilanthropyFoundation f…WISCONSIN REGIONAL TRAINING PARTNERSHIP: $10,000 · Philanthropy+5 more: $17,425 · Philanthropy+5 moreINDEPENDENT ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS FOUNDATION: $200,000 · EmploymentINDEPENDE…INNER-CITY COMPUTER STARS FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EmploymentINNER-CIT…INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DISASTER RESOURCE CENTER INC: $45,000 · Public Safety & DisasterTHE ST BERNARD PROJECT INC: $40,000 · Public Safety & DisasterAMERICAN LOGISTICS AID NETWORK: $35,000 · Public Safety & DisasterFOOTPRINT PROJECT: $30,000 · Public Safety & DisasterTEAM RUBICON INC: $20,000 · Public Safety & DisasterALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC: $10,000 · Public Safety & DisasterAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $60,000 · Human ServicesSHARP LITERACY INC: $27,500 · Human ServicesJOURNEY HOUSE INC: $11,000 · Human ServicesSHELTERBOX USA INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesPROFESSIONAL FIRE FIGHTERS OF WISCONSIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesWAUKESHA COUNTY CHRISTMAS CLEARING COUNCIL INC: $6,000 · Human Services+7 more: $15,775 · Human Services
Other$1,030,990Education$320,240Arts & Culture$291,100Philanthropy$277,425Employment$215,000Public Safety & Disaster$180,000Human Services$137,775

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 budgetWCTC FOUNDATION INC: $215,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetINDEPENDENT ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetGPS EDUCATION PARTNERS INC: $180,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING: $52,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $48,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDISCOVERY WORLD LTD: $47,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetINFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DISASTER RESOURCE CENTER INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE ST BERNARD PROJECT INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN LOGISTICS AID NETWORK: $35,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetToolbank USA Inc: $35,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL ENERGY EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT PROJECT INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFOOTPRINT PROJECT: $30,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetLEAHY CENTER FOR LAKE CHAMPLAIN INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetVERMONT ENERGY EDUCATION PROGRAM INC: $30,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetSTEM FORWARD INC: $28,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetSHARP LITERACY INC: $27,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE UWM FOUNDATION INC: $26,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALL-IN MILWAUKEE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF MILWAUKEE CTY: $22,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInnovators Educational Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetWISCONSIN FIRST ROBOTICS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetWisconsin State Fair Park Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetWAUKESHA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $19,500 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC: $17,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMILWAUKEE COUNTY WAR MEMORIAL INC: $16,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFoundation for Portland Public Schools: $15,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF WISCONSIN SOUTHEAST INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA NATIONAL GUARD FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWE CARE SOLAR: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMAYDM INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetINNER-CITY COMPUTER STARS FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetElmbrook Education Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCARROLL UNIVERSITY INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWISCONSIN VETERANS MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $14,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetURBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WAUKESHA COUNTY INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJOURNEY HOUSE INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOHIO ENERGY PROJECT: $10,940 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROWEST INC: $10,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $10,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMADISON AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKEEP GREATER MILWAUKEE BEAUTIFUL: $10,000 over 2y, 3.6% 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.

Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI61.2× affinity43 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Waukesha County Community Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Youth Foundation Inc · Harley-Davidson Foundation Inc · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · The Ros Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Neighborimpact: 68% of income from government
  • Vermont Works for Women Inc: 52% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Leahy Center for Lake Champlain Inc: 33% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • United Way of Tri County Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Boys and Girls Club of Burlington Inc: 16% of income from government
  • Vermont Energy Education Program Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Boys and Girls Clubs of Metrowest Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Central Oregon Trail Alliance: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
45report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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 434 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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