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Gerson Bakar Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$169M
Granted FY2024still arriving
33
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$97M
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$684MHealth$644MReligion$31MHuman Services$29MScience & Tech$20MArts & Culture$19MFood & Nutrition$10MInternational$3.1MOther$0
02FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $135k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
  • $250k+12 grants · $169M
$20,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$2.5B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UCSF FOUNDATION$96,520,000
UCB FOUNDATION$37,043,334
SMITH COLLEGE$10,000,000
ADDISON LABS FOUNDATION$7,841,000
JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES$5,554,000
SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$5,000,000
CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES$2,500,000
BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION$2,000,000
AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE INC$1,000,000
SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK$1,000,000
EXPLORATORIUM$300,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO$250,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO$200,000
EPA CENTER$25,000
SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART$25,000
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, $29.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LOVE HEALS FREE CLINICS INC: $500 → 8%EAST BAY INTEGRATED CARE INC: $2k → 9%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO: $250k → 10%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO: $250k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $100 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $100 → 14%PENINSULA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $12k → 7%PENINSULA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 7%PENINSULA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 7%J-SEI: $250 → 10%EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES: $2k → 10%J-SEI-INC: $250 → 10%J-SEI-INC: $250 → 10%J-SEI-INC: $250 → 10%J-SEI: $250 → 10%SF FIREFIGHTERS TOY PROGRAM: $250 → 10%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES: $10.3M → 10%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES: $6.8M → 10%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES: $5.6M → 10%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $3.0M → 10%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $1.0M → 10%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $1.0M → 10%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $1.0M → 10%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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IN
OH
RI
CA
UT
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DC
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AL
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.

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2B · 74 repeat orgs$199M to everyone else

74 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 50 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

74
88

Total granted

$1.2B
$197M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+47%

Still filing today

82%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M 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
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsInternationalOther

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

  • TT
    THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $50M · revenue +35%
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    5× · 2018–2024 · $15M · revenue +54% · 30% of their budget
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK
    8× · 2017–2024 · $9.5M · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • TR
    THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (THE UC REGENTS)
    one grant, 2018 · $103M
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKLEY
    one grant, 2021 · $59M
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $12M

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
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
2
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
3
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
4
University of California Irvine Foundation

The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…

Education
5
California Institute for BioMedical Research

Our mission is to build a unique institute that bridges basic research and drug discovery, and that attracts the best and brightest scientists, physicians and students to work together synergistically to find cures for neglected human…

6
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
7
Sutter Bay Medical Foundation

Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…

Health
8
California Pacific Medical Center Foundation

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
9
Ucsf Health Medical Foundation

See schedule othe mission of ucsf health medical foundation is threefold: 1) to establish, operate and maintain medical clinics for the provision of healthcare services in california; 2) to promote health by providing, coordinating,…

Health
10
California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy

To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…

Health
11
Ucsf Health Community Hospitals Fka Saint Francis Memorial Hospital

Ucsf health community hospital's mission statement is caring, healing, teaching, and discovering.

Health
12
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma and the most unlike its peers is Bakar Bioenginuity Hub. 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 46 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%0%<5yr15%4%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr17%24%20–35yr11%24%35–55yr13%37%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%0%10–20yr17%10%20–35yr11%0%35–55yr13%90%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/133
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,845

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.

04the grantee network

123 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. 123 of the 175 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)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
121/123
Grantees still filing
84/123
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UCB FOUNDATION — $360,918,603 · OtherUCB FOUNDATIONTHE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (THE UC REGENTS) — $103,446,450 · OtherTHE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (THE UC REGENTS)UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION — $89,631,041 · OtherUC BERKELEY FOUNDATIONBAKAR BIOENGINUITY HUB — $84,950,000 · OtherBAKAR BIOENGINUITY HUBUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKLEY — $59,022,760 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKLEYFOUNDATION FOR U C BERKELEY HILLEL INC — $28,960,750 · Other+96 more — $48,697,844 · Other+96 moreUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $540,895,100 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDAT…THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE — $50,000,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE+18 more — $10,116,200 · EducationKQED INC — $17,553,230 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — $9,350,000 · Arts & CultureTHE EXPLORATORIUM — $2,350,000 · Arts & Culture+17 more — $1,050,949 · Arts & CultureJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES — $28,686,350 · Human Services+8 more — $537,700 · Human ServicesSAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $15,015,000 · Health+11 more — $528,770 · HealthThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $3,000,000 · International+5 more — $66,600 · InternationalJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA — $1,410,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $80,000 · Philanthropy+4 more — $52,300 · Philanthropy
Other$775,627,448Education$601,011,300Arts & Culture$30,304,179Human Services$29,224,050Health$15,543,770International$3,066,600Philanthropy$1,542,300

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $540,895,100 over 8y, 17% of budgetBAKAR BIOENGINUITY HUB — $84,950,000 over 4y, 100% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE — $50,000,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES — $28,686,350 over 7y, 20% of budgetKQED INC — $17,553,230 over 7y, 5.6% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $15,015,000 over 5y, 30% of budgetNAVAL WAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $9,750,000 over 1y, 65% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK — $9,502,475 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — $9,350,000 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $3,000,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE EXPLORATORIUM — $2,350,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetBERKELEY HILLEL — $1,800,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetTHE JEWISH HOME AND SENIOR LIVING FOUNDATION — $1,510,000 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA — $1,410,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetASIAN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO — $600,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $502,250 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPartnership for Haas Preeminence — $500,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO — $500,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetThat Man May See Inc DBA All May See Foundation — $375,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART — $250,400 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLEADING EDGE ALLIANCEINC — $105,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $100,425 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBUCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON AGING — $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $80,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $80,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEPACENTER — $55,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetJewish Commmunity High School of the Bay — $50,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSan Francisco Playhouse — $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND — $49,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CONTEMPORARY JEWISH MUSEUM — $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPENINSULA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER — $32,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLEGE TRACK — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBRIDGE HOUSING CORPORATION — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCalMatters — $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEINBERG INSTITUTE — $25,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetTHE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN INCORPORATED — $16,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL — $13,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEFARIA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHERN CALIFORNIA AND NORTHERN NV SOUND AND COMMUNICATION APPRENTICESHIP TRNG TR FD — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOakland Hebrew Day School — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTANFORD HEALTH CARE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION
  • Who funds BAKAR BIOENGINUITY HUB
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES
  • Who funds KQED INC
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds NAVAL WAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
  • Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc
  • Who funds THE EXPLORATORIUM
  • Who funds BERKELEY HILLEL
  • Who funds THE JEWISH HOME AND SENIOR LIVING FOUNDATION
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA
  • Who funds ASIAN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO
  • Who funds ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK
  • Who funds Partnership for Haas Preeminence
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO
  • Who funds That Man May See Inc DBA All May See Foundation
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
  • Who funds LEADING EDGE ALLIANCEINC
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc
  • Who funds BUCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON AGING
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC
  • Who funds EPACENTER
  • Who funds Jewish Commmunity High School of the Bay
  • Who funds San Francisco Playhouse

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.

Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & SonomaCA44.7× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The San Francisco Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Koret Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · John Pritzker Family Fund · Barbara and Gerson Bakar Foundation Dba the Achieve Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Lisa Stone Pritzker Family Fund · Lisa & Douglas Goldman Fund

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 Gerson Bakar Foundation 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%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 12%
  • Trustees of Boston University12% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Smith College1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.

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How do I get to Gerson Bakar Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Gerson Bakar 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 175 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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