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$227M
Granted FY2024still arriving
3,282
Grants FY2024still arriving
51
States reached
$10M
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.

Philanthropy$338MEducation$126MReligion$51MHealth$33MHuman Services$16MInternational$16MCivil Rights$15MArts & Culture$13MOther$0
02FY2024 · 3282 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3,282 grants below total $212,187,406, the rows itemized in this filing. The $227,175,669 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $14,988,263 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k734 grants · $5.1M
  • $10k–50k1821 grants · $34M
  • $50k–250k593 grants · $55M
  • $250k+134 grants · $118M
$15,000
Median grant
51
States reached
$2.8B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of Southern California$10,073,050
Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc (dba DAFgiving360)$8,234,972
Red Raiders Facilities Foundation Inc$6,500,000
University Impact$5,231,549
Yale University$5,006,000
Child Saving Institute Inc$3,564,000
Kansas University Endowment Association$3,126,021
Bank of America Charitable Gift Fund$2,081,433
Brooklyn College Foundation Inc$2,000,000
St John's College - Santa Fe$1,800,000
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints$1,777,355
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc$1,764,413
Capstone Classical Academy$1,700,000
Case Western Reserve University$1,525,050
St Patrick's Catholic Church of Elkhorn$1,514,450
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, $21.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Father Flanagan's Boys Home: $175k → 12%Samaa Living Ltd: $525k → 18%LymeLight Foundation Inc: $104k → 7%Open Doors To Future Possibilities Inc: $70k → 8%Gladney Center for Adoption: $80k → 11%Martin County Community Foundation: $2.3M → 10%Martin County Community Foundation: $1.3M → 15%Beds for Kids Inc: $101k → 10%Classical Tahoe: $90k → 10%Christian Appalachian Project Inc: $103k → 26%Blaine County Seniors Council Inc: $80k → 7%Martin County Community Foundation: $474k → 10%JAFCO Children's Foundation Inc: $125k → 13%Asbury Park Inc: $567k → 9%Let's Help Inc: $119k → 14%Mendocino Coast Children's Fund: $300k → 18%YMCA of Austin: $102k → 10%Fellowship Adventures Opportunities: $159k → 4%Pre-Born: $87k → 16%Artisan's Asylum Inc: $100k → 8%Transformations by Austin Angels: $152k → 10%Sasha Bruce Youthwork Inc: $100k → 14%Wichita Children's Home: $103k → 16%Fellowship Adventures Opportunities: $120k → 4%Mankind Project USA: $63k → 14%Lifesavers Foundation Inc: $110k → 14%YouthBridge Community Foundation: $2.5M → 11%Fellowship Adventures Opportunities: $75k → 4%Jewish Family Service of Houston: $65k → 16%YouthBridge Community Foundation: $2.0M → 11%Fellowship Adventures Opportunities: $68k → 4%Sound Generations: $100k → 9%Wounded Warrior Project: $195k → 14%YouthBridge Community Foundation: $1.8M → 11%Child Saving Institute Inc: $3.6M → 12%Yu-Ai Kai - Japanese American Community Senior Serv of San Jose: $60k → 8%Dallas Children's Advocacy Center: $100k → 14%Garden Pathways Inc: $91k → 18%Challenged Athletes Foundation: $58k → 11%Defense Priorities Foundation: $500k → 7%Dakota Boys and Girls Ranch Foundation: $59k → 14%Donnie Edwards Best Defense Foundation: $100k → 11%Edward Charles Foundation: $75k → 14%YMCA of Greater Seattle: $115k → 9%Lockton Cares Inc: $100k → 15%Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine Inc: $250k → 17%Motion Picture and Television Fund: $95k → 14%United Friends of the Children: $75k → 14%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
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ND
MN
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OR
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PA
NJ
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RI
CA
UT
CO
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MO
KY
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VA
MD
DE
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AR
TN
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HI
OK
LA
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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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

51%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$143M · 555 repeat orgs$136M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

555 repeat relationships: 383 still active in FY2024, 172 since wound down; 1152 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

555
202

Total granted

$143M
$26M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+22%

Still filing today

71%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureReligionInternationalOther
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

  • AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE
    2× · 2018–2019 · $9.0M · revenue +70%
  • TK
    The Kansas University Endowment Association
    4× · 2017–2024 · $3.3M · revenue +93%
  • HM
    Harvey Mudd College
    4× · 2017–2024 · $3.3M · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • WS
    WEST SIDE HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2018 · $4.0M
  • GC
    Golisano Children's Hospital
    one grant, 2018 · $2.0M
  • LU
    Lewis Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1.5M · revenue +36%
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
Augustana College

Offer a challenging education that develops the qualities of mind, spirit and body for students.

Education
2
Oklahoma City University

Oklahoma city university prepares all learners to create, lead and serve.

Education
3
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

the organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the UCSF Foundation.

Education
4
University of New Haven

See schedule ouniversity of new haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts & professional education.

Education
5
Furman University

Furman university is an institution of higher education providing distinctive undergraduate education emphasizing an engaged approach combining classroom learning with real world experiences and self-discovery.

Education
6
Georgetown University

Georgetown university is one of the world's leading academic and research institutions. established in 1789, georgetown is the nation's oldest catholic and jesuit university.

Education
7
Central Indiana Corporate

The central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is transforming our regional economy, bringing together the ceos of central indiana's largest and most civically engaged employers and university presidents to advance "big picture"…

Community Improvement
8
University of the Pacific

To provide a superior, student-centered learning experience integrating liberal arts and professional education and preparing individuals for lasting achievement and responsible leadership in their careers and communities.

Education
9
United States Naval Institute

To advance professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power.

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10
Minneapolis College of Art and Design

Embolden creative leaders to transform society through equity, empathy, & imagination.

Education
11
United Food Bank

Uniting communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
12
Boston Architectural College

Founded 131 years ago, the boston architectural college is a recognized institution providing excellence in practice-integrated design education to members of diverse communities with students representing 35 countries. the bac offers…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Jude Children's Research Hospital; the most unlike its peers is Avera McKennan. 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

1478 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. 1478 of the 2,000 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.

107
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
195
Early backer (in before they grew)
1439/1478
Grantees still filing
834/1478
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $38,722,409 · PhilanthropyESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INCTAHOE TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $28,492,156 · PhilanthropyTAHOE TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONINDIAN RIVER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $26,045,415 · PhilanthropyINDIAN RIVER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INCCentral Kansas Community Foundation: $23,980,201 · PhilanthropyCentral Kansas Community FoundationCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY: $23,922,393 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTYSouth Central Community Foundation: $17,316,125 · PhilanthropySouth Central Community FoundationCommunity Foundation of Southern New Mexico: $17,179,504 · PhilanthropyCommunity Foundation of Southern New MexicoNEVADA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $15,354,815 · PhilanthropyHUTCHINSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $11,589,494 · PhilanthropyLONG BEACH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,264,470 · Philanthropy+28 more: $90,364,305 · Philanthropy+28 moreGive Something Back A NJ Nonprofit Corporation: $17,272,588 · EducationGive Something Ba…UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $10,101,400 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOU…RED RAIDER FACILITIES FOUNDATION INC: $6,500,000 · EducationRED RAIDER FACILI…University Impact: $5,231,549 · EducationUniversity ImpactYale University: $5,006,000 · EducationYale UniversityThe Kansas University Endowment Association: $3,335,891 · EducationHarvey Mudd College: $3,323,162 · Education+40 more: $31,155,012 · Education+40 moreCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS DEPOSITOR: $15,171,018 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION…THE RIORDAN FOUNDATION: $15,055,559 · OtherTHE RIORDAN FOUNDATI…WEST SIDE HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC: $4,000,000 · Other+84 more: $62,616,739 · Other+84 moreYOUTHBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $6,233,046 · Human ServicesTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION - MARTIN / ST LUCIE INC: $4,080,338 · Human ServicesCHILD SAVING INSTITUTE INC: $3,564,000 · Human ServicesASBURY PARK INC: $598,357 · Human Services+5 more: $2,227,268 · Human ServicesAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $9,017,818 · Civil RightsALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $640,200 · Civil Rights+1 more: $324,054 · Civil RightsSTORMONT-VAIL FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · HealthNYU LANGONE HEALTH SYSTEM: $1,000,000 · HealthPROVIDENCE HEALTH & SERVICES FOUNDATION SAN FERNANDO & SANTA CLARITA VALLEYS SA: $1,000,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $960,842 · HealthEisenhower Medical Center: $945,500 · HealthFREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION: $761,398 · HealthVETERANS MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO: $743,968 · HealthINTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $701,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $621,382 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $518,133 · HealthWILL ROGERS MOTION PICTURE PIONEERS FOUNDATION: $394,828 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $366,769 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $332,423 · HealthACT FOR ALEXANDRIA: $4,668,180 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $846,405 · Community ImprovementMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER: $800,000 · Community Improvement
Philanthropy$303,231,287Education$81,925,602Other$96,843,316Human Services$16,703,009Civil Rights$9,982,072Health$9,346,243Community Improvement$6,314,585

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 budgetESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $38,722,409 over 3y, 52% of budgetTAHOE TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $28,492,156 over 4y, 41% of budgetINDIAN RIVER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $26,045,415 over 3y, 63% of budgetCentral Kansas Community Foundation: $23,980,201 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY: $23,922,393 over 3y, 92% of budgetGive Something Back A NJ Nonprofit Corporation: $17,272,588 over 3y, 90% of budgetCommunity Foundation of Southern New Mexico: $17,179,504 over 3y, 67% of budgetNEVADA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $15,354,815 over 3y, 56% of budgetTHE RIORDAN FOUNDATION: $15,055,559 over 4y, 72% of budgetHUTCHINSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $11,589,494 over 3y, 45% of budgetLONG BEACH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,264,470 over 3y, 55% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $10,101,400 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCommunity Foundation of Greater Huntsville: $10,091,709 over 3y, 67% of budgetONEOC: $9,172,976 over 3y, 23% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $9,017,818 over 2y, 11% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $8,304,673 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Foundation for Nantucket Inc: $8,201,940 over 3y, 66% of budgetKERN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $7,751,491 over 3y, 63% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH ALABAMA: $7,104,487 over 2y, 61% of budgetRED RAIDER FACILITIES FOUNDATION INC: $6,500,000 over 1y, 47% of budgetYOUTHBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $6,233,046 over 4y, 45% of budgetNORTHERN PIEDMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,255,203 over 3y, 75% of budgetUniversity Impact: $5,231,549 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetYale University: $5,006,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetACT FOR ALEXANDRIA: $4,668,180 over 3y, 53% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION - MARTIN / ST LUCIE INC: $4,080,338 over 3y, 74% of budgetCHILD SAVING INSTITUTE INC: $3,564,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetThe Kansas University Endowment Association: $3,335,891 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetHarvey Mudd College: $3,323,162 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HOWARD COUNTY INC: $3,145,445 over 3y, 52% of budgetNATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD FOUNDATION INC: $2,935,163 over 2y, 12% of budgetAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $2,858,811 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAuburn Community Foundation: $2,551,879 over 3y, 39% of budgetSENECA PARK ZOO SOCIETY: $2,510,000 over 2y, 41% of budgetBNY MELLON CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $2,500,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetBAY AREA LYME MAJOR GIFT FUND: $2,325,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,320,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHOLMES FAMILY EDUCATION & TRAINING: $2,300,312 over 3y, 100% of budgetBANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD: $2,081,433 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $2,000,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $1,940,168 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $1,900,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetMORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC: $1,764,413 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIMPACTASSETSINC: $1,728,065 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCAPSTONE CLASSICAL ACADEMY: $1,700,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL MO: $1,648,200 over 2y, 82% of budgetST JOHN'S COLLEGE: $1,600,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $1,584,050 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

Central Kansas Community FoundationKS52.1× affinity44 shared granteesties to 1 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Central Kansas Community Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Val a Browning Charitable Foundation · John J Sullivan Jr Foundation John Houlehan & Mark Henke-Trustees · R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · The Kansas City Royals Foundation · Constance M Cooper Charitable Foundation · Walter S Johnson Foundation · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · The Dehaemers Family Charitable Trust · The H & R Block 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 Greater Horizons funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Greater Horizons. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc: 10% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
  • St John's College: 2% of income from government
  • Essex County Community Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Adrienne Arsht Center Trust Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
31report 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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How do I get to Greater Horizons?

Find your warmest path to Greater Horizons 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 2000 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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