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Greater Hudson Heritage Network

To provide services and assistance to historical agencies and museums.

$244k
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 FY2017–2024.

Arts & Culture$702kEnvironment$462kEducation$25kHealth$11kAnimals$7k
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 24 grants below total $170,627 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $243,861 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $73,234 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.

$7,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$475k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MUSEUM OF CHINESE IN AMERICA$9,150
NEW CASTLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY$9,129
LEROY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$8,500
PLANTING FIELDS FOUNDATION$8,150
LINDENHURST HISTORICAL SOCIETY$8,146
HOWLAND STONE STORE MUSEUM (HSSM)$8,142
SOUTHOLD HISTORICAL SOCIETY DBA THE SOUTHOLD HISTORICAL MUSEUM$8,010
EDWARD HOPPER HOUSE MUSEUM & STUDY CENTER$7,970
CARAMOOR CENTER FOR MUSIC AND THE ARTS INC$7,500
HISPANIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA$7,500
YATES COUNTY HISTORY CENTER$7,500
THE FARMERS' MUSEUM$7,500
THOMAS COLE HISTORIC HOUSE$7,500
DERFNER JUDAICA MUSEUM THE ART COLLECTION AT HEBREW HOME AT RIVERDALE$7,500
NORTH SALEM HISTORICAL SOCIETY$6,565
02The need
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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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 66% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LEROY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $9k → 10%LIVINGSTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $8k → 11%CAMBRIDGE HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND MUSEUM: $8k → 11%Adirondack Experience The Museum on Blue Mountain Lake: $8k → 11%THOMAS COLE HISTORIC HOUSE: $8k → 11%Russian History Foundation: $8k → 12%SEYMOUR PUBLIC LIBRARY DISTRICT: $8k → 13%LOUIS ARMSTRONG HOUSE MUSEUM: $8k → 13%The Buffalo History Museum: $8k → 13%FENIMORE ART MUSEUM: $8k → 13%EVERSON MUSEUM OF ART: $8k → 14%HISTORIC CHERRY HILL: $8k → 14%Niagara University: $8k → 14%EDWARD HOPPER HOUSE MUSEUM & STUDY CENTER: $8k → 14%DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $8k → 17%Oswego County Historical Society: $9k → 17%The Bundy Museum of History and Art: $8k → 20%CARAMOOR CENTER FOR MUSIC AND THE ARTS INC: $8k → 9%MARCELLA SEMBRICH MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION INC: $8k → 10%THOMAS COLE HISTORIC HOUSE: $8k → 11%Steuben County Historical Society: $8k → 13%THE FARMERS' MUSEUM: $8k → 13%EVERSON MUSEUM OF ART: $8k → 14%Historic Cherry Hill: $8k → 14%EDWARD HOPPER HOUSE MUSEUM & STUDY CENTER: $8k → 14%ROBERSON MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER: $8k → 20%THE LONG ISLAND MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART HISTORY & CARRIAGES: $8k → 7%Ticonderoga Historical Society: $8k → 13%King Manor Museum: $8k → 13%Fenimore Art Museum: $8k → 13%HISTORIC CHERRY HILL: $8k → 14%DERFNER JUDAICA MUSEUM THE ART COLLECTION AT HEBREW HOME AT RIVERDALE: $8k → 28%Boscobel House and Gardens: $8k → 6%The Hyde Collection: $8k → 10%Big Springs Museum: $8k → 11%THE FORT TICONDEROGA ASSOCIATION: $8k → 13%DERFNER JUDAICA MUSEUM ART COLLECTION AT HEWBREW HOME AT RIVERDALE: $8k → 28%BARD COLLEGE: $8k → 9%THE HYDE COLLECTION: $8k → 10%Dansville Area Historical Society: $8k → 11%YATES COUNTY HISTORY CENTER: $8k → 15%HOWLAND STONE STORE MUSEUM (HSSM): $8k → 13%PLANTING FIELDS FOUNDATION: $8k → 6%NEW CASTLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $9k → 9%SOUTHOLD HISTORICAL SOCIETY DBA THE SOUTHOLD HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $8k → 7%SOUTHOLD HISTORICAL SOCIETY DBA THE SOUTHOLD HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $8k → 7%MUSEUM OF CHINESE IN AMERICA: $9k → 17%LINDENHURST HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $8k → 7%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.

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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$832k · 70 repeat orgs$375k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

70 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 56 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

70
102

Total granted

$832k
$310k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+26%

Still filing today

93%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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 & CultureEducationEnvironmentHealthPhilanthropyAnimalsOther

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

  • HC
    HISTORIC CHERRY HILL
    4× · 2017–2023 · $28k · revenue +80%
  • SH
    SOUTHOLD HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    4× · 2019–2024 · $27k · revenue +44%
  • NIAGARA UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2017–2023 · $25k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • OC
    OSWEGO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $9k · revenue +255%
  • DC
    DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +13%
  • RH
    RUSSIAN HISTORY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $8k · revenue +524%

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.

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Newcomb Historical Museum

The organization was formed to safeguard and share existing and future collections related to the social, cultural, and economic history of the high peaks adirondack region in and around the township of newcomb in essex county, new york.

Arts & Culture
2
North Shore Historical Museum Inc

Housing and exhibition of long island new york north shore historical significance

Arts & Culture
3
Fulton County Historical Society

Museum provides general public with displays and information about the history of Fulton County New York.

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4
Albion Historical Society

To encourage preservation, education , research, and interest in the history of Albion

Arts & Culture
5
Historical Society of Saratoga Springs

Preservation & maintenance collection

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Sharon Historical Society-Sharon Springs New York Inc

The mission of the Sharon Historical Society is to make all people aware of our history by linking the past with the present in order to inform them of our future. The Sharon Historical Society exists to inspire people's understanding that…

Arts & Culture
7
Salem Historical Society
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The Historical Society of Rockland

The Historical Society of Rockland County is a museum and educational organization dedicated to engaging diverse audiences in a dynamic dialogue about the rich historical heritage of the county.

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9
Roseau County Historical Society

Operation of roseau county museum along with acquisition, maintenance, preservation, and display of other items of historic interest to the county of roseau

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Bureau County Historical Society
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Montauk Historical Society

The purpose of the montauk historical society is to collect, restore, preserve and display historically significant buildings, objects and writings and to preserve and share the history and cultures of montauk and the east end for this and…

Arts & Culture
12
St Lawrence County Historical Association Inc

Museum for the acquisition, conservation and exhibition of historical artifacts of st. lawrence county, new york.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rensselaer County Historical Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Percy Grainger Society. 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 53 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%2%<5yr14%3%5–10yr20%8%10–20yr19%16%20–35yr12%24%35–55yr16%48%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%3%<5yr14%2%5–10yr20%10%10–20yr19%11%20–35yr12%19%35–55yr16%56%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.5%1/182
the rest of the field
10%
8,638/83,837

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

151 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 151 of the 182 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)
51
Early backer (in before they grew)
148/151
Grantees still filing
107/151
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HISTORIC CHERRY HILL — $28,341 · Arts & CultureTHE LONG ISLAND MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART HISTORY & CARRIAGES — $24,333 · Arts & CultureYates County Genealogical and Historical Society — $23,161 · Arts & CultureTHE HYDE COLLECTION TRUST — $22,210 · Arts & CultureFENIMORE ART MUSEUM — $21,096 · Arts & CultureHECKSCHER MUSEUM — $21,000 · Arts & CultureHUDSON RIVER MUSEUM OF WESTCHESTER — $20,585 · Arts & Culture+84 more — $453,180 · Arts & Culture+84 moreSOUTHOLD HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $26,836 · OtherSOUTHOLD HISTORICAL SOCIETYLINDENHURST HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $23,146 · OtherLINDENHURST HISTORICAL SOCIETYOld Westbury Gardens Inc — $20,814 · OtherTHE NEW CASTLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $18,284 · OtherMIDDLESEX HERITAGE GROUP — $17,637 · OtherHOWLAND STONE STORE MUSEUM — $16,732 · OtherBOWNE HOUSE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $15,650 · OtherEDWARD HOPPER HOUSE MUSEUM AND STUDY CEN TER — $15,635 · OtherTHE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WOODSTOCK — $14,500 · Other+61 more — $245,922 · Other+61 moreNIAGARA UNIVERSITY — $24,700 · EducationNIAGARA UNI…BARD COLLEGE — $22,285 · EducationBARD COLLEG…SEYMOUR PUBLIC LIBRARY DISTRICT — $13,975 · EducationSEYMOUR PUB…UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $9,947 · EducationUNIVERSITY …NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN — $7,580 · EducationNATIONAL AC…Le Moyne College — $7,500 · EducationLe Moyne Co…Hartwick College — $7,500 · EducationHartwick Co…SKANEATELES LIBRARY ASSOCIATION — $7,500 · EducationSKANEATELES…SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY — $6,808 · EducationSYRACUSE UN…MARIST UNIVERSITY — $5,875 · EducationSTONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · Education+3 more — $5,375 · EducationMADOO CONSERVANCY INC — $11,675 · EnvironmentPLANTING FIELDS FOUNDATION — $8,150 · EnvironmentMANITOGA INC — $5,725 · EnvironmentSONNENBERG GARDENS AND MANSION- STATE HISTORIC PARK — $932 · EnvironmentThe Hebrew Home for Aged at Riverdale — $10,600 · HealthRENEE & CHAIM GROSS FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyWildlife Conservation Society — $6,510 · Animals
Arts & Culture$613,906Other$415,156Education$124,045Environment$26,482Health$10,600Philanthropy$10,000Animals$6,510

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 budgetHISTORIC CHERRY HILL — $28,341 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetSOUTHOLD HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $26,836 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetNIAGARA UNIVERSITY — $24,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LONG ISLAND MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART HISTORY & CARRIAGES — $24,333 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetYates County Genealogical and Historical Society — $23,161 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetBARD COLLEGE — $22,285 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HYDE COLLECTION TRUST — $22,210 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetFENIMORE ART MUSEUM — $21,096 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHECKSCHER MUSEUM — $21,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetOld Westbury Gardens Inc — $20,814 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHUDSON RIVER MUSEUM OF WESTCHESTER — $20,585 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNew York Historical Society — $19,258 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEVERSON MUSEUM OF ART OF SYRACUSE AND ONONDAGA COUNTY — $19,250 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetOLD MERCHANTS HOUSE OF NEW YORK INC — $18,911 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMUSEUM OF CHINESE IN AMERICA — $18,515 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NEW CASTLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $18,284 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetKing Manor Assoc of Long Island Inc — $17,710 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetTHOMAS COLE HISTORIC HOUSE — $17,118 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHOWLAND STONE STORE MUSEUM — $16,732 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetBOWNE HOUSE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $15,650 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetEDWARD HOPPER HOUSE MUSEUM AND STUDY CEN TER — $15,635 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetHISPANIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA — $14,996 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WOODSTOCK — $14,500 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetSEYMOUR PUBLIC LIBRARY DISTRICT — $13,975 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetLOUIS ARMSTRONG HOUSE MUSEUM — $12,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNIAGARA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $12,488 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetCAYUGA MUSEUM OF HISTORY & ART INC — $12,207 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetBARTOW PELL LANDMARK FUND — $11,900 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetROCHESTER MUSEUM & SCIENCE CENTER — $11,410 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFASNY Museum of Firefighting — $10,898 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LONG ISLAND ANTIQUITIES — $10,849 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetThe Hebrew Home for Aged at Riverdale — $10,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FORT TICONDEROGA ASSOCIATION — $10,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDYCKMAN FARMHOUSE MUSEUM ALLIANCE — $10,002 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetRENEE & CHAIM GROSS FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $9,947 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHARNESS RACING MUSEUM AND HALL OF FAME — $9,330 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetLEROY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $9,238 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetLIVINGSTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $8,873 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetOSWEGO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $8,862 over 1y, 17% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $8,525 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHISTORIC HUDSON VALLEY — $8,275 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCaramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc — $8,222 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPLANTING FIELDS FOUNDATION — $8,150 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHUNTINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $8,150 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSODUS BAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $8,149 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetDIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC — $8,134 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRUSSIAN HISTORY FOUNDATION — $8,020 over 1y, 6.9% 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.

The William G Pomeroy…New York Council for …Preservation League o…Robert David Lion Gar…Ibm International Fou…JM McDonald Foundatio…Price Chopper's Golub…The New York Communit…The Community Foundat…The Gladys Krieble De…Historic House Trust …The Tianaderrah Found…
The William G Pomeroy FoundationNY72.5× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The William G Pomeroy Foundation · New York Council for the Humanities · Preservation League of New York State · Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · The New York Community Trust · The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc · The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation · Historic House Trust of New York City Inc · The Tianaderrah Foundation (NY)

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 Greater Hudson Heritage Network 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    64report 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

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Greater Hudson Heritage Network?

    Find your warmest path to Greater Hudson Heritage Network 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 182 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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