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Greater Kansas City Community Foundation

The Greater Kansas City Community Foundation's mission is to improve the quality of life in Greater Kansas City by increasing charitable giving, educating and connecting donors to community needs they care about, and leading on critical community issues.

$358M
Granted FY2024still arriving
2,405
Grants FY2024still arriving
50
States reached
$25M
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.

Education$292MArts & Culture$217MHealth$145MPhilanthropy$110MReligion$79MHuman Services$59MFood & Nutrition$41MEnvironment$40MOther$0
02FY2024 · 2405 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2,405 grants below total $350,288,355, the rows itemized in this filing. The $357,753,871 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $7,465,516 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 $10k500 grants · $3.5M
  • $10k–50k1178 grants · $24M
  • $50k–250k517 grants · $54M
  • $250k+210 grants · $269M
$20,000
Median grant
50
States reached
$3.4B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Kansas University Endowment Association$24,830,665
Hackensack Meridian Health Foundation Inc$12,000,000
Johns Hopkins University$10,568,707
Rethink Food NYC Inc$10,500,000
Sky High Farm Inc$9,220,000
Kansas City Scholars Inc$8,195,050
Food and Water Watch$6,450,000
OASIS$6,150,000
The Stanley H Durwood Foundation$6,145,954
Curators of the University of Missouri$6,036,730
Synergy Services Inc$5,958,584
Cornerstones of Care$5,526,579
UMKC Foundation$5,291,259
Missouri Development Finance Board$5,100,000
St John Paul II Parish$5,003,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $32.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 74% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Kings Foundation America Inc: $557k → 14%HOPE Farm: $200k → 11%Synergy Services Inc: $6.0M → 8%Osage Prairie YMCA Inc: $200k → 18%Synergy Services Inc: $393k → 8%Missouri Budget Project: $200k → 21%Synergy Services Inc: $354k → 8%Little Sisters of the Poor: $352k → 15%Caring Communities Inc: $274k → 10%Synergy Services Inc: $257k → 8%Edward Charles Foundation: $1.1M → 14%The Family Conservancy: $819k → 16%The Family Conservancy: $477k → 16%The Family Conservancy: $246k → 16%American National Red Cross: $460k → 14%Hartwig Legacy Foundation: $203k → 16%The Family Conservancy: $199k → 16%Hartwig Legacy Foundation: $180k → 16%Creative Capital Foundation: $250k → 17%Avenue of Life Inc: $208k → 8%Avenue of Life Inc: $178k → 8%YMCA of Greater Kansas City: $238k → 15%YMCA of Greater Kansas City: $220k → 15%Start at Zero: $201k → 15%Jewish Family Services: $275k → 5%Youth Volunteer Corps: $179k → 15%Hope Center Inc: $186k → 15%Cornerstones of Care: $5.5M → 15%Kansas City Hospice and Palliative Care: $340k → 15%HappyBottoms: $153k → 15%Catholic Charities of Kansas City-St Joseph Inc: $174k → 15%Bishop Sullivan Center: $457k → 15%Bishop Sullivan Center: $204k → 15%Bishop Sullivan Center: $191k → 15%Bishop Sullivan Center: $162k → 15%United Inner City Services: $929k → 15%United Inner City Services: $651k → 15%United Inner City Services: $623k → 15%Urban Farming Guys: $171k → 15%Catholic Charities of Kansas City-St Joseph Inc: $259k → 15%High Aspirations Inc: $215k → 15%Downtown Kansas City Civic Ventures: $225k → 15%Guadalupe Centers Inc: $655k → 15%Guadalupe Centers Inc: $293k → 15%Reconciliation Services: $515k → 15%Reconciliation Services: $188k → 15%Reconciliation Services: $156k → 15%Healing House Inc: $311k → 15%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

AK
ME
VT
NH
WA
ID
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$980M · 1431 repeat orgs$243M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

1431 repeat relationships: 1087 still active in FY2024, 344 since wound down; 270 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1431
222

Total granted

$980M
$181M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+14%

Still filing today

75%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentInternationalOther
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

  • TK
    The Kansas University Endowment Association
    5× · 2017–2024 · $49M · revenue +93%
  • TC
    The Children's Mercy Hospital
    5× · 2017–2024 · $27M · revenue +67%
  • RF
    RETHINK FOOD NYC INC
    2× · 2021–2024 · $26M · revenue +100% · 53% of their budget

Funded once

  • PA
    POWERHOUSE ARTS INC
    one grant, 2018 · $53M · revenue -28%
  • CF
    CASALENA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $43M · revenue -99% · 57% of their budget
  • HF
    HOPE FOR DEPRESSION RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $33M · revenue -33%
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
Kansas City University

Kcu is a community of professionals committed to excellence in the education of highly qualified students in osteopathic medicine, dental medicine and health professions.

Education
2
Kansas Wesleyan University

Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.

Education
3
The Ku Endowment Charitable Gift Fund

To support the charitable organizations specified in Schedule A, Part I

Philanthropy
4
University of Kansas School of Medicine-

Patient care and research are offered to provide education to members and students and to offer quality care to individuals without regard to the patients ability to pay.

Human Services
5
University of Kansas Medical Alumni

Alumni association

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6
University of the Ozarks

A presbyterian church related university that provides undergraduate liberal arts education.

Education
7
Missouri Western State University

Promote private giving and help the university move into the forefront of public higher education.

—
8
Minneapolis College of Art and Design

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

Education
9
Kansas Farm Bureau Foundation

Strengthening agriculture and the lives of kansans through leadership, education and service.

Unclassified
10
Jefferson Regional Foundation

Improve the health & well-being of the community of jefferson hospital through grantmaking, education, & outreach.

Health
11
Augustana College

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

Education
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Black Hills Area Community; the most unlike its peers is George Eastman Museum. 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

1553 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. 1553 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.

190
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
396
Early backer (in before they grew)
1507/1553
Grantees still filing
1102/1553
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Kansas University Endowment Association: $49,417,992 · EducationThe Kansas University End…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $25,303,741 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYKANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE: $20,548,216 · EducationKANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTEUMKC FOUNDATION: $20,335,285 · EducationUMKC FOUNDATIONSCHOOL SMART KC INC: $19,159,492 · EducationSCHOOL SMART KC INCGREAT JOBS KC INC: $11,376,849 · EducationPEMBROKE HILL SCHOOL: $7,996,608 · Education+33 more: $76,655,310 · Education+33 moreKAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $64,079,330 · Arts & CultureKAUFFMAN CENTER FOR T…POWERHOUSE ARTS INC: $53,333,333 · Arts & CulturePOWERHOUSE ARTS INCTWO RIVER THEATRE COMPANY INC: $17,676,000 · Arts & CultureTWO RIVER THEATRE COM…NATIONAL MUSEUM OF TOYS AND MINIATURES: $9,842,607 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CITY SYMPHONY: $9,050,646 · Arts & CultureTHE NELSON GALLERY FOUNDATION: $9,045,993 · Arts & Culture+10 more: $30,775,207 · Arts & Culture+10 moreCURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI: $28,417,699 · OtherCURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF …HACKENSACK MERIDIAN HEALTH INC: $12,000,000 · OtherUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $25,121,903 · OtherUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF+89 more: $205,647,680 · Other+89 moreCASALENA FOUNDATION: $43,435,394 · PhilanthropyCASALENA FOU…Greater Horizons: $16,085,135 · PhilanthropyGreater Hori…JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $15,352,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMU…The Stanley H Durwood Foundation CO The Greater KC Community Foundation: $6,145,954 · PhilanthropyThe Stanley …FATHOMERS: $5,066,037 · PhilanthropyGreater Horizons Trust: $4,372,332 · Philanthropy+11 more: $16,559,776 · Philanthropy+11 moreHOPE FOR DEPRESSION RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $32,507,200 · HealthHOPE FOR DE…The Children's Mercy Hospital: $27,459,092 · HealthThe Childre…PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT PLAINS: $8,872,049 · HealthPLANNED PAR…VENTURE STRATEGIES FOR HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT DBA OASIS: $7,212,385 · HealthVENTURE STR…Saint Lukes Foundation: $3,361,358 · Health+11 more: $20,047,181 · Health+11 moreRETHINK FOOD NYC INC: $26,000,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD & WATER WATCH: $21,215,898 · Food & NutritionSKY HIGH FARM INC: $9,220,000 · Food & NutritionA Greener World: $5,812,000 · Food & NutritionSOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE AGRICULTURE PROJECT INC: $5,573,955 · Food & NutritionHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK: $4,877,945 · Food & NutritionGRACE Communications Foundation: $3,700,000 · Food & NutritionSYNERGY SERVICES INC: $7,551,214 · Human ServicesCORNERSTONES OF CARE: $6,040,329 · Human ServicesUNITED INNER CITY SERVICES INC: $2,917,335 · Human ServicesEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $2,607,000 · Human ServicesTHE FAMILY CONSERVANCY: $2,155,405 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,025,189 · Human ServicesRECONCILIATION SERVICES: $1,815,054 · Human ServicesYMCA OF THE ROCKIES: $1,347,789 · Human ServicesGUADALUPE CENTERS INC: $1,332,775 · Human ServicesBishop Sullivan Center Inc: $1,282,477 · Human ServicesLittle Sisters of The Poor: $1,149,577 · Human Services+1 more: $1,001,215 · Human Services
Education$230,793,493Arts & Culture$193,803,116Other$271,187,282Philanthropy$107,016,628Health$99,459,265Food & Nutrition$76,399,798Human Services$31,225,359

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 budgetKAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $64,079,330 over 4y, 16% of budgetThe Kansas University Endowment Association: $49,417,992 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetCASALENA FOUNDATION: $43,435,394 over 1y, 57% of budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $27,459,092 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetRETHINK FOOD NYC INC: $26,000,000 over 2y, 53% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $25,303,741 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $25,121,903 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetFOOD & WATER WATCH: $21,215,898 over 5y, 36% of budgetKANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE: $20,548,216 over 5y, 16% of budgetUMKC FOUNDATION: $20,335,285 over 5y, 55% of budgetSCHOOL SMART KC INC: $19,159,492 over 5y, 99% of budgetTWO RIVER THEATRE COMPANY INC: $17,676,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetGreater Horizons: $16,085,135 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $15,352,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetGREAT JOBS KC INC: $11,376,849 over 5y, 21% of budgetNATIONAL MUSEUM OF TOYS AND MINIATURES: $9,842,607 over 5y, 74% of budgetKANSAS CITY SYMPHONY: $9,050,646 over 3y, 18% of budgetTHE NELSON GALLERY FOUNDATION: $9,045,993 over 5y, 8.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT PLAINS: $8,872,049 over 5y, 22% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Kansas City Inc: $8,810,362 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetPEMBROKE HILL SCHOOL: $7,996,608 over 5y, 13% of budgetSYNERGY SERVICES INC: $7,551,214 over 5y, 27% of budgetVENTURE STRATEGIES FOR HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT DBA OASIS: $7,212,385 over 3y, 47% of budgetPOWELL GARDENS INC: $7,079,359 over 4y, 82% of budgetDonnelly College: $6,557,314 over 5y, 23% of budgetWAYSIDE WAIFS INC: $6,503,718 over 5y, 42% of budgetROCKHURST UNIVERSITY: $6,423,455 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC: $6,321,588 over 5y, 12% of budgetThe Stanley H Durwood Foundation CO The Greater KC Community Foundation: $6,145,954 over 1y, 92% of budgetCORNERSTONES OF CARE: $6,040,329 over 5y, 9.6% of budgetA Greener World: $5,812,000 over 5y, 53% of budgetSOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE AGRICULTURE PROJECT INC: $5,573,955 over 5y, 87% of budgetUNION STATION KANSAS CITY INC: $5,310,221 over 5y, 12% of budgetFATHOMERS: $5,066,037 over 4y, 83% of budgetBenedictine College: $5,038,053 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $5,002,275 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetPHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $5,000,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK: $4,877,945 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetGreater Horizons Trust: $4,372,332 over 2y, 22% of budgetWilliam Jewell College: $4,297,381 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetMUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INC: $4,246,000 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetBERKSHIRE WALDORF HIGH SCHOOL INC: $4,000,000 over 1y, 92% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST KANSAS INC: $3,997,546 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $3,956,639 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetCHARLOTTE STREET FOUNDATION: $3,881,557 over 5y, 46% of budgetGRACE Communications Foundation: $3,700,000 over 1y, 47% of budgetAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC: $3,672,891 over 4y, 7.7% of budgetCENTER FOR PEOPLE IN NEED: $3,640,971 over 4y, 15% 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.

  • Who funds KAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
  • Who funds POWERHOUSE ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds The Kansas University Endowment Association ↗
  • Who funds CASALENA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HOPE FOR DEPRESSION RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The Children's Mercy Hospital ↗
  • Who funds RETHINK FOOD NYC INC ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
  • Who funds FOOD & WATER WATCH ↗
  • Who funds KANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds UMKC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SCHOOL SMART KC INC ↗
  • Who funds TWO RIVER THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
  • Who funds Greater Horizons ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ↗
  • Who funds GREAT JOBS KC INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL MUSEUM OF TOYS AND MINIATURES ↗
  • Who funds SKY HIGH FARM INC ↗
  • Who funds KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY ↗
  • Who funds THE NELSON GALLERY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT PLAINS ↗
  • Who funds United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc ↗
  • Who funds PEMBROKE HILL SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds SYNERGY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds VENTURE STRATEGIES FOR HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT DBA OASIS ↗
  • Who funds POWELL GARDENS INC ↗
  • Who funds Donnelly College ↗
  • Who funds WAYSIDE WAIFS INC ↗
  • Who funds ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC ↗
  • Who funds The Stanley H Durwood Foundation CO The Greater KC Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CORNERSTONES OF CARE ↗
  • Who funds A Greener World ↗
  • Who funds SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE AGRICULTURE PROJECT INC ↗

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.

United Way of Greater Kansas City IncMO157.7× affinity302 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · Health Forward Foundation · The Sherman Family Foundation · R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg · Menorah Heritage Foundation · The Francis Family Foundation · The Kansas City Royals Foundation · Jackson County Community Children's Services Fund · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · John J Sullivan Jr Foundation John Houlehan & Mark Henke-Trustees

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 Kansas City Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Greater Kansas City Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Lewis & Clark College: 2% of income from government
  • Monmouth University Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Two River Theatre Company Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
48report 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.

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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