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Groundswell Action Fund

Groundswell Action Fund strengthens U.S.

$3.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
44
Grants FY2024still arriving
22
States reached
$338k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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.

Civil Rights$9.4MPublic Benefit$5.7MCommunity Improvement$1.2MEmployment$655kPhilanthropy$455kEducation$410kEnvironment$410kArts & Culture$388kOther$0
02FY2024 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $150k
  • $50k–250k39 grants · $2.7M
  • $250k+1 grant · $338k
$62,500
Median grant
22
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Tides Advocacy Fund$337,500
Working Families Organization$100,000
The Center for Empowered Poli$100,000
Black Progressive Action Coal$100,000
CHIRLA Action Fund$75,000
Alliance for Youth Action$75,000
Florida Rising$75,000
Mijente$75,000
Black Voters Matter Fund$75,000
RE Power$75,000
The Equity Alliance Fund$75,000
All in All Action Fund$75,000
New Virginia Majority$75,000
Texas Organizing Project$75,000
One Fair Wage Action$75,000
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, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 49% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%Living United for Change inAZ: $80k → 11%RE Power: $75k → 14%APEN Action: $80k → 12%CHIRLA Action Fund: $80k → 14%NCAAT in Action: $50k → 8%Living United for Change inAZ: $80k → 11%RE Power: $75k → 14%APEN Action: $50k → 12%Living United for Change inAZ: $63k → 11%APEN Action: $50k → 12%CHIRLA Action Fund: $75k → 14%Living United for Change inAZ: $50k → 11%Forward Together Action: $70k → 10%APEN Action: $50k → 12%CHIRLA Action Fund: $60k → 14%Living United for Change inAZ: $50k → 11%APEN Action: $63k → 10%APEN Action: $60k → 10%APEN Action: $60k → 10%APEN Action: $60k → 10%Jobs with Justice: $60k → 14%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

WA
MT
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WI
MI
NY
MA
PA
CA
CO
WV
VA
MD
AZ
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AR
TN
NC
DC
LA
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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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$18M · 59 repeat orgs$808k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +72% since the first grant, against -53% for the ones you funded once.

59 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

59
8

Total granted

$18M
$495k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+72%
-53%

Still filing today

88%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $313k 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
Civil RightsHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementHealthEducationEmploymentOther

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

  • TA
    TIDES ADVOCACY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +130%
  • CI
    Care in Action Inc
    7× · 2017–2024 · $625k · revenue +448%
  • FR
    FLORIDA RISING INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $595k · revenue +431%

Funded once

  • MIJENTE SUPPORT COMMITTEE
    one grant, 2022 · $105k · revenue -53%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +136%
  • FT
    FORWARD TOGETHER ACTION
    one grant, 2022 · $70k · revenue -99%

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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Fund for Justice

Fund for Justice is a nationally connected social impact research and advocacy organization that works to achieve fundamental, systemic reform by addressing policies and practicies that prevent individuals from reaching their full…

Crime & Legal
2
Fuerza LaboralPower of Workers

Fuerza Laboral is a workers' rights center whose mission is to shift the balance of power in our economy in favor of workers by educating, training, and organizing workers to become community leaders; taking direct action to recover unpaid…

Education
3
Our Voice Nuestra Voz

Our Voice Nuestra Voice is a nation-building organization, anchoring ancestry while building Black and Brown solidarity in New Orleans. We remember our shared culture and language, reconnect to the land, and organize our community around…

Human Services
4
Bold Impact

Bold Impact is a national nonprofit dedicated to supporting a democracy where all communities get to thrive.

Arts & Culture
5
Forward Justice Action Network

Forward Justice Action Network is a nonprofit with the purpose to engage in educational and advocacy activities to promote political and grassroots support for public policies that advance racial social and economic justice in North…

Human Services
6
Organize for Justice

Organize for justice develops diverse campaign leadership by passing on innovations and relationships from one generation of organizers to the next. the organization strives to create public support on issues affecting working americans.

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7
Women for Political Action Change Education & Advo

We holistically invest in the leadership and political power of young women and trans & non-binary folks.

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8
Wepower

We activate community power to redesign social systems to be just and equitable for all through (1) developing and supporting leaders and organizations and (2) leading campaigns, coalitions, and innovative initiatives.

Community Improvement
9
Colorado People's Action

Colorado people's action (cpa) is a member-driven, racial justice organization dedicated to winning long-lasting progressive public policies in colorado. cpa builds power by mobilizing voters, electing our own people to office, holding…

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10
Black in Action Collective

Black in Action Collective exists to build Black political power to transform systems and radically reimagine what is possible for ourselves, our families, and our communities

Civil Rights
11
Working Washington

We are workers, united across different industries to improve our working conditions and our lives. We come together as working people to build power through education, organizing, and enforcement. We work to raise and uphold standards in…

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12
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Atlanta Inc

Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Atlanta's mission is to protect and promote the civil and human rights of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders in Georgia and the Southeast through policy advocacy, legal services,…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Repower Fund and the most unlike its peers is Fortaleza. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyYouth Development ServicesLgbtq+ Community SupportEnvironmental Conservation …Policy Research and AdvocacyImmigrant Worker SupportPregnancy Support ServicesWomen & Girls Leadership De…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 10 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%15%<5yr14%35%5–10yr19%24%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr13%2%35–55yr16%0%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%8%<5yr14%32%5–10yr19%29%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr13%2%35–55yr16%0%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 15% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%2/72
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,493

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

68 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 68 of the 73 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.

13
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
30
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/68
Grantees still filing
42/68
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Care in Action Inc — $625,000 · Civil RightsCare in Action IncFLORIDA RISING INC — $595,000 · Civil RightsFLORIDA RISING INCNEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC — $550,000 · Civil RightsNEW GEORGIA PROJECT INCWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC — $490,000 · Civil RightsWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INCNEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc — $455,000 · Civil RightsALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ACTION — $450,000 · Civil RightsASIAN AMERICAN ADVOCACY FUND INC — $412,500 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS — $400,000 · Civil RightsEQUALITY NC — $312,500 · Civil RightsVOCES DE LA FRONTERA ACTION INC — $312,500 · Civil RightsOUR VOICE OUR VOTE ARIZONA — $312,500 · Civil RightsBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC — $310,000 · Civil Rights+23 more — $3,827,500 · Civil Rights+23 moreTIDES ADVOCACY — $1,957,500 · OtherTIDES ADVOCACYBlack Progressive Action Coal — $355,000 · OtherBlack Progressive Action CoalNM NATIVE VOTE — $342,500 · OtherNM NATIVE VOTEWashington Community Action Network — $342,500 · OtherWashington Community Action NetworkBlack Voters Matter Fund Inc — $305,000 · OtherASIAN PACIFIC ISLANDER POLITICAL AL LIANCE — $297,500 · OtherMOTHERING JUSTICE ACTION FUND — $292,500 · OtherWEST VIRGINIA FREE INCORPORATED — $240,000 · OtherBlack Progressive Action Coal — $225,000 · OtherONE FAIR WAGE ACTION INC — $215,000 · OtherWESTERN NATIVE VOICE EDUCATION PROJECT — $210,000 · OtherJobs with Justice San Francisco — $290,000 · Other+11 more — $1,105,000 · Other+11 moreTEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND — $510,000 · Community ImprovementMIJENTE — $430,000 · Community ImprovementORGANIZERS IN THE LAND OF ENCHANTMENT — $302,500 · Community ImprovementWestern Native Voice Inc — $97,500 · Community ImprovementAsian Pacific Environmental Network Action — $472,500 · Human ServicesLIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA — $382,500 · Human ServicesCalifornians for Human Immigrant Rights Leadership Action Fund — $215,000 · Human ServicesREPOWER FUND — $150,000 · Human ServicesFORWARD TOGETHER ACTION — $70,000 · Human ServicesNCAAT IN ACTION — $50,000 · Human ServicesVIRGINIA NEW MAJORITY EDUCATION FUND — $565,000 · EducationBLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESS — $162,500 · HealthCOLORADO ORGANIZATION FOR LATINA OPPORTUNITY AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS — $162,500 · HealthForward Together — $150,000 · HealthSIXTEEN THIRTY FUND — $410,000 · Environment
Civil Rights$9,052,500Other$6,177,500Community Improvement$1,340,000Human Services$1,340,000Education$565,000Health$475,000Environment$410,000

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 budgetTIDES ADVOCACY — $1,957,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetCare in Action Inc — $625,000 over 7y, 4.2% of budgetFLORIDA RISING INC — $595,000 over 8y, 6.6% of budgetVIRGINIA NEW MAJORITY EDUCATION FUND — $565,000 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetNEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC — $550,000 over 5y, 9.2% of budgetTEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND — $510,000 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC — $490,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetAsian Pacific Environmental Network Action — $472,500 over 8y, 25% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc — $455,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ACTION — $450,000 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetMIJENTE — $430,000 over 7y, 7.6% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN ADVOCACY FUND INC — $412,500 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetSIXTEEN THIRTY FUND — $410,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS — $400,000 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetLIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA — $382,500 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetNM NATIVE VOTE — $342,500 over 6y, 18% of budgetWashington Community Action Network — $342,500 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetEQUALITY NC — $312,500 over 5y, 31% of budgetVOCES DE LA FRONTERA ACTION INC — $312,500 over 5y, 9.8% of budgetOUR VOICE OUR VOTE ARIZONA — $312,500 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC — $310,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetBlack Voters Matter Fund Inc — $305,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetORGANIZERS IN THE LAND OF ENCHANTMENT — $302,500 over 5y, 6.0% of budgetMOTHERING JUSTICE ACTION FUND — $292,500 over 5y, 58% of budgetJobs with Justice San Francisco — $290,000 over 5y, 20% of budgetCULTURAL ENGAGEMENT LABORATORY — $282,500 over 5y, 22% of budgetCOALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS — $275,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetSisters Lead Sisters Vote Inc — $262,500 over 5y, 86% of budgetNEW AMERICAN LEADERS ACTION FUND INC — $262,500 over 5y, 52% of budgetONE FAIR WAGE INC — $240,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetBlack Youth Project 100 NFP — $240,000 over 5y, 19% of budgetTHE EQUITY ALLIANCE — $240,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA FREE INCORPORATED — $240,000 over 5y, 6.9% of budgetFreedom Action Now — $222,500 over 5y, 8.0% of budgetCalifornians for Human Immigrant Rights Leadership Action Fund — $215,000 over 3y, 51% of budgetTHE EQUITY ALLIANCE FUND — $215,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetONE FAIR WAGE ACTION INC — $215,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetWESTERN NATIVE VOICE EDUCATION PROJECT — $210,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetSIX ACTION — $200,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetFund for Social Impact — $190,000 over 3y, 72% of budgetCOLOR ACTION FUND — $182,500 over 3y, 15% of budgetBLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESS ACTION PROJECT — $182,500 over 3y, 42% of budgetBLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESS — $162,500 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetCOLORADO ORGANIZATION FOR LATINA OPPORTUNITY AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS — $162,500 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetREPOWER FUND — $150,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetForward Together — $150,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT — $150,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetMISSISSIPPI VOTES ACTION FUND CORPORATION — $142,500 over 3y, 39% 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 TIDES ADVOCACY ↗
  • Who funds Care in Action Inc ↗
  • Who funds FLORIDA RISING INC ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIA NEW MAJORITY EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds NEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Asian Pacific Environmental Network Action ↗
  • Who funds NEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ACTION ↗
  • Who funds MIJENTE ↗
  • Who funds ASIAN AMERICAN ADVOCACY FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds SIXTEEN THIRTY FUND ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS ↗
  • Who funds LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA ↗
  • Who funds NM NATIVE VOTE ↗
  • Who funds Washington Community Action Network ↗
  • Who funds EQUALITY NC ↗
  • Who funds VOCES DE LA FRONTERA ACTION INC ↗
  • Who funds OUR VOICE OUR VOTE ARIZONA ↗
  • Who funds BVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds Black Voters Matter Fund Inc ↗
  • Who funds ORGANIZERS IN THE LAND OF ENCHANTMENT ↗
  • Who funds MOTHERING JUSTICE ACTION FUND ↗
  • Who funds Jobs with Justice San Francisco ↗
  • Who funds CULTURAL ENGAGEMENT LABORATORY ↗
  • Who funds COALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS ↗
  • Who funds Sisters Lead Sisters Vote Inc ↗
  • Who funds NEW AMERICAN LEADERS ACTION FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds ONE FAIR WAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds Black Youth Project 100 NFP ↗
  • Who funds THE EQUITY ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds WEST VIRGINIA FREE INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds Freedom Action Now ↗
  • Who funds Californians for Human Immigrant Rights Leadership Action Fund ↗
  • Who funds THE EQUITY ALLIANCE FUND ↗
  • Who funds ONE FAIR WAGE ACTION INC ↗

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.

All Hands on Deck Net…Tides AdvocacySixteen Thirty FundOpen Society Action F…Way to Win Action Fun…America VotesWomen Donors Network …Tides FoundationNEO Philanthropy Acti…State Engagement FundCenter for Community …Instructional Telecom…
All Hands on Deck Network IncMA74.8× affinity35 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Tides Advocacy · Sixteen Thirty Fund · Open Society Action Fund Inc · Way to Win Action Fund Inc · America Votes · Women Donors Network Action · Tides Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc · State Engagement Fund · Center for Community Change Action · Instructional Telecommunications Foundation Inc

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 Groundswell Action Fund 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
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24

    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.

    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 73 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.

    Source object · view filing

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