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Hardenbergh Foundation at a glance

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Hardenbergh Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$6.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
185
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$5.8MArts & Culture$5.2MHealth$4.4MHousing & Shelter$4.0MYouth Development$3.4MCommunity Improvement$2.0MEducation$1.7MRecreation & Sports$1.7MOther$0
02FY2025 · 185 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k148 grants · $2.7M
  • $50k–250k30 grants · $2.6M
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.5M
$20,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$69M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UJAMAA PLACE$500,000
LAKEVIEW HEALTH FOUNDATION$500,000
WAKAN TIPI AWANYANKAPI$250,000
FACE TO FACE HEALTH AND COUNSELING$250,000
BEACON INTERFAITH HOUSING COLLABORATIVE$200,000
PRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION$200,000
MINNESOTA ZOO FOUNDATION$150,000
YWCA ST PAUL$125,000
GOODWILL-EASTER SEALS MINNESOTA$100,000
THE PLAYWRIGHTS' CENTER$100,000
COMMONBOND COMMUNITIES$100,000
ST PAUL URBAN TENNIS$100,000
TRUE FRIENDS$100,000
LATINO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER$100,000
WOMEN'S ADVOCATES INC$100,000
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 (FY20–25, $7.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $20k → 16%BETHESDA LUTHERAN COMMUNITIES: $250k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $25k → 9%CANVAS HEALTH: $177k → 6%DRAWER: $40k → 6%CANVAS HEALTH INC: $103k → 6%DRAWER INC: $70k → 6%DRAWER: $40k → 6%OPEN ARMS: $100k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING: $25k → 11%OPEN ARMS: $100k → 14%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES: $350k → 14%COMMUNITY THREAD: $50k → 6%COMMUNITY THREAD: $45k → 6%FAMILYMEANS: $30k → 6%FAMILYMEANS: $25k → 6%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $30k → 14%FAMILYMEANS: $25k → 6%FAMILYMEANS: $25k → 6%FAMILYMEANS: $25k → 6%FAMILYMEANS: $25k → 6%PRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION: $250k → 14%PRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION: $200k → 14%YMCA OF THE NORTH: $100k → 11%MERRICK COMMUNITY SERVICES: $65k → 14%MERRICK COMMUNITY SERVICES: $25k → 14%MERRICK COMMUNITY SERVICES: $25k → 14%ELPIS ENTERPRISES: $50k → 14%FACE TO FACE HEALTH AND COUNSELING: $250k → 14%MERRICK COMMUNITY SERVICES: $125k → 14%MERRICK COMMUNITY SERVICES: $30k → 14%UJAMAA PLACE: $50k → 14%UJAMAA PLACE: $25k → 14%SOLID GROUND: $100k → 14%NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $1.1M → 14%AIN DAH YUNG CENTER: $265k → 14%OUR LADY OF PEACE: $250k → 14%AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $25k → 14%UJAMAA PLACE: $25k → 14%UJAMAA PLACE: $25k → 14%UJAMAA PLACE: $25k → 14%UJAMAA PLACE: $500k → 14%UNION GOSPEL MISSION TWIN CITIES: $85k → 14%FREEDOM PLACE: $34k → 14%FREEDOM PLACE INC: $30k → 14%UJAMAA PLACE: $30k → 14%UNION GOSPEL MISSION TWIN CITIES: $25k → 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

WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
OR
OH
PA
CA
MO
VA
AZ
DC
HI
GA
TX
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$26M · 210 repeat orgs$7.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

210 repeat relationships: 136 still active in FY2025, 74 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

210
91

Total granted

$26M
$5.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+6%

Still filing today

82%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • ND
    NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +65%
  • CD
    COMMUNITY DENTAL CARE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +162%
  • UP
    UJAMAA PLACE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $680k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC
    one grant, 2024 · $350k · revenue +8%
  • NC
    NATIONAL COUNCIL OF YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN
    one grant, 2024 · $260k
  • E
    EQUASPACE
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +6%
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
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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2
St Paul Transportation Management Organization

Move minnesota leads the movement for an equitable and sustainable transportation system that puts people first. we are passionate about connecting communities, ending the climate crisis, expanding access to jobs and resources, and…

Environment
3
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…

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4
African Development Center

Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota

Human Services
5
Mn Community Measurement

Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.

Health
6
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.

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7
United Way of Ne Minnesota

United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.

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8
Touchstone Mental Health

Touchstone mental health provides innovative, person-centered services that foster hope, health and well-being. we envision a world where all people whose lives are affected by mental illness will flourish with effective treatment, quality…

Human Services
9
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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10
Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Inc

The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits informs, promotes, connects and strengthens individual nonprofits and the nonprofit sector.

Philanthropy
11
Minnesota Jewish Community Center

The minnesota jcc is dedicated to strengthening our community by providing inclusive programs that inspire personal growth, foster connection, and promote well-being through arts, culture, education, fitness, early childhood, day camp and…

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12
Minneapolis Downtown Council

To create an extraordinary downtown minneapolis, applying the core values of leadership, collaboration, advocacy and innovation.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Home Society of Minnesota; the most unlike its peers is Big Ideas Inc. 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

254 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. 254 of the 336 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
56
Early backer (in before they grew)
247/254
Grantees still filing
159/254
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LISTENING HOUSE: $850,000 · OtherLISTENING HOUSEKeystone Community Services: $585,000 · Other+91 more: $12,071,250 · Other+91 moreNEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $1,190,000 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT…UJAMAA PLACE: $680,000 · Human ServicesUJAMAA PLACELUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $495,000 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE …PRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION: $450,000 · Human ServicesPRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUND…CANVAS HEALTH INC: $345,000 · Human ServicesAIN DAH YUNG (OUR HOME) CENTER: $335,000 · Human ServicesFace to Face Health and Counseling Service Inc: $305,000 · Human ServicesMERRICK COMMUNITY SERVICES: $285,000 · Human ServicesOUR LADY OF PEACE: $280,000 · Human ServicesABLELIGHT INC: $250,000 · Human Services+25 more: $2,291,000 · Human Services+25 moreThe Arts Partnership: $560,000 · Arts & CultureThe Arts Part…MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $450,000 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA HIS…MINNESOTA TRANSPORTATION MUSEUM INC: $325,000 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA TRA…THE PLAYWRIGHTS' CENTER INC: $200,000 · Arts & CultureFILMNORTH: $200,000 · Arts & CultureSCANDIA HERITAGE ALLIANCE: $170,000 · Arts & CultureWASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $160,000 · Arts & CultureRAMSEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $150,000 · Arts & CultureVictoria Theater Arts Center dba 825 Arts: $140,000 · Arts & CultureMinnesota Children's Museum: $130,000 · Arts & Culture+19 more: $1,295,000 · Arts & Culture+19 moreCOMMUNITY DENTAL CARE: $1,165,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY D…LAKEVIEW HEALTH FOUNDATION: $600,000 · HealthLAKEVIEW HE…REGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $500,000 · HealthREGIONS HOS…TUBMAN: $410,000 · HealthTUBMANCERENITY SENIOR CARE: $245,000 · HealthCERENITY SE…+4 more: $310,000 · Health+4 moreTHE SAINT PAUL PARKS CONSERVANCY: $405,000 · EnvironmentLOWER PHALEN CREEK PROJECT: $350,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $200,000 · EnvironmentRICE STREET GARDENS Rice Street Gardens: $150,000 · EnvironmentGREAT RIVER PASSAGE CONSERVANCY: $125,000 · EnvironmentTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $100,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER: $65,000 · EnvironmentRIVER VALLEY TRAILS INC: $50,000 · EnvironmentMINNDEPENDENT: $195,000 · EducationMONTESSORI TRAINING CENTER OF MINNESOTA INC: $187,500 · EducationSUMMIT ACADEMY OIC: $160,000 · EducationMETROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $120,000 · EducationCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $105,000 · EducationAFRICAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SOLUTIONS: $100,000 · EducationREADING PARTNERS: $85,000 · EducationTHE PARTNERSHIP PLAN FOR STILLWATER AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $65,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $62,500 · EducationEAST SIDE LEARNING CENTER: $60,000 · EducationBreakthrough Twin Cities: $60,000 · EducationUniversity of St Thomas: $50,000 · EducationCATHOLIC SCHOOLS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE (CSCOE): $50,000 · Education+2 more: $87,500 · EducationLatino Economic Development Center: $300,000 · Housing & ShelterLAND BANK TWIN CITIES INC: $200,000 · Housing & ShelterSolid Ground Washington: $200,000 · Housing & ShelterEMMA NORTON SERVICES: $150,000 · Housing & ShelterJEREMIAH PROGRAM: $110,000 · Housing & ShelterWOMEN'S ADVOCATES INC: $100,000 · Housing & ShelterST CROIX FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $70,000 · Housing & ShelterTWO RIVERS COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $60,000 · Housing & ShelterOPPORTUNITY NEIGHBORHOOD: $57,500 · Housing & ShelterAEON: $50,000 · Housing & ShelterIRIS PARK COMMONS: $50,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$13,506,250Human Services$6,906,000Arts & Culture$3,780,000Health$3,230,000Environment$1,445,000Education$1,387,500Housing & Shelter$1,347,500

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%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $1,190,000 over 5y, 6.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY DENTAL CARE: $1,165,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetUJAMAA PLACE: $680,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetLAKEVIEW HEALTH FOUNDATION: $600,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetKeystone Community Services: $585,000 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetThe Arts Partnership: $560,000 over 6y, 4.9% of budgetREGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $495,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $450,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION: $450,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetWALKER WEST MUSIC ACADEMY: $442,500 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetTRUE FRIENDS: $435,000 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetTUBMAN: $410,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetTHE SAINT PAUL PARKS CONSERVANCY: $405,000 over 6y, 43% of budgetTHE SANNEH FOUNDATION: $385,000 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetLOWER PHALEN CREEK PROJECT: $350,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetBEACON INTERFAITH HOUSING COLLABORATIVE: $350,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCOMMONBOND COMMUNITIES: $350,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $350,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANVAS HEALTH INC: $345,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetAIN DAH YUNG (OUR HOME) CENTER: $335,000 over 6y, 6.6% of budgetMINNESOTA TRANSPORTATION MUSEUM INC: $325,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetFace to Face Health and Counseling Service Inc: $305,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetThe JK Movement: $300,000 over 5y, 22% of budgetLatino Economic Development Center: $300,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetMERRICK COMMUNITY SERVICES: $285,000 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetOUR LADY OF PEACE: $280,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetEQUASPACE: $250,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetWHITE BEAR LAKE AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $250,000 over 1y, 12% of budget180 DEGREES INC: $250,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetHUDSON HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC: $250,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetABLELIGHT INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHRISTIAN CUPBOARD EMERGENCY FOOD SHELF DBA OPEN CUPBOARD: $245,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetCERENITY SENIOR CARE: $245,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $220,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGoodwill Industries Inc: $220,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBridging Inc: $210,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetBELWIN CONSERVANCY: $200,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetLAND BANK TWIN CITIES INC: $200,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetTHOMAS IRVINE DODGE NATURE CENTER: $200,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetTree Trust: $200,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetOPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $200,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PLAYWRIGHTS' CENTER INC: $200,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetFILMNORTH: $200,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetSolid Ground Washington: $200,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMINNDEPENDENT: $195,000 over 6y, 6.9% of budgetBIG IDEAS INC: $190,000 over 3y, 11% 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.

Fr Bigelow FoundationFred C and Katherine …Saint Paul & Minnesot…Otto Bremer TrustMardag FoundationHugh J Andersen Found…Andersen Corporate Fo…The Hubbard Broadcast…Greater Twin Cities U…Target FoundationThe Richard M Schulze…The Minneapolis Found…
Fr Bigelow FoundationMN204.6× affinity114 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fr Bigelow Foundation · Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Mardag Foundation · Hugh J Andersen Foundation · Andersen Corporate Foundation · The Hubbard Broadcasting Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Target Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · The Minneapolis 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 Hardenbergh Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hardenbergh Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
    84report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Hardenbergh Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Hardenbergh Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 336 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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