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Hillcrest Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$8.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
84
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$500k
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$12MEducation$9.0MHuman Services$7.7MHousing & Shelter$2.4MFood & Nutrition$2.4MArts & Culture$2.4MReligion$1.8MCommunity Improvement$1.4MOther$0
02FY2025 · 84 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k21 grants · $562k
  • $50k–250k56 grants · $4.8M
  • $250k+7 grants · $2.6M
$60,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$145M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DALLAS METHODIST HOSPITALS FOUNDATION INC$500,000
CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$500,000
PARKLAND FOUNDATION$500,000
DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY$400,000
ST PHILIP'S SCHOOL & COMMUNITY CENTER$250,000
NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK$250,000
CITYSCAPE SCHOOLS INC$250,000
GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS$200,000
PEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE$200,000
GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF DALLAS INC$200,000
FOOD FOUNDATION DBA HUNGER BUSTERS$150,000
HEALING HANDS MINISTRIES INC$150,000
MY POSSIBILITIES$150,000
DALLAS AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC$150,000
ROCKWALL COUNTY HELPING HANDS$150,000
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, $6.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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%ROCKWALL COUNTY HELPING HANDS: $150k → 5%ENVISION DALLAS LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION: $50k → 16%MEALS ON WHEELS AND SENIOR SERVICES: $50k → 5%CITY HOUSE INC: $50k → 5%CITY HOUSE: $35k → 5%MANE GAIT: $250k → 5%THE DICKEY FOUNDATION: $50k → 5%BEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES INC: $150k → 14%MOMMIES IN NEED: $85k → 14%MOMMIES IN NEED: $50k → 14%INCARNATION HOUSE: $50k → 14%NETWORK OF COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $150k → 14%JUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATION: $300k → 14%VOGEL: $250k → 14%THE MEN OF NEHEMIAH INC: $100k → 14%VOGEL ALCOVE: $35k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF DALLAS INCORPORATED: $500k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS: $500k → 14%BEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES INC: $50k → 14%ITS A SENSORY WORLD INC: $60k → 14%DELIVERFUND: $50k → 14%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $150k → 14%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $100k → 14%CITYSQUARE: $100k → 14%JONATHAN'S PLACE: $100k → 14%JULIETTE FOWLER COMMUNITIES: $75k → 14%CITYSQUARE: $55k → 14%JONATHAN'S PLACE: $50k → 14%OUR CALLING INC: $50k → 14%FOR OAK CLIFF: $100k → 14%THE CONCILIO: $50k → 14%THE CONCILIO: $50k → 14%SHARING LIFE COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $250k → 14%COMMUNITY DOES IT: $50k → 14%PRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM: $80k → 14%FAMILY PLACE INC: $150k → 14%FAMILY PLACE INC: $50k → 14%ENCORE PARK DALLAS: $125k → 14%BUCKNER CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES: $50k → 14%TREC COMMUNITY INVESTORS: $50k → 14%SOUTHERN DALLAS LINK INC: $50k → 14%ASSOCIATION FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $50k → 14%ASSOCIATION FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $50k → 14%STOREY LANE INDEPENDENT LIVING INC: $50k → 14%ASSOCIATION FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $50k → 14%BACHMAN LAKE TOGETHER: $40k → 14%METROCREST SERVICES INC: $150k → 14%METROCREST SERVICES INC: $40k → 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.
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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$29M · 150 repeat orgs$17M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

150 repeat relationships: 47 still active in FY2025, 103 since wound down; 37 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

150
166

Total granted

$29M
$13M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+6%

Still filing today

83%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.4M 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 ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • CM
    CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +4%
  • NT
    NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK
    5× · 2020–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +35%
  • PF
    PARKLAND FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • TP
    Trinity Park Conservancygraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue +504%
  • MH
    METHODIST HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $500k
  • TS
    TWELFTH STEP MINISTRY INC
    one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue +8%
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
Downtown Dallas Inc

Downtown Dallas, Inc. (DDI), is the champion of a clean and safe Downtown and of the economic development and vibrancy of this community of diverse, unique neighborhoods. DDI: Mobilizes and amplifies the services of public agencies.…

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2
The Dallas County System of Services Inc

To unify services across Dallas County, to empower youth, strengthen families and build safe, healthy communities.

Human Services
3
Raise Texas

RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…

Human Services
4
Episcopal Foundation of Dallas

The foundation's mission is to strengthen and support faith communities by partnering wise investments with purposeful giving.

Religion
5
Downtown Dallas Inc Foundation

Downtown Dallas, Inc. Foundation is the charitable arm of Downtown Dallas, Inc. whose purpose is to help make the area in and around Downtown Dallas a more vibrant and livable place for both daytime and permanent residents by promoting the…

Community Improvement
6
Dallas Christian School

Dallas Christian is a college preparatory school committed to Biblical values where students are prepared for Christ-centered lives of purpose, service and leadership.

Education
7
Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council

The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.

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8
Leadership Austin

Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.

Youth Development
9
Dallas County Medical Society

The mission of the dallas county medical society is to promote public health and advocate for physicians and their relationship with patients, while upholding professionalism in the practice of medicine.

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10
Dcms Foundation

The dcms foundation's mission is to improve the quality and distribution of health services throughout dallas county.

Health
11
Dallas Seminary Foundation

To support the mission of Dallas Theological Seminary by offering charitable planned giving and other related services to friends of the Seminary.

Education
12
Dallas Area Rape Crisis Center

To engage and educate communities to prevent sexual violence and to support survivors and their loved ones as they heal and thrive.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family and Child Guidance Center; the most unlike its peers is Mckinney Roots 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

277 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. 277 of the 354 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
42
Early backer (in before they grew)
267/277
Grantees still filing
170/277
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $1,470,000 · OtherNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANKDALLAS COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH & MENTAL RETARDATION CENTER: $1,000,000 · OtherDALLAS COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH & MENTAL RETARDATION…THE SALVATION ARMY NORTH TEXAS AREA COMMAND: $720,000 · Other+86 more: $14,187,000 · Other+86 moreCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $1,500,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CEN…PARKLAND FOUNDATION: $1,250,000 · HealthPARKLAND FOUNDATIONSOUTHWEST TRANSPLANT ALLIANCE INC: $674,000 · HealthSOUTHWEST TRANSPLANT A…Texas Health Resources Foundation: $600,000 · HealthTexas Health Resources…Irving Healthcare Foundation: $550,000 · HealthIrving Healthcare Foun…Baylor Health Care System Foundation: $400,000 · HealthFOUNDATION FOR THE CALLIER CENTER AND COMMUNICATION DISORDERS: $350,000 · HealthTHE CENTER FOR INTEGRATIVE COUNSELING AND PSYCHOLOGY: $300,000 · Health+16 more: $2,345,000 · Health+16 moreAUSTIN COLLEGE: $750,000 · EducationAUSTIN COLLEGEUPLIFT EDUCATION: $550,000 · EducationUPLIFT EDUCATIONDALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $400,000 · EducationDALLAS BAPTIST U…THE CENTER FOR AMERICAN AND INTERNATIONAL LAW: $300,000 · EducationST MARK'S SCHOOL OF TEXAS: $250,000 · EducationTRINITY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $250,000 · EducationJUNE SHELTON SCHOOL AND EVALUATION CENTER: $250,000 · EducationBONTON ENTERPRISES: $250,000 · EducationHOCKADAY SCHOOL: $250,000 · EducationBAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $200,000 · EducationSouthern Methodist University: $200,000 · EducationDALLAS INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY: $195,000 · Education+19 more: $1,960,000 · Education+19 moreJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF DALLAS INC DBA JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $550,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY …YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $500,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF METROP…VOGEL ALCOVE: $340,000 · Human ServicesVOGEL ALCOVEJUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATION: $330,000 · Human ServicesJUBILEE PARK &…SHARING LIFE COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $290,000 · Human ServicesSHARING LIFE C…Mane Gait: $265,000 · Human ServicesDALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $250,000 · Human ServicesMETROCREST SERVICES: $210,000 · Human ServicesBEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES INC: $200,000 · Human ServicesThe Family Place: $200,000 · Human ServicesNETWORK OF COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $180,000 · Human Services+20 more: $2,085,000 · Human Services+20 moreFAIR PARK FIRST: $500,000 · Arts & CultureDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum: $325,000 · Arts & CultureDALLAS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $200,000 · Arts & CulturePEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE: $200,000 · Arts & CultureFRONTIERS OF FLIGHT MUSEUM INC: $130,000 · Arts & CultureTHE LEGACY SENIOR COMMUNITIES INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureDALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $100,000 · Arts & CultureTHE COMMEMORATIVE AIR FORCE: $100,000 · Arts & CultureHEARD NATURAL SCIENCE MUSEUM AND WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureDALLAS BLACK DANCE THEATRE INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureDALLAS CHILDRENS THEATER INC: $95,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER: $85,000 · Arts & CultureDALLAS COUNTY HISTORICAL FOUNDATION: $75,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $55,000 · Arts & CultureCITYSCAPE SCHOOLS INC: $350,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS: $275,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP SUMMIT INC: $200,000 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF SKY RANCH INC: $200,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER DALLAS INC: $165,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAFE MOMENTUM: $155,000 · Youth DevelopmentMomentous Institute: $130,000 · Youth DevelopmentAT LAST: $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentTrinity Park Conservancy: $500,000 · Community ImprovementSOUTHERN GATEWAY PUBLIC GREEN FOUNDATION: $150,000 · Community ImprovementJUNIOR LEAGUE OF DALLAS INC: $100,000 · Community Improvement
Other$17,377,000Health$7,969,000Education$5,805,000Human Services$5,400,000Arts & Culture$2,165,000Youth Development$1,550,000Community Improvement$750,000

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 budgetCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $1,500,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $1,470,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPARKLAND FOUNDATION: $1,250,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetAUSTIN COLLEGE: $750,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSOUTHWEST TRANSPLANT ALLIANCE INC: $674,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTexas Health Resources Foundation: $600,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF DALLAS INC DBA JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $550,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetIrving Healthcare Foundation: $550,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetUPLIFT EDUCATION: $550,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTrinity Park Conservancy: $500,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetTWELFTH STEP MINISTRY INC: $500,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetDallas Methodist Hospitals Foundation Inc: $500,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetYMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $500,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFAIR PARK FIRST: $500,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetMY POSSIBILITIES: $450,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetDALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $400,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBaylor Health Care System Foundation: $400,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetST PHILIPS SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $350,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCITYSCAPE SCHOOLS INC: $350,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetGASTON CHRISTIAN CENTER: $350,000 over 3y, 27% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE CALLIER CENTER AND COMMUNICATION DISORDERS: $350,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetVOGEL ALCOVE: $340,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetJUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATION: $330,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum: $325,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetWIPE OUT KIDS' CANCER INC: $320,000 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR AMERICAN AND INTERNATIONAL LAW: $300,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR INTEGRATIVE COUNSELING AND PSYCHOLOGY: $300,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetSHARING LIFE COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $290,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS: $275,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DALLAS INC: $270,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMane Gait: $265,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetCarter BloodCare: $260,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY GATEWAY INC: $250,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetST MARK'S SCHOOL OF TEXAS: $250,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTRINITY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN DIABETIC FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetDallas Area Habitat for Humanity Inc: $250,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetJUNE SHELTON SCHOOL AND EVALUATION CENTER: $250,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBONTON ENTERPRISES: $250,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetHOCKADAY SCHOOL: $250,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $250,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetHEALING HANDS MINISTRIES INC: $220,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMETROCREST SERVICES: $210,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetVISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS: $205,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCAMP SUMMIT INC: $200,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetBAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $200,000 over 2y, 10.0% 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.

W P & Bulah Luse FoundationTX229.2× affinity116 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Hoblitzelle Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · Katherine C Carmody Charitable Tuw · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Moody Foundation · The Addy Foundation · The Perot Foundation · Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable And

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 Hillcrest Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hillcrest 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
    51report 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 Hillcrest Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Hillcrest 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 354 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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