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Hills Bank Donor Advised Gift Fund

Making cash grants to other organizations exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and which are not private foundations under Section 509 of the Internal Revenue Code.

$6.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
105
Grants FY2024still arriving
22
States reached
$407k
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 FY2020–2024.

Religion$10MEducation$3.7MHuman Services$1.5MHealth$1.2MInternational$1.1MYouth Development$414kArts & Culture$392kPhilanthropy$375kOther$0
02FY2024 · 105 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 105 grants below total $5,485,651 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $6,097,536 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $611,885 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.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k32 grants · $210k
  • $10k–50k50 grants · $1.0M
  • $50k–250k16 grants · $2.0M
  • $250k+7 grants · $2.2M
$15,000
Median grant
22
States reached
$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Avant Ministries$407,200
Emmaus Bible College$375,000
Revive Our Hearts$350,000
Turning Point Ministries$310,000
Samaritan's Purse$262,000
Iowa City Public Library Friends Foundatio$250,000
Living on the Edge$250,000
Isaac Newton Christian Academy$240,950
Episcopal Day School$205,000
St Mark's Lutheran Church$200,000
Good Shepherd Episcopal Church$200,000
Focus on the Family$195,000
Soteria Des Moines$151,050
Parkview Evangelical Free Church$135,076
Mary's Meals USA$124,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $918k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Presbyterian Homes Foundation: $750k → 17%Family Research Council: $12k → 14%PreBorn: $20k → 16%Brotherhood Prison Ministries: $36k → 15%Brotherhood Prison Ministries: $36k → 15%Horizon Family Services--Meals on Wheels: $23k → 9%HACAP: $7k → 9%CommUnity Crisis Services and Food Bank: $14k → 15%CommUnity Crisis Services and Food Bank: $11k → 15%Iowa City Hospice: $9k → 15%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

ID
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IA
IN
PA
NJ
CA
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
NC
DC
LA
GA
TX
FL

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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$15M · 109 repeat orgs$4.1M to everyone else

109 repeat relationships — 77 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

109
74

Total granted

$15M
$2.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+28%

Still filing today

54%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’23’24
EducationReligionHuman ServicesHealthInternationalArts & CultureOther

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

  • LO
    Living on the Edge Ministries Inc
    4× · 2020–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +24%
  • LA
    LIFE ACTION MINISTRIES
    4× · 2020–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +26%
  • EB
    EMMAUS BIBLE COLLEGE
    4× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • PRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $750k · revenue +101%
  • MF
    MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF IOWA INC
    one grant, 2023 · $655k · revenue +6%
  • SM
    ST MARKS LUTHERAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $200k

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.

1
Grand View University

Engages, equips and empowers learners to explore their vocations, fulfill their potential and serve the world.

Education
2
Evangel University

Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.

Education
3
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
4
Common Good Iowa

Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.

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5
The Human Choice of Iowa

Mission is to provide women facing an unplanned pregnancy with truthful medical information and education. we are faith-based with a mission to encourage, through education and outreach, the recognition of human life from the moment of…

Human Services
6
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
7
One for Israel

One for israel's purposes are to unite u.s. and international churches, ministries and individuals for the proclamation of the gospel in israel, to raise funds for evangelism and gospel proclamation, to provide tangible relief for israel's…

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8
University of Iowa Facilities Corporation

The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.

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9
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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10
International Leadership Institute

The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…

Religion
11
George Fox University

George fox university, a christ centered community, prepares students spiritually, academically, and professionally to think with clarity, act with integrity, and serve with passion.

Education
12
University of the Ozarks

True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Foundation for the Iowa City Community School District and the most unlike its peers is Warriors for Good. 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 backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Cancer Support ServicesChristian Missionary Organi…Animal Rescue and ShelterEquine Therapy ProgramsPregnancy Support ServicesChristian Youth CampsSchool Parent OrganizationsCommunity Arts CentersLocal History MuseumsYouth Development ServicesChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Policy Research and AdvocacyUnited Way AffiliatesCommunity College Foundatio…Domestic Violence ServicesAffordable Housing Developm…School District FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …Volunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Health Access Advocacy and …Independent K-12 SchoolsCommunity FoundationsSenior Support Services
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 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr16%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%8%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr13%34%35–55yr16%27%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/187
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,378

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

131 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. 131 of the 214 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)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
127/131
Grantees still filing
88/131
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GOSPEL MISSIONARY UNION — $1,610,400 · OtherGOSPEL MISSIONARY UNIONEMMAUS BIBLE COLLEGE — $1,065,000 · OtherEMMAUS BIBLE COLLEGEFOCUS ON THE FAMILY — $551,900 · OtherFOCUS ON THE FAMILYPARKVIEW EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH — $497,076 · OtherHERITAGE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — $458,443 · OtherFAITHLIFE LUTHERAN CHURCH — $400,000 · Other+119 more — $5,192,648 · Other+119 moreLiving on the Edge Ministries Inc — $1,682,400 · ReligionLiving on the Edge Ministries …LIFE ACTION MINISTRIES — $1,250,000 · ReligionLIFE ACTION MINISTRIESTurning Point for God — $735,000 · ReligionTurning Point for GodSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $651,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSEINSIGHT FOR LIVING — $358,000 · ReligionINSIGHT FOR LIVING+13 more — $625,600 · Religion+13 moreSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION — $476,031 · EducationSTATE UNIV…IOWA CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION — $250,000 · EducationIOWA CITY …BISHOP NOLAND EPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOL — $205,000 · EducationBISHOP NOL…IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $124,030 · EducationIOWA STATE…Faith Baptist Bible College — $100,000 · EducationFaith Bapt…GRAND VIEW CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC — $100,000 · EducationGRAND VIEW…FAITH ACADEMY — $86,000 · EducationThe Moody Bible Institute of Chicago — $72,700 · EducationEdChoice Inc — $67,500 · Education+16 more — $358,209 · Education+16 morePRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION — $750,000 · Human ServicesCharity Navigator — $72,000 · Human ServicesCEDAR VALLEY HOSPICE INC — $53,000 · Human Services+9 more — $158,397 · Human ServicesMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF IOWA INC — $655,000 · HealthST LUKE'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION — $124,450 · HealthINFORMED CHOICE OF IOWA CORPORATION — $61,000 · HealthTHE PREGNANCY CENTER — $60,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $40,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON DC INC — $35,000 · Health+4 more — $50,250 · HealthMary's Meals USA Inc — $196,000 · InternationalRESTORING HOPE INTERNATIONAL INC — $95,000 · InternationalCHILDREN'S RELIEF INTERNATIONAL — $31,360 · InternationalMercury One Inc — $20,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $13,150 · International+2 more — $12,920 · InternationalFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL ACTION — $285,000 · Civil RightsALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM — $15,600 · Civil Rights+1 more — $6,000 · Civil Rights
Other$9,775,467Religion$5,302,000Education$1,839,470Human Services$1,033,397Health$1,025,700International$368,430Civil Rights$306,600

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetLiving on the Edge Ministries Inc — $1,682,400 over 4y, 8.4% of budgetLIFE ACTION MINISTRIES — $1,250,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetEMMAUS BIBLE COLLEGE — $1,065,000 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION — $750,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetTurning Point for God — $735,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF IOWA INC — $655,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $651,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION — $476,031 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHERITAGE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — $458,443 over 4y, 18% of budgetINSIGHT FOR LIVING — $358,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetLINN CHRISTIAN EDUCATION ASSOCIATIO — $309,820 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL ACTION — $285,000 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetAppanoose Ministries Inc — $266,000 over 4y, 38% of budgetIOWA CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION — $250,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetBISHOP NOLAND EPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOL — $205,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetMary's Meals USA Inc — $196,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetST LUKE'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION — $124,450 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $124,030 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBROTHERHOOD PRISON MINISTRIES INC — $108,000 over 2y, 77% of budgetSTAND TO REASON — $100,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CORRIDOR — $100,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetFaith Baptist Bible College — $100,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetGRAND VIEW CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSUMMIT MINISTRIES INC — $99,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetRESTORING HOPE INTERNATIONAL INC — $95,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetMIRACLES IN MOTION THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC — $95,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetFAITH ACADEMY — $86,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetNATIONS ONE FOR CHRIST — $75,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetThe Moody Bible Institute of Chicago — $72,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCharity Navigator — $72,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetWARRIORS FOR GOOD — $69,502 over 2y, 100% of budgetROSIE'S SOUTHSIDE ANIMAL SHELTER INC — $69,215 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetEdChoice Inc — $67,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetINFORMED CHOICE OF IOWA CORPORATION — $61,000 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetSOUTHEAST IOWA MENNONITE CAMP ASSOC — $60,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetTHE PREGNANCY CENTER — $60,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetIOWA DONOR NETWORK — $60,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetANSWERS IN GENESIS INC — $57,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWARTBURG COLLEGE — $53,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCEDAR VALLEY HOSPICE INC — $53,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOLON FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENT — $51,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetBROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMIDWEST THEOLOGICAL FORUM INC — $50,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA — $49,725 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetIOWA MENNONITE SCHOOL — $49,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetRenaissance Charitable Foundation Inc — $45,513 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOREST SPRINGS CAMP AND CONFERENCE CENTER INC — $43,200 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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 Living on the Edge Ministries Inc ↗
  • Who funds LIFE ACTION MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds EMMAUS BIBLE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds PRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Turning Point for God ↗
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF IOWA INC ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HERITAGE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds INSIGHT FOR LIVING ↗
  • Who funds LINN CHRISTIAN EDUCATION ASSOCIATIO ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL ACTION ↗
  • Who funds Appanoose Ministries Inc ↗
  • Who funds IOWA CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BISHOP NOLAND EPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Mary's Meals USA Inc ↗
  • Who funds ST LUKE'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BROTHERHOOD PRISON MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds STAND TO REASON ↗
  • Who funds SHRINE OF OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CORRIDOR ↗
  • Who funds Faith Baptist Bible College ↗
  • Who funds GRAND VIEW CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SUMMIT MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds RESTORING HOPE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds MIRACLES IN MOTION THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER 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.

Community Foundation …Alliant Energy Founda…GreenState Credit Uni…Greater Cedar Rapids …The Kenneth K Kinsey …Rpc Inc Charitable Fo…The Accel FoundationHawkeye Area Communit…United Way of East Ce…Mercy Medical CenterUnited Fire Group Fou…Midwestone Bank Found…
Community Foundation of Johnson CountyIA58.6× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Johnson County · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · GreenState Credit Union · Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation · The Kenneth K Kinsey Family Foundation · Rpc Inc Charitable Foundation · The Accel Foundation · Hawkeye Area Community Action Program Inc · United Way of East Central Iowa · Mercy Medical Center · United Fire Group Foundation · Midwestone Bank Foundation

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 Hills Bank Donor Advised Gift 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    5get no government money at all
    26report 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.

    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 214 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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