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Iowa Corn Grower's Association

The iowa corn growers association (icga) is a membership organization lobbying to protect the rights of its more than 7,000 corn farmer members.

$9.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
33
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$3.2M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

Food & Nutrition$58MEnvironment$3.7MEducation$1.9MCommunity Improvement$485kScience & Tech$457kHealth$273kRecreation & Sports$50kArts & Culture$47kOther$0
02FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $69k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $215k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $540k
  • $250k+5 grants · $8.1M
$15,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$27M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL CORN GROWERS ASSOCIATION (NCGA)$3,197,000
US GRAINS COUNCIL (USGC)$2,721,848
US MEAT EXPORT FEDERATION (USMEF)$1,700,000
KANSAS CORN COMMISSION$250,000
IOWA AGRICULTURE WATER ALLIANCE (IAWA)$250,000
GROWTH ENERGY$160,030
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY (ISU)$109,300
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN$96,000
RENEWABLE FUELS ASSOCIATION$65,000
WORLD FOOD PRIZE$60,000
IOWA AGRICULTURE LITERACY FOUNDATION (IALF)$50,000
AGRICULTURE ALLIANCE COMPETITION COUNCIL$37,000
IOWA NUTRIENT RESEARCH & EDUCATION COUNCIL (INREC)$35,000
IOWA FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURAL ADVANCEMENT (IFAA)$27,500
GREATER DES MOINES PARTNERSHIP$27,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WATERWAYS COUNCIL INC: $50k → 14%IOWA AGRICULTURE LITERACY FOUNDATION: $50k → 5%IOWA NUTRIENT RESEARCH & EDUCATION COUNCIL: $85k → 10%ISU FOUNDATION: $1.0M → 17%KANSAS CORN COMMISSION: $250k → 20%NATIONAL CORN GROWERS ASSOCIATION: $3.1M → 11%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN: $96k → 10%US MEAT EXPORT FEDERATION: $1.6M → 12%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS CHICAGO: $75k → 14%NATIONAL WATERWAYS CONFERENCE INC: $50k → 7%WORLD FOOD PRIZE: $73k → 10%ISU FOUNDATION: $1.0M → 17%KANSAS CORN COMMISSION: $250k → 20%NATIONAL CORN GROWERS ASSOCIATION: $2.5M → 11%US MEAT EXPORT FEDERATION: $1.6M → 12%WORLD FOOD PRIZE FOUNDATION: $60k → 10%IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1.0M → 17%RENEWABLE FUELS ASSOCIATION: $65k → 11%US MEAT EXPORT FEDERATION: $1.4M → 12%AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $60k → 14%WORLD FOOD PRIZE FOUNDATION: $60k → 10%IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $505k → 17%US MEAT EXPORT FEDERATION: $1.4M → 12%AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $60k → 14%WORLD FOOD PRIZE: $60k → 10%US MEAT EXPORT FEDERATION: $1.3M → 12%AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $60k → 14%WORLD FOOD PRIZE: $60k → 10%US MEAT EXPORT FEDERATION: $550k → 12%US GRAINS COUNCIL: $2.5M → 14%IOWA NUTRIENT RESEARCH & EDUCATION COUNCIL: $51k → 10%US GRAINS COUNCIL: $2.5M → 14%US GRAINS COUNCIL: $1.9M → 14%US GRAINS COUNCIL: $3.4M → 14%US GRAINS COUNCIL: $2.8M → 14%US GRAINS COUNCIL (USGC): $2.8M → 14%US GRAINS COUNCIL: $2.7M → 14%US GRAINS COUNCIL (USGC): $2.7M → 14%US GRAINS COUNCIL: $2.7M → 14%IOWA AGRICULTURAL WATER ALLIANCE: $350k → 10%IOWA AGRICULTURE WATER ALLIANCE: $310k → 10%IOWA AGRICULTURE WATER ALLIANCE: $270k → 10%IOWA AGRICULTURE WATER ALLIANCE (IAWA): $250k → 10%IOWA AGRICULTURE WATER ALLIANCE: $250k → 10%IOWA AGRICULTURAL WATER ALLIANCE: $250k → 10%IOWA AGRICULTURAL WATER ALLIANCE: $250k → 10%IOWA AGRICULTURE WATER ALLIANCE: $250k → 10%IOWA AGRICULTURE WATER ALLIANCE (IAWA): $250k → 10%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

MN
IL
WI
NY
IA
OH
CO
NE
MO
VA
DE
KS
TN
NC
DC
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$64M · 32 repeat orgs$645k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

32 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
18

Total granted

$64M
$240k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+25%

Still filing today

75%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $405k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Community ImprovementEducationEnvironmentFood & NutritionHealthRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • UG
    US GRAINS COUNCIL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $24M · revenue +42%
  • NC
    NATIONAL CORN GROWERS ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $16M · revenue +6%
  • US
    UNITED STATES MEAT EXPORT FEDERATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $14M · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $70k · revenue +57%
  • ST
    SOY TRANSPORTATION COALITIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +47%
  • AL
    Agricultural Legal Defense Fund
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -60%
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.

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Iowa Corn Grower's Association

The iowa corn growers association (icga) is a membership organization lobbying to protect the rights of its more than 7,000 corn farmer members. icga serves as the collective voice for iowa corn farmers, lobbying on agricultural issues at…

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2
Iowa Corn Promotion Board

The iowa corn promotion board (icpb) works to develop and defend markets, fund research, and provide education about corn and corn products. icpb's mission is to create opportunities for long term iowa corn grower profitability.

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3
Iowa Institute for Cooperatives

The objective, powers, and purposes of this association shall be to associate the members thereof together into a society for the purpose of promoting the interests and welfare of iowa cooperatives by any appropriate means but specifically…

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4
South Dakota Corn Growers Association

Promote corn and corn products and improve corn profitability. influence public policy and increase corn usage through livestock feeding and new domestic products.

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5
American Farm Bureau Federation

The american farm bureau federation is the voice of agriculture (r). we are farm and ranch families working together to build a sustainable future of safe and abundant food, fiber and renewable fuel for our nation and the world.

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6
Illinois Pork Producers Association

To improve the quality, production efficiency, and promotion of pork. representation and advocacy in regulatory and policy issues affecting the pork industry.

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7
National Council of Farmer Cooperatives

To advance the business and policy interests of america's cooperatives and other farmer-owned enterprises.

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8
Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

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9
United States of America National Comm of the Int'l Dairy Fed Inc

The mission of the united states national committee of the international dairy federation is to represent the us dairy sector worldwide by providing the best global source of scientific expertise and knowledge in support of the development…

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10
Idaho Farm Bureau Federation Inc

To promote, improve and stabilze the agricultural industry in which its member are engaged, by securing greater efficiency in the production, distribution and marketing of agricultural products and to correlate and strengthen the county…

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11
Intertribal Agriculture Council

The intertribal agriculture council was founded in 1987 to pursue and promote the conservation, development and use of our agricultural resources of american indian and alaska native tribes.

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12
Missouri Corn Growers Association

The Missouri Corn Growers Association is a grassroots organization directed by its members dedicated to increasing the profitability of corn production by developing and expanding corn markets; collecting and distributing information;…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Iowa Ffa Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Nuffield International Farming Scholarships - Usa Associate 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

45 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. 45 of the 63 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/45
Grantees still filing
36/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

US GRAINS COUNCIL: $24,185,362 · OtherUS GRAINS COUNCILUNITED STATES MEAT EXPORT FEDERATION INC: $13,791,000 · OtherUNITED STATES MEAT EXPORT FEDERATION INC+35 more: $2,185,360 · Other+35 moreNATIONAL CORN GROWERS ASSOCIATION: $15,611,472 · Food & NutritionNATIONAL CORN GROWERS ASSOCI…+3 more: $461,500 · Food & NutritionIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $3,635,750 · Education+5 more: $110,032 · EducationIOWA AGRICULTURE WATER ALLIANCE: $2,430,000 · EnvironmentIOWA NUTRIENT RESEARCH AND EDUCATION COUNCIL: $380,000 · EnvironmentWATERWAYS COUNCIL INC: $240,000 · Environment+1 more: $50,000 · EnvironmentGREATER DES MOINES PARTNERSHIP: $237,000 · Community ImprovementIOWA RENEWABLE FUELS ASSOCIATION: $227,650 · Community ImprovementGROWTH ENERGY: $160,030 · Community ImprovementTHE GLOBAL FARMER NETWORK: $100,000 · Community ImprovementSOY TRANSPORTATION COALITION: $50,000 · Community Improvement+3 more: $17,500 · Community ImprovementWorld Food Prize Foundation: $513,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN: $20,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $267,500 · Health+1 more: $5,000 · Health
Other$40,161,722Food & Nutrition$16,072,972Education$3,745,782Environment$3,100,000Community Improvement$792,180Philanthropy$533,000Health$272,500

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 budgetUS GRAINS COUNCIL: $24,185,362 over 9y, 11% of budgetNATIONAL CORN GROWERS ASSOCIATION: $15,611,472 over 5y, 17% of budgetUNITED STATES MEAT EXPORT FEDERATION INC: $13,791,000 over 9y, 4.0% of budgetIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $3,635,750 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetIOWA AGRICULTURE WATER ALLIANCE: $2,430,000 over 9y, 31% of budgetWorld Food Prize Foundation: $513,000 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetIOWA AGRICULTURE LITERACY FOUNDATION: $450,000 over 9y, 11% of budgetIOWA NUTRIENT RESEARCH AND EDUCATION COUNCIL: $380,000 over 9y, 14% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $267,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWATERWAYS COUNCIL INC: $240,000 over 9y, 2.0% of budgetGREATER DES MOINES PARTNERSHIP: $237,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetIOWA RENEWABLE FUELS ASSOCIATION: $227,650 over 8y, 4.4% of budgetIOWA FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURAL ADVANCE: $210,000 over 8y, 9.0% of budgetNATIONAL WATERWAYS CONFERENCE INC: $205,000 over 8y, 10.0% of budgetIOWA SOYBEAN ASSOCIATION: $122,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GLOBAL FARMER NETWORK: $100,000 over 8y, 7.2% of budgetIOWA FFA FOUNDATION INC: $86,567 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetIOWA STATE FAIR FOUNDATION: $75,369 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRENEWABLE FUELS ASSOCIATION: $65,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCOALITION TO PROTECT THE MISSOURI RIVER: $52,000 over 7y, 8.5% of budgetSOY TRANSPORTATION COALITION: $50,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetAGRICULTURE'S CLEAN WATER ALLIANCE: $50,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetILLINOIS CORN MARKETING BOARD: $30,700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSILOS & SMOKESTACKS NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetIOWA CATTLEMENS ASSOCIATION: $13,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $13,032 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAGRICULTURE FUTURE OF AMERICA: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBELMOND AREA ARTS COUNCIL: $7,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetCornell University: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIOUXLAND AGRICULTURE IN THE CLASSR: $6,500 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetMIDWEST COUNCIL ON AGRICULTURE: $6,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetDES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $5,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIowa Brewers Guild: $5,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetNational Agriculture in the Classroom Organization: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED STATES HEARTLAND CHINA ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFOOD BANK OF IOWA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFUELIOWA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 US GRAINS COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL CORN GROWERS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES MEAT EXPORT FEDERATION INC ↗
  • Who funds IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds IOWA AGRICULTURE WATER ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds World Food Prize Foundation ↗
  • Who funds IOWA AGRICULTURE LITERACY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds IOWA NUTRIENT RESEARCH AND EDUCATION COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds WATERWAYS COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER DES MOINES PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds IOWA RENEWABLE FUELS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds IOWA FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURAL ADVANCE ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL WATERWAYS CONFERENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds GROWTH ENERGY ↗
  • Who funds IOWA SOYBEAN ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds THE GLOBAL FARMER NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds IOWA FFA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds IOWA STATE FAIR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds RENEWABLE FUELS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds COALITION TO PROTECT THE MISSOURI RIVER ↗
  • Who funds SOY TRANSPORTATION COALITION ↗
  • Who funds AGRICULTURE'S CLEAN WATER ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds ILLINOIS CORN MARKETING BOARD ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN ↗
  • Who funds Agricultural Legal Defense Fund ↗
  • Who funds SILOS & SMOKESTACKS NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA INC ↗
  • Who funds NUFFIELD INTERNATIONAL FARMING SCHOLARSHIPS - USA ASSOCIATE INC ↗
  • Who funds IOWA CATTLEMENS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Iowa Pork Producers A…Iowa Farm Bureau Fede…Illinois Corn Marketi…Minnesota Corn Grower…The Growmark Foundati…Community Fdn of Grea…Indiana Corn Marketin…Iowa Beef Cattle Prod…Bookey Family Foundat…National Fish and Wil…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …
Iowa Pork Producers AssociationIA26.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Iowa Pork Producers Association · Iowa Farm Bureau Federation · Illinois Corn Marketing Board · Minnesota Corn Growers Association · The Growmark Foundation · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Indiana Corn Marketing Council · Iowa Beef Cattle Producers Association Dba Iowa Beef Industry Council · Bookey Family Foundation · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Iowa Corn Grower's Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Iowa Corn Grower's Association. 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 →median 30%
  • University of Delaware: 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
8report 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 63 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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