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J B Fuqua Foundation Inc at a glance

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J B Fuqua Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
33
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$275k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$2.5MHealth$2.2MHuman Services$955kHousing & Shelter$810kEnvironment$615kFood & Nutrition$550kCommunity Improvement$490kInternational$395kOther$0
02FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $384k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+1 grant · $275k
$40,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$36M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SALVATION ARMY - METRO ATLANTA$275,000
SHEPHERD CENTER$200,000
OPEN HAND ATLANTA$150,000
ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$100,000
JUMPSTART AUTOMOTIVE TRAINING CENTER$100,000
CITY OF REFUGE$100,000
GEORGIA WORKS$100,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO ATLANTA$50,000
INNER EXPLORER$50,000
FIRST STEP STAFFING$50,000
CLARKSTON COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER$50,000
EMORY UNIVERSITY'S GADRC$50,000
GROVE PARK FOUNDATION$50,000
INSPIREDU$50,000
TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND$50,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MUST MINISTRIES: $25k → 8%SOARING HEIGHTS COMMUNITIES INC: $50k → 11%MUST MINISTRIES: $15k → 8%JUMPSTART AUTOMOTIVE TRAINING CENTER: $100k → 13%SER FAMILIA INC: $50k → 8%SER FAMILIA INC: $50k → 8%SER FAMILIA INC: $15k → 8%GEORGIA CENTER FOR CHILD ADVOCACY: $40k → 13%GEORGIA CENTER FOR CHILD ADVOCACY: $40k → 13%GEORGIA CENTER FOR CHILD ADVOCACY: $40k → 13%NEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS: $25k → 14%NEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS: $25k → 14%VOICES FOR GEORGIA'S CHILDREN: $20k → 13%CARINGWORKS: $25k → 14%CHRIS 180: $75k → 14%CHRIS 180: $75k → 14%ODYSSEY FAMILY COUNSELING CENTER: $25k → 13%CHRIS180: $50k → 14%CHRIS180: $25k → 14%MEALS ON WHEELS ATLANTA: $50k → 13%ATLANTA MISSION: $50k → 13%MEALS ON WHEELS ATLANTA: $25k → 13%MEALS ON WHEELS ATLANTA: $20k → 13%ATLANTA MISSION: $20k → 13%NORTH FULTON COMMUNITY CHARITIES: $25k → 13%KATE'S CLUB: $50k → 14%NORTH FULTON COMMUNITY CHARITIES: $15k → 13%KATE'S CLUB: $50k → 14%MIDTOWN ASSISTANCE CENTER: $15k → 13%GEORGIA WORKS: $100k → 13%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS ATLANTA: $40k → 13%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS ATLANTA: $40k → 13%VOICES FOR GEORGIA'S CHILDREN: $40k → 13%VOICES FOR GEORGIA'S CHILDREN: $40k → 13%GEORGIA WORKS: $25k → 13%VOICES FOR GEORGIA'S CHILDREN: $25k → 13%HOUSE OF CHERITH: $50k → 13%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

NY
MA
MD
AR
TN
NC
DC
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 39% of J B Fuqua Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 86% of the giving stays in GA; by stated purpose, 55%.

J B Fuqua Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.5M · 53 repeat orgs$2.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

53 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
53

Total granted

$7.5M
$2.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+3%

Still filing today

83%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $555k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationCommunity ImprovementInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • SC
    SHEPHERD CENTER INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $800k · revenue +25%
  • TA
    THE ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $565k · revenue +154%
  • CO
    CITY OF REFUGE
    3× · 2020–2024 · $215k · revenue +151%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA
    one grant, 2022 · $260k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL
    one grant, 2021 · $260k
  • AR
    ATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -9%
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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Atlanta Committee for Progress Inc

ACP is a group committed to identifying and providing leadership on selected issues important to driving the economic development of the city of Atlanta and for which the ACP's active involvement will make a major difference. The ACP has a…

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2
Medical Center of Central Georgia Inc

To enhance the health status of those we serve in partnership with medical staff and other community organizations by providing wellness services, health education, training, and access to safe high quality health care services.

Health
3
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc

To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.

Health
4
Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce Inc

The corporation is a voluntary association of individuals and organizations the purposes of which are to upgrade and advance the atlanta metropolitan area in population, commerce and finance; to effect civic and social improvements; to…

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5
Annandale At Suwanee Inc

To perpetuate a village community to provide progressive life assistance to adults with developmental disabilities so that they can maximize their abilities and maintain their independence in the least restrictive environment.

Health
6
Goodwill of the Coastal Empire Inc

Our commitment is to provide the individual support, meaningful training and employment services to people to remove barriers and close skill gaps so that individuals build brighter futures.

Employment
7
Georgia Center for Opportunity Inc

Georgia Center for Opportunity GCO is an independent, non-partisan think tank dedicated to increasing opportunity and improving the quality of life for all Georgians.

Education
8
Atlanta Center for Self Sufficiency Inc

To empower financially vulnerable individuals in our community to become self-sufficient, sustainably employed, and economic contributors to society.

Employment
9
Medlink Georgia Inc

To partner with patients and communities to support wellness through compassionate, quality healthcare.

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10
Hope Atlanta Inc

Hope atlanta seeks to help georgians avoid homelessness and hunger through a comprehensive approach that equips them with the tools for lifelong stability.our vision is to end hunger and homelessness for every georgian.

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11
Families First Inc

Families first strengthens family resiliency so children and families can thrive. through a prevention-based, two-generation approach, the organization provides behavioral health services, intensive navigation and case management, and…

Human Services
12
Mom Community Inc

To provide low-cost transitional living and life skill programs to pregnant mothers and new moms between the ages of 18 and 24

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation; the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

93 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. 93 of the 116 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)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
90/93
Grantees still filing
55/93
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNC ARTS & SCIENCES FOUNDATION: $520,000 · OtherUNC ARTS & SCIENCES FOUNDATIONEMORY UNIVERSITY: $410,000 · OtherEMORY UNIVERSITYSALVATION ARMY - METRO ATLANTA: $400,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMY - METRO ATLANTAUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA: $260,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINAUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $260,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL3DE: $200,000 · Other3DE NATIONAL LLC: $200,000 · OtherFirst Step Staffing Inc: $300,000 · OtherFirst Step Staffing IncCITY OF REFUGE: $215,000 · Other+50 more: $2,063,111 · Other+50 moreSHEPHERD CENTER INC: $800,000 · HealthSHEPHERD CENTER INCGEORGE WEST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $138,618 · HealthGEORGE WEST MENTAL …CLARKSTON COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $125,000 · HealthCLARKSTON COMMUNITY…ATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC: $100,000 · HealthATLANTA RONALD MCDO…Atlanta Association for Convalescent Aged Persons Inc: $100,000 · HealthAtlanta Association…FOUNDATION OF WESLEY WOODS INC: $90,000 · HealthRESILIENT GEORGIA INC: $80,000 · HealthPiedmont Healthcare Foundation Inc: $60,000 · HealthTHE CENTER FOR BLACK WOMEN'S WELLNESS CBWW INC: $60,000 · Health+6 more: $210,000 · Health+6 moreCHRIS 180 INC: $225,000 · Human ServicesCHRIS 180 INCGeorgia Works Inc: $125,000 · Human ServicesGeorgia Works I…VOICES FOR GEORGIA'S CHILDREN INC: $125,000 · Human ServicesVOICES FOR GEOR…GEORGIA CENTER FOR CHILD ADVOCACY INC: $120,000 · Human ServicesGEORGIA CENTER …SER FAMILIA: $115,000 · Human ServicesSER FAMILIAKATE'S CLUB INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesKATE'S CLUB INCAUTOMOTIVE TRAINING CENTER CORPORATION: $100,000 · Human ServicesAUTOMOTIVE TRAI…Meals on Wheels Atlanta Inc: $95,000 · Human ServicesMeals on Wheels…Communities in Schools of Atlanta Inc: $80,000 · Human ServicesCommunities in …ATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION: $70,000 · Human ServicesHouse of Cherith Inc: $50,000 · Human ServicesSOARING HEIGHTS COMMUNITIES INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesNEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS INC: $50,000 · Human Services+5 more: $145,000 · Human Services+5 moreEmory University: $195,000 · EducationEmory Uni…Kipp Metro Atlanta Collaborative Inc: $150,000 · EducationKipp Metr…THE GLOBAL VILLAGE PROJECT INC: $100,000 · EducationTHE GLOBA…THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · EducationTHE POSSE…INSPIREDU INC: $50,000 · EducationINSPIREDU…YEAR UP INC: $50,000 · EducationYEAR UP I…WELLBEING ACTION FOR YOUTH INC: $50,000 · EducationWELLBEING…UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH: $50,000 · EducationUNIVERSIT…The Scholarship Academy Inc: $50,000 · EducationThe Schol…LEAP YEAR INC: $30,000 · Education+2 more: $50,000 · Education+2 moreTHE ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $565,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $50,000 · Environment+1 more: $15,000 · EnvironmentATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $200,000 · Food & NutritionOPEN HAND ATLANTA INC: $150,000 · Food & NutritionGLOBAL GROWERS NETWORK INC: $50,000 · Food & NutritionCONCRETE JUNGLE INC: $40,000 · Food & NutritionMEDSHARE INTERNATIONAL INC: $135,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $125,000 · InternationalTHE CARTER CENTER INC: $75,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $50,000 · International+1 more: $10,000 · International
Other$4,828,111Health$1,763,618Human Services$1,450,000Education$875,000Environment$630,000Food & Nutrition$440,000International$395,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSHEPHERD CENTER INC: $800,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $565,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetFirst Step Staffing Inc: $300,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCHRIS 180 INC: $225,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCITY OF REFUGE: $215,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $200,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budget3DE NATIONAL LLC: $200,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetEmory University: $195,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKipp Metro Atlanta Collaborative Inc: $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOPEN HAND ATLANTA INC: $150,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGEORGE WEST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $138,618 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMEDSHARE INTERNATIONAL INC: $135,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $125,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGeorgia Works Inc: $125,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetVOICES FOR GEORGIA'S CHILDREN INC: $125,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetCLARKSTON COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $125,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetGEORGIA CENTER FOR CHILD ADVOCACY INC: $120,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetOUR HOUSE INC: $120,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSER FAMILIA: $115,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GLOBAL VILLAGE PROJECT INC: $100,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAtlanta Association for Convalescent Aged Persons Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetATLANTA BELTLINE PARTNERSHIP INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetKATE'S CLUB INC: $100,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetAUTOMOTIVE TRAINING CENTER CORPORATION: $100,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetMeals on Wheels Atlanta Inc: $95,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFOUNDATION OF WESLEY WOODS INC: $90,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetRESILIENT GEORGIA INC: $80,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetGREENLIGHT FUND INC: $80,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCommunities in Schools of Atlanta Inc: $80,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetATLANTA NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE CARTER CENTER INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION: $70,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCAMP TWIN LAKES INC: $66,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPiedmont Healthcare Foundation Inc: $60,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR BLACK WOMEN'S WELLNESS CBWW INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEAST INC: $55,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCLUBHOUSE ATLANTA INC: $50,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetHouse of Cherith Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC: $50,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetPARTNERS FOR HOME INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEAST LAKE FOUNDATIONINC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Atlanta Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE GIVING KITCHEN INITIATIVE INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetAgnes Scott College: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

United Way of Greater…The Community Foundat…The Imlay Foundation …Tull Charitable Found…Atl Fdn-W Peters MainTr Uw Charles I BrananThe Waterfall Foundat…Ryan Ida Alice Tuw Ma…Georgia Power Foundat…The Sartain Lanier Fa…Betty and Davis Fitzg…Tw Marian W Ottley At…
United Way of Greater Atlanta IncGA82.3× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The Imlay Foundation Inc · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · Ryan Ida Alice Tuw Main · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation Inc · Betty and Davis Fitzgerald Foundation Inc · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main

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 J B Fuqua Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from J B Fuqua Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
32report 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.
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Find your warmest path to J B Fuqua Foundation Inc 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 116 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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