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Ja Worldwide Inc

Ja worldwide's mission is to inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy.

$13M
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
16
States reached
$440k
Largest
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 FY20172025.

Youth Development$5.8MInternational$2.1MEducation$552kEmployment$83kHuman Services$67k
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 19 grants below total $887,734 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $12,665,582 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $11,777,848 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $333k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $104k
  • $250k+1 grant · $440k
$21,928
Median grant
16
States reached
$26M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Junior Achievement USA$439,572
Junior Achievement OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC$53,000
Junior Achievement OF NEW YORK INC$50,538
Junior Achievement of Central Texas$45,000
Junior Achievement OF NEW JERSEY INC$37,008
Junior Achievement OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS INC$35,000
Junior Achievement of the Space Coast$35,000
Junior Achievement of Greater Kansas City Inc$25,000
Junior Achievement OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC$23,823
Junior Achievement OF CHICAGO INC$21,928
Junior Achievement of San Diego County Inc$20,000
Junior Achievement of the Triad$20,000
Junior Achievement of Alaska$20,000
Junior Achievement of North Central Ohio Inc$20,000
Junior Achievement of South Texas Inc$10,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 41% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%JA AFRICA INC: $150k → 16%JA OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $75k → 9%JA of New York INc: $90k → 17%JA of the Chisolm Trail Inc: $83k → 11%JA of Southeast Texas Inc: $79k → 16%JA OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $34k → 14%Junior Achievement of the Space Coast: $35k → 10%JA OF THE MICHIGAN GREAT LAKES INC: $55k → 11%JA of Middle Tennessee Inc: $32k → 14%JA OF NEW JERSEY INC: $42k → 12%JA OF CHICAGO INC: $83k → 14%Junior Achievement OF NEW JERSEY INC: $37k → 8%JA OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $62k → 9%JA OF NEW YORK INC: $87k → 17%JA OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS INC: $62k → 16%JA OF THE MICHIGAN GREAT LAKES INC: $53k → 11%JA OF NEW JERSEY INC: $40k → 12%JA OF WASHINGTON: $48k → 9%Junior Achievement of Chicago: $49k → 14%Junior Achievement of New Jersey Inc: $33k → 8%Junior Achievement OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $53k → 9%JA OF NEW YORK INC: $72k → 17%JA of Southeast Texas Inc: $50k → 16%JA OF THE MICHIGAN GREAT LAKES INC: $51k → 11%JA OF SOUTHWEST NEW ENGLAND INC: $75k → 11%JA OF WASHINGTON: $35k → 9%JA OF CHICAGO INC: $35k → 14%JA OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $35k → 9%JA of New York INc: $71k → 17%JA of Southeast Texas Inc: $49k → 16%JA OF CHICAGO INC: $33k → 14%JA of New York INc: $68k → 17%JA OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS INC: $40k → 16%JA OF NEW YORK INC: $57k → 17%Junior Achievement OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS INC: $35k → 16%Junior Achievement USA: $1.0M → 9%Junior Achievement OF NEW YORK INC: $51k → 17%Junior Achievement USA: $581k → 9%JA OF NEW YORK INC: $37k → 17%Junior Achievement USA: $440k → 9%Junior Achievement of New York Inc: $35k → 17%Junior Achievement USA: $434k → 9%Junior Achievement USA: $388k → 9%Junior Achievement USA: $348k → 9%Junior Achievement USA: $302k → 9%Junior Achievement USA: $150k → 9%JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA: $83k → 9%JA USA: $50k → 9%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

AK
WA
ID
MN
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MI
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MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
KY
MD
DE
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DC
AL
GA
TX
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Grants abroad, by region — $13M on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 6 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$3.6M · 27% · 18 grants

Stated purpose: PROGRAMS

East Asia and the Pacific$3.5M · 26% · 13 grants

Stated purpose: PROGRAMS

Middle East and North Africa$3.4M · 26% · 14 grants

Stated purpose: PROGRAMS

South America$1.5M · 11% · 8 grants

Stated purpose: PROGRAMS

North America (Canada and Mexico)$714k · 5% · 4 grants

Stated purpose: PROGRAMS

Central America and the Caribbean$633k · 5% · 7 grants

Stated purpose: PROGRAMS

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 20% of Ja Worldwide Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Ja Worldwide Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.2M · 39 repeat orgs$431k to everyone else

39 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
8

Total granted

$8.2M
$311k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+33%

Still filing today

92%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k 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
InternationalEducationYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $3.8M · revenue +170%
  • JA
    Junior Achievement of Southeast Texas Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $385k · revenue +33%
  • JA
    Junior Achievement of Northern California
    9× · 2017–2025 · $377k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • JA
    JA AFRICAgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $150k · revenue +33%
  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE CHISHOLM TRAIL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $83k · revenue +65%
  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC
    one grant, 2024 · $21k · revenue -3%

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.

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Junior Achievement of Greater Hampton Roads Inc

Ja programs taught in k-12 classrooms and afterschool programs teach students about economics, financial literacy, entrepreneurship, and work readiness. (continued on schedule o)

International
2
Junior Achievement of North Central Michigan Inc

We are empowering young people to own their economic success. Our volunteer-based K-12 programs foster work-readiness, entrepreneurship, and financial literacy skills, and use experiential learning to inspire kids to dream big and reach…

Youth Development
3
Junior Achievement of Greater St Louis Inc

Empowering young people to own their economic success through work readiness, entrepreneurship, and financial literacy.

International
4
Junior Achievement of the Heartland Inc

Junior achievement (ja) is a worldwide organization that inspires and prepares young people to succeed in a global economy. they do this by providing work-readiness, financial literacy and entrepreneurship programs to students in…

International
5
Junior Achievement of Maine Inc

The mission of junior achievement of maine is to inspire and prepare young people to own their economic success.

International
6
Junior Achievement of Central Illinois Inc

Junior Achievement of Central Illinois inspires and prepares young people to succeed in the global economy. Our volunteer-delivered, experiential programs give students knowledge and skills in financial literacy, work readiness and…

International
7
Junior Achievement of Central Upstate New York Inc

The organization's mission is to prepare and inspire youth to succeed in a global economy through program experiences that focus on financial literacy, career awareness and workforce readiness, and entrepreneurial thinking. this year the…

International
8
Junior Achievement of Northern in Inc

The mission statement of jani is: to inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy.

International
9
Junior Achievement

Junior achievement of north louisiana's purpose is to help young people understand the economics of life through hands-on experiences in the classroom. janla's mission is to ensure that every child in north louisiana has a fundamental…

International
10
Junior Achievement of Kentuckiana Inc

Junior achievement of kentuckiana's mission is to inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy. the organization is the region's leading provider of life-changing economics programs for students.

International
11
Junior Achievement of Oregon and Sw Washington Inc

Junior achievement is the nation's largest organization dedicated to giving young people the knowledge and skills they need to own their economic success, plan for their future, and make smart academic and economic choices.

International
12
Junior Achievement of Southern Ma

Junior achievement of southern massachusetts is part of the world's largest organization dedicated to giving young people the knowledge and skill they need to own their economic success, plan for their future, and make smart academic and…

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Junior Achievement of Greater Washington and the most unlike its peers is Junior Achievement of Central Florida Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%4%10–20yr16%96%20–35yr13%0%35–55yr16%0%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%2%10–20yr16%98%20–35yr13%0%35–55yr16%0%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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%0/52
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,513

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.

05the grantee network

51 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 20172026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 51 of the 52 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)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/51
Grantees still filing
35/51
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NEW YORK INC — $566,938 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NEW YORK INCJunior Achievement of Southeast Texas Inc — $384,535 · InternationalJunior Achievement of Southeast Texas IncJunior Achievement of Northern California — $377,176 · InternationalJunior Achievement of Northern CaliforniaJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CHICAGO — $286,967 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CHICAGOJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NEW JERSEY — $241,680 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NEW JERSEYJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WASHINGTON — $205,549 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE MICHIGAN GREAT LAKES INC — $181,160 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER BOSTON INC — $165,102 · International+37 more — $2,044,751 · International+37 moreJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA — $3,820,346 · Youth DevelopmentJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USAJA OF PUERTO RICO — $67,277 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL TEXAS INC — $60,000 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF IDAHO INC — $25,000 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EAST CENTRAL OHIO — $20,000 · OtherJA AFRICA — $150,000 · EducationJA WORLDWIDE INC — $8,959 · Education
International$4,453,858Youth Development$3,820,346Other$172,277Education$158,959

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA — $3,820,346 over 9y, 4.3% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NEW YORK INC — $566,938 over 9y, 2.8% of budgetJunior Achievement of Southeast Texas Inc — $384,535 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetJunior Achievement of Northern California — $377,176 over 9y, 2.6% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CHICAGO — $286,967 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NEW JERSEY — $241,680 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WASHINGTON — $205,549 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE MICHIGAN GREAT LAKES INC — $181,160 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER BOSTON INC — $165,102 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetJA AFRICA — $150,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC — $135,085 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EAST TENNINC — $120,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC — $113,500 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN COLORADO INC — $112,500 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetJunior Achievement of the Bluegrass Inc — $112,500 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER WASHINGTON — $105,863 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHWEST NEW ENGLAND INC — $103,500 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ARIZONA — $92,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC — $91,273 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetJunior Achievement of Georgia — $87,524 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE CHISHOLM TRAIL INC — $82,500 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SACRAMENTO INC — $80,000 over 7y, 4.3% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MIDDLE TN — $74,606 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER MIAMI INC — $64,798 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MEMPHIS AND THE MID-SOUTH INC — $62,250 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE TRIAD INC — $55,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetJunior Achievement of Southeastern Pennsylvania — $55,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF TAMPA BAY INC — $49,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetJunior Achievement of SW Indiana Inc — $49,244 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF DELAWARE INC — $45,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA INC — $35,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ALABAMA INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MIDDLE AMERICA INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK — $25,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF IDAHO INC — $25,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF RHODE ISLAND INC — $23,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH TEXAS INC — $21,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC — $20,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WEST KENTUCKY INC — $20,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetJunior Achievement of Alaska Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC — $18,400 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT-ROCKY MOUNTAIN INC — $17,989 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH — $16,250 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC — $15,581 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetJA WORLDWIDE INC — $8,959 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJunior Achievement of North Florida Inc — $7,500 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

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.

Junior Achievement USACO64.4× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Junior Achievement USA · Wells Fargo Foundation · Rsm US Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Truist Foundation Inc · Webster Bank Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Td Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Deloitte Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Ja Worldwide Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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202122232425
no gov · 50%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 14%
  • Junior Achievement of South Florida Inc14% of income from government
  • Junior Achievement of Greater Boston Inc4% of 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
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 52 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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