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Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago

Juf provides critical resources that bring food, refuge, health care, education and emergency assistance to over 500,000 chicagoans of all faiths and millions of jews in israel and around the world, funding a network of 100+ agencies, schools, and programs.

$108M
Granted FY2025still arriving
41
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$57M
Largest

Read this first · the figures below need context

96% of Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Jewish Federations Of North America Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 37 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20172025.

Philanthropy$692MInternational$9.9MHuman Services$7.6MHealth$1.3MCivil Rights$1.0MReligion$421kArts & Culture$409kEducation$402kFood & Nutrition$175kOther$3.8M
02FY2025 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $523k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.5M
  • $250k+5 grants · $105M
$37,600
Median grant
7
States reached
$261M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Jewish Federations of North America$57,188,651
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago$44,382,915
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee$2,570,000
The Giving Back Fund$1,000,000
The Ark$291,257
Jewish Child & Family Services$243,364
American Friends of Sheba Medical Center$232,600
Mt Sinai Hospital Medical CenterSinai Health System$165,000
Hebrew Theological College$150,125
Shalva$143,419
Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County$125,000
CJE SeniorLife$120,113
Ida Crown Jewish Academy$100,000
Arie Crown Hebrew Day School$100,000
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces$65,000
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:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $7.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ISRAELI AMERICAN COUNCIL: $6k → 14%Selfreliance Association: $80k → 14%Jewish Community Centers of Chicago: $584k → 14%Jewish Community Centers of Chicago: $322k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF CHICAGO: $94k → 14%Jewish Community Centers of Chicago: $8k → 14%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT ISSIE SHAPIRO INC: $18k → 17%Jewish Child and Family Services: $767k → 14%Jewish Child & Family Services: $387k → 14%JEWISH CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES: $320k → 14%Jewish Community Centers of Chicago: $256k → 14%Jewish Child & Family Services: $246k → 14%Jewish Child & Family Services: $243k → 14%Jewish Community Centers of Chicago: $235k → 14%Jewish Child & Family Services: $234k → 14%Jewish Child & Family Services: $185k → 14%Jewish Child & Family Services: $185k → 14%Jewish Community Centers of Chicago: $134k → 14%Jewish Community Centers of Chicago: $127k → 14%Chicago Chesed Fund: $33k → 14%CHICAGO CHESED FUND: $31k → 14%Chicago Chesed Fund: $26k → 14%Chicago Chesed Fund: $25k → 14%Chicago Chesed Fund: $15k → 14%Chicago Chesed Fund: $6k → 14%Chicago Chesed Fund: $6k → 14%CJE Senior Life: $425k → 14%CJE Senior Life: $390k → 14%THE ARK: $334k → 14%CJE SENIORLIFE: $300k → 14%The Ark: $291k → 14%The ARK: $218k → 14%The ARK: $172k → 14%CJE SeniorLife: $120k → 14%CJE Senior Life: $94k → 14%CJE Senior Life: $83k → 14%CJE Senior Life: $80k → 14%CJE Senior Life: $79k → 14%The Ark: $63k → 14%The ARK: $59k → 14%Shalva: $143k → 14%The Ark: $39k → 14%SHALVA: $45k → 14%The Ark: $14k → 14%Shalva: $41k → 14%Shalva: $19k → 14%Shalva: $19k → 14%Shalva: $6k → 14%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

IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
MD
DE
TN
DC
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$20M · 36 repeat orgs$4.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

36 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
30

Total granted

$20M
$4.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
0%

Still filing today

78%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $391k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHuman ServicesEducationReligionHealthArts & 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

  • The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc
    8× · 2017–2025 · $4.9M · revenue +24%
  • JC
    Jewish Child and Family Services
    8× · 2017–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +43%
  • JC
    Jewish Community Centers of Chicago
    8× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
    one grant, 2024 · $2.1M · revenue 0%
  • TQ
    The Quad Project Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $1.0M · 49% of their budget
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER INC
    one grant, 2024 · $300k · revenue 0%

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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Sherit Isroel
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University of Judaism Foundation
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The Jerusalem Connection
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The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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Foundation for Conservative Judiasm of South Florida
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Connect Israel

Connect israel is a life-long program that aims to strengthen the gap between american jews and israelis through business, creative teamwork, and developing personal relationships.

International
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Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
8
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Delegation of Jewish American Students (Dojas)
10
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
11
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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Bronfman Youth Fellowships to Israel in Inc
Youth Development

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Project Aid & Rescue 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 43 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%5%<5yr14%2%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr19%20%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%34%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%0%10–20yr19%1%20–35yr13%1%35–55yr16%98%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% 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 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/89
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,671

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

73 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 73 of the 89 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
73/73
Grantees still filing
39/73
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC — $365,354,936 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INCJEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $324,291,443 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO+9 more — $2,547,654 · PhilanthropyThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $4,944,540 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $2,136,280 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INC — $1,040,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $416,172 · International+15 more — $1,333,517 · InternationalJewish Child and Family Services — $2,567,387 · Human ServicesJewish Community Centers of Chicago — $1,759,593 · Human ServicesCOUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY — $1,570,150 · Human ServicesTHE ARK — $1,189,992 · Human ServicesSHALVA INC — $272,857 · Human Services+4 more — $246,300 · Human ServicesHEBREW THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE — $1,207,325 · OtherIDA CROWN JEWISH ACADEMY INC — $987,277 · OtherARIE CROWN HEBREW DAY SCHOOL — $851,600 · OtherThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $351,500 · OtherAMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY INC — $237,600 · OtherMAOT CHITIM OF GREATER CHICAGO INC — $174,500 · Other+33 more — $1,018,816 · OtherMOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER — $1,024,724 · HealthAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER INC — $232,600 · HealthNorthwestern Memorial HealthCare — $77,065 · Health+1 more — $10,000 · HealthThe Quad Project Inc — $1,000,000 · Civil RightsTHE WURTMAN FOUNDATION INC — $250,000 · ReligionHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE — $73,800 · ReligionJEWISH FEDERATION OF MADISON INC — $50,000 · ReligionMOISHE HOUSE — $22,982 · Religion+2 more — $24,000 · Religion
Philanthropy$692,194,033International$9,870,509Human Services$7,606,279Other$4,828,618Health$1,344,389Civil Rights$1,000,000Religion$420,782

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC — $365,354,936 over 8y, 17% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $324,291,443 over 8y, 31% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $4,944,540 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetJewish Child and Family Services — $2,567,387 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $2,136,280 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetJewish Community Centers of Chicago — $1,759,593 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY — $1,570,150 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetTHE ARK — $1,189,992 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INC — $1,040,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetMOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER — $1,024,724 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GIVING BACK FUND — $1,000,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetThe Quad Project Inc — $1,000,000 over 1y, 49% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC — $887,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $416,172 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $351,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC — $335,330 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER INC — $300,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetSHALVA INC — $272,857 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetTHE WURTMAN FOUNDATION INC — $250,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetAMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY INC — $237,600 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMAOT CHITIM OF GREATER CHICAGO INC — $174,500 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC — $150,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $143,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO CHESED FUND — $142,300 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $136,517 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL — $130,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetACANI INC — $119,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF ELNET — $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA-MANATEE INC — $80,160 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF DELAWARE INC — $80,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSelfreliance Association — $80,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetNorthwestern Memorial HealthCare — $77,065 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP MOSHAVA OF WILD ROSE INC — $76,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE — $73,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC — $70,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJFMC FACILITIES CORPORATION — $65,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNO SHAME ON U INC — $56,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF MADISON INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetORT AMERICA INC — $46,043 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS — $42,164 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Festival of Israeli Cinema NFP — $39,500 over 4y, 7.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LATET HUMANITARIAN AID INC — $36,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFuente Latina Inc — $36,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPROJECT AID & RESCUE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 6.2% 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 THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO
  • Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc
  • Who funds Jewish Child and Family Services
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
  • Who funds Jewish Community Centers of Chicago
  • Who funds COUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY
  • Who funds THE ARK
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INC
  • Who funds MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER
  • Who funds THE GIVING BACK FUND
  • Who funds The Quad Project Inc
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
  • Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER INC
  • Who funds SHALVA INC
  • Who funds THE WURTMAN FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds AMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY INC
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER INC
  • Who funds MAOT CHITIM OF GREATER CHICAGO INC
  • Who funds AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC
  • Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds CHICAGO CHESED FUND
  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC
  • Who funds JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL
  • Who funds ACANI INC
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF ELNET
  • Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA-MANATEE INC
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF DELAWARE INC
  • Who funds Selfreliance Association
  • Who funds Northwestern Memorial HealthCare
  • Who funds CAMP MOSHAVA OF WILD ROSE INC
  • Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE

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.

Jewish Federation of Metropolitan ChicagoIL62.1× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Bitton Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Crown Family Foundation · Aj & Sl Stern Family Foundation · Milwaukee Jewish Federation Inc · The Novick Family Foundation · Bellows Family Foundation · Elliott and Ronni Charitable Fdn · The Harold Grinspoon Foundation · Circle of Service 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 Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago 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
202122232425
no gov · 70%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 6%
  • Jewish Federation of Delaware Inc6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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 89 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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