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Knights of Columbus

KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS is a catholic fraternal organization dedicated to promoting and conducting educational, charitable, religious and social welfare works, rendering mutual aid and assistance to sick and needy members and their families and providing insurance products and annuities to benefit members, wives and children.

$33M
Granted FY2024still arriving
56
Grants FY2024still arriving
18
States reached
$7.9M
Largest
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 2024.

Religion$98MCommunity Improvement$38MCivil Rights$14MArts & Culture$14MHealth$6.0MEducation$2.1MRecreation & Sports$1.6MHuman Services$1.4MOther$0
02FY2024 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 56 grants below total $23,261,141, the rows itemized in this filing. The $32,596,093 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $9,334,952 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $577k
  • $50k–250k18 grants · $2.2M
  • $250k+11 grants · $20M
$50,000
Median grant
18
States reached
$31.2B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JOHN PAUL II SHRINE AND INSTITUTE INC$7,900,000
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITIES INC$3,500,671
JOHN PAUL II SHRINE AND INSTITUTE INC$2,800,000
THE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC$2,125,000
UNITED STATES CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS$1,388,057
MARCH FOR LIFE EDUCATION AND DEFENSE FUND$825,000
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITIES USA INC$503,114
FLORIDA VOTERS AGAINST EXTREMISM$500,000
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM INSTITUTE$360,000
BECKET FUND FOR RELIGIOUS LIBERTIES$325,000
ARCHDIOCESE OF HARTFORD$250,000
BASILICA OF THE NATIONAL SHRINE OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION$248,031
FAMILY INSTITUTE OF CONNECTICUT$201,000
ST MICHAEL CENTER FOR SPIRITUAL RENEWAL INC$200,000
NOGFORSD$200,000
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 (FY17–23, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 14% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHILDREN'S WORKS INC: $50k → 10%COLUMBIAN CHARITIES OF MISSOURI INC: $50k → 19%BE NOT AFRAID: $65k → 10%HEART MOUNTAIN CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER INC: $9k → 11%AMERICAN WHEELCHAIR MISSION: $300k → 10%CHILDREN'S WORKS INC: $50k → 10%BE NOT AFRAID: $50k → 10%AMERICAN WHEELCHAIR MISSION: $300k → 10%BE NOT AFRAID: $50k → 10%AMERICAN WHEELCHAIR MISSION: $300k → 10%AMERICAN WHEELCHAIR MISSION: $150k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF HARTFORD: $50k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF HARTFORD: $50k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $25k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $25k → 11%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

AK
NH
ID
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
WY
SD
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
AL
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region: $4.5M on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 3 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)$3.2M · 71% · 11 grants

Stated purpose: SUPPORT VARIOUS PROGRAMS · SUPPORT OF WORLD CHILDREN'S DAY · SPONSORSHIP OF VATICAN CONFERENCE ON VOCATIONS

North America (Canada and Mexico)$1.0M · 23% · 11 grants

Stated purpose: SUPPORT VARIOUS PROGRAMS · SUPPORT OF CANADIAN MARCH FOR LIFE · SUPPORT MASTER PLAN FOR NEW FACILITIES AND VARIOUS PROGRAMS

East Asia and the Pacific$302k · 7% · 3 grants

Stated purpose: SUPPORT FOR SCHOLARSHIPS FOR STUDENTS IN THE PHILIPPINES · SUPPORT VARIOUS PROGRAMS

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. 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.
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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 14% of Knights of Columbus’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 72% of the giving stays in CT; by stated purpose, 39%.

Knights of Columbuslessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 35% directed abroad (not shown)
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$172M · 87 repeat orgs$6.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

87 repeat relationships: 41 still active in FY2024, 46 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

87
93

Total granted

$172M
$5.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+7%

Still filing today

55%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionEducationArts & CultureCivil RightsHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • KO
    KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITIES INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $14M · revenue +10%
  • TK
    THE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $12M · revenue +6% · 98% of their budget
  • MF
    MARCH FOR LIFE EDUCATION & DEFENSE FUND
    8× · 2017–2024 · $5.5M · revenue +25% · 39% of their budget

Funded once

  • CA
    Conservative Agenda for America
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M
  • AO
    ARCHDIOCESE OF KANSAS CITY
    one grant, 2022 · $450k
  • SO
    SISTERS OF THE COMPANY OF THE SAVIOUR
    one grant, 2023 · $391k
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.

1
International Catholic Jurists Forum Inc

The International Catholic Jurists Forum (ICJF) was established to produce, compile, and share resources on fundamental human rights under attack in the regional and international human rights protection systems. It operates as a forum for…

Religion
2
The Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies

The institute's mission is to conduct research on key issues facing society to help both the church and society deal thoughtfully with the major issues they face globally. the institute also sponsors and conducts research and scholarship…

Religion
3
Lumen Christi Institute

To make the catholic intellectual tradition a vital part of the culture of universities. to enrich academic communities at the university of chicago, across the nation, and the world with the insights of catholic thought. to dialogue with…

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4
Collegium Institute

Collegium Institute is a Catholic intellectual apostolate that fosters the Catholic intellectual tradition within the University of Pennsylvania community and within the greater region and secular academia. (Continued on Sch. O)

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5
Catholic Answers Inc

Catholic answers is an apostolate dedicated to serving christ by bringing the fullness of catholic truth to the world. we help good catholics become better catholics, bring former catholics home, and lead non-catholics into the fullness of…

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6
University of Notre Dame du Lac

See Schedule O. See explanation for Form 990, Part I, Line 1 - Organization's Mission above.

Education
7
Association of Catholic Colleges and University

The association of catholic colleges and universities, founded in 1899, serves as the collective voice of u.s catholic higher education. through programs and services, the association strengthens and promptes the catholic identity and…

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8
Ave Maria University Inc

University education grounded in the traditions and faith of the roman catholic church

Education
9
International Catholic Legislators Network- Western Hemisphere

To equip dedicated Christians in public office with faith formation expert education and a global network of peers and friends

Human Services
10
Priests for Life
Youth Development
11
Living His Life Abundantly International

To inform, instruct and inspire people through the media about the sacred scriptures and teachings of the roman catholic church

Religion
12
Newman University Inc

We are a catholic university named for saint john henry newman and founded by the adorers of the blood of christ for the purpose of empowering graduates to transform society. our core values (see schedule o for continuation)

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ethics and Public Policy Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Windrider Institute 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

91 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. 91 of the 193 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)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
85/91
Grantees still filing
55/91
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JOHN PAUL II SHRINE AND INSTITUTE INC: $83,611,589 · Community ImprovementJOHN PAUL II SHRINE AND INSTITUTE INCKNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITIES INC: $13,786,707 · Community ImprovementKNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITIES INC+3 more: $155,000 · Community ImprovementUNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCE: $12,917,050 · OtherUNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONF…BLESSED MICHAEL MCGIVNEY PARISH CORPORATION: $2,329,875 · OtherBLESSED MICHAEL MCGIVNEY PA…THE CONNECTICUT CATHOLIC FOUNDATION INC: $2,000,000 · OtherNATIONAL CATHOLIC BIOETHICS CENTER: $1,798,379 · OtherThe Becket Fund: $2,530,000 · OtherThe Becket Fund+140 more: $22,015,989 · Other+140 moreTHE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC: $11,950,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL CENTER ON SEXUAL EXPLOITATION: $1,150,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $185,028 · Arts & CultureKNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITIES USA INC: $9,291,346 · PhilanthropyGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $500,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $20,500 · PhilanthropyMARCH FOR LIFE EDUCATION & DEFENSE FUND: $5,502,900 · Civil RightsFAMILY INSTITUTE OF CONNECTICUT INC: $1,331,000 · Civil Rights+4 more: $611,140 · Civil RightsPARADISUS DEI INC: $1,250,000 · ReligionETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC: $810,000 · ReligionCALIFORNIA CATHOLIC CONFERENCE INC: $550,000 · ReligionNATIONAL CATHOLIC PRAYER BREAKFAST INC: $437,700 · ReligionSOPHIA INSTITUTE: $235,000 · ReligionCATHOLIC ATHLETES FOR CHRIST: $142,500 · ReligionCONNECTICUT CATHOLIC PUBLIC AFFAIRS CONFERENCE INC: $142,500 · Religion+7 more: $230,000 · ReligionRELIGIOUS FREEDOM INSTITUTE INC: $2,075,000 · EducationCreighton University: $225,000 · EducationTHE RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION AND INSTITUTE: $150,000 · EducationCATHOLIC SCHOOLS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE (CSCOE): $100,000 · Education+9 more: $217,849 · Education
Community Improvement$97,553,296Other$43,591,293Arts & Culture$13,285,028Philanthropy$9,811,846Civil Rights$7,445,040Religion$3,797,700Education$2,767,849

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 budgetJOHN PAUL II SHRINE AND INSTITUTE INC: $83,611,589 over 8y, 90% of budgetKNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITIES INC: $13,786,707 over 8y, 21% of budgetTHE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC: $11,950,000 over 8y, 98% of budgetKNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITIES USA INC: $9,291,346 over 8y, 53% of budgetMARCH FOR LIFE EDUCATION & DEFENSE FUND: $5,502,900 over 8y, 39% of budgetThe Becket Fund: $2,530,000 over 8y, 4.3% of budgetRELIGIOUS FREEDOM INSTITUTE INC: $2,075,000 over 7y, 22% of budgetFAMILY INSTITUTE OF CONNECTICUT INC: $1,331,000 over 8y, 42% of budgetSt Michael Center for Spiritual Renewal Inc: $1,200,000 over 5y, 67% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER ON SEXUAL EXPLOITATION: $1,150,000 over 8y, 12% of budgetAMERICAN WHEELCHAIR FOUNDATION: $1,050,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetConservative Agenda for America: $1,000,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY CENTER INC: $855,000 over 7y, 3.0% of budgetETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC: $810,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNational Life Center Inc: $700,000 over 8y, 50% of budgetCALIFORNIA CATHOLIC CONFERENCE INC: $550,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetFLORIDA VOTERS AGAINST EXTREMISM INC: $500,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetDO NO HARM: $450,000 over 4y, 100% of budgetNATIONAL CATHOLIC PRAYER BREAKFAST INC: $437,700 over 5y, 41% of budgetThe Given Institute Inc: $350,000 over 4y, 24% of budgetThe Foundation for the Promotion of Evangelizing Catechesis Inc: $243,500 over 2y, 100% of budgetSISTER THEA BOWMAN BLACK CATHOLIC EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $240,000 over 6y, 27% of budgetSOPHIA INSTITUTE: $235,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetCreighton University: $225,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLIFE ATHLETES INC: $225,000 over 3y, 87% of budgetINSTITUTE ON RELIGIOUS LIFE INC: $215,000 over 4y, 33% of budgetMARCH FOR LIFE ACTION: $200,140 over 4y, 43% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC: $200,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetHEARTBEAT INTERNATIONAL INC: $200,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetTHE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES: $200,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetRIGHT TO LIFE OF MICHIGAN: $200,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetThe Human Life Foundation Inc: $181,400 over 8y, 9.0% of budgetFAMILY INSTITUTE OF CONNECTICUT ACTION INC: $176,000 over 6y, 69% of budgetST CATHERINE CENTER FOR SPECIAL NEEDS INC: $175,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC: $166,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBE NOT AFRAID INC: $165,000 over 3y, 36% of budgetYALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL: $159,990 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST LUKE INSTITUTE INC: $150,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetTHE RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION AND INSTITUTE: $150,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ARCHDIOCESE OF HARTFORD: $150,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCATHOLIC ATHLETES FOR CHRIST: $142,500 over 5y, 20% of budgetCONNECTICUT CATHOLIC PUBLIC AFFAIRS CONFERENCE INC: $142,500 over 2y, 13% of budgetPATH TO PEACE FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetHOME FOR THE AGED OF THE LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR INCORPORATED: $119,500 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetChrist in the City: $110,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetCHILDRENS WORKS INC: $100,000 over 2y, 48% of budgetSHRINE OF OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 2.8% 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 JOHN PAUL II SHRINE AND INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITIES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds MARCH FOR LIFE EDUCATION & DEFENSE FUND ↗
  • Who funds The Becket Fund ↗
  • Who funds RELIGIOUS FREEDOM INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY INSTITUTE OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
  • Who funds PARADISUS DEI INC ↗
  • Who funds St Michael Center for Spiritual Renewal Inc ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL CENTER ON SEXUAL EXPLOITATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN WHEELCHAIR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Conservative Agenda for America ↗
  • Who funds ETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds National Life Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA CATHOLIC CONFERENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds FLORIDA VOTERS AGAINST EXTREMISM INC ↗
  • Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DO NO HARM ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL CATHOLIC PRAYER BREAKFAST INC ↗
  • Who funds The Given Institute Inc ↗

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.

Our Sunday Visitor IncIN52.3× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Our Sunday Visitor Inc · Knights of Columbus Charities Inc · Knights of Columbus Charitable Fund Inc · The Catholic Foundation No Colorado · Koch Foundation Inc · Igivecatholic · Eternal Word Television Network Inc · The Turicchi Family Foundation · The Catholic Association Foundation · John a & Mary Pollock Yanta Memorial Tr · Knights of Columbus Charities USA Inc · Somos Healthcare Providers Inc

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 Knights of Columbus funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Knights of Columbus. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 160%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Catholic Charities Inc Archdiocese of Hartford: 39% of income from government
  • Neighborhood Housing Services of New Haven Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Albertus Magnus College: 6% of income from government
  • Connecticut Foodshare Inc: 5% of income from government
  • New Haven Symphony Orchestra Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Sacred Heart University Incorporated: 1% of income from government
  • Yale New Haven Hospital: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
16get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 193 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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