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LeRoy Thom Jean Thom and T-L Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
120
Grants FY2025still arriving
24
States reached
$283k
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 2025.

Religion$7.7MEducation$7.7MHuman Services$3.8MYouth Development$3.1MInternational$2.2MHealth$1.9MPhilanthropy$625kHousing & Shelter$541kOther$0
02FY2025 · 120 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k45 grants · $197k
  • $10k–50k49 grants · $1.2M
  • $50k–250k24 grants · $2.1M
  • $250k+2 grants · $535k
$15,000
Median grant
24
States reached
$34M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Concordia University Foundation$283,000
Hillsdale College$251,500
Zion Classical Academy$240,600
Harold Warp Pioneer Village Foundation$150,000
Crossroads Center$135,000
Grace Life Church$111,000
Wellspring Pregnancy & Health Center$99,000
Ubuntu Life Foundation$94,500
PreBorn$82,500
Catholic Social Services of Nebraska$81,000
Individual grant recipient$75,000
One Life Church Bay Area$75,000
Thrive Holistic Healing Ministries$75,000
Platte Valley Youth for Christ$75,000
Individual grant recipient$75,000
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 (FY17–25, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Christian Heritage Childrens Home: $60k → 13%Wounded Warrior Project: $6k → 14%Miriam's Hope: $9k → 14%Holt International: $11k → 15%PreBorn: $83k → 16%Christian Heritage Chidlren's Homes: $60k → 13%Miriam's Hope: $9k → 14%PreBorn: $75k → 16%Christian Heritage Children's Homes: $60k → 13%Miriam's Hope: $5k → 14%PreBorn: $59k → 16%Christian Heritage Children's Home: $60k → 13%Christian Heritage Childrens Home: $60k → 13%Christian Heritage Childrens Home: $60k → 13%Christian Heritage Children's Homes: $60k → 13%Christian Heritage Children's Homes: $45k → 13%Christian Heritage Children's Homes: $45k → 13%The Mosaic Foundation: $30k → 12%Wounded Warriors - Family Support: $30k → 12%Wounded Warriors - Family Support: $30k → 12%Wounded Warriors - Family Support: $30k → 12%The Mosaic foundation: $30k → 12%The Mosaic Foundation: $30k → 12%The Mosaic Foundation: $30k → 12%Wounded Warriors - Family Support: $30k → 12%Wounded Warriors - Family Support: $12k → 12%Wounded Warriors - Family Support: $12k → 12%The Mosaic Foundation: $9k → 12%The Mosaic Foundation: $9k → 12%Hastings Family YMCA: $60k → 11%CASA of South Central Nebraska: $3k → 8%Hastings Family YMCA: $30k → 11%Casa of South Central Nebraska: $27k → 11%Hastings Family YMCA: $18k → 11%Hastings Family YMCA: $15k → 11%CASA of South Central Nebraska: $15k → 11%Hastings Family YMCA: $9k → 11%Hastings Family YMCA: $9k → 11%Miriam's Hope: $9k → 11%CASA of South Central Nebraska: $9k → 11%CASA of South Central Nebraska: $9k → 11%Miriam's Hope: $8k → 11%Miriam's Hope: $6k → 11%Miriam's Hope: $6k → 11%Miriam's Hope: $3k → 11%Miriam's Hope: $3k → 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

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IA
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CA
CO
NE
MO
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MD
AZ
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DC
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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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 7% of LeRoy Thom Jean Thom and T-L Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

LeRoy Thom Jean Thom and T-L Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.7% 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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$27M · 179 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

179 repeat relationships: 94 still active in FY2025, 85 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

179
71

Total granted

$27M
$639k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+19%

Still filing today

42%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $504k 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
Human ServicesEducationHealthInternationalArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • TY
    THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HASTINGS NEBRASKA
    8× · 2017–2024 · $761k · revenue +89%
  • CI
    CREATION INSTRUCTION ASSOCIATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $537k · revenue +116% · 43% of their budget
  • CC
    CROSSROADS CENTER INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $513k · revenue +115%

Funded once

  • ND
    NE District LCMS (Project Compass)
    one grant, 2020 · $30k
  • CE
    CATHOLIC ENGAGED ENCOUNTER DIOCESE OF LINCOLN INC
    one grant, 2017 · $30k
  • HC
    Hastings College Foundation Barrett Alumni Center
    one grant, 2020 · $30k
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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Nebraska Methodist Hospital

Nebraska methodist hospital (commonly know as "methodist hospital") is an acute care facility dedicated to bringing high quality care for the mind, body and spirit of every person. we provide community-based health care, health education…

Health
2
Methodist Fremont Health

The mission of methodist fremont health is to improve the quality of life by caring for the body and mind. methodist fremont health supports its mission of caring for people through the provision of inpatient and outpatient hospital…

Health
3
The Human Choice of Iowa

Mission is to provide women facing an unplanned pregnancy with truthful medical information and education. we are faith-based with a mission to encourage, through education and outreach, the recognition of human life from the moment of…

Human Services
4
Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

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5
Children's Hospital & Medical Center Foundation

Children's nebraska foundation (the foundation) was created in 1981 to raise awareness and manage and distribute funds to support children's hospital & medical center's (the hospital) premier pediatric services and programs. as an advocate…

Health
6
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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7
Covenant Hospital Hobbs

As expressions of god's healing love, witnessed through the ministry of jesus, we are steadfast in serving all, especially those who are poor and vulnerable.

Health
8
Regional West Health Services

Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.

Health
9
The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education
10
Nebraska Community Foundation

The nebraska community foundation unleashes abundant local assets, inspires charitable giving, and connects ambitious people to build stronger communities and a greater nebraska.

Philanthropy
11
Lutheran Family Services of Ne Inc

Lutheran family services of nebraska, inc.'s (lfs) mission is to express god's love for all people by providing quality human care services that build and strengthen individual, family and community life. our vision is saftey, hope and…

Human Services
12
Children's Physicians

Children's physicians delivers the highest quality pediatric primary care while supporting education and research.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Convoy of Hope; the most unlike its peers is POST11AMERICAN Legion Jr Baseball. 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

99 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. 99 of the 277 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)
29
Early backer (in before they grew)
96/99
Grantees still filing
71/99
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Concordia University Foundation: $2,279,538 · OtherConcordia University FoundationYMCA: $1,500,000 · OtherYMCAZion Classical Academy: $1,499,450 · OtherZion Classical AcademyGrace Life Fellowship: $836,150 · OtherUbuntu: $807,000 · OtherGRACE LIFE CHURCH: $720,000 · Other+140 more: $11,802,157 · Other+140 moreHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $1,456,288 · EducationHILLSDALE C…HASTINGS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $471,000 · EducationHASTINGS CH…CTC INTERNATIONAL INC: $238,500 · EducationCTC INTERNA…THE ARBOR SCHOOL: $210,000 · EducationTHE ARBOR S…PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $150,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $119,000 · Education+5 more: $293,000 · Education+5 moreORPHAN GRAIN TRAIN INC: $500,000 · InternationalWater For Life Inc: $456,000 · InternationalEXILE INTERNATIONAL INC: $375,000 · InternationalMercy Ships International: $195,000 · InternationalACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA: $186,750 · InternationalCONVOY OF HOPE: $180,000 · InternationalFREEDOM ALLIANCE: $138,000 · InternationalINNOVATION AFRICA: $91,500 · International+3 more: $121,500 · InternationalTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HASTINGS NEBRASKA: $761,000 · Human ServicesCHRISTIAN HERITAGE CHILDREN'S HOME: $510,000 · Human ServicesMission Pre-Born Inc: $216,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT INC: $144,000 · Human ServicesTHE MOSAIC FOUNDATION INC: $138,000 · Human ServicesMATT TALBOT KITCHEN & OUTREACH: $72,000 · Human Services+5 more: $182,400 · Human ServicesCREATION INSTRUCTION ASSOCIATION: $536,700 · ReligionPASTORAL LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $477,250 · ReligionIN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC: $250,500 · ReligionSIMPLE GRACE MINISTRIES: $89,250 · Religion+1 more: $46,000 · ReligionUNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA INC: $246,000 · PhilanthropyTHE INTREPID FALLEN HEROES FUND: $105,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MADONNA FOUNDATION: $90,000 · PhilanthropyKEARNEY COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $75,000 · PhilanthropyHASTINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $61,000 · PhilanthropyNUX4LIFE: $60,000 · PhilanthropyNEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $45,000 · PhilanthropyBETHANY HOME INC: $135,000 · HealthST LUKE'S FOUNDATION: $100,500 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $96,500 · HealthMADISON VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $55,000 · HealthEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $51,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $29,000 · HealthGLOBAL DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION: $27,000 · Health+2 more: $25,000 · Health
Other$19,444,295Education$2,937,788International$2,243,750Human Services$2,023,400Religion$1,399,700Philanthropy$682,000Health$519,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $1,456,288 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HASTINGS NEBRASKA: $761,000 over 8y, 6.7% of budgetCREATION INSTRUCTION ASSOCIATION: $536,700 over 9y, 43% of budgetCROSSROADS CENTER INC: $513,000 over 9y, 3.2% of budgetCHRISTIAN HERITAGE CHILDREN'S HOME: $510,000 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetORPHAN GRAIN TRAIN INC: $500,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetPASTORAL LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $477,250 over 9y, 3.0% of budgetHASTINGS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $471,000 over 4y, 79% of budgetWater For Life Inc: $456,000 over 9y, 4.2% of budgetEXILE INTERNATIONAL INC: $375,000 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetIN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC: $250,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA INC: $246,000 over 9y, 5.0% of budgetCTC INTERNATIONAL INC: $238,500 over 2y, 11% of budgetKINGS GATE RANCH INC: $225,000 over 3y, 74% of budgetMission Pre-Born Inc: $216,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ARBOR SCHOOL: $210,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetMercy Ships International: $195,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA: $186,750 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCONVOY OF HOPE: $180,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE REMNANT RADIO: $150,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT INC: $144,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetNEBRASKA RIGHT TO LIFE EDUCATIONAL TRUST: $144,000 over 8y, 18% of budgetFREEDOM ALLIANCE: $138,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MOSAIC FOUNDATION INC: $138,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetBETHANY HOME INC: $135,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $119,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INTREPID FALLEN HEROES FUND: $105,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetST LUKE'S FOUNDATION: $100,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $96,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetINNOVATION AFRICA: $91,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLIFE LEGAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetTHE MADONNA FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetSIMPLE GRACE MINISTRIES: $89,250 over 9y, 16% of budgetDENVER JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $85,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $81,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKEARNEY COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 9y, 14% of budgetHASTINGS COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $72,500 over 3y, 26% of budgetMATT TALBOT KITCHEN & OUTREACH: $72,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetHASTINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetCASA OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA: $63,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetONE ACRE FUND: $63,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMINDEN OPERA HOUSE INC: $63,000 over 9y, 3.0% of budgetHASTINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $61,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetNUX4LIFE: $60,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetMIRIAMS HOPE: $57,900 over 9y, 13% of budgetMADISON VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 9y, 2.5% of budgetEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $51,000 over 9y, 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.

  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HASTINGS NEBRASKA ↗
  • Who funds CREATION INSTRUCTION ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds CROSSROADS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN HERITAGE CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
  • Who funds ORPHAN GRAIN TRAIN INC ↗
  • Who funds PASTORAL LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds HASTINGS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Water For Life Inc ↗
  • Who funds EXILE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds IN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA INC ↗
  • Who funds CTC INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds KINGS GATE RANCH INC ↗
  • Who funds Mission Pre-Born Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE ARBOR SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
  • Who funds ACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA ↗

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.

Hastings Community Foundation IncNE44.8× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hastings Community Foundation Inc · Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Nebraska Community Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Sunnyside Inc · Johnson-Wissing Family Foundation Inc · Kitty M Perkins Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Kearney Area Community Foundation · Hirschfeld Family Foundation Inc · The Spotts Trust Charles Hermes Trustee · Bnsf Railway Foundation

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 LeRoy Thom Jean Thom and T-L Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from LeRoy Thom Jean Thom and T-L Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Epilepsy Foundation of America: 22% of income from government
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
14report 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 LeRoy Thom Jean Thom and T-L Foundation 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 277 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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