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Lowes Foundation

Lowes Foundation is focused on closing the skilled trades labor gap across the United States.

$18M
Granted FY2025still arriving
35
Grants FY2025still arriving
25
States reached
$1.0M
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.

Employment$25MHousing & Shelter$13MEducation$11MHuman Services$4.6MCommunity Improvement$2.5MYouth Development$1.1MRecreation & Sports$432kPhilanthropy$297kOther$0
02FY2025 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $125k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
  • $250k+28 grants · $18M
$500,000
Median grant
25
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Maricopa County Community College District Foundation$1,000,000
The National Center for Construction Education and Research$1,000,000
Goodwill Industries International$1,000,000
Midlands Technical College Foundation$1,000,000
Central Piedmont Community College Foundation$1,000,000
Wiregrass Georgia Technical College Foundation$1,000,000
Sleep In Heavenly Peace$916,150
Baton Rouge Community College Foundation Inc$850,000
Trade Institute of Pittsburgh$800,000
Alaska Works Partnership Inc$700,000
SkillsUSA Inc$700,000
Community College of Baltimore County Foundation$601,000
Uncommon Construction$600,000
Moore Community House$600,000
Hope Renovations$600,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 21% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Rebuilding Together Valley of the Sun: $75k → 11%Yarnell Regional Community Center: $21k → 14%Montachusett Opportunity Council Inc: $15k → 11%Fort Bend Cnty Women's Ctr: $25k → 8%Community Crisis Center: $49k → 20%Charleston Orphan House Inc: $100k → 12%Youth Crisis Center Inc: $52k → 14%Northside Neighborhood House: $13k → 14%Christian Mission: $300k → 9%Centro Hispano: $260k → 8%Switchpoint Community Resource Center: $60k → 10%Lewis County Senior Citizens Center Inc: $9k → 18%YWCA of McLean County: $21k → 11%Blue Ridge Opportunity Commission: $8k → 19%RAIN Inc: $200k → 10%Ada Jenkins Center: $500k → 10%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

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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.

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Where the work is directed

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

About 31% of Lowes Foundation’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. Read by recipient address, 37% of the giving stays in NC; read by stated purpose it is 33% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Lowes Foundationlessmore 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.

38%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$23M · 17 repeat orgs$36M to everyone else

17 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
137

Total granted

$23M
$24M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+40%

Still filing today

94%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesEmploymentPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • HF
    Habitat For Humanity Of The Charlotte Region
    2× · 2021–2022 · $3.6M · revenue +108%
  • SI
    SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $3.0M · revenue +300%
  • TN
    THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR CONSTRUCTION EDU AND RESEARCH LTD
    2× · 2024–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • RW
    Renaissance West Community Initiative
    one grant, 2021 · $2.6M · revenue -42% · 63% of their budget
  • MC
    MECKLENBURG COUNTY
    one grant, 2021 · $1.3M
  • MG
    Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $1.0M · revenue -43% · 34% of their budget

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.

1
Charlotte Works

Charlotte works serves job-seekers and businesses by providing resources to develop a skilled workforce that meets employer needs. the organization offers job-search workshops, individual coaching, networking opportunities, and training…

Employment
2
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
3
The Stride Center

As an innovative social enterprise, The Stride Center's mission is to empower men and women facing barriers to employment to achieve economic self-sufficiency. We provide a comprehensive career development program that includes job skills…

4
Communityworks Inc

Communityworks is a publicly supported organization and certified community development financial institution that provides funding to promote affordable housing and community development to help stabilize low wealth families and…

Housing & Shelter
5
Construction Career Collaborative

As an interdependent alliance of construction industry leaders, we are collectively committed to positively impacting the future of the industry by strengthening the safe, skilled, and sustainable craft workforce pipeline.

Public Benefit
6
Philadelphia Works Inc

Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.

Employment
7
Northwest College of Construction

To promote excellence and diversity in the construction industry by providing educational, training, and employment services.

Education
8
National Council for Workforce Education

NCWE promotes student success and excellence in education and training by providing the link between policy and practice.

Education
9
Job Point

Since 1965, we have been linking people with jobs by providing career planning, training and job placement assistance. we specialize in preparing individuals to enter the workforce, while meeting a critical need of the business community.

Human Services
10
Dixie Technical College

Train students to master essential skills they will take directly to the workforce enabling them to support their families strengthen the community and contribute to local industry while advancing their careers.

Education
11
Community College Preparatory Academy Public Charter School

The mission of the community college preparatory academy public charter school is to provide the education and skills development to empower and prepare under-credited adults for postsecondary educational success, viable employment and…

Education
12
The Collective Blueprint

Our mission is to increase socioeconomic mobility by building pathways to thriving careers.

Employment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Local Initiatives Support Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Madisonville College Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity College Foundatio…Community FoundationsWomen & Girls Leadership De…Immigrant Worker SupportIndependent K-12 SchoolsYouth Development CentersCommunity FoundationsUnited Way AffiliatesAffordable Housing Construc…Local History MuseumsMilitary Veterans SupportAffordable Housing Developm…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%11%5–10yr19%25%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr16%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%14%5–10yr19%26%10–20yr16%16%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr16%20%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%2/180
the rest of the field
13%
240,394/1,819,385

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

122 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. 122 of the 180 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)
117/122
Grantees still filing
76/122
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Habitat For Humanity Of The Charlotte Region — $3,566,668 · OtherHabitat For Humanity Of The Charlotte Reg…MECKLENBURG COUNTY — $1,333,333 · OtherMECKLENBURG COUNTYWIREGRASS GEORGIA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION-NORTH INC — $1,000,000 · OtherCOLUMBUS TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $1,000,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP AND TUITION SERVICES INC — $750,000 · OtherGOODWILL INDUSTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC — $2,000,000 · OtherGOODWILL INDUSTRIES INTERNATIONAL INCTHE MASTER'S APPRENTICE INC — $930,000 · OtherROOF ABOVE INC — $1,000,000 · Other+92 more — $9,949,633 · Other+92 moreRenaissance West Community Initiative — $2,610,000 · EducationRenaissance West Community Ini…She Built This City — $1,590,000 · EducationShe Built This CityCENTRAL PIEDMONT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $1,152,500 · EducationCENTRAL PIEDMONT COMMUNITY COL…Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College Foundation Inc — $1,000,000 · EducationMississippi Gulf Coast Communi…PALM BEACH STATE COLLEGE FDN INC — $1,000,000 · EducationPALM BEACH STATE COLLEGE FDN I…MIDLANDS TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $1,000,000 · EducationMIDLANDS TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOU…WEST VIRGINIA WOMEN WORK — $825,000 · EducationSEATTLE COLLEGES FOUNDATION — $750,000 · EducationCOCONINO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $750,000 · EducationIVY TECH FOUNDATION INC — $700,000 · EducationBERKELEY HEIGHTS PARENT TEACHER WILLIAM WOODRUFF SCHOOL PTO — $601,000 · EducationWILKES COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $600,000 · Education+21 more — $3,215,328 · Education+21 moreTHE NATIONAL CENTER FOR CONSTRUCTION EDU AND RESEARCH LTD — $2,000,000 · EmploymentTHE NATIONAL CE…SKILLSUSA INC — $1,700,000 · EmploymentSKILLSUSA INCGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE SOUTHERN PIEDMONT INC — $1,195,400 · EmploymentGOODWILL INDUST…TRADE INSTITUTE OF PITTSBURGH — $800,000 · EmploymentTRADE INSTITUTE…HOPE RENOVATIONS SPENCER — $625,000 · EmploymentHOPE RENOVATION…Positive Workforce Coalition Inc — $500,000 · EmploymentPositive Workfo…NONTRADITIONAL EMPLOYMENT FOR WOMEN — $500,000 · EmploymentNONTRADITIONAL …SER METRO DETROIT JOBS FOR PROGRESS INC — $450,000 · EmploymentSER METRO DETRO…LATINO ACADEMY OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT INC — $350,000 · Employment+2 more — $50,000 · EmploymentSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC — $2,966,150 · Housing & ShelterRebuilding Together of Greater Charlotte — $825,000 · Housing & ShelterAlaska Works Partnership Inc — $700,000 · Housing & Shelter+3 more — $132,872 · Housing & ShelterUNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC — $1,200,000 · PhilanthropyMARICOPA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION — $1,000,000 · PhilanthropyBATON ROUGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $850,000 · PhilanthropyALL WITHIN MY HANDS — $500,000 · PhilanthropyFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS — $250,000 · PhilanthropyCNM INGENUITY INC — $235,350 · Philanthropy+1 more — $46,821 · PhilanthropyMOORE COMMUNITY HOUSE INC — $600,000 · Human ServicesAda Jenkins Families and Careers Development Center Inc — $500,000 · Human ServicesMooresville Area Christian Mission Inc — $300,000 · Human ServicesCentro Hispano — $260,000 · Human ServicesRAIN Inc — $200,000 · Human ServicesLandmarks for Families Inc — $100,000 · Human ServicesALLONE COMMUNITY SERVICES — $95,159 · Human ServicesLAWRENCE COUNTY SOCIAL SERVICES INC — $94,820 · Human Services+11 more — $347,926 · Human ServicesLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION — $1,500,000 · Community ImprovementACCELERATE MONTANA — $500,000 · Community Improvement+2 more — $63,500 · Community Improvement
Other$21,529,634Education$15,793,828Employment$8,170,400Housing & Shelter$4,624,022Philanthropy$4,082,171Human Services$2,497,905Community Improvement$2,063,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHabitat For Humanity Of The Charlotte Region — $3,566,668 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC — $2,966,150 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetRenaissance West Community Initiative — $2,610,000 over 1y, 63% of budgetTHE NATIONAL CENTER FOR CONSTRUCTION EDU AND RESEARCH LTD — $2,000,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC — $2,000,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSKILLSUSA INC — $1,700,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetShe Built This City — $1,590,000 over 3y, 31% of budgetLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION — $1,500,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC — $1,200,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE SOUTHERN PIEDMONT INC — $1,195,400 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCENTRAL PIEDMONT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $1,152,500 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetWIREGRASS GEORGIA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION-NORTH INC — $1,000,000 over 1y, 72% of budgetMississippi Gulf Coast Community College Foundation Inc — $1,000,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetPALM BEACH STATE COLLEGE FDN INC — $1,000,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetCOLUMBUS TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $1,000,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetROOF ABOVE INC — $1,000,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetMIDLANDS TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $1,000,000 over 1y, 53% of budgetMARICOPA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION — $1,000,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetTHE MASTER'S APPRENTICE INC — $930,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetBATON ROUGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $850,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA WOMEN WORK — $825,000 over 1y, 50% of budgetRebuilding Together of Greater Charlotte — $825,000 over 4y, 35% of budgetSEATTLE COLLEGES FOUNDATION — $750,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetCOCONINO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $750,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetAlaska Works Partnership Inc — $700,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetIVY TECH FOUNDATION INC — $700,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCHICAGO WOMEN IN TRADES — $650,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetHOPE RENOVATIONS SPENCER — $625,000 over 2y, 34% of budgetunCommon Construction Inc — $600,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetMOORE COMMUNITY HOUSE INC — $600,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetWILKES COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $600,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetVALENCIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $500,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetAda Jenkins Families and Careers Development Center Inc — $500,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetCHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSION ENDOWMENT — $500,000 over 1y, 84% of budgetPositive Workforce Coalition Inc — $500,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetNONTRADITIONAL EMPLOYMENT FOR WOMEN — $500,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetACCELERATE MONTANA — $500,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetLIVINGSTONE SCHOOLS INC — $480,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetThe ROC Charlotte Inc — $450,000 over 2y, 32% of budgetSER METRO DETROIT JOBS FOR PROGRESS INC — $450,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetLATINO ACADEMY OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT INC — $350,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSOUTHSIDE VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $300,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetNEXT STEP OF WEST MICHIGAN — $300,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetMooresville Area Christian Mission Inc — $300,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetAspire Community Capital — $275,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetCentro Hispano — $260,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS — $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCNM INGENUITY INC — $235,350 over 1y, 4.3% 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.

United Way of Greater Charlotte IncNC31.6× affinity15 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Ally Charitable Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · The Presbyterian Hospital · Foundation for the Carolinas · GenYOUTH Incorporated · The Leon Levine Foundation · Share Our Strength · Wells Fargo Foundation · Merancas Foundation Inc · American Association of Community Colleges · The Broad Center

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 Lowes Foundation 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 · 50%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 28%
  • Goodwill Industries International Inc35% of income from government
  • Making Opportunity Count Inc28% of income from government
  • Historic Sotterley Inc28% of income from government
  • Youth Crisis Center Inc4% of income from government
  • Community Crisis Center Inc3% of income from government
  • The National Center for Construction Edu and Research Ltd0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
46report 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, 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 180 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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