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Lupus Research Alliance Inc

Putting people with lupus at the center of all we do, the lupus research alliance drives the discovery & development of next generation lupus diagnostics and curative treatments through innovative research & collaborations.

$15M
Granted FY2024still arriving
63
Grants FY2024still arriving
29
States reached
$1.3M
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 FY20172024.

Health$97M
02FY2024 · 63 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 63 grants below total $12,301,563 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $15,491,102 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $3,189,539 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k31 grants · $881k
  • $50k–250k17 grants · $2.0M
  • $250k+15 grants · $9.4M
$50,087
Median grant
29
States reached
$93M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EMORY UNIVERSITY$1,287,995
HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY$973,154
BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL$935,996
BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPTIAL$919,988
MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA$798,495
SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$769,121
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH$768,000
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON$600,000
LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY$449,814
FEINSTEIN INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH$368,535
TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$343,842
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$319,671
MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER$300,000
FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER CENTER$300,000
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY$298,598
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 (FY17–24, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $498k → 14%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $380k → 14%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $200k → 14%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $80k → 14%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $40k → 14%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $39k → 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

ME
NH
WA
MN
IL
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CA
CO
NE
MO
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MD
AZ
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NC
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OK
LA
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AL
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Grants abroad, by region — $2.8M on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 3 regions, $2.7M to organizations and $99k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$1.3M · 46% · 4 grants

Stated purpose: LUPUS RESEARCH

East Asia and the Pacific$851k · 30% · 1 grant · 1 person

Stated purpose: LUPUS RESEARCH · DATA STRATEGY

North America (Canada and Mexico)$685k · 24% · 10 grants

Stated purpose: LUPUS RESEARCH

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$85M · 58 repeat orgs$3.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +62% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.

58 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

58
13

Total granted

$85M
$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
+27%

Still filing today

55%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesOther

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

  • TF
    THE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH
    8× · 2017–2024 · $8.3M · revenue +42%
  • EU
    Emory University
    8× · 2017–2024 · $6.0M · revenue +80%
  • NY
    NEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF THE RUPTURED AND CRIPPLED MAINTAINING THE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.9M · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYgraduated
    2× · 2022–2023 · $583k · revenue +26%
  • LU
    LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
    one grant, 2019 · $300k · revenue +24%
  • DC
    Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinicgraduated
    2× · 2022–2023 · $281k · revenue +53%

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
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
2
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
3
Thomas Jefferson University

Thomas jefferson university ("tju") is a comprehensive university with preeminence in transdisciplinary, experiential professional education, research and discovery, delivering exceptional value for the 21st century students with…

Education
4
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
5
Truman Medical Center Incorporated

University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.

Health
6
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
7
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
8
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
9
University of Chicago Medical Center

Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…

Health
10
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
11
The Translational Genomics Research Institute

Please see schedule o

Health
12
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary

THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY ("THE INFIRMARY") IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT TEACHING HOSPITAL CONDUCTING PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH. THE INFIRMARY IS A TEACHING HOSPITAL OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH.…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University and the most unlike its peers is Rilite Foundation. 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 56 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%14%20–35yr13%16%35–55yr16%50%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%5%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%23%10–20yr16%8%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%38%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 5% 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%1/92
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,473

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

57 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. 57 of the 90 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/57
Grantees still filing
51/57
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Weill Medical College of Cornell Univers — $6,760,005 · OtherWeill Medical College of Cornell UniversMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $4,798,833 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN — $3,314,506 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL — $2,762,527 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOLUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM — $2,009,238 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGO — $1,882,187 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS — $1,794,856 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO — $1,721,621 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON — $1,472,459 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY — $1,380,298 · Other+28 more — $12,217,283 · Other+28 moreTHE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH — $8,267,722 · HealthTHE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICA…NEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF THE RUPTURED AND CRIPPLED MAINTAINING THE — $2,903,154 · HealthNEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF …Children's Hospital Corporation — $2,744,648 · HealthChildren's Hospital CorporationMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION — $2,468,820 · HealthMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLIN…Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation — $2,069,573 · HealthOklahoma Medical Research Foundatio…Vanderbilt University Medical Center — $1,848,241 · HealthVanderbilt University Medical Cente…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $1,529,380 · Health+23 more — $8,550,625 · Health+23 moreEmory University — $6,042,995 · EducationEmory UniversityYale University — $3,306,483 · EducationYale UniversityNew York University — $2,603,818 · EducationNew York UniversityUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $1,888,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGHTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $1,800,937 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $1,591,060 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE …UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $1,433,715 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTERUniversity of Chicago — $1,250,314 · EducationTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $1,065,498 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $962,700 · Education+11 more — $3,483,557 · Education+11 moreNORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION — $1,236,356 · Human Services
Other$40,113,813Health$30,382,163Education$25,429,077Human Services$1,236,356

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 FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH — $8,267,722 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetEmory University — $6,042,995 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetYale University — $3,306,483 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF THE RUPTURED AND CRIPPLED MAINTAINING THE — $2,903,154 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation — $2,744,648 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNew York University — $2,603,818 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION — $2,468,820 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetOklahoma Medical Research Foundation — $2,069,573 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $1,888,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center — $1,848,241 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $1,800,937 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $1,591,060 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $1,529,380 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $1,433,715 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago — $1,250,314 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION — $1,236,356 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $1,065,498 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JACKSON LABORATORY — $1,010,860 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Broad Institute Inc — $1,000,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $962,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT VIRGINIA — $810,759 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York — $802,996 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $797,239 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc — $600,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of Maryland Baltimore Washington Medical System Inc — $592,612 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES — $583,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $582,761 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWALLACE RHEUMATIC DISEASE FOUNDATION — $558,373 over 6y, 62% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $550,453 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE INC — $548,743 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Miami — $538,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRush University Medical Center — $512,392 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC — $505,525 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MINORITY QUALITY FORUM INC — $470,466 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetLA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY — $449,814 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA — $314,059 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFred Hutchinson Cancer Center — $300,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER — $300,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO — $300,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY — $298,598 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic — $281,461 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER — $277,504 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $230,239 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMethodist Healthcare Foundation — $160,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation Inc — $115,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND — $59,369 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Nebraska Medical Center — $49,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH
  • Who funds Emory University
  • Who funds Yale University
  • Who funds NEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF THE RUPTURED AND CRIPPLED MAINTAINING THE
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation
  • Who funds New York University
  • Who funds MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
  • Who funds University of Chicago
  • Who funds NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education
  • Who funds THE JACKSON LABORATORY
  • Who funds The Broad Institute Inc
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
  • Who funds BENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT VIRGINIA
  • Who funds The Research Foundation for The State University of New York
  • Who funds SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL

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.

Johns Hopkins UniversityMD22.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Johns Hopkins University · Vanderbilt University Medical Center · The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · Cornell University · Mayo Clinic · Yale University · American Cancer Society Inc · American Heart Association Inc · Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc · Emory University · University of Pittsburgh · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York

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 Lupus Research Alliance Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 12%
  • Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation31% of income from government
  • The Broad Institute Inc19% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University12% of income from government
  • Yale University12% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation10% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc6% of income from government
  • University of Miami5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
5report 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 90 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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