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Lynn & Les Bider Family Foundation at a glance

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Lynn & Les Bider Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$689k
Granted FY2024still arriving
36
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$1.1MReligion$860kArts & Culture$273kInternational$268kHealth$247kEducation$244kPublic Safety & Disaster$33kCivil Rights$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k18 grants · $55k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $159k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $225k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER LA$250,000
THE AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE INC$125,000
TEMPLE BETH AM PRESSMAN ACADEMY$50,000
STEPHEN S WISE TEMPLE$50,000
BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION$18,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA$15,500
USC HILLEL$15,000
THE UCLA FOUNDATION$10,000
THE UCLA FOUNDATION$10,000
ADL$10,000
BEIT T'SHUVAH$10,000
BEAUTY BUS FOUNDATION$10,000
JQ INTERNATIONAL$10,000
JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICES$10,000
THE WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY$10,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BEIT T'SHUVAH: $10k → 14%SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE NORTH AMERICA: $25k → 17%BEIT T'SHUVAH: $10k → 14%SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE NORTH AMERICA: $25k → 17%BEIT T'SHUVAH: $10k → 14%SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE NORTH AMERICA: $25k → 17%THE WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $10k → 14%BEIT T'SHUVAH: $10k → 14%SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE NORTH AMERICA: $25k → 17%THE WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $10k → 14%BEIT T'SHUVAH: $10k → 14%BEIT T'SHUVAH: $10k → 14%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: $16k → 17%THE AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE INC: $125k → 17%AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE: $50k → 17%AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE: $50k → 17%AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE DBA JC: $25k → 17%STEPHEN S WISE TEMPLE: $50k → 14%STEPHEN S WISE TEMPLE: $50k → 14%STEPHEN S WISE TEMPLE: $40k → 14%STEPHEN S WISE TEMPLE: $40k → 14%STEPHEN S WISE TEMPLE: $40k → 14%STEPHEN S WISE TEMPLE: $40k → 14%STEPHEN S WISE TEMPLE: $30k → 14%TEMPLE BETH AM: $50k → 14%TEMPLE BETH AM PRESSMAN ACADEMY: $50k → 14%TEMPLE BETH AM: $50k → 14%TEMPLE BETH AM: $50k → 14%TEMPLE BETH AM: $50k → 14%FOUNDATION FOR CAMP BOB WALDORF: $15k → 14%HIDE AND SEEK FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%HIDE AND SEEK FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%THE UCLA FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER LA: $250k → 14%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER LA: $250k → 14%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER LA: $250k → 14%THE JEWISH FEDERATION: $135k → 14%THE JEWISH FEDERATION: $125k → 14%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER LA: $25k → 14%JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICES: $13k → 14%USC HILLEL: $20k → 14%USC HILLEL: $20k → 14%USC HILLEL: $15k → 14%USC HILLEL: $15k → 14%USC HILLEL: $15k → 14%USC HILLEL: $15k → 14%USC HILLEL: $15k → 14%ADL: $15k → 14%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.
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.
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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 6% of Lynn & Les Bider Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Lynn & Les Bider Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.4% 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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 36 repeat orgs$257k to everyone else

36 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
21

Total granted

$2.0M
$170k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+31%

Still filing today

67%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $87k 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
Arts & CultureInternationalHealthPhilanthropyEducationReligionOther
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

  • The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc
    3× · 2018–2024 · $225k · revenue +16%
  • WA
    WALLIS ANNENBERG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
    6× · 2017–2022 · $135k · revenue +71%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HILLEL FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $115k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • J
    JDC
    one grant, 2020 · $65k
  • AJ
    AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE DBA JC
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • TF
    THE FOUNDATION FOR CAMP BOB WALDORFgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +49%
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
Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles

We steward $1.5 billion in charitable assets through donor-advised funds, endowments, and other giving vehicles. partnering with 1,400 individuals, families, and organizations, we build enduring legacies and multigenerational impact. in…

Philanthropy
2
Brown Hillel Foundation

Brown risd hillel encourages and supports a diversity of students as they explore, develop and deepen their jewish identities. we are committed to having judaism serve as a source of meaning and growth during their time on college hill and…

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3
Hebrew College

Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…

Education
4
San Diego Jewish Academy

San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.

Education
5
Hillel 818

Hillel 818 is the campus hub for all things Jewish at Cal State Northridge, Pierce College, LA Valley College, and throughout the San Fernando Valley. We empower our 6,000+ Jewish students to forge lasting friendships, grow as leaders,…

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6
Simon Wiesenthal Center Inc

Simon wiesenthal center, inc. (the center) is a global jewish human rights activist organization that confronts anti-semitism, hate, stands with israel, defends the safety of jews worldwide, and teaches the lessons of the holocaust for…

Arts & Culture
7
Clal-the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership Inc

A leading advocate for pluralism and diversity, clal offers jewish wisdom that enhances public life, deepens civic engagement and cultivates personal growth.

Religion
8
Yeshiva Ketana of Los Angeles

The Organization is a school dedicated to providing an outstanding Judaic and general education in an environment that is consistent with this ideology. The Organization seeks to fulfill its mission by hiring the finest teachers and staff…

Education
9
The Jewish Studio Project

Through thought leadership, community programs, leadership development, and organizational partnerships, jsp is building a movement to activate the creative power of the jewish community.

Religion
10
Hebrew Academy of Cleveland

The mission of the hebrew academy is to imbue all students with a love of god, torah and eretz yisroel and to prepare them to achieve excellence in torah and general knowledge based on successful cooperation among family, judaic and…

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11
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

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

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12
Irvine Hebrew Day School

Ihds utilizes a dual general and judaic studies curriculum. the judaic studies curriculum emphasizes the fundamentals of hebrew reading, writing and speaking, jewish history, holidays, jewish values, torah, the jewish life cycle, the land…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Hebrew University Inc; the most unlike its peers is Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. 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

39 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. 39 of the 67 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/39
Grantees still filing
27/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STEPHEN S WISE TEMPLE: $350,000 · OtherSTEPHEN S WISE TEMPLETHE JEWISH FEDERATION: $260,000 · OtherTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONTEMPLE BETH AM: $210,000 · OtherTEMPLE BETH AMUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HILLEL FOUNDATION: $115,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HILLEL FOUNDATIONJEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICES: $96,500 · OtherJEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICESJDC: $65,000 · OtherBeit T'Shuvah: $60,000 · OtherADL: $55,000 · Other+32 more: $301,500 · Other+32 moreJEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA: $785,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF G…THE HIDE AND SEEK FOUNDATION: $60,000 · PhilanthropyTHE HIDE AND SEEK FOUNDATION+2 more: $6,200 · PhilanthropyThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $225,000 · InternationalThe American …THE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA: $100,000 · InternationalTHE SHALOM HA…BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $23,400 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT IS…WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $20,000 · InternationalWASHINGTON IN…+1 more: $1,000 · InternationalWALLIS ANNENBERG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $135,000 · Arts & CultureSKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER: $30,000 · Arts & CultureSHAREWELL: $27,500 · Arts & CultureNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $9,450 · Arts & CultureUCLA FOUNDATION: $75,000 · EducationDE TOLEDO HIGH SCHOOL: $4,800 · Education+2 more: $3,000 · EducationJQ INTERNATIONAL: $50,000 · ReligionBUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES INC: $5,300 · ReligionBEAUTY BUS FOUNDATION: $30,000 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $10,000 · HealthSUGAR RAY LEONARD FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthRETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC: $5,000 · HealthTOWER CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $3,500 · Health
Other$1,513,000Philanthropy$851,200International$369,400Arts & Culture$209,450Education$82,800Religion$55,300Health$53,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA: $785,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $225,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWALLIS ANNENBERG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $135,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HILLEL FOUNDATION: $115,000 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetTHE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA: $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBeit T'Shuvah: $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HIDE AND SEEK FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 5y, 7.4% of budgetJQ INTERNATIONAL: $50,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetBEAUTY BUS FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetSKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSHAREWELL: $27,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $23,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR CAMP BOB WALDORF: $15,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC: $13,300 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEVERLY HILLS POLICE OFFICERS ASSN INC: $8,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetBHPOA BENEVOLENT FUND: $7,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES INC: $5,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL AT UCLA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWISE READERS TO LEADERS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMATTHEW SILVERMAN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSUGAR RAY LEONARD FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetRETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDE TOLEDO HIGH SCHOOL: $4,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES BALLET INC: $4,450 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTOWER CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBET TZEDEK: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Womens Repertory Company: $2,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetHarmony Project: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONCERN FOUNDATION: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOAKWOOD SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLCREST COUNTRY CLUB: $1,000 over 1y, 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 JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA ↗
  • Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
  • Who funds WALLIS ANNENBERG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HILLEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Beit T'Shuvah ↗
  • Who funds THE HIDE AND SEEK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JQ INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds BEAUTY BUS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SHAREWELL ↗
  • Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY ↗
  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR CAMP BOB WALDORF ↗
  • Who funds CAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BEVERLY HILLS POLICE OFFICERS ASSN INC ↗
  • Who funds BHPOA BENEVOLENT FUND ↗
  • Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES INC ↗
  • Who funds HILLEL AT UCLA ↗
  • Who funds WISE READERS TO LEADERS ↗

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.

Jewish Community Foun…California Community …The Rosalinde and Art…Jewish Federation Cou…Richard and Ellen San…The Cayton-Goldrich F…Jewish Community Foun…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Bob & Nita Hirsch Fam…Warren and Elaine Bre…Goldrich Family Found…Jewish Communal Fund
Jewish Community Foundation of Los AngelesCA36.3× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · California Community Foundation · The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation · Jewish Federation Council of Greater La · Richard and Ellen Sandler Family Foundation · The Cayton-Goldrich Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles Group · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Bob & Nita Hirsch Family Foundation · Warren and Elaine Breslow Family Foundation · Goldrich Family Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund

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 Lynn & Les Bider Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lynn & Les Bider Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 67 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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