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Mabel a Horne Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$340k
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$558kEducation$407kYouth Development$383kFood & Nutrition$257kHousing & Shelter$158kCommunity Improvement$100kPhilanthropy$77kHealth$65kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $10k–50k29 grants · $337k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$7.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MORE THAN WORDS INC$15,000
MERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC$15,000
RAINBOW CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC$15,000
CARITAS COMMUNITIES$15,000
HILLTOWN VILLAGE INC$15,000
PROJECT BREAD WALK FOR HUNGER$15,000
HE IS ME INSTITUTE INC$15,000
SCHOOL ON WHEELS OF MASSACHUSETTS$15,000
MUJERES UNIDAS AVANZANDO$15,000
APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN CLUB$12,000
HOUSE OF POSSIBILITIES$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
CRADLES TO CRAYONS$10,000
YOUTHBUILD BOSTON INC$10,000
ECONOMIC MOBILITY PATHWAYS$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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $421k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%FRANKLIN FOOD PANTRY: $15k → 7%HELPING OUR WOMEN INC: $5k → 8%THE TREEHOUSE FOUNDATION: $20k → 12%COMMUNITY UNITED WAY OF PIONEER VALLEY: $10k → 17%HOPE AND COMFORT INC: $10k → 7%FRIENDS OF BOURNE COUNCIL ON AGING: $3k → 8%THE TREEHOUSE FOUNDATION: $15k → 12%FRANKLIN FOOD PANTRY: $10k → 7%BROCKTON DAY NURSERY: $10k → 8%THE TREEHOUSE FOUNDATION: $15k → 12%ASIAN AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION: $15k → 16%HOPE AND COMFORT INC: $10k → 7%HOUSE OF POSSIBILITIES: $10k → 11%THE TREEHOUSE FOUNDATION: $15k → 12%HOPEWELL INC: $10k → 7%HILLTOWN VILLAGE INC: $15k → 12%HILLTOWN VILLAGE INC: $15k → 12%HILLTOWN VILLAGE INC: $10k → 12%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $10k → 8%CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $15k → 8%FRESH START FURNITURE BANK INC: $5k → 8%CRISPUS ATTUCKS CHILDREN'S CENTER: $10k → 16%CRISPUS ATTUCKS CHILDREN'S CTR: $10k → 16%CRISPUS ATTUCKS CHILDREN'S CTR: $10k → 16%ELIZABETH STONE HOUSE INC: $18k → 16%ELIZABETH STONE HOUSE INC: $15k → 16%ELIZABETH STONE HOUSE INC: $10k → 16%ELIZABETH STONE HOUSE INC: $10k → 16%HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $15k → 16%HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $15k → 16%HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $15k → 16%THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $10k → 16%HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $10k → 16%THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $10k → 16%HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $10k → 16%FAMILY NURTURING CENTER OF MASSACHUSETTS: $10k → 16%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 37 repeat orgs$471k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

37 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
36

Total granted

$1.7M
$388k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+26%

Still filing today

76%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • MORE THAN WORDS INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +87%
  • THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $85k · revenue +101%
  • MERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $84k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE RAFAEL HERNANDEZ SCHOOL INC
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue -41%
  • CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER INC
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue -24%
  • AA
    ASIAN AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue +18%
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
Massachusetts Education & Career Opportunities Inc

Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…

Education
2
Massachusetts Fair Housing Center Inc

Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.

Housing & Shelter
3
Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance Inc

Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.

Housing & Shelter
4
Greater Boston Food Bank Inc

Our costs consist of acquiring, sorting and distributing food to 617 member agencies, transportation and logistics, and community outreach to 69 direct distribution sites such as gbfb mobile markets, and federal distributions for low…

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5
Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership Inc D/B/a Metro Housing Boston

Metro housing boston mobilizes wide-ranging resources to provide innovative and personalized services that lead families and individuals to housing stability, economic security, and an improved quality of life.

Housing & Shelter
6
Brookview House Inc

Brookview's mission is to help homeless and at risk families learn the skills necessary to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty.

Human Services
7
Women's Money Matters Inc

Women's money matters, inc. empowers low-income women through financial literacy. the organization's comprehensive programming combines one-to-one coaching with a series of workshops that develop core money management skills and…

Human Services
8
Familyaid Boston Inc

Familyaid boston empowers parents and caregivers facing homelessness to secure and sustain housing and build strong foundations for their children's futures.

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9
Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation

Mhic's mission is to be an innovative private financier of afforable housing and community development throughout new england, providing financing that would not otherwise be available, and extending the impact of that financing to ensure…

Housing & Shelter
10
Massachusetts Council of Human Services Providers Inc

To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.

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11
Project Hope Boston Inc

Project hope is a multi service agency that moves families up and out of poverty.project hope works in partnership with women and families in the dorchester and roxbury neighborhoods of boston on their journeys up and out of poverty. we do…

Human Services
12
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is More Than Words Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Urban Farming Institute of Bostoninc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

61 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. 61 of the 83 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/61
Grantees still filing
37/61
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MORE THAN WORDS INC: $90,000 · OtherMORE THAN WORDS INCIndividual grant recipient: $80,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFAMILY NURTURING CENTER OF MASS: $75,000 · OtherFAMILY NURTURING CENTER OF MASSRAINBOW CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $75,000 · OtherRAINBOW CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INCBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF FRANKLIN: $60,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF FRANKLINTHOMAS CHEW MEM BOYS & GIRLS: $32,500 · OtherTHE URBAN FARMING INSTITUTE OF BOSTONINC: $55,000 · OtherTHE URBAN FARMING INSTITUTE OF BOSTONINC+37 more: $497,500 · Other+37 moreTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $85,000 · Human ServicesTHE HOME FOR LITTLE W…THE TREEHOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $65,000 · Human ServicesTHE TREEHOUSE FOUNDAT…ROXBURY STONE HOUSE INC: $52,500 · Human ServicesROXBURY STONE HOUSE I…HILLTOWN VILLAGE: $40,000 · Human ServicesHILLTOWN VILLAGETHE CRISPUS ATTUCKS CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesTHE CRISPUS ATTUCKS C…Franklin Food Pantry Inc: $25,000 · Human ServicesFranklin Food Pantry …HOPE AND COMFORT INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesCAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesASIAN AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC: $15,000 · Human Services+9 more: $73,000 · Human Services+9 moreMUJERES UNIDAS AVANZANDO INC: $82,000 · EducationMUJERES UNIDAS AVA…SCHOOL ON WHEELS OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $70,000 · EducationSCHOOL ON WHEELS O…ESPERANZA ACADEMY INC: $60,000 · EducationESPERANZA ACADEMY …HOMEWORK HOUSE INC: $45,000 · EducationHOMEWORK HOUSE INCHe Is Me Institute Inc: $25,000 · EducationHe Is Me Institute…THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC: $25,000 · EducationTHE EPIPHANY SCHOO…THE LITERACY LAB: $20,000 · EducationTHE LITERACY LABFRIENDS OF THE RAFAEL HERNANDEZ SCHOOL INC: $15,000 · EducationYEAR UP INC: $15,000 · EducationMERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC: $84,000 · Food & NutritionPROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC: $40,000 · Food & NutritionOPEN TABLE INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionBOSTON AREA GLEANERS INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionBERKSHIRE FOOD PROJECT INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionVIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS: $62,000 · Housing & ShelterCARITAS COMMUNITIES INC: $46,000 · Housing & ShelterLAZARUS HOUSE INC: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterSILVER LINING MENTORING INC: $74,000 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF RESILIENCY FOR LIFE INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG MAN WITH A PLAN INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentCENTER FOR WOMEN & ENTERPRISE INC: $80,000 · Employment
Other$965,000Human Services$420,500Education$357,000Food & Nutrition$154,000Housing & Shelter$133,000Youth Development$94,000Employment$80,000

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 budgetMORE THAN WORDS INC: $90,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $85,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC: $84,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetMUJERES UNIDAS AVANZANDO INC: $82,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetCENTER FOR WOMEN & ENTERPRISE INC: $80,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetRAINBOW CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $75,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetSILVER LINING MENTORING INC: $74,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetSCHOOL ON WHEELS OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $70,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetTHE TREEHOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $65,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetVIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS: $62,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetESPERANZA ACADEMY INC: $60,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTHE URBAN FARMING INSTITUTE OF BOSTONINC: $55,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetROXBURY STONE HOUSE INC: $52,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCARITAS COMMUNITIES INC: $46,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHOMEWORK HOUSE INC: $45,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetHILLTOWN VILLAGE: $40,000 over 3y, 9.7% of budgetPROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CRISPUS ATTUCKS CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHe Is Me Institute Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetFranklin Food Pantry Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetYOUTHBUILD BOSTON INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLAZARUS HOUSE INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF TRI COUNTY INC: $22,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LITERACY LAB: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE METROWEST FREE MEDICAL PROGRAM INC: $20,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetECONOMIC MOBILITY PATHWAYS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE AND COMFORT INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE RAFAEL HERNANDEZ SCHOOL INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYEAR UP INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUSTICE RESOURCE INSTITUTE INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGive Black Alliance: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHOPEWELL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHEASTERN MASS VETERANS HOUSING PROGRAM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHOUSE OF POSSIBILITIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOWELL COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBrockton Day Nursery Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF PIONEER VALLEY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBOSTON TEN POINT COALITION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetARC MASSACHUSETTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOPEN TABLE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMPASS WORKING CAPITAL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY NURTURING CENTER OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOSTON AREA GLEANERS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCROSSROADS FOR KIDS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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.

Eastern Bank FoundationMA52.4× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Boston Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Trust · Yawkey Foundation II · Rockland Trust - Blue Hills Charitable 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 Mabel a Horne Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mabel a Horne Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Arc Massachusetts Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Hopewell Inc: 83% of income from government
  • House of Possibilities Inc: 76% of income from government
  • Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans: 66% of income from government
  • Justice Resource Institute Inc: 48% of income from government
  • Mujeres Unidas Avanzando Inc: 44% of income from government
  • Mothers for Justice and Equality Inc: 43% of income from government
  • Homework House Inc: 38% of income from government
  • The Home for Little Wanderers Inc: 38% of income from government
  • Brockton Day Nursery Inc: 36% of income from government
  • Lowell Community Health Center Inc: 34% of income from government
  • Roxbury Stone House Inc: 29% of income from government
  • Center for Women & Enterprise Inc: 27% of income from government
  • More Than Words Inc: 24% of income from government
  • The Treehouse Foundation Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Boston Area Gleaners Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Asian American Civic Association Inc: 19% of income from government
  • United Way of Tri County Inc: 18% of income from government
  • He Is Me Institute Inc: 16% of income from government
  • Helping Our Women Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Friends of the Rafael Hernandez School Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Fresh Start Furniture Bank Inc: 12% of income from government
  • United Way of Pioneer Valley Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Silver Lining Mentoring Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Youthbuild Boston Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Cambridge Community Center Inc: 8% of income from government
  • School On Wheels of Massachusetts Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Open Table Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Hilltown Village: 7% of income from government
  • Economic Mobility Pathways Inc: 6% of income from government
  • The Urban Farming Institute of Bostoninc: 4% of income from government
  • Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Franklin Food Pantry Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Young Man With a Plan Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Legal Services Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Crossroads for Kids Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Compass Working Capital Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Hope and Comfort Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Lazarus House Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
  • The Epiphany School Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
4rely 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.

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 83 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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