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Mary Thompson Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$240k
Granted FY2025still arriving
35
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it funds
0194% 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$487kHealth$272kHousing & Shelter$215kArts & Culture$177kFood & Nutrition$171kCommunity Improvement$98kEducation$76kPublic Benefit$29kOther$0
02FY2025 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k23 grants · $102k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $138k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WINGS HOME$20,000
POPE FRANCIS CENTER$15,000
THE HELM$13,000
RESPITE VOLUNTEERS OF SHIAWASSEE$10,000
DETROIT OPERA$10,000
LITTLE BROTHERS$10,000
LOURDES INC$10,000
IRONWOOD CARNEGIE LIBRARY$10,000
HANNAN CENTER$10,000
ALPENA AREA SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL$10,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES$10,000
LORI'S HANDS INC$10,000
EVANGELICAL HOMES OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION$8,600
MITTENS FOR DETROIT INC$8,000
ACCOUNTING AID SOCIETY$8,000
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, $460k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MOTOR CITY MITTEN MISSION: $20k → 10%RESPITE VOLUNTEERS OF SHIAWASSEE: $10k → 12%ALPENA AREA SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL: $14k → 16%POPE FRANCIS CENTER: $20k → 21%MITTENS FOR DETROIT INC: $9k → 8%MOTOR CITY MITTEN MISSION: $10k → 10%RESPITE VOLUNTEERS OF SHIAWASSEE: $10k → 12%ALPENA AREA SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL: $10k → 16%POPE FRANCIS CENTER: $15k → 21%RESPITE VOLUNTEERS OF SHIAWASSEE: $10k → 12%JOHN GEORGE HOME: $8k → 13%ALPENA AREA SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL: $10k → 16%POPE FRANCIS CENTER: $15k → 21%MITTENS FOR DETROIT INC: $8k → 8%RESPITE VOLUNTEERS OF SHIAWASSEE: $8k → 12%JOHN GEORGE HOME: $5k → 13%ALPENA AREA SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL: $10k → 16%POPE FRANCIS CENTER: $14k → 21%ALPENA AREA SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL: $7k → 16%POPE FRANCIS CENTER: $12k → 21%MITTENS FOR DETROIT INC: $8k → 8%RESPITE VOLUNTEERS OF SHIAWASSEE: $5k → 12%JOHN GEORGE HOME: $5k → 13%ALPENA AREA SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL: $5k → 16%RESPITE VOLUNTEERS OF SHIAWASSEE: $5k → 12%JOHN GEORGE HOME: $5k → 13%MITTENS FOR DETROIT INC: $5k → 8%RESPITE VOLUNTEERS OF SHIAWASSEE: $5k → 12%RESPITE VOLUNTEERS OF SHIAWASSEE: $5k → 12%MITTENS FOR DETROIT INC: $5k → 8%JOHN GEORGE HOME: $5k → 13%JOHN GEORGE HOME: $5k → 13%POPE FRANCIS CENTER: $10k → 21%ROCHESTER AREA NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $5k → 8%POPE FRANCIS CENTER: $5k → 21%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $5k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $5k → 8%ST PATRICK SENIOR CENTER: $10k → 21%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $5k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $5k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $5k → 8%HANNAN CENTER: $10k → 21%HANNAN CENTER: $10k → 21%UNIVERSAL DEMENTIA CAREGIVERS: $10k → 8%OAKLAND LIVINGSTON HUMAN SERVICES: $6k → 8%SERVICES FOR OLDER CITIZENS: $18k → 21%SERVICES FOR OLDER CITIZENS INC: $10k → 21%EVANGELICAL HOMES OF MICHIGAN: $14k → 8%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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 51 repeat orgs$215k to everyone else

51 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
32

Total granted

$1.6M
$185k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+35%

Still filing today

63%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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 ServicesArts & CultureHealthFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • WH
    WINGS HOME
    8× · 2018–2025 · $114k · revenue +24%
  • Accounting Aid Society
    8× · 2017–2025 · $98k · revenue +127%
  • POPE FRANCIS CENTER
    7× · 2019–2025 · $91k · revenue +202%

Funded once

  • AA
    ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
  • CO
    COMMUNITY OPPORTUNITY CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • EH
    EVANGELICAL HOMES OF MICHIGAN
    one grant, 2019 · $14k · revenue -28%
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
Hospice Homes of Genesee and Lapeer Counties

To provide housing and end of life care and support to terminally ill individuals.

Human Services
2
Michigan Christian Home

The michigan christian home dba beacon hill at eastgate, a not-for-profit corporation, provides housing and health services in a christian environment for older adults, thus enabling them to meet their ongoing physical, social and…

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3
Mymichigan Home Care

Creating healthy communities - together

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4
Shared Services Home Health Care Corp

It is the mission of the evangelical homes of michigan, a health and human service ministry related to the united church of christ, to provide health and housing servcies to persons who are elderly in a manner which respects their rights,…

Health
5
Hillsdale County Senior Services Center Inc

To support and promote a means for maintaining a senior center in order to achieve specific goals, based on the needs and interests of older persons, those 50 and older except for those programs that receive state and federal funding which…

Human Services
6
Michigan Home for the Armenian Aged

Our goal is to assist each person to remain as independent as possible. we wish to create an environment and atmosphere that is filled with vibrancy, pride, security and a sense of belonging.

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7
Wings of Hope Hospice & Palliative Care Inc

Hospice care - wings of hope hospice and palliative care, inc. provides compassionate care in the later stages of life and support through the grief experience for individuals and families.

Human Services
8
Jewish Home and Aging Services

We nurture a sense of community and enrich the lives of older adults, while embracing jewish values and celebrating life.

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9
Jewish Home Services Inc

Jewish senior life of metropolitan detroit is dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for older adults of the metropolitan detroit jewish community through the provision of personalized high quality programs and services that support…

Human Services
10
Community & Home Supports Inc

Community & home supports, inc. was founded to help people and communities address poverty and homelessness. we strive to fulfill our purpose by developing, leading, and participating in collaborative and innovative efforts that support…

Human Services
11
Elder Law of Michigan

To advocate for, educate, and assist our target populations. our services address the needs of many different people, but we continue to target our services to older adults and persons with disabilities.

Human Services
12
Jfa Non-Profit Housing Corporation

We nurture a sense of community and enrich the lives of older adults, while embracing jewish values and celebrating life.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evangelical Homes of Michigan; the most unlike its peers is Luella Hannan Memorial Foundation. 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

57 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. 57 of the 91 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)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/57
Grantees still filing
36/57
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LITTLE BROTHERS: $90,000 · OtherLITTLE BROTHERSTHE HELM: $79,000 · OtherTHE HELMWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY: $65,000 · OtherWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITYJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $45,000 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY SERVICESTHE JACKSON FRIENDLY HOME: $37,000 · OtherDETROIT INSTITUTE OF OPHTHALMOLOGY: $32,500 · OtherSALVATION ARMY: $31,000 · OtherYPSILANTI MEALS ON WHEELS: $29,500 · OtherEVANGELICAL HOMES OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION: $28,600 · Other+42 more: $348,500 · Other+42 morePOPE FRANCIS CENTER: $91,000 · Human ServicesPOPE FRANCIS CENTERALPENA AREA SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL INC: $58,000 · Human ServicesALPENA AREA SENIOR CITIZENS C…RESPITE VOLUNTEERS OF SHIAWASSEE: $57,500 · Human ServicesRESPITE VOLUNTEERS OF SHIAWAS…MITTENS FOR DETROIT INC: $37,000 · Human ServicesMITTENS FOR DETROIT INCLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $35,000 · Human ServicesLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLINDJOHN GEORGE HOME INC: $32,500 · Human ServicesJOHN GEORGE HOME INCHANNAN CENTER: $30,000 · Human ServicesHANNAN CENTERMOTOR CITY MITTEN MISSION: $30,000 · Human ServicesMOTOR CITY MITTEN MISSIONSERVICES FOR OLDER CITIZENS INC DBA THE HELM AT THE BOLL LIFE CENTER: $27,500 · Human ServicesSERVICES FOR OLDER CITIZENS I…+9 more: $66,500 · Human Services+9 moreWINGS HOME: $114,000 · HealthWINGS HOMELOURDES INC: $31,000 · HealthLOURDES INCALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $12,500 · HealthALZHEIMER'S…THE NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES: $11,500 · HealthTHE NEW DAY…+2 more: $10,800 · Health+2 moreDETROIT OPERA: $51,000 · Arts & CultureGILDA'S CLUB METRO DETROIT: $38,000 · Arts & CultureDETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $33,000 · Arts & CultureDETROIT CHAMBER WINDS INC: $7,500 · Arts & CultureGROSSE POINTE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $7,500 · Arts & CultureAccounting Aid Society: $98,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY HOUSING NETWORK INC: $13,500 · Community ImprovementFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $44,000 · Food & NutritionGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $14,000 · Food & NutritionOAKLAND HOPE: $5,000 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY HOMEWORKS INC: $32,500 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF HURON VALLEY: $15,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $1,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$786,100Human Services$465,000Health$179,800Arts & Culture$142,000Community Improvement$111,500Food & Nutrition$63,000Housing & Shelter$48,500

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 budgetWINGS HOME: $114,000 over 8y, 9.4% of budgetAccounting Aid Society: $98,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetPOPE FRANCIS CENTER: $91,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetALPENA AREA SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL INC: $58,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetRESPITE VOLUNTEERS OF SHIAWASSEE: $57,500 over 8y, 8.2% of budgetDETROIT OPERA: $51,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $44,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGILDA'S CLUB METRO DETROIT: $38,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetMITTENS FOR DETROIT INC: $37,000 over 6y, 3.7% of budgetTHE JACKSON FRIENDLY HOME: $37,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $33,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN GEORGE HOME INC: $32,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOMEWORKS INC: $32,500 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetLOURDES INC: $31,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHANNAN CENTER: $30,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetMOTOR CITY MITTEN MISSION: $30,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetYPSILANTI MEALS ON WHEELS: $29,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetEVANGELICAL HOMES OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION: $28,600 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetSERVICES FOR OLDER CITIZENS INC DBA THE HELM AT THE BOLL LIFE CENTER: $27,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF HURON VALLEY: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEXT STEPS 4 SENIORS FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetST PATRICK SENIOR CENTER INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCROSSROADS OF MICHIGAN: $15,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $14,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEVANGELICAL HOMES OF MICHIGAN: $13,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOUSING NETWORK INC: $13,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPORTER HILLS FOUNDATION: $13,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES: $11,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPROJECT COMPASSION MINISTRIES INC: $10,200 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetUniversal Dementia Caregivers: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetGESHER HUMAN SERVICES: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDETROIT CHAMBER WINDS INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF MICHIGAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY: $7,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetOAKLAND LIVINGSTON HUMAN SERVICE AGENCY: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPACE SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN F/K/A CENTER FOR SENIOR INDEPENDENCE: $5,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROCHESTER AREA NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOAKLAND HOPE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGROSSE POINTE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $5,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetNational Council of Dementia Minds: $5,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetPresbyterian Villages of Michigan: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLUELLA HANNAN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMONROE COUNTY OPPORTUNITY PROGRAM: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY OF ACTIVE RETIREES: $2,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetHistoric Elmwood Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMOTOR CITY BRASS BAND: $2,000 over 1y, 4.5% 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 WINGS HOME ↗
  • Who funds Accounting Aid Society ↗
  • Who funds POPE FRANCIS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ALPENA AREA SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds RESPITE VOLUNTEERS OF SHIAWASSEE ↗
  • Who funds DETROIT OPERA ↗
  • Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
  • Who funds GILDA'S CLUB METRO DETROIT ↗
  • Who funds MITTENS FOR DETROIT INC ↗
  • Who funds THE JACKSON FRIENDLY HOME ↗
  • Who funds LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND ↗
  • Who funds DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds JOHN GEORGE HOME INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY HOMEWORKS INC ↗
  • Who funds LOURDES INC ↗
  • Who funds HANNAN CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MOTOR CITY MITTEN MISSION ↗
  • Who funds YPSILANTI MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
  • Who funds EVANGELICAL HOMES OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SERVICES FOR OLDER CITIZENS INC DBA THE HELM AT THE BOLL LIFE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF HURON VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds NEXT STEPS 4 SENIORS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ST PATRICK SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CROSSROADS OF MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds EVANGELICAL HOMES OF MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY HOUSING NETWORK INC ↗

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.

Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI54.7× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · DTE Energy Foundation · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Consumers Energy Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorial · The Carls Foundation · Flagstar Foundation Inc · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Helen L Kay Charitable Trust · Comerica 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 Mary Thompson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mary Thompson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    21report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Mary Thompson Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Mary Thompson 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 91 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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