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Melanoma Research Foundation

The mrf is the largest independent organization devoted to melanoma.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$300k
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.

Health$10M
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 14 grants below total $1,551,865 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,629,606 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $77,741 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $720k
  • $250k+3 grants · $800k
$100,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$8.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$300,000
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI$250,000
THE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGY$250,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER$110,000
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY$109,828
EMORY UNIVERSITY$100,000
THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS$100,000
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES$100,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER$100,000
INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH DBA THE RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FOX CHASE CANCE$100,000
WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA OF BIRMINGHAM$9,503
CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER$6,661
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH$5,873
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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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 86% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI: $300k → 8%DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE INC: $200k → 16%NATIONAL COMPREHENSIVE CANCER NETWORK FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $100k → 11%PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $100k → 12%FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER: $200k → 22%SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE: $200k → 11%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES: $200k → 14%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $110k → 17%ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $100k → 28%THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $300k → 16%MELANOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION BREAKTHROUGH CONSORTIUM INC: $210k → 14%H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER & RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $250k → 13%OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY: $100k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $100k → 8%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $100k → 14%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $100k → 10%THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $200k → 15%CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $100k → 17%FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER CENTER: $100k → 9%THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $100k → 14%WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH: $200k → 8%DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $100k → 16%INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH DBA THE RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FOX CHASE CANCE: $100k → 22%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES: $100k → 14%THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $150k → 17%THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $110k → 16%MELANOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $60k → 14%HLEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER & RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $200k → 13%SCHEPENS EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $250k → 16%TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $300k → 22%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $100k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF TX-MD ANDERSON CENTER: $100k → 16%MELANOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION BREAKTHROUGH CONSORTIOUM INC: $21k → 14%H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER & RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $100k → 13%TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $300k → 22%BECKMAN RESEARCH INST OF THE CITY OF HOPE: $150k → 14%ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $100k → 17%GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $500k → 14%H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER & RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $50k → 13%THE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGY: $250k → 22%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $200k → 17%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $100k → 22%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $250k → 17%THE WISTAR INSTITUTE: $100k → 22%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $200k → 17%THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $200k → 22%THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $100k → 22%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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MA
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OH
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CO
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NC
DC
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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.

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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.1M · 16 repeat orgs$3.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.

16 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
22

Total granted

$6.1M
$3.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+30%

Still filing today

63%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $329k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’23’24’25
EducationHealthOther

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

  • HL
    H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC
    4× · 2019–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +71%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    3× · 2019–2025 · $550k · revenue +75%
  • ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
    4× · 2020–2024 · $500k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • TG
    The George Washington Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $500k · revenue +30%
  • UO
    University of Miamigraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $300k · revenue +66%
  • TB
    The Broad Institute Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +44%

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
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
3
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

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

Education
4
The Translational Genomics Research Institute

Please see schedule o

Health
5
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
6
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
7
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
8
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
9
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
10
Rush University Medical Center

The mission of Rush is to improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.

Health
11
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

The mission of the institute has remained constant since its founding in 1953. as its restated articles of incorporation state the primary purpose and objective of the howard hughes medical institute shall be the promotion of human…

Health
12
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

As a leading academic healthcare organization, our mission is to elevate the health status of the communities we serve.(see schedule o for continuation)(continued)-we deliver exceptional healthcare enhanced by research and education-we…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is Society for Melanoma Research. 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 FoundationsCancer Support ServicesHealth Access Advocacy and …Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community College Foundatio…
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 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr16%18%20–35yr13%15%35–55yr16%43%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr16%8%20–35yr13%16%35–55yr16%56%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/52
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,513

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

38 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. 38 of the 45 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/38
Grantees still filing
30/38
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $600,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIAICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $500,000 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAIThe George Washington University — $500,000 · EducationThe George Washington UniversityUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $455,873 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGHDUKE UNIVERSITY — $400,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYYale University — $300,000 · EducationYale UniversityTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY — $300,000 · EducationTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITYUniversity of Miami — $300,000 · EducationUniversity of MiamiWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES — $199,002 · EducationTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY — $150,000 · Education+7 more — $439,828 · Education+7 moreH LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $1,000,000 · HealthH LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH I…Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $550,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute IncMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER — $450,000 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTERTHE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGY — $450,000 · HealthTHE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOG…The Institute For Cancer Research — $300,000 · HealthThe Institute For Cancer ResearchThe Broad Institute Inc — $250,000 · HealthThe Broad Institute IncSANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE — $206,661 · HealthSANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY I…Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center — $200,000 · HealthWHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH — $200,000 · HealthBECKMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE CITY OF HOPE — $150,000 · Health+3 more — $70,000 · HealthTHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY — $410,000 · OtherTHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITYREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA — $400,000 · OtherREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNI…MELANOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION BREAKTHROUGH CONSORTIUM INC — $290,311 · OtherMELANOMA RESEARCH FOUNDAT…UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO — $200,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TOLEDOUTMD ANDERSON — $200,000 · OtherUTMD ANDERSONREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO — $175,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY…MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $150,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCO…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS — $100,000 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY — $100,000 · OtherOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY — $100,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAH — $100,000 · Other+4 more — $104,503 · Other
Education$4,144,703Health$3,826,661Other$2,329,814

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 budgetH LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $1,000,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $600,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $550,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $500,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University — $500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $455,873 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER — $450,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGY — $450,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $400,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYale University — $300,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Institute For Cancer Research — $300,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY — $300,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami — $300,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMELANOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION BREAKTHROUGH CONSORTIUM INC — $290,311 over 3y, 94% of budgetThe Broad Institute Inc — $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE — $206,661 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFred Hutchinson Cancer Center — $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH — $200,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES — $199,002 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY — $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBECKMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE CITY OF HOPE — $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlbert Einstein College of Medicine — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetH LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER & RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNCCN FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JONSSON CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIETY FOR MELANOMA RESEARCH — $10,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY — $10,000 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.

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.

American Cancer Society IncGA19.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Cancer Society Inc · The George Washington University · Vanderbilt University Medical Center · The V Foundation · Mayo Clinic · American Heart Association Inc · Conquer Cancer Foundation of the American Society of Clinical Oncology · Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc · The Scripps Research Institute · Georgetown University · Washington University · 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 Melanoma Research 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 7%
  • The Broad Institute Inc19% of income from government
  • Yale University12% of income from government
  • Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc7% of income from government
  • University of Miami5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 45 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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