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Memorial Hermann Health System

Memorial Hermann Health System is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health.

$32M
Granted FY2025still arriving
110
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$18M
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$153MSocial Science$6.4MEducation$3.3MCommunity Improvement$1.4MRecreation & Sports$1.3MArts & Culture$1.0MHuman Services$649kReligion$549kOther$0
02FY2025 · 110 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 110 grants below total $30,004,728, the rows itemized in this filing. The $31,643,071 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,638,343 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k24 grants · $160k
  • $10k–50k72 grants · $1.3M
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $783k
  • $250k+5 grants · $28M
$13,048
Median grant
8
States reached
$14.9B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Memorial Hermann Community Benefit Corp$18,014,837
MEMORIAL HERMANN FOUNDATION$8,965,543
World Triathlon Corporation$276,727
MARCH OF DIMES INC$270,000
American Heart Association Inc$250,500
The University of Texas Health Science Center at H$167,500
KATY INDEPENDENT SCHOOL$114,250
THE ROSE$110,000
HOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON$100,000
SAN JOSE CLINIC$75,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE$62,800
GREATER HOUSTON PARTNERSHIP INC$53,000
GREATER HOUSTON PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION$50,000
THE THORACIC SURGERY FOUNDATION$50,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS INC$46,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $851k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BAPS CHARITIES INC: $5k → 8%COUNSELING CONNECTIONS FOR CHANGE: $10k → 10%South Montgomery County YMCA: $7k → 9%MONTGOMERY COUNTY YOUTH SERVICES INC: $11k → 9%MONTGOMERY COUNTY YOUTH SERVICES INC: $5k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $75k → 16%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $63k → 16%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $55k → 16%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $50k → 16%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $50k → 16%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $50k → 16%WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC OF HOUSTON TEXAS: $15k → 16%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $25k → 16%WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC OF HOUSTON TEXAS: $13k → 16%PRECINT4FORWARD: $10k → 16%Houston Area Women's Center: $20k → 16%Alliance of Community Assistance Ministries Inc: $10k → 16%Teen & Family Services: $10k → 16%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOC OF THE GREATER HOUSTON: $40k → 16%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE GREATER: $28k → 16%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOC OF THE GREATER HOUSTON: $21k → 16%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE GREATER H: $20k → 16%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOC OF THE GREATER HOUSTON: $17k → 16%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSO OF THE GTR HOUSTON AREA: $14k → 16%YMCA of Greater Houston area: $6k → 16%YMCA OF THE GREATER HOUSTON AREA: $5k → 16%TEAM CATAPULT: $26k → 16%TEAM CATAPULT: $25k → 16%TEAM CATAPULT: $17k → 16%TEAM CATAPULT: $15k → 16%TEAM CATAPULT: $8k → 16%AVDA: $23k → 16%AVDA: $10k → 16%Lake Houston Family YMCA: $18k → 16%MEMORIAL ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $8k → 16%Katy Christian Ministries: $10k → 16%Texas Black Expo Inc: $25k → 16%Kids Meals Inc: $9k → 16%Dress for Success Houston: $10k → 16%Local Infant Formula for Emergencies Houston: $9k → 16%ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MEXICAN AMERICA: $7k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

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IL
WI
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PA
NJ
CA
MO
VA
AZ
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 12% of Memorial Hermann Health System’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Memorial Hermann Health Systemlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$143M · 117 repeat orgs$26M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

117 repeat relationships: 78 still active in FY2025, 39 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

117
88

Total granted

$143M
$25M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+17%

Still filing today

79%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $357k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • MH
    Memorial Hermann Community Benefit Corporation
    7× · 2019–2025 · $78M · revenue +61% · 96% of their budget
  • MH
    Memorial Hermann Foundation
    7× · 2019–2025 · $51M · revenue +179% · 29% of their budget
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    8× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • MH
    Memorial Hermann Medical Groupgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $23M · revenue +34%
  • CT
    COALITION TO STRENGTHEN AMERICA'S HEALTH CAREgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $1.0M · revenue +69%
  • LI
    Learfield IMG College
    one grant, 2021 · $409k
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
Harris County Medical Society

Our mission is to be the leading advocate for our member physicians, their patients and our community, in promoting the highest standards of ethical medical practice, access to quality medical care, medical education, research, and…

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2
Trees for Houston

Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.

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3
Houston Botanic Garden

To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.

Environment
4
Houston Museum of Natural Science

The mission of the Houston Museum of Natural Science shall be to preserve and advance the general knowledge of natural science; to enhance in individuals the knowledge of and delight in natural science and related subjects; and to maintain…

Arts & Culture
5
Houston Local Information Initiative Inc

The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.

Arts & Culture
6
Memorial Hermann Medical Group

Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…

Health
7
Collaborative for Children

The mission of Collaborative for Children is to meaningfully improve the quality of early childhood education and care for Greater Houston's children through those most influential in their lives.

Human Services
8
Houston Christian Foundation dba National Christian Foundation Houston

As the Houston affiliate of the National Christian Foundation (NCF), our mission is to serve and encourage givers to grow as faithful stewards who give wisely to further the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

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9
Houston Independent School District Foundation

The HISD Foundation is dedicated to mobilizing the local community to support innovative priorities in HISD to improve outcomes for all students in the district. Our mission is to fund projects and programs of merit that fall outside of…

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10
Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council

The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.

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11
Texas Business Hall of Fame Foundation

To recognize the accomplishments and contributions of our outstanding Texas business leaders and to perpetuate and inspire the values of entrepreneurial spirit, personal integrity, and community leadership in all generations of Texans.

Community Improvement
12
Central Houston Inc

See schedule ocentral houston champions a thriving downtown by connecting influential leaders through initiatives that advance the future of business and community for all.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Educational Foundation of the Southeast Texas Chapter Inc; the most unlike its peers is Astros Foundation. 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

188 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. 188 of the 239 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)
30
Early backer (in before they grew)
185/188
Grantees still filing
114/188
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Memorial Hermann Community Benefit Corporation: $78,265,359 · Social ScienceMemorial Hermann Community Benefit CorporationMemorial Hermann Foundation: $50,774,431 · HealthMemorial Hermann FoundationMemorial Hermann Medical Group: $22,591,537 · HealthMemorial Hermann Medical Group+21 more: $4,515,578 · Health+21 moreUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER HOUSTON: $958,125 · OtherKATY ISD: $559,040 · OtherWorld Triathlon Corporation: $476,727 · OtherLAMAR CONSOLIDATED ISD: $416,917 · OtherLearfield IMG College: $409,218 · OtherPROMEDICA INTERNATIONAL CME: $400,000 · OtherWELLS FARGO BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION: $360,440 · OtherTHE ROSE: $360,000 · Other+111 more: $5,219,789 · OtherHOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON: $445,500 · Arts & CultureTheatre Under the Stars Inc: $184,550 · Arts & CultureJohn P McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science: $150,000 · Arts & CultureHouston Ballet Foundation: $135,354 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $48,750 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $88,500 · Arts & CultureSPRING BRANCH EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $136,000 · EducationEducational Foundation of the Southeast Texas Chapter Inc: $125,500 · EducationCY-FAIR EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $98,200 · EducationWilliam Marsh Rice University: $86,500 · EducationKATY ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $69,000 · EducationThe Katy Rotary Fund CO Stuart I Levin: $60,000 · EducationTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HOUSTON INC: $50,000 · EducationThe Woodlands Rotary Club Foundation: $42,500 · EducationFoundation of the American College of Healthcare Executives: $40,000 · EducationFort Bend Christian Academy: $40,000 · Education+10 more: $139,800 · EducationJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $367,800 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area: $174,492 · Human ServicesTEAM CATAPULT: $90,500 · Human ServicesAVDA: $32,500 · Human ServicesWESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC OF HOUSTON TEXAS: $28,000 · Human Services+11 more: $140,750 · Human ServicesUnited Way of Greater Houston: $191,159 · PhilanthropyBARBARA BUSH HOUSTON LITERACY FOUNDATION: $160,000 · PhilanthropyHouston Parks Board: $105,000 · PhilanthropyMen of Distinction of Greater Houston: $60,000 · PhilanthropyTHE HOLDSWORTH CENTER: $50,000 · PhilanthropyTHE ARTS OF HEALING FOUNDATION: $28,700 · Philanthropy+3 more: $50,000 · Philanthropy
Social Science$78,265,359Health$77,881,546Other$9,160,256Arts & Culture$1,052,654Education$937,500Human Services$834,042Philanthropy$644,859

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetMemorial Hermann Community Benefit Corporation: $78,265,359 over 7y, 96% of budgetMemorial Hermann Foundation: $50,774,431 over 7y, 29% of budgetMemorial Hermann Medical Group: $22,591,537 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,577,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION TO STRENGTHEN AMERICA'S HEALTH CARE: $1,000,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $918,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetHOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON: $445,500 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $367,800 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetTHE ROSE: $360,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetHope and Healing Center & Institute: $298,609 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetCANCARE INC: $297,000 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetGreater Houston Partnership Inc: $242,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetFort Bend Junior Service League: $222,500 over 8y, 9.7% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Houston: $191,159 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTheatre Under the Stars Inc: $184,550 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetOVARCOME NON-PROFIT INC: $183,750 over 6y, 16% of budgetCY-FAIR HOUSTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $182,535 over 6y, 7.5% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area: $174,492 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBARBARA BUSH HOUSTON LITERACY FOUNDATION: $160,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetJohn P McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science: $150,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetJunior Achievement of Southeast Texas Inc: $142,100 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetSPRING BRANCH EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $136,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetHouston Ballet Foundation: $135,354 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSTON CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $132,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE THORACIC SURGERY FOUNDATION: $130,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetWOODLANDS RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY INC: $127,925 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetEducational Foundation of the Southeast Texas Chapter Inc: $125,500 over 5y, 9.4% of budgetHermann Park Conservancy: $120,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $119,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetChrist Clinic: $108,969 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetHouston Parks Board: $105,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCY-FAIR EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $98,200 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetCristo Rey Work Study Program Inc: $93,713 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetKNOWLEDGE ARTS FOUNDATION (TEACH): $92,500 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetTEAM CATAPULT: $90,500 over 5y, 8.9% of budgetKATY AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $88,555 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $86,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHUMBLE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INCORPORATED: $71,261 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetKATY ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $69,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetMONTGOMERY COUNTY FOOD BANK INC: $68,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetChildren At Risk: $65,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetNortheast Hospital Foundation: $64,859 over 6y, 7.3% of budgetThe Junior League of Houston Inc: $60,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetThe Katy Rotary Fund CO Stuart I Levin: $60,000 over 3y, 43% of budgetMen of Distinction of Greater Houston: $60,000 over 7y, 6.0% of budgetFORT BEND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $59,460 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetHouston Zoo Inc: $57,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES GREATER HOUSTON INC: $56,000 over 5y, 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.

  • Who funds Memorial Hermann Community Benefit Corporation ↗
  • Who funds Memorial Hermann Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Memorial Hermann Medical Group ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds COALITION TO STRENGTHEN AMERICA'S HEALTH CARE ↗
  • Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
  • Who funds HOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds THE ROSE ↗
  • Who funds Hope and Healing Center & Institute ↗
  • Who funds Skeeters Baseball Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CANCARE INC ↗
  • Who funds Greater Houston Partnership Inc ↗
  • Who funds Fort Bend Junior Service League ↗
  • Who funds United Way of Greater Houston ↗
  • Who funds Theatre Under the Stars Inc ↗
  • Who funds OVARCOME NON-PROFIT INC ↗
  • Who funds CY-FAIR HOUSTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
  • Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area ↗
  • Who funds BARBARA BUSH HOUSTON LITERACY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds John P McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science ↗
  • Who funds Junior Achievement of Southeast Texas Inc ↗
  • Who funds SPRING BRANCH EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Houston Ballet Foundation ↗
  • Who funds HOUSTON CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE THORACIC SURGERY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WOODLANDS RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY INC ↗
  • Who funds Educational Foundation of the Southeast Texas Chapter Inc ↗
  • Who funds Hermann Park Conservancy ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds Christ Clinic ↗
  • Who funds Houston Parks Board ↗

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.

The Methodist HospitalTX72.7× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Methodist Hospital · Texas Children's Hospital · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · Strake Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · MD Anderson Foundation · Vivian L Smith Foundation · John P McGovern Foundation · United Way of Greater Houston · The Powell 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 Memorial Hermann Health System funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Memorial Hermann Health System. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    36report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 239 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 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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