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Motion Picture Association Inc

The motion picture association (mpa, inc.) serves as the voice and advocate of the american motion picture, home video and television industries.

$3.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
55
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$750k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2017–2024.

Education$12MPublic Benefit$4.5MCommunity Improvement$2.2MSocial Science$1.5MArts & Culture$1.3MCivil Rights$1.3MEmployment$976kInternational$769kOther$0
02FY2024 · 55 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 55 grants below total $3,522,958 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,621,975 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $99,017 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k36 grants · $624k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.5M
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.4M
$20,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$67M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Carnegie Mellon University$750,000
Copyright AllianceThe$350,000
Entertainment Industry College Outreach Program$272,500
George Mason University Foundation Inc$215,000
Republican Governors Association$200,000
International Intellectual Property Alliance$200,000
Democratic Governors Association$200,000
Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal$100,000
International Center for Law & Economics$100,000
Senate Presidents' Forum$76,500
Americans for Tax Reform$75,000
The Third Way Foundation Inc$75,000
Motion Picture & Tele Fund Foundation$60,000
US Chamber Of Commerce$60,000
Hudson Institute$50,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Black Entrmt & Sports Lawyers Assoc: $10k → 14%National Urban League: $25k → 17%National Urban League: $25k → 17%National Urban League: $25k → 17%National Urban League: $25k → 17%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

WA
WI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
DC
LA
GA
TX

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$24M · 73 repeat orgs$937k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

73 repeat relationships — 51 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

73
37

Total granted

$24M
$692k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+21%

Still filing today

86%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $245k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureCivil RightsEducationPublic BenefitInternationalCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • CM
    Carnegie Mellon University
    7× · 2017–2024 · $6.5M · revenue +15%
  • TC
    THE COPYRIGHT ALLIANCE
    7× · 2017–2024 · $3.7M · revenue +125% · 85% of their budget
  • GM
    GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • TW
    THIRD WAYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +170%
  • WO
    WISCONSIN OPPORTUNITY COALITION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +907%
  • FT
    FORD'S THEATRE SOCIETY
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -9%

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
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
2
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

International
3
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc

The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.

Public Benefit
4
Institute of International Bankers

The iib represents the interests of the international banking community before u.s. legislative/regulatory bodies liaises with international regulatory bodies serves as a source of information to the media and other interested parties…

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5
The National Foundation for American Policy Inc

The national foundation for american policy is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to public policy research on trade, immigration, and other issues of national importance. the organization seeks to expand the debate over the…

Public Benefit
6
American Law Institute

The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…

Crime & Legal
7
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
8
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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9
American Intellectual Property Law Association

The association was formed to maintain a high standard of professional ethics among its members and to aid in the institution of improvements in legal education and to provide information to the public in laws relating to patents,…

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10
The American Assembly

A national non partisan public policy forum to illuminate issues of public policy.

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11
Ipc International Inc

Ipc is a global trade association dedicated to furthering the competitive excellence and financial success of its members, who are participants in the electronics industry. in pursuit of these objectives, ipc will devote resources to…

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12
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Individual Freedom and the most unlike its peers is Technology Policy Institute. 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 backsteadyJewish Community Organizati…Pregnancy Support ServicesHealth Access Advocacy and …Dance Arts OrganizationsWomen & Girls Leadership De…Immigrant Worker SupportPolicy Research and AdvocacyCommunity FoundationsCommunity Foundations
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 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr13%31%35–55yr16%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%8%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%25%10–20yr16%50%20–35yr13%10%35–55yr16%6%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.9%1/116
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,449

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

99 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 99 of the 116 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)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
98/99
Grantees still filing
76/99
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Carnegie Mellon University — $6,500,000 · OtherCarnegie Mellon UniversityDEMOCRATIC GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION — $700,000 · OtherRepublican Governors Association — $655,000 · OtherAmericans for Tax Reform — $525,000 · OtherInt'l Center for Law & Economics — $500,000 · Other+63 more — $5,222,422 · Other+63 moreTHE COPYRIGHT ALLIANCE — $3,660,822 · EducationTHE COPYRIGHT ALLIANCEGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $1,320,000 · EducationGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY F…THE FREE STATE FOUNDATION INC — $360,000 · EducationTHE FREE STATE FOUNDATION…+5 more — $352,900 · Education+5 moreINTERNATIONAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ALLIANCE — $750,000 · Community ImprovementInformation Technology and Innovation Foundation — $310,000 · Community ImprovementCONSUMER ACTION FOR A STRONG ECONOMY INC — $70,000 · Community ImprovementJAPANESE AMERICAN CITIZENS LEAGUE — $50,000 · Community ImprovementNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUSTS (NAREIT) — $45,500 · Community ImprovementPHOENIX CENTER FOR ADVANCED LEGAL & ECONOMIC PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES INC — $702,000 · Civil RightsMulticultural Media Telecom & Internet Council — $120,000 · Civil RightsAsian Pacific Amer InstitCongressional — $115,000 · Civil RightsIndependent Women's Forum — $60,000 · Civil RightsTHIRD WAY — $50,000 · Civil RightsWISCONSIN OPPORTUNITY COALITION INC — $50,000 · Civil Rights+7 more — $120,000 · Civil RightsSenate Presidents' Forum Inc — $284,000 · Arts & CultureTHE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE — $110,000 · Arts & CultureCAMERA NEWS INC — $80,000 · Arts & CultureMIDDLEBURG FILM FESTIVAL — $75,000 · Arts & CultureCenter for Asian American Media — $70,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE — $60,000 · Arts & CultureBARCID FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHE GHETTO FILM SCHOOL INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureFORD'S THEATRE SOCIETY — $50,000 · Arts & CultureUrbanworld Foundation Inc — $45,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more — $110,000 · Arts & CultureEntertainment Industry College Outreach Program — $885,000 · Youth DevelopmentAMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION INC — $375,000 · Public BenefitTHE TAXPAYERS PROTECTION ALLIANCE — $140,000 · Public BenefitCENTER FOR INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM — $140,000 · Public BenefitINTERNATIONAL POLICY NETWORK US INC — $100,000 · Public BenefitNATIONAL ACTION NETWORK INC — $50,000 · Public Benefit+1 more — $10,000 · Public Benefit
Other$14,102,422Education$5,693,722Community Improvement$1,225,500Civil Rights$1,217,000Arts & Culture$984,000Youth Development$885,000Public Benefit$815,000

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 budgetCarnegie Mellon University — $6,500,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COPYRIGHT ALLIANCE — $3,660,822 over 7y, 85% of budgetGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $1,320,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetEntertainment Industry College Outreach Program — $885,000 over 7y, 20% of budgetINTERNATIONAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ALLIANCE — $750,000 over 4y, 25% of budgetPHOENIX CENTER FOR ADVANCED LEGAL & ECONOMIC PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES INC — $702,000 over 7y, 16% of budgetAmericans for Tax Reform — $525,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetChamber of Commerce of the USA — $420,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTECHNOLOGY POLICY INSTITUTE — $420,000 over 7y, 5.0% of budgetAMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION INC — $375,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE FREE STATE FOUNDATION INC — $360,000 over 7y, 6.7% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR POLICY INNOVATION — $330,000 over 7y, 9.1% of budgetInformation Technology and Innovation Foundation — $310,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetHudson Institute Inc — $310,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetSenate Presidents' Forum Inc — $284,000 over 6y, 4.6% of budgetMEDIA COALITION INC — $273,930 over 7y, 17% of budgetWASHINGTON LEGAL FOUNDATION — $185,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LATINO INDEPENDENT PRODUCERS INC — $155,000 over 7y, 5.6% of budgetALLvanza — $150,000 over 6y, 25% of budgetTHE TAXPAYERS PROTECTION ALLIANCE — $140,000 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITMENT — $140,000 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetCENTER FOR INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM — $140,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetNATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION — $140,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetCITIZENS AGAINST GOVERNMENT WASTE — $140,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetFREEDOM HOUSE — $125,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMulticultural Media Telecom & Internet Council — $120,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $119,709 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCOALITION OF SERVICE INDUSTRIES INC — $119,167 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetAsian Pacific Amer InstitCongressional — $115,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetSTATE LEGISLATIVE LEADERS FOUNDATION INC — $110,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetTHE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE — $110,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL POLICY NETWORK US INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC — $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOUNCIL OF THE AMERICAS INC — $83,750 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFranklin Center for Global Policy Exchange — $81,750 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetCAMERA NEWS INC — $80,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetTHE INTERNATIONAL ANTICOUNTERFEITING COALITION INC — $78,616 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetMIDDLEBURG FILM FESTIVAL — $75,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetAMERICAN COUNCIL OF YOUNG POLITICAL LEADERS — $75,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetThe Third Way Foundation Inc — $75,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFAMILY ONLINE SAFETY INSTITUTE — $71,250 over 7y, 18% of budgetCONSUMER ACTION FOR A STRONG ECONOMY INC — $70,000 over 7y, 5.0% of budgetBATON ROUGE AREA FOUNDATION — $70,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCommittee For Justice — $70,000 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetCenter for Asian American Media — $70,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE — $60,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLULAC INSTITUTE INC — $60,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetDISCOVERY INSTITUTE — $60,000 over 3y, 0.4% 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.

  • Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
  • Who funds THE COPYRIGHT ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Entertainment Industry College Outreach Program ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds PHOENIX CENTER FOR ADVANCED LEGAL & ECONOMIC PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES INC ↗
  • Who funds Americans for Tax Reform ↗
  • Who funds Chamber of Commerce of the USA ↗
  • Who funds TECHNOLOGY POLICY INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FREE STATE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR POLICY INNOVATION ↗
  • Who funds Information Technology and Innovation Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Hudson Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds Senate Presidents' Forum Inc ↗
  • Who funds MEDIA COALITION INC ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON LEGAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LATINO INDEPENDENT PRODUCERS INC ↗
  • Who funds ALLvanza ↗
  • Who funds THE TAXPAYERS PROTECTION ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN COMMITMENT ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION ↗
  • Who funds CITIZENS AGAINST GOVERNMENT WASTE ↗
  • Who funds FREEDOM HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds Multicultural Media Telecom & Internet Council ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
  • Who funds COALITION OF SERVICE INDUSTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds Asian Pacific Amer InstitCongressional ↗
  • Who funds STATE LEGISLATIVE LEADERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL POLICY NETWORK US INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗

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.

Ncta - the Internet &…Pharmaceutical Resear…MywirelessorgAssociation for Acces…Edison Electric Insti…United States Telecom…National Association …NetChoiceThe Business Roundtab…American Petroleum In…Biotechnology Innovat…Consumer Brands Assoc…
Ncta - the Internet & Television AssociationDC67.7× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ncta - the Internet & Television Association · Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America · Mywirelessorg · Association for Accessible Medicines · Edison Electric Institute Inc · United States Telecom Association · National Association of Broadcasters · NetChoice · The Business Roundtable Inc · American Petroleum Institute · Biotechnology Innovation Organization · Consumer Brands Association

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 Motion Picture Association Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 65%
  • Jhpiego Corporation — 65% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 116 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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