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Mutual of Omaha Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$5.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
137
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$5.2MEducation$4.7MHealth$3.1MHousing & Shelter$2.8MFood & Nutrition$2.2MYouth Development$1.8MCrime & Legal$1.4MArts & Culture$1.1MOther$0
02FY2024 · 137 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k96 grants · $2.1M
  • $50k–250k29 grants · $2.3M
  • $250k+5 grants · $1.3M
$25,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$113M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Creighton University$250,000
Omaha Performing Arts$250,000
Latino Center of the Midlands$250,000
Lauritzen Gardens Omaha's Botanical Center$250,000
Food Bank for the Heartland$250,000
Food Bank for the Heartland$150,000
The American Red Cross$150,000
Employee Financial Assistance Fund$127,476
The Blackbaud Giving Fund$121,241
Project Houseworks$100,000
The Collective for Hope (formerly Grief's Journey)$100,000
National Park Foundation$100,000
One Tree Planted$100,000
The Salvation Army - Omaha$100,000
Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska Inc$75,000
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 (FY21–24, $5.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Intercultural Senior Center: $40k → 12%Intercultural Senior Center: $40k → 12%Intercultural Senior Center: $40k → 12%The American Red Cross: $150k → 14%The American Red Cross: $125k → 14%The American Red Cross: $125k → 14%Kids Can Community Center: $40k → 12%Kids Can Community Center: $40k → 12%Kids Can Community Center: $40k → 12%Kids Can Community Center: $35k → 12%Metro Area Continuum of Care for the Homeless: $150k → 12%Metro Area Continuum of Care for the Homeless: $150k → 12%Metro Area Continuum of Care for the Homeless: $35k → 12%Urban League of Nebraska: $40k → 12%Urban League of Nebraska: $35k → 12%Child Saving Institute Inc: $540k → 12%Child Saving Institute Inc: $40k → 12%Child Saving Institute Inc: $40k → 12%Child Saving Institute Inc: $40k → 12%Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska Inc: $75k → 12%Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska Inc: $75k → 12%Immigrant Legal Center: $150k → 12%Heartland Family Service: $100k → 12%Heartland Family Service: $75k → 12%Justice For Our Neighbors - Nebraska dba CIRA: $60k → 12%inCOMMON Community Development: $50k → 12%Project Houseworks: $100k → 12%Together Inc of Metropolitan Omaha: $70k → 12%Together Inc of Metropolitan Omaha: $65k → 12%Together Inc of Metropolitan Omaha: $65k → 12%Together Inc of Metropolitan Omaha: $65k → 12%Youth Emergency Services: $295k → 12%Women's Center for Advancement: $75k → 12%Women's Center for Advancement: $75k → 12%Women's Center for Advancement: $75k → 12%Women's Center for Advancement: $75k → 12%Youth Emergency Services: $45k → 12%Youth Emergency Services: $45k → 12%Youth Emergency Services: $45k → 12%Financial Hope Collaborative: $40k → 12%Heartland Hope Mission: $100k → 12%Heartland Hope Mission: $35k → 12%Heartland Hope Mission: $35k → 12%Heartland Hope Mission: $35k → 12%Heartland Hope Mission: $35k → 12%Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska Inc: $75k → 12%Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska Inc: $75k → 12%Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska Inc: $50k → 12%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

VT
MN
IL
IA
CT
CO
NE
SC
DC
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$21M · 129 repeat orgs$5.4M to everyone else

129 repeat relationships: 111 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

129
118

Total granted

$21M
$4.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+32%

Still filing today

84%
7%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $745k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +12%
  • CU
    Creighton University
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +25%
  • CS
    CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $660k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • MH
    MENTAL HEALTH INNOVATION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $750k · revenue -59%
  • CU
    Creighton University
    one grant, 2020 · $276k
  • KC
    Kids Can Community Center
    one grant, 2020 · $265k
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
One Omaha

One omaha empowers people where they live with education, training, and engagement to develop thriving neighborhoods.

Community Improvement
2
Regional West Health Services

Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.

Health
3
Community Action of Nebraska Inc

Mission: community action of nebraska strives to alleviate poverty through enhancing program development, providing technical assistance, and advocating public policy to support all community action agencies in nebraska.

Community Improvement
4
Eastern Nebraska Community Action Partnership

Encap provides high-impact programs to help people get ahead.

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5
Great Plains Food Bank

End hunger together.

Food & Nutrition
6
Nebraska Credit Union League Inc

To promote credit unions in nebraska

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7
Community Justice Center

A restorative justice agency committed to habilitating justice in nebraska.

Crime & Legal
8
Common Good Iowa

Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.

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9
Omaha Economic Development Corporation

The mission of oedc is to implement economic development projects, housing, and community revitalization programs that create jobs, business ownership opportunities and other economic benefits for area residents.

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10
Nebraska Community Foundation

The nebraska community foundation unleashes abundant local assets, inspires charitable giving, and connects ambitious people to build stronger communities and a greater nebraska.

Philanthropy
11
Omaha Bridges Out of Poverty Inc

Empowering under-resourced families to change their lives by discovering and overcoming barriers to success.

Human Services
12
Northeast Iowa Community Action Corp

Through dynamic partnerships, quality family services, advocacy and education, neicac advances community development and improves social and economic conditions for individuals and families with limited resources.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Olympics Nebraska Inc; the most unlike its peers is Offutt Advisory Council. 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

130 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 130 of the 267 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)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
128/130
Grantees still filing
78/130
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND: $850,000 · OtherFOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLANDThe Salvation Army - Omaha: $700,000 · OtherThe Salvation Army - OmahaOmaha Performing Arts: $515,000 · OtherLatino Center of the Midlands: $435,000 · OtherEmployee Financial Assistance Fund: $423,473 · OtherJOSLYN ART MUSEUM: $500,000 · Other+115 more: $8,627,241 · Other+115 moreCHILD SAVING INSTITUTE INC: $660,000 · Human ServicesCHILD SAVING INSTITUTE…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $495,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red …YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES INC: $430,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH EMERGENCY SERVIC…THRESHOLD COC: $385,000 · Human ServicesTHRESHOLD COCLUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC: $350,000 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN FAMILY SERVIC…WOMEN'S CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT: $300,275 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S CENTER FOR ADV…TOGETHER INC OF METROPOLITAN OMAHA: $265,000 · Human ServicesHEARTLAND HOPE MISSION: $240,000 · Human ServicesJUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS-NEBRASKA: $235,000 · Human Services+22 more: $1,922,500 · Human Services+22 moreUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $2,035,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF N…Creighton University: $1,120,000 · EducationCreighton Unive…COUNCIL BLUFFS SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $245,000 · EducationCOUNCIL BLUFFS …+4 more: $290,000 · Education+4 moreMENTAL HEALTH INNOVATION FOUNDATION: $750,000 · HealthCHI HEALTH FOUNDATION: $200,000 · HealthNEBRASKA METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $200,000 · HealthCHARLES DREW HEALTH CENTER INC: $195,000 · HealthTHE VISITING NURSE HEALTH SERVICES: $150,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $110,000 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES IN OMAHA INC: $100,000 · HealthNEBRASKA AIDS PROJECT INC: $90,000 · HealthSANTA MONICA INC: $75,000 · Health+5 more: $168,000 · HealthHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OMAHA INC: $350,000 · Housing & ShelterSIENA FRANCIS HOUSE: $285,000 · Housing & ShelterSTEPHEN CENTER INC: $200,000 · Housing & ShelterMICAH HOUSE CORPORATION: $175,000 · Housing & ShelterFAMILY HOUSING ADVISORY SERVICES: $175,000 · Housing & ShelterMERCY HOUSING MIDWEST: $100,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COUNCIL BLUFFS IA: $60,000 · Housing & Shelter+2 more: $55,000 · Housing & ShelterBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS: $211,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INCORPORATED OF OMAHA: $200,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOMPLETELY KIDS: $160,000 · Youth DevelopmentPartnership 4 Kids Inc: $140,000 · Youth DevelopmentHOPE CENTER FOR KIDS INC: $120,000 · Youth DevelopmentNEBRASKA YOUTH JUSTICE INITIATIVE DBA RADIUS: $110,000 · Youth DevelopmentNORTHSTAR FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS SPIRIT OF NEBRASKA: $80,000 · Youth Development+3 more: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND: $385,367 · PhilanthropyONE TREE PLANTED INC: $200,000 · PhilanthropyNEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $120,000 · PhilanthropySHARE OMAHA: $100,000 · PhilanthropyOmaha Community Foundation: $75,000 · PhilanthropyAUTISM ACTION PARTNERSHIP: $35,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $25,000 · Philanthropy
Other$12,050,714Human Services$5,282,775Education$3,690,000Health$2,038,000Housing & Shelter$1,400,000Youth Development$1,221,000Philanthropy$940,367

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%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $2,035,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCreighton University: $1,120,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND: $850,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH INNOVATION FOUNDATION: $750,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCHILD SAVING INSTITUTE INC: $660,000 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetJOSLYN ART MUSEUM: $500,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $495,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES INC: $430,000 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetTHE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND: $385,367 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHRESHOLD COC: $385,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetLUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC: $350,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OMAHA INC: $350,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC: $325,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetWOMEN'S CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT: $300,275 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetSIENA FRANCIS HOUSE: $285,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTOGETHER INC OF METROPOLITAN OMAHA: $265,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetHEART MINISTRY CENTER: $252,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCOUNCIL BLUFFS SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $245,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetHEARTLAND HOPE MISSION: $240,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetJUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS-NEBRASKA: $235,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS: $211,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCASA FOR DOUGLAS COUNTY: $200,000 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetCHI HEALTH FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetONE TREE PLANTED INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNEBRASKA METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetSTEPHEN CENTER INC: $200,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF OMAHA: $200,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetCHARLES DREW HEALTH CENTER INC: $195,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetONEWORLD COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC: $195,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE: $175,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPROJECT HOUSEWORKS: $175,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetMICAH HOUSE CORPORATION: $175,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetFAMILY HOUSING ADVISORY SERVICES: $175,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetCOMPLETELY KIDS: $160,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetLEGAL AID OF NEBRASKA: $160,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetKIDS CAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $155,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetTHE VISITING NURSE HEALTH SERVICES: $150,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetINTERCULTURAL SENIOR CENTER: $150,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetPartnership 4 Kids Inc: $140,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE MIDLANDS: $140,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF NEBRASKA: $130,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetSOUTHSIDE REDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $125,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetSAVING GRACE PERISHABLE FOOD RESCUE INC: $120,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetNew Visions Homeless Services: $120,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetNEBRASKA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST: $120,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetHOPE CENTER FOR KIDS INC: $120,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetNEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $120,000 over 4y, 0.1% 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 UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Creighton University ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND ↗
  • Who funds MENTAL HEALTH INNOVATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds JOSLYN ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ↗
  • Who funds THRESHOLD COC ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OMAHA INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT ↗
  • Who funds SIENA FRANCIS HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds TOGETHER INC OF METROPOLITAN OMAHA ↗
  • Who funds HEART MINISTRY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds COUNCIL BLUFFS SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HEARTLAND HOPE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds JUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS-NEBRASKA ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
  • Who funds CASA FOR DOUGLAS COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds CHI HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ONE TREE PLANTED INC ↗
  • Who funds NEBRASKA METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF OMAHA ↗
  • Who funds CHARLES DREW HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ONEWORLD COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS 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.

The Lozier FoundationNE197.3× affinity100 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Lozier Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · United Way of the Midlands · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Immanuel Community Vision Foundation · Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation · Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family 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 Mutual of Omaha Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mutual of Omaha Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%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
    2get no government money at all
    49report 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.
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    Find your warmest path to Mutual of Omaha 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 267 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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