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Nashville Predators Foundation

Foundation is a public non-profit organization established to conduct charitable activities and raise funds for contributions to various charities

$1.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
62
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$229k
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$3.9MHuman Services$1.9MRecreation & Sports$1.9MEducation$1.1MYouth Development$715kArts & Culture$356kHousing & Shelter$353kReligion$344kOther$0
02FY2025 · 62 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 62 grants below total $1,267,987 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,863,626 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $595,639 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 $10k31 grants · $213k
  • $10k–50k26 grants · $431k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $625k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MONROE CARELL JR CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AT VANDERBILT$229,365
KABOOM$142,680
INSPIRITUS INC$102,500
YWCA OF NASHVILLE & MIDDLE TN$100,000
WESTMINSTER HOME CONNECTION$50,000
PETERSON FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S$32,567
SOLES4SOULS$30,900
EAST TENNESSEE FOUNDATION$30,429
SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION$30,000
BEST BUDDIES$30,000
THE JOHN AND MATTHEW GAUDREAU FOUNDATION$27,315
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK$25,000
APPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC$25,000
WAGS & WALKS NASHVILLE$20,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NASHVILLE INC$14,740
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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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS EASTERN MISSOURI: $20k → 11%THE HOPE STATION INC: $10k → 9%ARMED SERVICES YMCA: $9k → 7%HOSPICE OF THE HIGHLAND RIM FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 17%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROGRAM: $9k → 9%YAIPAK OUTREACH: $40k → 11%YAIPAK OUTREACH: $16k → 11%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROGRAM INC: $9k → 9%SHOWER UP: $36k → 10%UNICYCLE: $10k → 14%MAKE A WISH MIDDLE TN: $32k → 4%SHOWERUP: $8k → 10%MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TN: $28k → 4%ABLE YOUTH INC: $10k → 4%ABLE YOUTH INC: $10k → 4%FORREST SPENCE FUND NASHVILLE: $10k → 14%THE FAMILY CENTER: $9k → 9%ABLE YOUTH: $9k → 4%MY FRIEND'S HOUSE FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $70k → 4%FORESEEABLE FUTURE FOUNDATION: $10k → 4%NURSES FOR NEWBORNS OF TENNESSEE: $9k → 14%THE CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $75k → 14%MOTHER TO MOTHER INC: $17k → 14%WEST NASHVILLE DREAM CENTER: $10k → 14%SOLES4SOULS: $29k → 14%SOLES4SOULSORG: $25k → 14%SOLES4SOULSORG TOTAL: $23k → 14%SOLES4SOULS: $19k → 14%SOLES4SOULSORG: $17k → 14%SOLES4SOULS: $10k → 14%FRIENDS LIFE COMMUNITY: $40k → 14%MY BAG MY STORY: $10k → 14%TENNESSEE ALLIANCE FOR KIDS: $10k → 14%AGAPE: $10k → 14%MOTHER TO MOTHER INC: $15k → 14%HISPANIC FAMILY FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%HISPANIC FAMILY FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%HISPANIC FAMILY FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%YMCA OF MIDDLE TN: $108k → 14%YMCA OF NASHVILLE AD MIDDLE TN: $100k → 14%OPERATION STAND DOWN TENNESSEE: $60k → 14%OPERATION STAND DOWN TENNESSEE TOTAL: $20k → 14%OPERATION STAND DOWN TENNESSEE: $14k → 14%MAKE-A-WISH MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $34k → 14%MAKE-A-WISH MIDDLE TENNESSEE TOTAL: $31k → 14%MAKE-A-WISH MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $26k → 14%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER TOTAL: $15k → 14%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $12k → 14%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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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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$10M · 144 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

144 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2025, 106 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

144
169

Total granted

$10M
$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+12%

Still filing today

83%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $220k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • VU
    Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +120%
  • YWCA NASHVILLE & MIDDLE TENNESSEE
    7× · 2019–2025 · $750k · revenue +105%
  • PF
    PETERSON FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSONS
    6× · 2017–2025 · $316k · revenue +302% · 58% of their budget

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -6%
  • TC
    THE CROSSROADS CAMPUS
    one grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue -42%
  • NA
    NASHVILLE ADULT LITERACY COUNCIL INC
    one grant, 2022 · $70k · revenue -45%

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
Nashville Public Radio

Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.

Arts & Culture
2
Tennessee Kids Belong Inc

Tennessee Kids Belong dramatically improves the experiences and outcomes for children in foster care.

Human Services
3
My Fathers House Nashville

The mission of My Fathers House Nashville (MFHN) is to provide shelter, parenting education, recovery information and life skills for fathers transitioning out of institutional settings or homelessness.

Housing & Shelter
4
Hope House of Tennessee Inc

By creating a safe and structured two year residential program the Hope House of Tennessee will aim to equip and empower personal and educational growth economic self-sufficiency and a deeper understanding of Christs unconditional love.

Housing & Shelter
5
Nashville Technology Council

Ntc mission is to advance the diverse technology ecosystem by connecting and promoting members, attracting, growing and retaining tech talent, and providing opportunities to reinvest in the greater nashville community.

Community Improvement
6
Tennessee Children's Home Inc

Tennessee children's home, inc. is a not-for-profit organization that provides a home for neglected and pre-delinquent children who have an unstable family situation and who are beginning to develop problems which cannot be solved in their…

Human Services
7
The Victor S Johnson Iii Nashville Children's Alliance Inc

The mission of the nashville children's alliance is healing and justice for children who have been abused or exposed to violence.

Crime & Legal
8
One Family Memphis
Human Services
9
Needlink Nashville

Provide needy families and individuals with rent and utilities assistance in order to prevent their eviction or termination of utility services. also provide food and other assistance to needy families and individuals.

10
Park Center Inc

Park center has been serving nashville for over 40 years, providing a place for hope and recovery for people experiencing serious mental illness, homelessness, and addiction. we meet people where they are and provide support through…

Employment
11
Tennessee Chapter of Children's Advocacy

To promote, assist, and support the development, growth, and sustainability of child advocacy centers in their service to at-risk, abused, and neglected children and their families.

Human Services
12
Tennessee Voices for Children

Tennessee voices for children, inc. (tnv) is a statewide and national source of referral, support, and advocacy for families and the systems that serve them. our mission is to be the collaborative leader guiding mental health…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Middle Tennessee and the most unlike its peers is Nhl Foundation Us Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%3%<5yr15%11%5–10yr19%27%10–20yr15%27%20–35yr12%18%35–55yr13%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%1%<5yr15%6%5–10yr19%40%10–20yr15%24%20–35yr12%15%35–55yr13%14%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.6% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.6%2/336
the rest of the field
13%
1,033/7,718

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

279 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. 279 of the 338 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)
94
Early backer (in before they grew)
269/279
Grantees still filing
181/279
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Vanderbilt University Medical Center — $2,589,515 · HealthVanderbilt University Medical Cen…PETERSON FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSONS — $315,581 · HealthPETERSON FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON…+22 more — $461,559 · Health+22 moreYWCA NASHVILLE & MIDDLE TENNESSEE — $750,250 · OtherYWCA NASHVILLE & MIDDLE TENNESSEENASHVILLE PREDATORS — $179,834 · OtherWESTMINSTER HOME CONNECTION — $150,000 · OtherBest Buddies International Inc — $228,921 · OtherBest Buddies International Inc+93 more — $2,888,488 · Other+93 moreYoung Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273) — $208,250 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Chr…MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE — $196,039 · Human ServicesMAKE-A-WISH FOU…SOLES4SOULS INC — $157,559 · Human ServicesSOLES4SOULS INCOPERATION STAND DOWN TENNESSEE — $94,000 · Human ServicesOPERATION STAND…My Friend's House Family and Children Services Inc — $77,000 · Human ServicesTHE CROSSROADS CAMPUS — $75,000 · Human ServicesYAIPAK — $70,450 · Human ServicesMOTHER TO MOTHER INC — $66,500 · Human ServicesTUCKER'S HOUSE — $62,500 · Human ServicesFriends Life Community — $56,662 · Human Services+24 more — $523,583 · Human Services+24 moreKABOOM INC — $773,742 · Recreation & SportsKABOOM IN…7ELEMENT ATHLETICS INC — $35,000 · Recreation & Sports+6 more — $102,573 · Recreation & Sports+6 moreCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF TENNESSEE — $107,000 · EducationNASHVILLE ADULT LITERACY COUNCIL INC — $70,000 · EducationPENCIL FOUNDATION — $65,500 · EducationMIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $62,000 · EducationNASHVILLE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $57,500 · EducationSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION — $55,000 · EducationFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION — $52,400 · EducationPERSIST NASHVILLE — $50,000 · EducationTHE COVENANT SCHOOL — $39,551 · EducationBook Em — $32,500 · Education+10 more — $123,914 · EducationHENDERSONVILLE IN-LINE HOCKEY ASSOCIATION — $63,046 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH ENCOURAGEMENT SERVICES INC — $57,000 · Youth DevelopmentROCKETOWN OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE — $47,700 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE — $43,180 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TENN — $35,600 · Youth DevelopmentBAREFOOT REPUBLIC INC — $30,050 · Youth DevelopmentTRANSFORMATION LIFE CENTER — $18,000 · Youth DevelopmentBLIND-VISUALLY IMPAIRED EARLY SERVICES OF TENNESSE — $18,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH INCORPORATED — $16,375 · Youth DevelopmentUNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC — $100,000 · PhilanthropyTEAMMATES FOR KIDS FOUNDATION — $67,052 · PhilanthropyJUST KEEP LIVIN FOUNDATION — $48,000 · PhilanthropyEAST TENNESSEE FOUNDATION — $30,429 · PhilanthropyTENNESSEE TRUCKING FOUNDATION INC — $25,412 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC — $25,000 · PhilanthropyScripps Howard Fund — $20,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $10,867 · Philanthropy
Health$3,366,655Other$4,197,493Human Services$1,587,543Recreation & Sports$911,315Education$715,365Youth Development$328,951Philanthropy$326,760

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center — $2,589,515 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetKABOOM INC — $773,742 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetYWCA NASHVILLE & MIDDLE TENNESSEE — $750,250 over 7y, 3.0% of budgetPETERSON FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSONS — $315,581 over 6y, 58% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc — $228,921 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273) — $208,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE — $196,039 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetSOLES4SOULS INC — $157,559 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWESTMINSTER HOME CONNECTION — $150,000 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetInspiritus Inc — $123,301 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCOTTAGE COVE COMPANY — $111,654 over 4y, 14% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF TENNESSEE — $107,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWags and Walks — $100,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetOASIS CENTER INC — $98,606 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetOPERATION STAND DOWN TENNESSEE — $94,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetNASHVILLE SAFE HAVEN FAMILY SHELTER INC — $82,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS TENNESSEE INC — $75,150 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetTHE CROSSROADS CAMPUS — $75,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetYAIPAK — $70,450 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetNASHVILLE ADULT LITERACY COUNCIL INC — $70,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetTEAMMATES FOR KIDS FOUNDATION — $67,052 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMOTHER TO MOTHER INC — $66,500 over 6y, 4.2% of budgetPENCIL FOUNDATION — $65,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetHARVEST HANDS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC — $65,050 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetHENDERSONVILLE IN-LINE HOCKEY ASSOCIATION — $63,046 over 6y, 50% of budgetMAPLE BUILT INC — $62,587 over 1y, 26% of budgetTUCKER'S HOUSE — $62,500 over 4y, 7.7% of budgetMIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $62,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMONROE HARDING INC — $60,800 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION — $60,710 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC — $60,334 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNASHVILLE ZOO INC — $57,583 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNASHVILLE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $57,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetYOUTH ENCOURAGEMENT SERVICES INC — $57,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetFriends Life Community — $56,662 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetSTARS NASHVILLE — $56,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION — $55,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPROVERBS 1210 ANIMAL RESCUE AND ADOPTION — $54,997 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetPATHWAYS KITCHEN — $54,534 over 1y, 12% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION — $52,400 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRETRIEVING INDEPENDENCE INC — $51,789 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetPERSIST NASHVILLE — $50,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetAFTER THE IMPACT FUND INC — $50,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetNASHVILLE INNER CITY MINISTRY INC — $49,911 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetAble Youth Inc — $48,225 over 5y, 12% of budgetJUST KEEP LIVIN FOUNDATION — $48,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetROCKETOWN OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE — $47,700 over 3y, 1.2% 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.

Memorial Foundation IncTN159.6× affinity87 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Memorial Foundation Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Frist Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · Joe C Davis Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · Dettwiller Foundation · Carolyn Smith Foundation · The Dan and Margaret Maddox Fund Inc · Louie M & Betty M Phillips Foundatn

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 Nashville Predators 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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202122232425
no gov · 40%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 4%
  • Best Buddies International Inc4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
59report 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, 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 338 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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