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Nelco Foundation Inc

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$517k
Granted FY2026still arriving
72
Grants FY2026still arriving
11
States reached
$123k
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, FY2021 to 2025.

Philanthropy$852kInternational$435kReligion$370kHealth$96kEducation$86kArts & Culture$67kHuman Services$62kHousing & Shelter$25kOther$0
02FY2026 · 72 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k63 grants · $126k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $143k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $248k
$1,800
Median grant
11
States reached
$8.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHENKAR$123,000
AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION$75,000
MS GIFT NELCO FOUNDATION FUND$50,000
THE JEWISH LIFE CENTER INC$38,268
FJC A FOUNDATION OF PHILATHROPIC FUNDS$36,000
FJC JEWISH COMMUNITY OF POLAND$30,000
MANHATTAN JEWISH STUDENTS CENTER$18,600
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY$10,000
YESHIVAT CHOVEVEI TORAH$10,000
NORTH AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ORANIM$5,000
MUDDY PAWS RESCUE$5,000
TEMPLE ZION ATLANTIC & LONG BEACH JEWISH CENTER$5,000
HILLEL INTERNATIONAL FOR POLAND$5,000
WELL BEYOND BREAST CANCER$4,955
THE JEWISH CENTER OF ATLANTIC BEACH$4,660
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 (FY21–26, $88k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 57% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 6%JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES: $4k → 8%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $1k → 6%JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES: $4k → 8%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $1k → 6%WORTHY OF LOVE: $1k → 14%JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES: $4k → 8%WORTHY OF LOVE: $1k → 14%JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES: $4k → 8%WORTHY OF LOVE: $1k → 14%ISRAEL SPECIAL KIDS FUND: $3k → 7%JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES: $4k → 8%WORTHY OF LOVE: $1k → 14%ISRAEL SPECIAL KIDS FUND: $2k → 7%JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES: $4k → 8%SHOREFRONT JEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL: $3k → 20%ISRAEL SPECIAL KIDS FUND: $2k → 7%BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $2k → 8%ISRAEL SPECIAL KIDS FUND: $2k → 7%SHOREFRONT JEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL: $3k → 20%ISRAEL SPECIAL KIDS FUND: $2k → 7%SHOREFRONT JEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL: $3k → 20%BLUE CARD: $1k → 17%BLUE CARD: $1k → 17%BLUE CARD: $1k → 17%MATAN INC: $2k → 17%MATAN INC: $2k → 17%MATAN INC: $2k → 17%PROJECT EZRA: $1k → 17%BELEV ECHAD: $4k → 17%PROJECT EZRA: $1k → 17%BELEV ECHAD: $3k → 17%PROJECT EZRA: $1k → 17%BELEV ECHAD: $2k → 17%PROJECT EZRA: $1k → 17%BELEV ECHAD: $1k → 17%PROJECT EZRA: $1k → 17%BELEV ECHAD: $1k → 17%PROJECT EZRA: $1k → 17%DOROT: $1k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $1k → 17%DOROT: $1k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $1k → 17%DOROT: $1k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $1k → 17%DOROT: $1k → 17%DOROT: $1k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $1k → 17%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

IL
WI
NY
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MD
DC
HI
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 80 repeat orgs$254k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +8% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

80 repeat relationships: 56 still active in FY2026, 24 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

80
35

Total granted

$2.1M
$143k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
0%

Still filing today

64%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $111k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25’26
InternationalHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyArts & CultureEducationOther
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

  • AI
    AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2022–2026 · $236k · revenue +2%
  • BF
    BETTER FUTURE FOR ISRAEL
    4× · 2021–2024 · $95k · revenue +7%
  • FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
    5× · 2021–2025 · $51k · revenue +113%

Funded once

  • AU
    AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ENDOWMENT
    one grant, 2025 · $44k
  • GE
    GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2025 · $25k · revenue +816%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2025 · $10k
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.

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Sherit Isroel
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2
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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3
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
4
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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5
Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech
6
American Friends of Bar-Ilan University

We fundraise in the u.s. to support, and raise awareness of, bar-ilan university in israel.

Education
7
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
8
University of Judaism Foundation
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9
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
10
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
11
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
12
United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc

Uja-federation of new york (uja) cares for jews everywhere and new yorkers of all backgrounds, responds to crises close to home and far away, and shapes the jewish future. through strategic grantmaking, uja provides funding and resources…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Hebrew University Inc; the most unlike its peers is San Antonio Broadway Theatre. 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

82 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. 82 of the 137 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)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
81/82
Grantees still filing
46/82
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH LIFE CENTER INC: $275,268 · OtherJEWISH LIFE CENTER INCBEIT ISSIE SHAPIRO: $257,900 · OtherBEIT ISSIE SHAPIROFJC JEWISH COMMUNITY OF POLAND: $157,500 · OtherFJC JEWISH COMMUNITY OF POLANDYAD VASHEM: $132,000 · OtherYAD VASHEMMANHATTAN JEWISH STUDENTS CENTER: $51,400 · OtherMS GIFT NELCO FOUNDATION FUND: $50,000 · Other+69 more: $515,810 · Other+69 moreAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $236,000 · InternationalAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION F…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHENKAR COLLEGE IN ISRAEL: $158,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHENKAR…FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $51,200 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFEN…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $49,050 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW …NORTH AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ORANIM INC: $40,000 · InternationalNORTH AMERICAN FRIENDS OF O…+14 more: $94,705 · International+14 moreDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $150,000 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISE…BETTER FUTURE FOR ISRAEL: $95,000 · PhilanthropyBETTER FUTUR…ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $12,000 · Philanthropy+8 more: $24,225 · Philanthropy+8 moreJEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES INC: $21,600 · Human ServicesBELEV ECHAD INC: $10,200 · Human ServicesISRAEL SPECIAL KIDS FUND: $9,100 · Human ServicesSHOREFRONT JEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC: $9,000 · Human ServicesDOROT INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesProject Ezra: $6,000 · Human ServicesMATAN INC: $5,400 · Human ServicesISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $5,300 · Human ServicesWorthy of Love: $4,000 · Human ServicesTHE BLUE CARD INC: $3,000 · Human Services+2 more: $2,000 · Human ServicesMAIMONIDES MEDICAL CENTER: $20,000 · HealthAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $6,000 · HealthDRUG POLICY ALLIANCE: $6,000 · HealthBRCA Strong Corp: $4,618 · HealthBEIT BINYAMIN INC: $3,600 · HealthWest Side Hatzoloh: $1,800 · Health+4 more: $3,650 · HealthFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $23,809 · Arts & CultureALGEMEINER INC: $7,500 · Arts & CultureSTORYVILLE CENTER FOR THE SPOKEN WORD INC: $7,000 · Arts & CultureSAN ANTONIO BROADWAY THEATRE: $5,600 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $1,220 · Arts & CultureYIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH INC: $12,600 · ReligionHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $9,600 · ReligionCORE OUTREACH FOUNDATION: $3,600 · Religion
Other$1,439,878International$628,955Philanthropy$281,225Human Services$87,600Health$45,668Arts & Culture$45,129Religion$25,800

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 budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $236,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBETTER FUTURE FOR ISRAEL: $95,000 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $51,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $49,050 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ORANIM INC: $40,000 over 6y, 7.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $23,809 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBL GIRLS TOWN JERUSALEM INC: $21,600 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES INC: $21,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMAIMONIDES MEDICAL CENTER: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $15,725 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF ISRAEL DISABLED VETERANS INC: $15,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetECHO NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH: $13,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetYIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH INC: $12,600 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHIAS INC: $11,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC: $10,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GESHER FOUNDATION INC: $10,800 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBELEV ECHAD INC: $10,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $9,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL SPECIAL KIDS FUND: $9,100 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSHOREFRONT JEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNorthwestern University: $8,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC: $7,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALGEMEINER INC: $7,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $7,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTORYVILLE CENTER FOR THE SPOKEN WORD INC: $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $6,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSEEDS OF PEACE INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMIKEY'S WAY FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetDOROT INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDRUG POLICY ALLIANCE: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetProject Ezra: $6,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSAN ANTONIO BROADWAY THEATRE: $5,600 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetMATAN INC: $5,400 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $5,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEMPOWERS AFRICA INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBRCA Strong Corp: $4,618 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWorthy of Love: $4,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetIOLA Foundation: $3,700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWAVE HILL INCORPORATED: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BLUE CARD INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST ELIZABETH SETON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION LTD: $2,800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHENKAR COLLEGE IN ISRAEL ↗
  • Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
  • Who funds BETTER FUTURE FOR ISRAEL ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ORANIM INC ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
  • Who funds BL GIRLS TOWN JERUSALEM INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES INC ↗
  • Who funds MAIMONIDES MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DISABLED VETERANS INC ↗
  • Who funds ECHO NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds YIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH INC ↗
  • Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HIAS INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE GESHER FOUNDATION 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.

Jewish Communal FundNY28.7× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Fjc · Pledgeling Foundation · The Ephraim and Gail Propp Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Ellen and Michael Goldberg Family Foundation Inc · The Reuben and Jane Leibowitz Foundation · The Goldberg Family Charitable Foundation Inc · Richard Hirsch Foundation · Nash Family Foundation · Cross River Community 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 Nelco Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nelco Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Global Empowerment Mission Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
17report 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
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 Nelco Foundation Inc 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 137 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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