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NV Energy Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
207
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$500k
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 2025.

Education$4.2MEnvironment$3.8MPhilanthropy$3.4MHuman Services$1.4MFood & Nutrition$1.1MYouth Development$1.0MEmployment$853kCrime & Legal$845kOther$0
02FY2025 · 207 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k108 grants · $206k
  • $10k–50k75 grants · $1.1M
  • $50k–250k21 grants · $1.7M
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.2M
$7,500
Median grant
9
States reached
$27M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
United Way of Southern Nevada$500,000
United Way of Northern Nevada & the Sierra$448,442
University of Nevada Reno Foundation$250,000
United Way of Southern Nevada$243,484
Three Square$125,000
Community Foundation of Northern Nevada$100,000
Food Bank of Northern Nevada$100,000
The Public Education Foundation$100,000
Rebuilding Together So Nevada$100,000
Serving Our Kids Foundation$75,000
Three Square$75,000
The Nature Conservancy$75,000
Friends of the Marzen House$75,000
Walker River Paiute Tribe$75,000
Communities in Schools of Nevada$70,000
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 (FY20–25, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Douglas County Backpack Buddies Program: $12k → 8%Douglas County Backpack Buddies Program: $10k → 8%Douglas County Backpack Buddies Program: $10k → 8%Douglas County Backpack Buddies Program: $10k → 8%Winnemucca Domestic Violence Services INC: $25k → 10%HEALTHY COMMUNITY COAL OF LYON & STOREY COUNTIES: $11k → 11%100 Black Men of Las Vegas: $10k → 13%Catholic Charities of Northern Nevada: $25k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHERN NEVADA: $20k → 10%Serving Our Kids Foundation: $75k → 13%Serving Our Kids Foundation: $50k → 13%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF NEVADA: $10k → 13%Nevada Youth Empowerment Project: $10k → 10%Nevada Youth Empowerment Project: $10k → 10%Northern Nevada Central Labor Council Non-Profit Worker Benefit: $10k → 10%HELP of Southern Nevada: $100k → 13%Communities in Schools of Nevada: $70k → 13%Communities in Schools of Nevada: $70k → 13%HELP of Southern Nevada: $70k → 13%Communities in Schools of Nevada: $60k → 13%Communities in Schools of Nevada: $50k → 13%HELP of Southern Nevada: $50k → 13%HELP OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $18k → 13%HELP of Southern Nevada: $10k → 13%HELP of Southern Nevada: $10k → 13%HELP of Southern Nevada: $10k → 13%Domestic Violence Resource Center: $30k → 10%Domestic Violence Resource Center: $30k → 10%Domestic Violence Resource Center: $27k → 10%Children's Cabinet Inc: $25k → 10%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER: $21k → 10%The Children's Cabinet: $20k → 10%The Children's Cabinet: $20k → 10%Domestic Violence Resource Center: $20k → 10%las Vegas Indian Center: $50k → 13%THE CHILDREN'S CABINET: $15k → 10%The Children's Cabinet: $15k → 10%Eddy House: $15k → 10%LAS VEGAS RESCUE MISSION: $10k → 13%Northern Nevada RAVE Family Fdn: $15k → 10%Northern Nevada RAVE Family Fdn: $15k → 10%Northern Nevada RAVE Family Foundation: $15k → 10%Northern Nevada RAVE Family Fdn: $15k → 10%Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada: $30k → 13%Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada: $20k → 13%Outside Las Vegas Foundation: $15k → 13%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEVADA: $45k → 13%United States Veterans Initiative (US VETS - Las Vegas): $12k → 13%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

AK
MA
NV
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
VA
AZ
TN
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$17M · 232 repeat orgs$3.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

232 repeat relationships: 104 still active in FY2025, 128 since wound down; 69 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

232
191

Total granted

$17M
$2.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+12%

Still filing today

66%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $336k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsHealthEnvironmentOther
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 NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +32%
  • CC
    CLARK COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $790k · revenue +13%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEVADA AND THE SIERRA
    5× · 2020–2025 · $637k · revenue +170%

Funded once

  • UW
    United Way of Southern Nevada- Proj REACH
    one grant, 2021 · $500k
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN NEVADA - PROJECT REACH
    one grant, 2020 · $500k
  • FP
    Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe
    one grant, 2024 · $250k
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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Healthy Nevada
Health
2
Nevada Agricultural Foundation
Food & Nutrition
3
The Nevada Bighorns Foundation
Education
4
Our Nevada Judges Inc
Education
5
Nevada Succeeds

Our membership is united in pursuit of immediate and continuous improvements to the state's education system. we support an ambitious, agressive and comprehensive reform agenda to dramatically increase the college and workforce readiness…

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6
Fair Government Nevada

To promote fair government practices and for all other legal purposes

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7
Native Voters Alliance Nevada

To uplift the indigenous community by building political power.

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8
Community Services of Nevada

CSNV is engaged in comprehensive community development projects that promote neighborhood revitalization and economic development, community education and civic action, housing, development; cultural awareness, equity and

Housing & Shelter
9
Nevada Council On Problem Gambling

The nevada council on problem gambling is a non-profit information and referral agency whose efforts are focused on reducing the impact of problem gambling on individuals, families and communities in nevada. it is the mission of the nevada…

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10
Nevada State Parks Foundation

The nevada state parks foundation is dedicated to enhancing and preserving the natural beauty, cultural heritage and recreational opportunities within the nevada division of state parks. the foundation is committed to supporting the…

Environment
11
Nevada Wild Horses

Wild horse protection, preservation, rescue and care work.

Animals
12
Nevada State Eb-5 Regional Center Inc
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Chest Inc; the most unlike its peers is Fallon 1908 Fastpitch. 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

287 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. 287 of the 501 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)
88
Early backer (in before they grew)
282/287
Grantees still filing
194/287
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

United Way of So Nevada: $1,343,614 · OtherUnited Way of So NevadaCLARK COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $789,861 · OtherCLARK COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCUnited Way of No Nevada & the Sierra: $639,989 · OtherUnited Way of No Nevada & the SierraSpecial Assistance Fund for Energy: $600,000 · OtherUnited Way of Southern Nevada- Proj REACH: $500,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN NEVADA - PROJECT REACH: $500,000 · Other+120 more: $7,077,125 · Other+120 moreUNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $972,834 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF …UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEVADA AND THE SIERRA: $637,442 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF …Community Foundation of Northern Nevada: $355,700 · PhilanthropyCommunity Foun…COLLEGE OF SOUTHERN NEVADA FOUNDATION INC: $208,200 · PhilanthropyCOLLEGE OF SOU…THE JUST ONE PROJECT: $96,174 · Philanthropy+6 more: $255,000 · Philanthropy+6 moreUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION: $1,014,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF…University of Nevada Reno Foundation: $501,500 · EducationUniversity of…NEVADA STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $280,000 · EducationNEVADA STATE …TECH IMPACT: $101,500 · EducationEDUCATION ALLIANCE OF WASHOE COUNTY INC: $92,500 · EducationTRUCKEE MEADOWS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $87,500 · Education+11 more: $407,000 · Education+11 moreCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEVADA INC: $295,000 · Human ServicesHELP OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $267,500 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER: $129,100 · Human ServicesSERVING OUR KIDS FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 · Human ServicesCatholic Charities of Northern Nevada: $120,350 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S CABINET INC: $95,350 · Human ServicesFAMILY RESPITE CARE OF NEVADA: $76,150 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $60,000 · Human Services+13 more: $411,450 · Human ServicesTHREE SQUARE: $550,000 · Food & NutritionFood Bank of Northern Nevada Inc: $303,000 · Food & NutritionTAHOE FUND: $365,000 · EnvironmentNevada Outdoor School: $135,000 · EnvironmentTHE ENVIROLUTION INC: $108,500 · EnvironmentWALKER BASIN CONSERVANCY: $60,000 · EnvironmentSOUTHERN NEVADA CONSERVANCY: $57,500 · EnvironmentGREEN OUR PLANET: $32,750 · EnvironmentGreen Chips DBA Impact NV: $30,000 · Environment+2 more: $40,000 · EnvironmentWESTERN FOLKLIFE CENTER INC: $132,800 · Arts & CultureDISCOVERY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $76,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE MARZEN HOUSE MUSEUM: $75,000 · Arts & CultureLAS VEGAS NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM: $57,500 · Arts & CultureARTOWN: $55,000 · Arts & CultureHENDERSON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureNEVADA WOODCHUCKS INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureThe Smith Center for the Performing Arts: $30,000 · Arts & CultureNEVADA PUBLIC RADIO: $30,000 · Arts & CultureCHANNEL 5 PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $27,500 · Arts & Culture300 STEWART AVENUE CORPORATION: $25,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $52,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$11,450,589Philanthropy$2,525,350Education$2,484,500Human Services$1,579,900Food & Nutrition$853,000Environment$828,750Arts & Culture$651,300

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION: $1,014,500 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $972,834 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetCLARK COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $789,861 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEVADA AND THE SIERRA: $637,442 over 5y, 9.8% of budgetTHREE SQUARE: $550,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Nevada Reno Foundation: $501,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTAHOE FUND: $365,000 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetCommunity Foundation of Northern Nevada: $355,700 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetLEGAL AID CENTER OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $328,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetFood Bank of Northern Nevada Inc: $303,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEVADA INC: $295,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetNEVADA STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $280,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetHELP OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $267,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetOPPORTUNITY VILLAGE: $266,350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLas Vegas Metropolitan PD Foundation: $211,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCOLLEGE OF SOUTHERN NEVADA FOUNDATION INC: $208,200 over 5y, 9.5% of budgetWESTERN NEVADA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $195,000 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetKEEP TRUCKEE MEADOWS BEAUTIFUL: $142,850 over 6y, 4.4% of budgetNEVADA CLEAN ENERGY FUND: $135,000 over 3y, 33% of budgetNevada Outdoor School: $135,000 over 6y, 4.4% of budgetWESTERN FOLKLIFE CENTER INC: $132,800 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER: $129,100 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetSERVING OUR KIDS FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetCatholic Charities of Northern Nevada: $120,350 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NATIONAL JUDICIAL COLLEGE: $119,300 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTHE ENVIROLUTION INC: $108,500 over 3y, 14% of budgetTECH IMPACT: $101,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE JUST ONE PROJECT: $96,174 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S CABINET INC: $95,350 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEDUCATION ALLIANCE OF WASHOE COUNTY INC: $92,500 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetTRUCKEE MEADOWS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $87,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $85,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSky Tavern Inc: $82,100 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetNEVADA WOMEN'S FUND: $81,500 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $80,150 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetASIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $80,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetNorthern Nevada HIV Outpatient Program Education and Services: $80,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MASON VALLEY: $78,200 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER LAS VEGAS: $76,750 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetFAMILY RESPITE CARE OF NEVADA: $76,150 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetDISCOVERY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $76,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE MARZEN HOUSE MUSEUM: $75,000 over 1y, 93% of budgetTHE MOONRIDGE FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetEQUALITY CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE: $72,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTRUCKEE MEADOWS TOMORROW: $70,000 over 5y, 9.5% of budgetCristo Rey St Viator Las Vegas Work Study: $68,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetTRUCKEE MEADOWS PARKS FOUNDATION: $65,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Western Nevada: $62,500 over 5y, 0.9% 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 NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
  • Who funds CLARK COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEVADA AND THE SIERRA ↗
  • Who funds THREE SQUARE ↗
  • Who funds University of Nevada Reno Foundation ↗
  • Who funds TAHOE FUND ↗
  • Who funds Community Foundation of Northern Nevada ↗
  • Who funds LEGAL AID CENTER OF SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
  • Who funds Food Bank of Northern Nevada Inc ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEVADA INC ↗
  • Who funds NEVADA STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HELP OF SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
  • Who funds OPPORTUNITY VILLAGE ↗
  • Who funds Las Vegas Metropolitan PD Foundation ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE OF SOUTHERN NEVADA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WESTERN NEVADA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KEEP TRUCKEE MEADOWS BEAUTIFUL ↗
  • Who funds NEVADA CLEAN ENERGY FUND ↗
  • Who funds Nevada Outdoor School ↗
  • Who funds WESTERN FOLKLIFE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SERVING OUR KIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Catholic Charities of Northern Nevada ↗
  • Who funds THE NATIONAL JUDICIAL COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE ENVIROLUTION INC ↗
  • Who funds TECH IMPACT ↗

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.

United Way of Southern NevadaNV121.3× affinity62 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Southern Nevada · Community Foundation of Northern Nevada · Nevada Community Foundation Inc · Mgm Resorts Foundation · The E L Cord Foundation · Dermody Properties Foundation · Canarelli Family Foundation · The Nell J Redfield Foundation · Wynn Resorts Foundation · Robert Z Hawkins Foundation · Renown Health · Engelstad 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 NV Energy Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from NV Energy Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%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
    0get no government money at all
    75report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to NV Energy Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to NV Energy Charitable 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 501 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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