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Ottumwa Regional Legacy Foundation Inc

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.

$3.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
216
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$554k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$3.8MRecreation & Sports$3.1MCommunity Improvement$2.6MHousing & Shelter$1.2MHuman Services$697kArts & Culture$610kHealth$554kPublic Safety & Disaster$289kOther$0
02FY2024 · 216 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k170 grants · $289k
  • $10k–50k35 grants · $723k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+2 grants · $954k
$1,250
Median grant
12
States reached
$74M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$554,112
SOUTHEAST IOWA SPORTS COMMISSION$400,000
Individual grant recipient$222,355
Individual grant recipient$211,376
Individual grant recipient$168,363
INDIAN HILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE$150,000
Individual grant recipient$117,097
Individual grant recipient$91,782
Individual grant recipient$76,650
Individual grant recipient$71,330
Individual grant recipient$56,222
AMERICAN HOME FINDING ASSOCIATION$40,000
GREATER OTTUMWA PARTNERS IN PROGRESS$40,000
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA$35,500
WAPELLO COUNTY TRAILS COUNCIL$30,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $515k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WAKE FOUNDATION: $30k → 14%CRISIS INTERVENTION SERVICES: $16k → 10%FAIRFIELD COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $5k → 14%FOUR OAKS FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $20k → 9%FOUR OAKS FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $10k → 9%FOUR OAKS FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $3k → 9%CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF IOWA: $4k → 10%CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF IOWA: $3k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $12k → 10%AMERICAN HOME FINDING ASSOCIATION: $40k → 16%CRISIS CENTER & WOMEN'S SHELTER INC: $30k → 16%AMERICAN HOME FINDING ASSOCIATION: $30k → 16%CRISIS CENTER & WOMEN'S SHELTER INC DBA FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $30k → 16%AMERICAN HOME FINDING ASSOCIATION: $30k → 16%AMERICAN HOME FINDING ASSOCIATION: $28k → 16%AMERICAN HOME FINDING ASSOCIATION: $28k → 16%AMERICAN HOME FINDING ASSOCIATION: $25k → 16%AMERICAN HOME FINDING ASSOCIATION: $25k → 16%AMERICAN HOME FINDING ASSOCIATION: $23k → 16%CRISIS CENTER & WOMEN'S SHELTER INC DBA FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $19k → 16%SOUTHEAST IOWA DREAM CENTER: $16k → 16%AMERICAN HOME FINDING ASSN: $15k → 16%SOUTHEAST IOWA DREAM CENTER: $14k → 16%AMERICAN HOME FINDING ASSOCIATION: $10k → 16%AMERICAN HOME FINDING ASSOCIATION: $10k → 16%CRISIS CENTER & WOMEN'S SHELTER INC DBA FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $8k → 16%AMERICAN HOME FINDING ASSN: $7k → 16%SOUTHEAST IOWA DREAM CENTER: $6k → 16%AMERICAN HOME FINDING ASSOCIATION: $3k → 16%AMERICAN HOME FINDING ASSOCIATION: $3k → 16%AMERICAN HOME FINDING ASSOCIATION: $3k → 16%AMERICAN HOME FINDING ASSOCIATION: $3k → 16%AMERICAN HOME FINDING ASSOCIATION: $3k → 16%AMERICAN HOME FINDING ASSOCIATION: $3k → 16%AMERICAN HOME FINDING ASSN: $2k → 16%AMERICAN HOME FINDING ASSOCIATION: $2k → 16%AMERICAN HOME FINDING ASSOCIATION: $1k → 16%AMERICAN HOME FINDING ASSOCIATION: $80 → 16%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

ND
IL
MI
NY
SD
IA
OH
NJ
UT
NE
MO
MD
KS
AR
TN
OK
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 103 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

103 repeat relationships: 65 still active in FY2024, 38 since wound down; 42 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

103
90

Total granted

$13M
$860k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+20%

Still filing today

50%
28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $317k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • IH
    INDIAN HILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $899k · revenue +28% · 74% of their budget
  • AH
    AMERICAN HOME FINDING ASSOCIATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $291k · revenue +63%
  • OA
    OTTUMWA AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
    7× · 2018–2024 · $243k · revenue +137%

Funded once

  • MF
    MERCY FOUNDATION OF DES MOINES IOWAgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $200k · revenue +42%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $200k
  • EH
    EDDYVILLE HISTORICAL MUSEUM
    one grant, 2018 · $42k
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
State University of Iowa Foundation

The university of iowa center for advancement's mission is to advance the university of iowa through engagement and philanthropy. we serve our alumni and friends in the state and the region, throughout the country, and around the world. we…

Education
2
Iowa College Foundation

The foundation is organized to further the growth and development of private colleges and universities of higher education in iowa.

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3
Western Iowa Development Assoc

Facilitate economic opportunity, business success, community engagement, prosperity, and quality of life for rural western iowa

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4
Upper Iowa University

Upper iowa university provides quality educational opportunities accessible through varied delivery methods to inspire success and empower lives.

Education
5
State University of Iowa Alumni Association

Our mission is to strengthen the university of iowa through alumni engagement. we do this through our communications, alumni programs, and events.

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6
Iowa Business Council

The mission of the iowa business council is to engage the personal commitment of its executive members in active leadership roles on major initiatives that offer opportuinities to enhance iowa's overall economic vitality.

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7
Iowa Laborers' Employers Cooperation & Education Trust

Improve communications between employers and local unions.

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8
Iowa City Area Chamber of Commerce

Our mission is to inspire the iowa city area to be greater by: 1) elevating business, 2) investing in strategic initiatives, and 3) advocating for the economic resiliency of the greater community.

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9
University of the Ozarks

True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.

Education
10
Iowa Association of Business and Industry

To nurture a favorable business, economic, governmental, and social climate within the state of iowa so our citizens can have the opportunity to enjoy the highest possible quality of life.

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11
Iowa Renewable Fuels Association

To promote the common business interests of member companies without profit and without the inuring of income to the benefit of any member company or individual. to present the executive, legislative, judicial and regulatory bodies…

Community Improvement
12
West Central Community Action

In partnership with state and federal government, our mission is to administer programs designed to help residents in our 10-county region of southwest iowa achieve self-sufficiency.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ottumwa Area Chamber of Commerce; the most unlike its peers is A T Still University of Health Sciences. 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

93 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. 93 of the 235 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.

12
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
91/93
Grantees still filing
54/93
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $4,503,825 · OtherIndividual grant recipientOTTUMWA COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $1,851,694 · OtherOTTUMWA COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICTINDIAN HILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $899,099 · OtherINDIAN HILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE+146 more: $3,881,148 · Other+146 moreREGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INVESTMENTS INC: $756,250 · Community ImprovementGREATER OTTUMWA DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $90,193 · Community Improvement+1 more: $5,800 · Community ImprovementSOUTHEAST IOWA SPORTS COMMISSION: $412,510 · Recreation & SportsOTTUMWA PARK AND RECREATION FOUNDATION INC: $105,665 · Recreation & SportsWAPELLO COUNTY TRAILS COUNCIL: $85,800 · Recreation & SportsWAPELLO COUNTY 4-H EXPOSITION INC DUFF: $84,373 · Recreation & Sports+2 more: $22,500 · Recreation & SportsAMERICAN HOME FINDING ASSOCIATION: $291,089 · Human ServicesCRISIS CENTER & WOMEN'S SHELTER INC: $86,500 · Human ServicesSOUTHEAST IOWA DREAM CENTER: $35,500 · Human ServicesFOUR OAKS FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $32,910 · Human ServicesWAKE FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Human Services+4 more: $39,128 · Human ServicesOTTUMWA ATHLETIC CLUB INC: $149,050 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE BLAKESBURG PUBLIC LIBRARY: $98,116 · EducationOTTUMWA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $38,000 · EducationDRAKE UNIVERSITY: $19,500 · EducationMOUND FARM HOLDINGS INC: $17,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDATION: $17,175 · EducationST AMBROSE UNIVERSITY: $14,500 · Education+11 more: $48,090 · EducationMERCY FOUNDATION OF DES MOINES IOWA: $200,000 · HealthSOUTHERN IOWA MENTAL HEALTH CENTER: $39,142 · HealthOTTUMWA REGIONAL LEGACY FOUNDATION INC: $19,493 · HealthNATIONAL OVARIAN CANCER COALITION INC: $15,000 · HealthRIVER HILLS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $14,893 · Health+1 more: $2,200 · HealthFRIENDS OF NAS OTTUMWA: $77,300 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN GOTHIC PERFORMING ARTS: $76,650 · Arts & CultureBRIDGE VIEW CENTER INC: $44,600 · Arts & CultureELDON DEPOT COMMITTEE INC: $24,705 · Arts & CultureBLAKESBURG HISTORICAL PRESERVATION SOCIETY: $11,500 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $17,986 · Arts & Culture
Other$11,135,766Community Improvement$852,243Recreation & Sports$710,848Human Services$515,127Education$401,931Health$290,728Arts & Culture$252,741

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 budgetINDIAN HILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $899,099 over 8y, 74% of budgetREGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INVESTMENTS INC: $756,250 over 2y, 34% of budgetSOUTHEAST IOWA SPORTS COMMISSION: $412,510 over 2y, 20% of budgetAMERICAN HOME FINDING ASSOCIATION: $291,089 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetOTTUMWA AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $242,759 over 7y, 18% of budgetMERCY FOUNDATION OF DES MOINES IOWA: $200,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetFOOD BANK OF IOWA: $189,380 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetOTTUMWA ATHLETIC CLUB INC: $149,050 over 4y, 76% of budgetFIRST RESOURCES CORPORATION: $122,638 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetMAIN STREET OTTUMWA: $116,150 over 7y, 11% of budgetOTTUMWA PARK AND RECREATION FOUNDATION INC: $105,665 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWHATSOEVER YOU DO INC: $100,120 over 4y, 14% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE BLAKESBURG PUBLIC LIBRARY: $98,116 over 4y, 70% of budgetGREATER OTTUMWA DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $90,193 over 2y, 77% of budgetTENCO INDUSTRIES INC: $89,700 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetIowa Legal Aid: $89,666 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCRISIS CENTER & WOMEN'S SHELTER INC: $86,500 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetWAPELLO COUNTY TRAILS COUNCIL: $85,800 over 3y, 61% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF OTTUMWA IOWA: $84,550 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetWAPELLO COUNTY 4-H EXPOSITION INC DUFF: $84,373 over 5y, 37% of budgetFRIENDS OF NAS OTTUMWA: $77,300 over 4y, 33% of budgetAMERICAN GOTHIC PERFORMING ARTS: $76,650 over 6y, 35% of budgetSOUTHERN IOWA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION: $72,740 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetRIPPLING WATERS: $51,375 over 2y, 18% of budgetBRIDGE VIEW CENTER INC: $44,600 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetLATINAS LATINOS AL EXITO INC: $39,694 over 5y, 7.0% of budgetSOUTHERN IOWA MENTAL HEALTH CENTER: $39,142 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetOTTUMWA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $38,000 over 3y, 51% of budgetIOWA JOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES INC: $33,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFOUR OAKS FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $32,910 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEARTLAND HUMANE SOCIETY LTD: $30,940 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetWAKE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetOTTUMWA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $25,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetELDON DEPOT COMMITTEE INC: $24,705 over 1y, 66% of budgetPLEASANT VALLEY MANOR: $24,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WAPELLO COUNTY INC: $21,601 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetECUMENICAL LORDS CUPBOARD: $20,080 over 3y, 10% of budgetDRAKE UNIVERSITY: $19,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOTTUMWA REGIONAL LEGACY FOUNDATION INC: $19,493 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetIZAAK WALTON LEAGUE OTTUMWA CHAPTER: $19,040 over 3y, 21% of budgetMOUND FARM HOLDINGS INC: $17,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDATION: $17,175 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER OTTUMWA CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU INC: $16,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetCRISIS INTERVENTION SERVICES INC: $15,778 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL OVARIAN CANCER COALITION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPATHFINDERS RC&D: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetRIVER HILLS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $14,893 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST AMBROSE UNIVERSITY: $14,500 over 2y, 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 INDIAN HILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INVESTMENTS INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHEAST IOWA SPORTS COMMISSION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN HOME FINDING ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds OTTUMWA AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
  • Who funds MERCY FOUNDATION OF DES MOINES IOWA ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF IOWA ↗
  • Who funds OTTUMWA ATHLETIC CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds FIRST RESOURCES CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds MAIN STREET OTTUMWA ↗
  • Who funds OTTUMWA PARK AND RECREATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WHATSOEVER YOU DO INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE BLAKESBURG PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds GREATER OTTUMWA DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TENCO INDUSTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds Iowa Legal Aid ↗
  • Who funds CRISIS CENTER & WOMEN'S SHELTER INC ↗
  • Who funds WAPELLO COUNTY TRAILS COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF OTTUMWA IOWA ↗
  • Who funds WAPELLO COUNTY 4-H EXPOSITION INC DUFF ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF NAS OTTUMWA ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN GOTHIC PERFORMING ARTS ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN IOWA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds RIPPLING WATERS ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGE VIEW CENTER 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.

Pella Rolscreen FoundationIA45.9× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pella Rolscreen Foundation · Wapello County Foundation · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Delta Dental of Iowa Foundation · United Way of Wapello County Inc · Fahrney Education Fdtn Trust · Roy J Carver Charitable Trust · The Cambridge Foundation Inc · Lsb Foundation · EMC Insurance Foundation · Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa

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 Ottumwa Regional Legacy Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ottumwa Regional Legacy Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’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 →median 8%
  • Oxford House Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Babe Ruth League Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
25report 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 Ottumwa Regional Legacy 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 235 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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