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Pershing Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
83
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$600k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Arts & Culture$5.9MEducation$5.8MHealth$3.5MCommunity Improvement$2.8MCrime & Legal$2.0MHousing & Shelter$1.6MHuman Services$1.5MFood & Nutrition$1.2MOther$0
02FY2025 · 83 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $48k
  • $10k–50k41 grants · $920k
  • $50k–250k30 grants · $2.5M
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.7M
$30,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$88M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST LOUIS CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$600,000
EPSISCOPAL CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL$400,000
CONCORDANCE$400,000
ACCESS ACADEMIES$300,000
NINE PBS$150,000
STL UNIVERSITY FBO VACCINE EDUCATION$150,000
PETER AND PAUL COMMUNITY SERVICES$100,000
URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN STL$100,000
ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY RISING TEACHERS PROGRAM$100,000
DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER$100,000
GREATER ST LOUIS INC$100,000
INVEST STL$100,000
BEYOND HOUSING INC$100,000
URBAN LEAGUE OF METRO STL$100,000
METROPOLITAN GOLF FOUNDATION$100,000
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 (FY20–25, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TANZANIAN CHILDREN'S FUND: $120k → 8%MISSOURI VETERANS ENDEAVOR: $30k → 11%Tgthr LLC: $8k → 12%Tanzanian Children's Fund: $52k → 8%TANZANIAN CHILDREN'S FUND: $35k → 8%Missouri Veterans Endeavor: $25k → 11%TANZANIAN CHILDREN'S FUND: $26k → 8%Missouri Veterans Endeavor: $25k → 11%TANZANIAN CHILDRENS FUND: $95k → 8%MISSOURI VETERANS ENDEAVOR: $25k → 11%MISSOURI VETERANS ENDEAVOR: $25k → 11%HOME SWEET HOME: $15k → 11%UNLEASHING POTENTIAL: $15k → 21%Home Sweet Home: $15k → 11%Flance Early Learning Center: $40k → 21%VILLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ST LOUIS: $10k → 21%Flance Early Learning Center: $40k → 21%FLANCE MANAGEMENT INC: $40k → 21%UNLEASHING POTENTIAL: $5k → 21%INTERNATIONAL MENTORING PROGRAM: $50k → 11%International Mentoring Program: $25k → 11%International Mentoring Program: $25k → 11%RAINBOW VILLAGE PROPERTIES: $15k → 11%PROMISE COMMUNITY HOMES: $15k → 11%Promise Community Homes: $15k → 11%Rainbow Village Properties: $15k → 11%RAINBOW VILLAGE PROPERTIES INC: $10k → 11%PROMISE COMMUNITY HOMES: $10k → 11%FATHERS AND FAMILIES SUPPORT CENTER: $25k → 21%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $25k → 11%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $25k → 11%St Louis ARC: $5k → 11%ST LOUIS ARC: $5k → 11%ST LOUIS ARC: $5k → 11%ST LOUIS ARC: $5k → 11%ST LOUIS ARC: $5k → 11%St Louis ARC: $5k → 11%ST LOUIS AREA DIAPER BANK: $10k → 11%St Louis Area Diaper Bank: $5k → 11%BUILD MISSOURI HEALTH: $65k → 21%St Louis Area Diaper Bank: $5k → 11%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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CO
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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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$21M · 101 repeat orgs$8.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.

101 repeat relationships — 59 still active in FY2025, 42 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

101
61

Total granted

$21M
$6.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+5%

Still filing today

82%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M 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
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHealthRecreation & 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

  • GS
    GREATER ST LOUIS INC FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $879k · revenue +23%
  • BH
    BEYOND HOUSING INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $850k · revenue +45%
  • DD
    DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER
    3× · 2020–2025 · $700k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • AS
    ART ST LOUIS
    one grant, 2021 · $1.5M · revenue -1%
  • SL
    SAINT LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $500k
  • RA
    Refuge and Restorationgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +324% · 43% of their budget

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.

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Mission St Louis

Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.

Community Improvement
2
St Louis Economic Development Partnership

Economic development.

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3
St Louis Community Foundation

To promote the possibilities of charitable giving, helping charitable citizens understand how they can effectively provide for the community they love and the causes they care deeply about.

Philanthropy
4
Thomas Jefferson School

Thomas jefferson school engages its students in the education necessary to live as responsible citizens of the world. through the strongest possible college-prepatory program and within a nurturing community, students develop a…

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5
St Louis Regional Chamber & Growth Association

Greater st. louis, inc. brings together business and civic leaders to create jobs, drive inclusive economic growth, and increase the st. louis metro area's global competitiveness. we speak with a unified voice, lead with a bold agenda, and…

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6
Forward Through Ferguson

Embracing the ferguson commission's mandate, forward through ferguson centers impacted communities and mobilizes accountable bodies to advance racially equitable systems and policies that ensure all people in the st. louis region can…

Civil Rights
7
St Louis Sports Commission Inc

Foster economic growth and improved quality of life in the st. louis area by producing events, enhancing its national and international image as a premier sports region, and increasing community awareness of the value of sports.

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8
St Louis Learning Disabilities Association

To provide children with hope, understanding, and compassion so they can reach their full potential.

Human Services
9
St Louis Association of Community Organizations

Community Development and Community Center and social services

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10
Techstl

The TechSTL Council serves as the St Louis champion for technology by strategically and equitably investing in regional collaboration to advance tech workforce development and retention, along with spurring innovation opportunities in…

Community Improvement
11
The Louisville Urban League Inc

As an active partner, leader and catalyst, we will assist african americans, other minority groups and the disadvantaged attain social and economic equality and stability through direct services and advocacy.

Human Services
12
Teach St Louis

Founded In 2018, Teach St. Louis (formerly St. Louis Teacher Residency) launched to improve teacher quality and retention in St. Louis, a city where 40% of new teachers exit the classroom in their first three years. Teach St. Louis…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Epworth Children & Family Services Inc and 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.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHospital Systems and Health…Community Support ServicesK-12 and Higher EducationHomeless Services HousingCatholic Senior HousingAffordable Housing ProvidersUrban Neighborhood Revitali…St. Louis Community Organiz…Family Philanthropic Founda…Catholic Senior HousingFood Assistance ProgramsSt. Louis Sports & Recreati…St. Louis Regional Developm…Missouri Policy AdvocacyHealth Equity & Access Orga…Performing Arts Organizatio…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%3%<5yr13%9%5–10yr16%21%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr17%18%35–55yr19%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%2%<5yr13%8%5–10yr16%16%10–20yr16%30%20–35yr17%22%35–55yr19%22%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/121
the rest of the field
14%
1,453/10,036

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

115 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 115 of the 186 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)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
114/115
Grantees still filing
71/115
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SAINT LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $500,000 · OtherBEYOND HOUSING INC — $850,000 · OtherBEYOND HOUSING INCDONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER — $700,000 · OtherDONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER+112 more — $10,226,708 · Other+112 moreSAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $2,600,000 · Arts & CultureSAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY …ART ST LOUIS — $1,500,000 · Arts & CultureART ST LOUISST LOUIS REGIONAL PUBLIC MEDIA INC — $285,000 · Arts & CultureMISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $250,000 · Arts & CultureCENTER OF CREATIVE ARTS — $225,000 · Arts & CultureRADIO ARTS FOUNDATION — $200,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more — $500,500 · Arts & Culture+6 moreACCESS ACADEMIES — $2,200,000 · EducationACCESS ACADEMIESCITY ACADEMY INC — $433,900 · EducationCITY ACADEMY INCEDEN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY — $180,000 · EducationMARIAN MIDDLE SCHOOL — $165,000 · Education+21 more — $1,259,850 · Education+21 moreGREAT RIVERS GREENWAY FOUNDATION — $1,000,000 · Community ImprovementGREAT RIV…GREATER ST LOUIS INC FOUNDATION — $879,000 · Community ImprovementGREATER S…MISSION REALTY ADVISORS — $134,000 · Community ImprovementMISSION R…ENTREPRENEUR STARTUP BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $129,500 · Community ImprovementGREATER ST LOUIS INC — $100,000 · Community ImprovementNEIGHBORHOOD SOLIDARITY FUND — $100,000 · Community Improvement+3 more — $98,500 · Community ImprovementCONCORDANCE — $1,600,000 · Crime & LegalARCHCITY DEFENDERS — $300,000 · Crime & LegalRefuge and Restoration — $500,000 · Human ServicesTHE TANZANIAN CHILDRENS FUND INC — $328,100 · Human ServicesMISSOURI VETERANS ENDEAVOR — $130,000 · Human ServicesFLANCE MANAGEMENT INC D/B/A FLANCE EARLY LEARNING CENTER — $120,000 · Human ServicesINTERNATIONAL MENTORING PROGRAM INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesRAINBOW VILLAGE PROPERTIES INC — $80,000 · Human ServicesBUILD MISSOURI HEALTH — $65,000 · Human Services+8 more — $193,250 · Human ServicesST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $650,000 · HealthCASA DE SALUD — $400,000 · HealthASSISI HOUSE — $133,500 · HealthQUEEN OF PEACE CENTER — $130,000 · HealthThe Ranken-Jordan Home For Convalescent Crippled Children — $67,000 · HealthCHILD CENTER-MARYGROVE — $60,000 · Health+2 more — $60,000 · Health
Other$12,276,708Arts & Culture$5,560,500Education$4,238,750Community Improvement$2,441,000Crime & Legal$1,900,000Human Services$1,516,350Health$1,500,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $2,600,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetACCESS ACADEMIES — $2,200,000 over 6y, 31% of budgetCONCORDANCE — $1,600,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetGREAT RIVERS GREENWAY FOUNDATION — $1,000,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetGREATER ST LOUIS INC FOUNDATION — $879,000 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetBEYOND HOUSING INC — $850,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetDONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER — $700,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $650,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRefuge and Restoration — $500,000 over 1y, 43% of budgetCITY ACADEMY INC — $433,900 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetCASA DE SALUD — $400,000 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetTHE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF ST LOUIS — $400,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetTHE SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION — $375,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetTHE TANZANIAN CHILDRENS FUND INC — $328,100 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetARCHCITY DEFENDERS — $300,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetCARESTL HEALTH — $300,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetColorado Outdoor Education Center Inc — $300,000 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetST LOUIS REGIONAL PUBLIC MEDIA INC — $285,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetPETER & PAUL COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $277,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetMISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $250,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS — $230,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAffinia Healthcare — $225,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCENTER OF CREATIVE ARTS — $225,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetHOPE IGNITES ST LOUIS — $220,000 over 6y, 6.6% of budgetMEDS & FOOD FOR KIDS — $210,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetRADIO ARTS FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetMISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES — $200,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMETROPOLITAN GOLF FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetOPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC — $185,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetEDEN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY — $180,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetMARIAN MIDDLE SCHOOL — $165,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetWORLD PEDIATRICS — $150,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetHAWTHORN LEADERSHIP SCHOOL FOR GIRLS — $150,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetOpera Theatre of Saint Louis — $150,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetUpstream Theater — $135,500 over 2y, 37% of budgetMISSION REALTY ADVISORS — $134,000 over 2y, 43% of budgetASSISI HOUSE — $133,500 over 4y, 8.9% of budgetQUEEN OF PEACE CENTER — $130,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMISSOURI VETERANS ENDEAVOR — $130,000 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetENTREPRENEUR STARTUP BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $129,500 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetSHERWOOD FOREST CAMP INC — $125,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetHOME WORKS - THVP — $125,000 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetFLANCE MANAGEMENT INC D/B/A FLANCE EARLY LEARNING CENTER — $120,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetAlmost Home Inc — $120,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetThe Tower Grove Park Foundation — $120,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetMAIN STREET COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $113,000 over 6y, 6.3% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $110,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL — $110,000 over 2y, 1.8% 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.

St Louis Community Fo…United Way of Greater…St Louis Community Fo…World Wide Technology…Centene FoundationMoneta Group Charitab…Employees Community F…Commerce Bancshares F…Jordan Mary R & Ettie…Trio Foundation of St…Pott FoundationEdward Jones Foundati…
St Louis Community Foundation IncMO115.3× affinity67 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · St Louis Community Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Centene Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · Trio Foundation of St Louis · Pott Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation

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 Pershing Charitable Trust 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    40report 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

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Pershing Charitable Trust?

    Find your warmest path to Pershing Charitable Trust 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 186 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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