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Pikes Peak United Way

To enhance youth success and family stability in the pikes peak region by leading and lifting the most vulnerable in our community with mentorship, life resources and real job opportunities.

$1.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
41
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$134k
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 2025.

Human Services$4.4MEducation$1.1MHousing & Shelter$956kYouth Development$515kReligion$485kCrime & Legal$408kFood & Nutrition$223kHealth$184kOther$0
02FY2025 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 41 grants below total $1,215,911, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,921,842 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $705,931 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k28 grants · $514k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $669k
$17,105
Median grant
1
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CATHOLIC CHARITIES (CC CTL CO)$133,657
EARLY CONNECTIONS (EARLY CONNECTIO)$106,309
CARE & SHARE (CARE SHARE FOOD)$98,070
CPCD (COMM PARTNERSHI)$78,958
MT CARMEL ( MTCARMELCTROFE)$69,446
IMAGINATION LIBRARY 3000 LAWRENCE ST DENVER 80205$64,275
FORGE EVOLUTION 224 E KIOWA ST 80903 84-1318849$63,000
UNIV OF CO FND$55,511
ROCKY MOUNTAIN CALVARY CHAPEL INC$32,430
PARTNERS IN HOUSING (PARTNERS IN HOU)$28,700
THE PLACE (URBAN PEAK)$28,219
HOMEWARD PIKES PEAK (HOMEWARD PIKES)$27,725
SILVER KEY (SILVER KEY SENI)$27,711
PIKES PEAK UNITED WAY DESIGNATIONS PENDING$24,608
CROSSFIRE MINISTRIES (CROSSFIRE MINIS)$24,000
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 (FY17–25, $2.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Community of Caring Foundation: $30k → 8%Community of Caring Foundation: $30k → 8%Community of Caring Foundation Inc: $23k → 8%COMMUNITY OF CARING: $20k → 8%Community of Caring Foundation: $20k → 8%Fostering Hope: $21k → 9%The Resource Exchange: $30k → 9%Court Care for the Pikes Peak Region Inc: $27k → 9%TESSA: $55k → 9%TESSA: $55k → 9%TESSA: $35k → 9%TESSA: $27k → 9%TESSA: $25k → 9%TESSA (TESSA): $23k → 9%TESSA: $21k → 9%Tri-Lakes Cares: $28k → 9%Tri-Lakes Cares: $25k → 9%Tri-Lakes Cares: $20k → 9%YMCA of the Pikes Peak Region: $26k → 9%Silver Key Senior Services: $38k → 9%Silver Key Senior Services: $38k → 9%SILVER KEY (SILVER KEY SENI): $28k → 9%Silver Key Senior Services: $26k → 9%Silver Key Senior Services Inc: $21k → 9%Early Connections Learning Centers: $229k → 9%Early Connections Learning Centers: $177k → 9%Early Connections Learning Centers: $154k → 9%Early Connections Learning Center: $146k → 9%Early Connections Learning Ctr: $120k → 9%Early Connections Learning Ctr: $120k → 9%EARLY CONNECTIONS (EARLY CONNECTIO): $106k → 9%Interfaith Hospitality Network: $74k → 9%YMCA of Pikes Peak Region: $53k → 9%Early Connections Learning Center: $50k → 9%The Resource Exchange Inc: $50k → 9%The Resource Exchange Inc: $50k → 9%The Place: $44k → 9%Fostering Hope Foundation: $39k → 9%Fostering Hope Foundation: $37k → 9%The Place (Formally Urban Peak Colorado Springs): $35k → 9%The Place: $30k → 9%THE PLACE (URBAN PEAK): $28k → 9%Fostering Hope Foundation: $28k → 9%The Place: $25k → 9%Court Care for the Pikes Peak Region Inc: $21k → 9%Interfaith Hospitality Network: $20k → 9%Urban Peak Colorado Springs: $20k → 9%Interfaith Hospitality Network: $20k → 9%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.
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.0M · 67 repeat orgs$749k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

67 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

67
47

Total granted

$8.0M
$591k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+23%

Still filing today

81%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $157k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • CS
    COLORADO SPRINGS CHILD NURSERY CENTERS INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +61%
  • CP
    Community Partnership for Child Development
    8× · 2018–2025 · $692k · revenue +40%
  • MC
    MT CARMEL VETERANS SERVICE CENTER
    6× · 2020–2025 · $345k · revenue +125%

Funded once

  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION
    one grant, 2021 · $107k · revenue -26%
  • CI
    COLORADO INTERNATIONAL EVENTS
    one grant, 2021 · $55k
  • AT
    ASCENDING TO HEALTH RESPITE CARE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue -35%
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
Colorado Physician Health Program Corporation

The mission of the Colorado Physician Health Program Corporation is to promote the health and well-being of physicians and physician assistants through evaluation, treatment referral, support education and research.

Health
2
Summitstone Health Partners

SummitStone provides comprehensive behavioral health services across all care levels: 24/7 crisis services, inpatient and outpatient treatment, housing, residential care, and peer support. We partner with law enforcement, schools, and…

Health
3
Center for Nonprofit Excellence

The Center for Nonprofit Excellence strengthens Southern Colorado's nonprofit sector through leadership and resource development, advocacy and collaboration. Together, with our partners, we are co-creating a vibrant community in the Pikes…

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4
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
5
Colorado Springs Independence Center

We work with people with disabilities, their families and the community to create independence so that all may thrive.

Human Services
6
Colorado Springs Convention and Visitors Bureau

Colorado Springs Convention and Visitors Bureau's, now doing business as Visit Colorado Springs (VCOS), primary exempt purpose is promotion of the Pikes Peak Region. VCOS is designed to stimulate the visitor industry in the Pikes Peak…

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7
Colorado Coalition for the Homeless

The mission of the colorado coalition for the homeless is to work collaboratively toward the prevention of homelessness and the creation of lasting solutions for families, children, and individuals who are experiencing or at-risk of…

Human Services
8
Aia Colorado

AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…

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9
Summit Community Care Clinic Inc

Provide exceptional, integrated, patient-centered health care services designed to meet the needs of all patients, particularly those who experience barriers to accessing care, regardless of their ability to pay.

Health
10
Indygive Dba Give Pikes Peak

Give Pikes Peak builds community philanthropy in the Pikes Peak Region by providing regional nonprofits with shared fundraising infrastructure, visibility, training, and donor incentives to increase donor engagement and organizational…

Philanthropy
11
Colorado Casa Inc

Colorado CASA is a nonprofit organization that works to strengthen local CASA organizations and advocate for children in the child welfare system.

Civil Rights
12
The Pinon Project

The Pinon Project Family Resource Center strengthens our community by providing comprehensive services for children and families.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc; the most unlike its peers is Rightgift Foundation. 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

106 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. 106 of the 123 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
103/106
Grantees still filing
73/106
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COLORADO SPRINGS CHILD NURSERY CENTERS INC: $1,101,820 · Human ServicesCOLORADO SPRINGS CHILD NURSERY CENTER…TESSA: $241,151 · Human ServicesTESSAThe Place: $195,524 · Human ServicesThe PlaceSILVER KEY SENIOR SERVICES INC: $175,500 · Human ServicesSILVER KEY SENIOR SERVICES INCTHE RESOURCE EXCHANGE INC: $165,477 · Human ServicesTHE RESOURCE EXCHANGE INCCommunity of Caring Foundation Inc: $157,834 · Human ServicesCommunity of Caring Foundation IncFOSTERING HOPE FOUNDATION: $154,079 · Human ServicesTRI-LAKES CARES: $139,620 · Human ServicesInterfaith Hospitality Network of Colorado Springs: $132,218 · Human ServicesCourt Care for the Pikes Peak Region Inc: $105,664 · Human Services+13 more: $373,156 · Human Services+13 moreCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CENTRAL COLORADO INC: $1,072,599 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CENTRAL COLORADO IN…LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF COLORADO: $150,168 · OtherROCKY MOUNTAIN CALVARY CHAPEL INC: $114,762 · OtherForge Evolution: $129,116 · OtherCare and Share Inc: $219,249 · OtherCare and Share IncCASA of the Pikes Peak Region: $200,387 · OtherCASA of the Pikes Peak Region+65 more: $1,333,883 · Other+65 moreCommunity Partnership for Child Development: $691,615 · EducationCommunity Par…Peak Education: $89,576 · EducationPeak Educatio…UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $87,261 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF…IMAGINATION LIBRARY OF COLORADO: $78,558 · EducationIMAGINATION L…Imagination Library of Denver: $64,275 · EducationImagination L…+7 more: $76,310 · Education+7 morePartners in Housing Inc: $328,741 · Housing & ShelterGRECCIO HOUSING UNLIMITED INC: $100,504 · Housing & ShelterHomeward Pikes Peak: $99,051 · Housing & ShelterASCENDING TO HEALTH RESPITE CARE INC: $40,000 · Housing & ShelterENERGY RESOURCE CENTER: $30,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterMT CARMEL VETERANS SERVICE CENTER: $345,240 · EmploymentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF COLORADO INC: $145,221 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION: $107,281 · Youth DevelopmentHillside Connection: $39,855 · Youth DevelopmentPATHWAY TO THE ROCKIES COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentINSIDE OUT YOUTH SERVICES: $12,430 · Youth DevelopmentFriends of the Children - Colorado: $12,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $3,000 · Youth DevelopmentCrossfire Ministries Inc: $131,826 · ReligionColorado Springs Utilities Foundation: $129,182 · ReligionAMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC: $18,229 · Religion
Human Services$2,942,043Other$3,220,164Education$1,087,595Housing & Shelter$613,296Employment$345,240Youth Development$334,787Religion$279,237

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 budgetCOLORADO SPRINGS CHILD NURSERY CENTERS INC: $1,101,820 over 8y, 3.2% of budgetCommunity Partnership for Child Development: $691,615 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetMT CARMEL VETERANS SERVICE CENTER: $345,240 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetPartners in Housing Inc: $328,741 over 9y, 4.2% of budgetTESSA: $241,151 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetCare and Share Inc: $219,249 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCASA of the Pikes Peak Region: $200,387 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetThe Place: $195,524 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetSILVER KEY SENIOR SERVICES INC: $175,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetTHE RESOURCE EXCHANGE INC: $165,477 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCommunity of Caring Foundation Inc: $157,834 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetFOSTERING HOPE FOUNDATION: $154,079 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF COLORADO: $150,168 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF COLORADO INC: $145,221 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetTRI-LAKES CARES: $139,620 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetInterfaith Hospitality Network of Colorado Springs: $132,218 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetCrossfire Ministries Inc: $131,826 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetColorado Springs Utilities Foundation: $129,182 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetForge Evolution: $129,116 over 7y, 13% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION: $107,281 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetCourt Care for the Pikes Peak Region Inc: $105,664 over 6y, 8.3% of budgetGRECCIO HOUSING UNLIMITED INC: $100,504 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetHomeward Pikes Peak: $99,051 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN COLORADO INC: $93,705 over 3y, 8.9% of budgetPeak Education: $89,576 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $87,261 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO SPRINGS SPORTS CORPORATION: $79,040 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetIMAGINATION LIBRARY OF COLORADO: $78,558 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION: $78,385 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetImagination Library of Denver: $64,275 over 1y, 28% of budgetCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER FOR THE PIKES PEAK REGION INC: $61,707 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetB COS WE CARE FOR OUR COMMUNITY FKA ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF COLORADO SPRING: $57,699 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetMT CARMEL WELLNESS & COMMUNITY CENTER: $52,259 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetTHE SPRINGS RESCUE MISSION: $50,450 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC: $45,757 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN COLORADO: $44,842 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetASCENDING TO HEALTH RESPITE CARE INC: $40,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetHillside Connection: $39,855 over 1y, 32% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION: $37,744 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDREAM CENTERS OF COLORADO SPRINGS: $31,189 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetPIKES PEAK HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetENERGY RESOURCE CENTER: $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOMCOR INC DBA EMBRAVE: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $29,281 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE AND HOME: $28,268 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF LARIMER COUNTY: $26,950 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUnited Way of Pueblo County Colorado Inc: $26,314 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetSHIELD 616 INC: $25,786 over 4y, 0.3% 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 COLORADO SPRINGS CHILD NURSERY CENTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds Community Partnership for Child Development ↗
  • Who funds MT CARMEL VETERANS SERVICE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Partners in Housing Inc ↗
  • Who funds TESSA ↗
  • Who funds Care and Share Inc ↗
  • Who funds CASA of the Pikes Peak Region ↗
  • Who funds The Place ↗
  • Who funds SILVER KEY SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE RESOURCE EXCHANGE INC ↗
  • Who funds Community of Caring Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds FOSTERING HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF COLORADO ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF COLORADO INC ↗
  • Who funds TRI-LAKES CARES ↗
  • Who funds Interfaith Hospitality Network of Colorado Springs ↗
  • Who funds Crossfire Ministries Inc ↗
  • Who funds Colorado Springs Utilities Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Forge Evolution ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION ↗
  • Who funds Court Care for the Pikes Peak Region Inc ↗
  • Who funds GRECCIO HOUSING UNLIMITED INC ↗
  • Who funds Homeward Pikes Peak ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN COLORADO INC ↗
  • Who funds Peak Education ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO SPRINGS SPORTS CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds IMAGINATION LIBRARY OF COLORADO ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION ↗
  • Who funds Imagination Library of Denver ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER FOR THE PIKES PEAK REGION INC ↗
  • Who funds B COS WE CARE FOR OUR COMMUNITY FKA ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF COLORADO SPRING ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO INTERNATIONAL EVENTS ↗
  • Who funds MT CARMEL WELLNESS & COMMUNITY CENTER ↗

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.

Pikes Peak Community FoundationCO137.9× affinity68 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pikes Peak Community Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Colorado Springs Health Foundation · The Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation · The Myron Stratton Home · The Marson Foundation · Ent Credit Union · INDYGIVE DBA Give Pikes Peak · Luther T McCauley Charitable Trust Xxxxx3001 · The Hester E & Edwin W Giddings Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Jerome V Bruni 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 Pikes Peak United Way funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pikes Peak United Way. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%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
    46report 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.

    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 123 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 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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