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Pivotal Philanthropies Foundation

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.

$48M
Granted FY2023
62
Grants FY2023
12
States reached
$4.7M
Largest

Read this first · the figures below need context

65% of Pivotal Philanthropies Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to National Philanthropic Trust, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 80 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Pivotal Philanthropies Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 42 organizations, $48M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

7
22
42
23
80
24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20222024.

Philanthropy$331MCivil Rights$44MPublic Benefit$32MHuman Services$32MHealth$20MEducation$19MEmployment$14MArts & Culture$11MOther$0
02FY2023 · 62 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $1.7M
  • $250k+46 grants · $46M
$500,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$7.4B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW VENTURE FUND$4,700,000
PANORAMA GLOBAL$2,700,000
SCHOOL-BASED HEALTH ALLIANCE$2,400,000
HOPEWELL FUND$2,400,000
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$2,306,200
SURGO HEALTH PBC$2,009,141
ADVERTISING COUNCIL INC$1,850,000
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC$1,600,000
AMERICA ACHIEVES INC$1,500,000
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE$1,500,000
THE COMPUTING RESEARCH ASSOCIATION INC$1,500,000
VOTERUNLEAD$1,250,000
THE JED FOUNDATION$1,142,600
THINK OF US$1,000,000
NEW VENTURE FUND$1,000,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $35.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC: $400k → 17%WORKMONEY FOUNDATION INC: $4.0M → 17%JUSTICE AND JOY NATIONAL COLLABORATIVE: $2.5M → 12%ROSALYNN CARTER INSTITUTE FOR CAREGIVERS INC: $500k → 22%LAST MILE EDUCATION FUND: $1.0M → 12%MOORE IMPACT INC: $2.0M → 12%TRANSLASH MEDIA INC: $125k → 20%THINK OF US: $1.0M → 14%ROSALYNN CARTER INSTITUTE FOR CAREGIVERS INC: $367k → 22%ROSALYNN CARTER INSTITUTE FOR CAREGIVERS INC: $133k → 22%BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC: $17.0M → 17%GIRLS WHO CODE INC: $500k → 17%GIRLS WHO CODE INC: $250k → 17%ALLIANCE FOR EARLY SUCCESS: $300k → 14%NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR CAREGIVING: $317k → 14%REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL: $5.0M → 14%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

WA
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NC
DC
GA
TX

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 50% of Pivotal Philanthropies Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Pivotal Philanthropies Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

43%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$90M · 32 repeat orgs$120M to everyone else

32 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down; 73 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
2

Total granted

$90M
$500k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+133%

Still filing today

88%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115M went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesCivil RightsHealthCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther

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

  • NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES
    2× · 2023–2024 · $16M · revenue +128%
  • CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $7.0M · revenue +66%
  • PG
    PANORAMA GLOBAL
    3× · 2022–2024 · $5.9M · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • TA
    TURNOUT ACTIVISM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +133%
  • BC
    Baby Cakes and Brunchgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +48% · 70% 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.

1
International Women's Forum Inc

The mission of the international women's forum is to advance women's leadership worldwide. iwf takes direct action to achieve our mission in three important ways. connect: our convenings provide networking and cutting-edge content…

Education
2
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

3
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
4
The Rand Corporation

Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Public Benefit
5
The Leadership Foundation

The leadership foundation, inc. (the foundation), established in 1990, is the mechanism by which iwf members advance the next generation of women leaders. the foundation accelerates the careers of top-performing women by offering…

6
Upturn Inc

Upturn advances equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of technology.

7
Partnership for Public Service Inc

Making our government work better is a daunting task, and we are a small organization seeking to transform a government that employs millions of civilians and manages trillions of dollars in taxpayer revenue needed to protect public…

Employment
8
Pro Publica Inc

Pro publica is an independent, non-profit, pulitzer prize-winning newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. our work focuses exclusively on truly important stories. [see continuation on schedule o] we produce…

Arts & Culture
9
Partnership On Ai to Benefit People and Society

Bringing diverse voices together across global sectors, disciplines, and demographics so developments in ai advance positive outcomes for people and society.

Science & Tech
10
Partnersglobal

Partnersglobal (partners) works through a global network to support local leaders and create partnerships that transform conflict, strengthen democratic institutions, and achieve sustainable development.

International
11
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
12
Fuller Project for International Reporting Inc

The fuller project is the global newsroom dedicated to groundbreaking reporting that catalyzes positive change for women.

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Think of Us and the most unlike its peers is Hopelab Foundation Inc. 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 backsteadyCommunity FoundationsWomen & Girls Leadership De…Policy Research and AdvocacyCommunity College Foundatio…Addiction Recovery ServicesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community Arts CentersLgbtq+ Community SupportPregnancy Support ServicesHealth Access Advocacy and …
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 19 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%8%<5yr14%25%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr13%16%35–55yr16%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%12%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr16%57%20–35yr13%13%35–55yr16%5%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% 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 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/113
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,452

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.

05the grantee network

113 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 113 of the 122 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
113/113
Grantees still filing
48/113
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $257,500,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUSTHOPEWELL FUND — $20,450,000 · PhilanthropyHOPEWELL FUNDROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — $14,000,000 · Philanthropy+8 more — $13,345,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES — $15,600,000 · OtherNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FO…NATIONAL WOMENS LAW CENTER FUND LLC — $7,000,000 · OtherNATIONAL WOMENS LAW CEN…NATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER — $5,000,000 · OtherMOMSRISING EDUCATION FUND — $4,000,000 · OtherNEW AMERICA FOUNDATION — $4,000,000 · OtherSURGO HEALTH PBC — $3,925,918 · OtherSchool-Based Health Alliance — $5,838,000 · OtherTHE 19TH NEWS — $4,450,000 · OtherBIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER INC — $4,000,000 · OtherPANORAMA GLOBAL — $5,874,500 · OtherPANORAMA GLOBAL+49 more — $50,096,206 · Other+49 moreBLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC — $17,000,000 · Human ServicesREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL — $5,000,000 · Human ServicesWORKMONEY FOUNDATION INC — $4,000,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL FLORENCE CRITTENTON MISSION — $2,500,000 · Human ServicesMOORE IMPACT INC — $2,000,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTER — $1,428,119 · Human Services+8 more — $4,892,000 · Human ServicesMANAGEMENT LEADERSHIP FOR TOMORROW — $4,000,000 · EducationTHE ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE — $4,000,000 · EducationNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $3,800,000 · EducationRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $3,733,700 · EducationREWRITING THE CODE INC — $3,000,000 · EducationAMERICA ACHIEVES INC — $2,000,000 · EducationExecutives Partnering to Invest in Children (EPIC) — $2,000,000 · EducationCornell University — $2,000,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $1,510,716 · Education+8 more — $4,775,091 · EducationSTATES UNITED DEMOCRACY CENTER INC — $7,000,000 · Civil RightsTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $4,000,000 · Civil RightsMS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC — $4,000,000 · Civil RightsNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc — $4,000,000 · Civil RightsREPRESENTWOMEN INC — $2,000,000 · Civil RightsVOTE MAMA FOUNDATION INC — $1,550,000 · Civil RightsTREVOR PROJECT INC — $1,350,000 · Civil Rights+4 more — $1,075,000 · Civil RightsNEW VENTURE FUND — $17,376,900 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE — $7,000,000 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $3,000,000 · Community ImprovementVOTE RUN LEAD INC — $1,730,000 · Community ImprovementLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION — $1,500,000 · Community ImprovementALL RAISE — $1,000,000 · Community ImprovementOPPORTUNITY LABS FOUNDATION INC — $750,000 · Community Improvement+3 more — $800,000 · Community Improvement
Philanthropy$305,295,000Other$109,784,624Human Services$36,820,119Education$30,819,507Civil Rights$24,975,000Environment$17,376,900Community Improvement$15,780,000

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 budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $257,500,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND — $20,450,000 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND — $17,376,900 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetBLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC — $17,000,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES — $15,600,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — $14,000,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $8,425,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSTATES UNITED DEMOCRACY CENTER INC — $7,000,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE — $7,000,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetPANORAMA GLOBAL — $5,874,500 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetSchool-Based Health Alliance — $5,838,000 over 3y, 31% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL — $5,000,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetNATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER — $5,000,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetTHE 19TH NEWS — $4,450,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetWORKMONEY FOUNDATION INC — $4,000,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetNEW AMERICA FOUNDATION — $4,000,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetBIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER INC — $4,000,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $4,000,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetMS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC — $4,000,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetMANAGEMENT LEADERSHIP FOR TOMORROW — $4,000,000 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc — $4,000,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetTHE ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE — $4,000,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $3,800,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $3,733,700 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE COMPUTING RESEARCH ASSOCIATION INC — $3,500,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc — $3,410,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $3,000,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREWRITING THE CODE INC — $3,000,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetTHE ADVERTISING COUNCIL INC — $2,800,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetFOOD FOR EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $2,500,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetNATIONAL FLORENCE CRITTENTON MISSION — $2,500,000 over 1y, 59% of budgetALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC — $2,500,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetGIRLS FOR GENDER EQUITY INC — $2,500,000 over 1y, 51% of budgetTHE JED FOUNDATION — $2,397,460 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetSEATTLE FOUNDATION — $2,300,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetWASHINGTON CENTER FOR EQUITABLE GROWTH INC — $2,000,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetREPRESENTWOMEN INC — $2,000,000 over 2y, 73% of budgetCaring Across Generations Inc — $2,000,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetAMERICA ACHIEVES INC — $2,000,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetExecutives Partnering to Invest in Children (EPIC) — $2,000,000 over 1y, 54% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR WOMEN'S POLICY RESEARCH — $2,000,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetCornell University — $2,000,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOORE IMPACT INC — $2,000,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetGuttmacher Institute Inc — $1,750,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetVOTE RUN LEAD INC — $1,730,000 over 2y, 38% of budgetMe Too International Inc — $1,650,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetInseparable Inc — $1,600,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetVOTE MAMA FOUNDATION INC — $1,550,000 over 2y, 73% 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.

Tides FoundationCA35× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tides Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Foundation to Promote Open Society · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · New Venture Fund · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Skoll Fund · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · New York Women's Foundation Inc · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc

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 Pivotal Philanthropies Foundation 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
202122232425
no gov · 110%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 7%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc30% of income from government
  • National Florence Crittenton Mission24% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College7% of income from government
  • Northeastern University7% of income from government
  • Rutgers University Foundation0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
14report 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, FY2025

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

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How do I get to Pivotal Philanthropies Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Pivotal Philanthropies 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 122 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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