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Posel Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$340k
Granted FY2023
29
Grants FY2023
11
States reached
$72k
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172023.

Philanthropy$4.3MInternational$688kEducation$523kYouth Development$387kCivil Rights$371kEnvironment$261kCrime & Legal$171kArts & Culture$109kOther$0
02FY2023 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k11 grants · $55k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $213k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $72k
$10,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE$72,000
SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY$27,500
READER TO READER$20,000
DEMOCRACY NOW$15,000
PARTNERS IN HEALTH$15,000
EQUAL JUSTICE USA$15,000
WCCN$10,000
CENTER FOR TRANSFORMATIVE ACTION$10,000
EARTHJUSTICE$10,000
EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE$10,000
ITHACA WELCOMES REFUGEES$10,000
SOIL$10,000
FINGER LAKES LAND TRUST$10,000
AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND$10,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE$10,000
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 (FY17–23, $485k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $3k → 14%NORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES: $175k → 12%ONE PERCENT FOR AMERICA: $5k → 16%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $3k → 14%NORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES: $100k → 12%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $3k → 14%NORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES: $75k → 12%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $3k → 14%OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $25k → 12%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $3k → 14%ITHACA WELCOMES REFUGEES: $10k → 16%NORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES: $20k → 12%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $3k → 14%OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $20k → 12%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $3k → 14%RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $8k → 20%RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $3k → 20%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $3k → 14%ALEXANDRIA HOUSE: $3k → 14%ALEXANDRIA HOUSE: $3k → 14%OHEL CHILDREN'S HOME & FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 20%ALEXANDRIA HOUSE: $3k → 14%OHEL CHILDREN'S HOME & FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 20%ALEXANDRIA HOUSE: $3k → 14%SEARCH AND CARE: $2k → 17%SEARCH AND CARE: $2k → 17%DOROT INC: $2k → 17%DOROT INC: $2k → 17%COMMUNITY SERVICE SOCIETY: $3k → 17%COMMUNITY SERVICE SOCIETY: $3k → 17%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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NH
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MA
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IA
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RI
CA
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MD
TN
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AL

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.6M · 100 repeat orgs$408k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.

100 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2023, 80 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

100
32

Total granted

$2.6M
$341k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+33%

Still filing today

84%
66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
InternationalHuman ServicesEnvironmentEducationCivil RightsHealthOther

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

  • NY
    NORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES
    4× · 2019–2022 · $370k · revenue +118%
  • NV
    NEW VILLAGE CHARTER SCHOOL INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $150k · revenue +27%
  • NO
    Network on Women in Prison dba Legal Services for Prisoners w Children
    6× · 2017–2023 · $85k · revenue +172%

Funded once

  • YB
    Yoga Behind Barsgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $45k · revenue +53%
  • UN
    UNITED NATIONS RELIEF AND WORKS AGENCY
    one grant, 2018 · $30k
  • GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue +50%

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
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
2
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
3
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
4
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
5
Washington Office On Latin America

To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.

International
6
The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International
7
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
8
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
9
Third Way

To research and develop centrist policy ideas.

Civil Rights
10
Center for International Environmental Law Inc

To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…

International
11
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
12
The Architectural League of New York

The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Human Rights Watch Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ithaca Welcomes Refugees 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 backsteadyYouth Development ServicesDomestic Violence ServicesImmigrant Worker SupportAffordable Housing Developm…Developmental Disabilities …Pregnancy Support ServicesAnimal Rescue and ShelterPublic Library OperationsYouth Development CentersJewish Community Organizati…Food Banks and PantriesIndependent K-12 SchoolsPolicy Research and AdvocacyChristian Missionary Organi…Environmental Conservation …Elementary Literacy TutoringCommunity Foundations
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 43 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%1%<5yr15%2%5–10yr20%7%10–20yr17%24%20–35yr11%34%35–55yr13%32%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%1%5–10yr20%2%10–20yr17%75%20–35yr11%16%35–55yr13%7%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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%0/120
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,858

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

118 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. 118 of the 146 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)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
117/118
Grantees still filing
96/118
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $4,259,707 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC+2 more — $138,400 · PhilanthropyCOOPER MEDICAL SCHOOL — $100,000 · OtherCOOPER MEDICAL SC…SOIL — $92,000 · OtherSOILNetwork on Women in Prison dba Legal Services for Prisoners w Children — $85,000 · OtherNetwork on Women …WCCN — $80,000 · OtherWCCNCENTER FOR TRANSFORMATIVE ACTION — $50,000 · OtherNORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECT — $45,000 · OtherPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $70,000 · OtherPARTNERS IN HEALT…SUSTAINABLE ORGANIC INTEGRATED LIVELIHOODS C/O MELANIE STEVENSON — $65,000 · OtherSUSTAINABLE ORGAN…Make the Road New York — $60,000 · OtherDEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC — $51,000 · Other+62 more — $428,050 · Other+62 moreInternational Rescue Committee INC — $83,500 · InternationalInternati…THE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE — $82,000 · InternationalTHE CENTE…HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $75,000 · InternationalHUMAN RIG…PLENTY INTERNATIONAL — $60,000 · InternationalPLENTY IN…Mercy Corps — $55,000 · InternationalMercy Cor…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $42,000 · InternationalMEDECINS …QUIXOTE CENTER INCORPORATED — $30,000 · InternationalGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $20,000 · InternationalAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC — $20,000 · International+12 more — $87,000 · International+12 moreNORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES — $370,000 · Human ServicesOPPORTUNITY COUNCIL — $45,000 · Human Services+14 more — $82,200 · Human ServicesNEW VILLAGE CHARTER SCHOOL INC — $150,000 · EducationYoga Behind Bars — $45,000 · EducationAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND — $25,000 · EducationTHE BIG PICTURE COMPANY — $15,000 · EducationNORTHWEST EDUCATION ACCESS — $11,000 · Education+6 more — $23,000 · EducationCENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS — $95,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $45,000 · Civil RightsCOMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC — $35,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE USA INC — $25,000 · Civil RightsNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC — $15,000 · Civil Rights+2 more — $10,000 · Civil RightsSouthern Utah Wilderness Alliance — $50,000 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICE — $25,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $20,000 · EnvironmentThe Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc — $15,000 · EnvironmentTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY — $13,000 · EnvironmentRIVERKEEPER INC — $12,000 · EnvironmentLOUISIANA BUCKET BRIGADE — $10,000 · EnvironmentTHE DIGDEEP RIGHT TO WATER PROJECT — $10,000 · EnvironmentEarth Island Institute Inc — $10,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $10,000 · Environment+5 more — $9,500 · Environment
Philanthropy$4,398,107Other$1,126,050International$584,500Human Services$497,200Education$269,000Civil Rights$225,000Environment$184,500

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 budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $4,259,707 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES — $370,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetNEW VILLAGE CHARTER SCHOOL INC — $150,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetREADER TO READER INC — $135,000 over 6y, 9.4% of budgetCENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS — $95,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetNetwork on Women in Prison dba Legal Services for Prisoners w Children — $85,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $83,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE — $82,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $70,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSUSTAINABLE ORGANIC INTEGRATED LIVELIHOODS C/O MELANIE STEVENSON — $65,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetMake the Road New York — $60,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPLENTY INTERNATIONAL — $60,000 over 5y, 7.4% of budgetMercy Corps — $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC — $51,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSouthern Utah Wilderness Alliance — $50,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER FOR TRANSFORMATIVE ACTION — $50,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetYoga Behind Bars — $45,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetNORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECT — $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOPPORTUNITY COUNCIL — $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $42,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC — $35,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetQUIXOTE CENTER INCORPORATED — $30,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY — $27,500 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE — $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND — $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetITHACA COMMUNITY RADIO INC — $25,000 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE USA INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BIG PICTURE COMPANY — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS — $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY — $13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC — $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC — $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERKEEPER INC — $12,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRED HOOK INITIATIVE — $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWEST EDUCATION ACCESS — $11,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLOUISIANA BUCKET BRIGADE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetITHACA WELCOMES REFUGEES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 3.7% 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.

Whatcom Community FoundationWA23.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Whatcom Community Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Riverstyx Foundation · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Medina Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Robin Hood 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 Posel 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 · 30%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 30%
  • Mercy Corps47% of income from government
  • Reader to Reader Inc30% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
30report 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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Posel Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Posel 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 146 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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