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Powder Mill Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$11M
Granted FY2024still arriving
87
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$3.0M
Largest
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$6.7MArts & Culture$6.5MEducation$4.8MCommunity Improvement$3.9MRecreation & Sports$2.7MPhilanthropy$2.1MHealth$1.5MYouth Development$1.3MOther$0
02FY2024 · 87 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k27 grants · $95k
  • $10k–50k29 grants · $553k
  • $50k–250k21 grants · $1.7M
  • $250k+10 grants · $9.1M
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$147M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNTY CONNECTIONS FOR CHILDREN$3,000,000
CRISPIS ATTUCKS ASSOCIATION$1,250,000
HARRISBURG UNIVERSITY$1,000,000
YORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA$890,459
YORK COUNTY RAIL TRAIL AUTHORITY$600,000
NORTHERN CENTRAL RAILWAY OF YORK$500,000
Individual grant recipient$500,000
Individual grant recipient$500,000
Individual grant recipient$496,172
UNITED WAY OF YORK COUNTY$315,000
DOWNTOWN INC$200,000
COMMUNITY PROGRESS COUNCIL$150,000
ACCOUNTABILITY FOR LIFE$150,000
Individual grant recipient$150,000
CULTURAL ALLIANCE OF YORK COUNTY$100,000
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 (FY17–24, $5.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BRO2GO: $25k → 8%JUSTICE HOUSE OF HOPE: $25k → 12%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $200k → 17%FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS OF PA: $35k → 9%VISIONCORP: $25k → 9%NEW HOPE MINISTRIES: $150k → 9%NEW HOPE MINISTRIES: $70k → 9%NEW HOPE MINISTRIES: $50k → 9%NEW HOPE MINISTRIES: $40k → 9%YMCA OF THE ROSES: $211k → 9%ACCOUNTABILITY FOR LIFE: $150k → 9%YMCA OF THE ROSES: $50k → 9%SPIRITRUST LUTHERAN: $44k → 9%ACCOUNTABILITY FOR LIFE: $43k → 9%SPIRITRUST LUTHERAN: $40k → 9%ACCOUNTABILITY FOR LIFE: $30k → 9%TYPICAL LIFE CORPORATION: $15k → 9%SPIRITRUST LUTHERAN: $15k → 9%PAPPUS HOUSE: $70k → 9%HOSPICE AND COMMUNITY CARE: $65k → 9%PAPPUS HOUSE: $50k → 9%PAPPUS HOUSE: $50k → 9%HOSPICE AND COMMUNITY CARE: $40k → 9%PAPPUS HOUSE: $30k → 9%HOSPICE AND COMMUNITY CARE: $20k → 9%HOSPICE AND COMMUNITY CARE: $20k → 9%NEW LIFE FOR GIRLS: $29k → 9%NEW LIFE FOR GIRLS: $24k → 9%COMMUNITY PROGRESS COUNCIL: $150k → 9%WEECONNECT EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $75k → 9%OLIVIAS HOUSE: $55k → 9%COMMUNITY PROGRESS COUNCIL: $25k → 9%COMMUNITY PROGRESS COUNCIL: $25k → 9%COMMUNTY CONNECTIONS FOR CHILDREN: $3.0M → 9%KEYSTONE KIDSPACE: $300k → 9%KEYSTONE KIDSPACE: $100k → 9%KEYSTONE KIDSPACE: $56k → 9%KEYSTONE KIDSPACE: $55k → 9%LIFE CHANGING PATHWAYS: $50k → 9%CHILD CARE CONSULTANTS: $50k → 9%MISS BOBBI'S PLACE: $35k → 9%MISS BOBBIS PLACE: $35k → 9%MISS BOBBIS PLACE: $30k → 9%CHILD CARE CONSULTANTS: $25k → 9%CHILD CARE CONSULTANTS: $25k → 9%FRIENDS & NEIGHBORS OF PENNSYLVANIA: $25k → 9%CHILDREN'S HOME OF YORK: $45k → 9%CHLDRENS HOME OF YORK: $25k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$29M · 133 repeat orgs$7.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

133 repeat relationships: 48 still active in FY2024, 85 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

133
123

Total granted

$29M
$4.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+12%

Still filing today

45%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.2M went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthHousing & ShelterRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • CC
    COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS FOR CHILDREN INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +471%
  • YC
    YORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +17%
  • YC
    YORK COUNTY HISTORY CENTER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +262%

Funded once

  • YC
    YORK COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
    one grant, 2018 · $500k
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue +28%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $160k
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
York County Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc

The york county convention and visitors bureau, inc. (the bureau) plans and promotes programs designed to stimulate and increase the volume of tourist, visitor, vacation and convention business within york county, pennsylvania.

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2
Penn-York Opportunities Inc

Penn-york opportunities, inc. is a not for profit organization that creates opportunities for all people regardless of their abilities by focusing on community involvement, personal achievement, lifelong learning, and employment.

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3
Yorktown Community Development Corporation

Plan and develop housing for low to moderate income families and elder residents in the yorktown neighborhood of the city of philadelphia, pa and to conduct other programs to address the general resident concerns.

Community Improvement
4
York County Children's Advocacy Center

Our mission is to reduce trauma for children and families through collaboration in child abuse investigations, prevention education, and advocacy.

Crime & Legal
5
York General Health Care Services

To be our region's trusted choice for the improvement of health and delivery of quality care throughout life. to be a regional healthcare provider for the citizens of york county and its contiguous counties with readily accessible high…

Health
6
The Young Women's Christian Association of York Pa

Ywca york is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.

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7
Fc York

Youth soccer club

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8
Young Women's Christian Association Greater Pittsburgh

Ywca greater pittsburgh is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all. we envision a community that advances education, opportunity, and equity regardless of gender, race, or…

Human Services
9
York Hospital

York hospital is a premier community teaching hospital providing quality, cost-effective health care services strongly supporting excellence in education, and offering essential services without regard for an individual's ability to pay.

Health
10
York Electric Cooperative Inc

To provide unsurpassed innovative and diversified service at a reasonable cost while improving the quality of life and promoting integrity, economic development, safety and a vision of the future.

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11
York Community Resource Center

York community resource center equips and uplifts their community through a strong and educated workforce.

Education
12
Northern York County Historical & Preservation Society
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is York County Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Shine 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

115 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 115 of the 279 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

12
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
28
Early backer (in before they grew)
107/115
Grantees still filing
73/115
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PARTNERSHIP FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (YCEA): $1,719,500 · OtherPARTNERSHIP FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (YCEA)CRISPIS ATTUCKS ASSOCIATION: $1,250,000 · OtherCRISPIS ATTUCKS ASSOCIATIONIndividual grant recipient: $1,039,736 · OtherHARRISBURG UNIVERSITY: $1,017,533 · OtherUNITED WAY OF YORK COUNTY: $956,871 · Other+137 more: $14,089,917 · Other+137 moreCOMMUNITY CONNECTIONS FOR CHILDREN INC: $3,104,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY CONNECT…KEYSTONE KIDSPACE: $511,070 · Human ServicesKEYSTONE KIDSPACENEW HOPE MINISTRIES INC: $314,526 · Human ServicesNEW HOPE MINISTRI…YMCA OF THE ROSES: $271,000 · Human ServicesACCOUNTABILITY FOR LIFE: $222,500 · Human ServicesPAPPUS HOUSE: $200,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY PROGRESS COUNCIL INC: $200,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $200,000 · Human Services+14 more: $848,300 · Human Services+14 moreYORK COUNTY HISTORY CENTER: $1,424,070 · Arts & CultureYORK COUNTY HI…CULTURAL ALLIANCE OF YORK COUNTY: $1,057,812 · Arts & CultureCULTURAL ALLIA…STEAM INTO HISTORY INC: $565,000 · Arts & CultureSTEAM INTO HIS…DREAMWRIGHTS YOUTH AND FAMILY THEATRE: $475,919 · Arts & CultureDREAMWRIGHTS Y…YORK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $453,865 · Arts & CultureYORK SYMPHONY …CREATIVE YORK: $206,320 · Arts & CultureTHE PARLIAMENT: $198,120 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $328,766 · Arts & Culture+5 moreYORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1,922,053 · EducationYORK COLLE…President and Fellows of Harvard College: $400,000 · EducationPresident …LOGOS ACADEMY: $325,000 · EducationLOGOS ACAD…PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN: $210,000 · EducationPENNSYLVAN…YORK ACADEMY REGIONAL CHARTER SCHOOL: $151,325 · EducationYORK DAY NURSERY INC: $120,144 · Education+4 more: $220,000 · Education+4 moreMAIN STREET YORK INC: $1,073,315 · Community ImprovementPARTNERSHIP FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF YORK COUNTY INC: $75,000 · Community ImprovementMANTEC INC: $70,000 · Community ImprovementTHE GROTTO COMMUNITY CENTER: $46,606 · Community ImprovementYORK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $964,992 · PhilanthropySERVANTS INC: $229,462 · PhilanthropyKEYSTONE HUMAN SERVICES: $139,553 · HealthFAMILY FIRST HEALTH CORPORATION: $105,000 · HealthTHE ARC OF YORK COUNTY INC: $70,548 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD KEYSTONE: $65,000 · HealthUPMC PINNACLE FOUNDATION: $50,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $49,603 · HealthSUSAN P BYRNES HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC: $30,000 · HealthFAMILY HEALTH COUNCIL OF CENTRAL PA INC: $24,000 · Health
Other$20,073,557Human Services$5,871,396Arts & Culture$4,709,872Education$3,348,522Community Improvement$1,264,921Philanthropy$1,194,454Health$533,704

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITY CONNECTIONS FOR CHILDREN INC: $3,104,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetYORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1,922,053 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetYORK COUNTY HISTORY CENTER: $1,424,070 over 8y, 8.3% of budgetMAIN STREET YORK INC: $1,073,315 over 6y, 38% of budgetCULTURAL ALLIANCE OF YORK COUNTY: $1,057,812 over 8y, 12% of budgetYORK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $964,992 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF YORK COUNTY: $956,871 over 6y, 8.5% of budgetSTEAM INTO HISTORY INC: $565,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetKEYSTONE KIDSPACE: $511,070 over 4y, 16% of budgetDREAMWRIGHTS YOUTH AND FAMILY THEATRE: $475,919 over 8y, 28% of budgetYORK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $453,865 over 6y, 17% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $400,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYORK CITY PARKS CONSERVANCY: $350,000 over 3y, 40% of budgetLOGOS ACADEMY: $325,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetNEW HOPE MINISTRIES INC: $314,526 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetYMCA OF THE ROSES: $271,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetBELL SOCIALIZATION SERVICES INC: $253,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSERVANTS INC: $229,462 over 7y, 4.8% of budgetACCOUNTABILITY FOR LIFE: $222,500 over 3y, 24% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN: $210,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCREATIVE YORK: $206,320 over 5y, 16% of budgetTHE BELMONT THEATRE: $200,508 over 4y, 11% of budgetPAPPUS HOUSE: $200,000 over 4y, 9.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY PROGRESS COUNCIL INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PARLIAMENT: $198,120 over 3y, 25% of budgetLOGOSWORKS: $151,500 over 2y, 53% of budgetYORK ACADEMY REGIONAL CHARTER SCHOOL: $151,325 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHOICES HEALTHCARE: $145,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetYORK UNION RESCUE MISSION INC: $140,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetKEYSTONE HUMAN SERVICES: $139,553 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetYORK COUNTY FOOD BANK: $135,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetLEADERSHIP YORK: $125,200 over 5y, 16% of budgetYORK DAY NURSERY INC: $120,144 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetRAINBOW ROSE CENTER: $120,000 over 3y, 32% of budgetYORK COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $114,253 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetYORK COUNTY HONORS CHOIRS INC: $112,000 over 5y, 26% of budgetFAMILY FIRST HEALTH CORPORATION: $105,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BRETHREN HOME FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetLANCASTER COUNTY CONSERVANCY: $100,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHELP FOR ONCOLOGY PROBLEMS AND EMOTIONAL SUPPORT: $100,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetYORK HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $100,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetMISS BOBBIS PLACE INC: $100,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetSPIRITRUST LUTHERAN FKA LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES: $99,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYORK ART ASSOCIATION INC: $95,000 over 3y, 34% of budgetCORNERSTONE YOUTH HOME: $85,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetOLIVIA'S HOUSE - A GRIEF AND LOSS CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $84,000 over 7y, 7.9% of budgetYORK COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL: $82,997 over 3y, 5.3% 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 COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds YORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds YORK COUNTY HISTORY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MAIN STREET YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds CULTURAL ALLIANCE OF YORK COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds YORK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF YORK COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds STEAM INTO HISTORY INC ↗
  • Who funds KEYSTONE KIDSPACE ↗
  • Who funds DREAMWRIGHTS YOUTH AND FAMILY THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds YORK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds YORK CITY PARKS CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds LOGOS ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds NEW HOPE MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds YMCA OF THE ROSES ↗
  • Who funds BELL SOCIALIZATION SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds SERVANTS INC ↗
  • Who funds ACCOUNTABILITY FOR LIFE ↗
  • Who funds PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN ↗
  • Who funds CREATIVE YORK ↗
  • Who funds THE BELMONT THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds PAPPUS HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY PROGRESS COUNCIL INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

York County Community FoundationPA172.3× affinity85 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: York County Community Foundation · Airie Knipel Harry V and J William Warehime Foundation · The Arthur J and Lee R Glatfelter Foundation · Kinsley Foundation · White Rose Leadership Institute · Rice Family Foundation · The Stewart Foundation · United Way of York County · The Graham Foundation · Memorial Health Fund · The W Dale Brougher Foundation · Anne & Philip Glatfelter III Family 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 Powder Mill Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Powder Mill Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
43report 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Powder Mill Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Powder Mill 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 279 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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