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Rick and Helga Bauerly Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$196k
Granted FY2025still arriving
60
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$40k
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, FY2021 to 2024.

Philanthropy$91kEducation$65kCommunity Improvement$40kHealth$38kHuman Services$29kArts & Culture$25kReligion$22kYouth Development$17kOther$0
02FY2025 · 60 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k57 grants · $126k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
$2,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$5.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ACTIVE CENTRAL MN$40,000
CENTRACARE HEALTH FOUNDATION$20,000
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA$10,000
GREAT RIVER EDUCATIONAL ARTS THEATRE$5,000
BIG BROTHERS-BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA INC$5,000
DISTRICT 742 LOCAL EDUCATION & ACTIVITIES FOUNDATI$5,000
ANNA MARIES ALLIANCE$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
GREAT RIVER EDUCATIONAL ARTS THEATRE$5,000
PARAMOUNT CENTER FOR THE ARTS$5,000
COMMUNITYGIVING$5,000
Individual grant recipient$4,000
COMMUNITYGIVING$2,500
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA$2,500
COLLEGE OF ST BENEDICT BUSINESS OFF$2,500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $67k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ORPHANOS FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%VINES FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%ORPHANOS FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%VINES FOUNDATION: $1k → 9%ORPHANOS FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $1k → 11%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $1k → 11%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $1k → 11%PARAMOUNT CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $5k → 11%PARAMOUNT CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $3k → 11%PARAMOUNT CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $2k → 11%PARAMOUNT CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $2k → 11%PARAMOUNT CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $2k → 11%PARAMOUNT CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $2k → 11%PARAMOUNT CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $2k → 11%PARAMOUNT CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $2k → 11%PARAMOUNT CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $2k → 11%QUIET OAKS: $1k → 11%QUIET OAKS: $1k → 11%QUIET OAKS: $1k → 11%QUIET OAKS: $1k → 11%QUIET OAKS: $1k → 11%ANNA MARIES ALLIANCE: $5k → 11%ANNA MARIES ALLIANCE: $5k → 11%ANNA MARIES ALLIANCE: $2k → 11%ANNA MARIES ALLIANCE: $2k → 11%ANNA MARIES ALLIANCE: $1k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ST CLOUD: $1k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ST CLOUD: $1k → 11%ANNA MARIES ALLIANCE: $1k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ST CLOUD: $1k → 11%ANNA MARIES ALLIANCE: $1k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ST CLOUD: $1k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ST CLOUD: $1k → 11%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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 11% of Rick and Helga Bauerly Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Rick and Helga Bauerly Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.2% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$408k · 49 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else

49 repeat relationships: 39 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
2

Total granted

$408k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+88%

Still filing today

67%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionEnvironmentOther
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

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA
    5× · 2021–2025 · $40k · revenue +8%
  • GR
    GREAT RIVER EDUCATIONAL ARTS THEATRE
    5× · 2021–2025 · $20k · revenue +93%
  • PC
    PARAMOUNT CENTER FOR THE ARTS
    5× · 2021–2025 · $18k · revenue +134%

Funded once

  • WT
    Wine to Watergraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue +88%
  • CF
    CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF THE DIOCESE OF ST CLOUD
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
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
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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2
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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3
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.

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4
Minnesota State University Student Association Inc

Led by minnesota state university students, we are the inclusive voice for all future, current, and former students. we actively work to represent and support minnesota state university students and advocate at a campus, state, and federal…

Education
5
Mn Community Measurement

Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.

Health
6
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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7
United Way of Ne Minnesota

United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.

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8
St Paul Transportation Management Organization

Move minnesota leads the movement for an equitable and sustainable transportation system that puts people first. we are passionate about connecting communities, ending the climate crisis, expanding access to jobs and resources, and…

Environment
9
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…

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10
African Development Center

Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota

Human Services
11
Community Shares of Minnesota

The mission of community shares of minnesota is to create a fair, just and equitable minnesota. community shares of minnesota accomplishes its mission by: supporting collective action to eliminate root causes of inequality and injustice;…

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12
The Minneapolis Foundation

The foundation cultivates generosity by taking action on the greatest civic, social, and economic needs partnering with nonprofits, facilitating grantmaking, driving research and advocacy, and providing services to donors seeking to make a…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Central Minnesota; the most unlike its peers is Wine to Water. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

49 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. 49 of the 65 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/49
Grantees still filing
27/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA: $39,500 · OtherUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MINNESOTACATHEDRAL HIGH SCHOOL: $24,250 · OtherCATHEDRAL HIGH SCHOOLBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MN: $14,500 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MNST FRANCIS XAVIER PARISH: $12,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $11,000 · OtherFOLEY WRESTLING BOOSTER CLUB INC: $9,400 · OtherGREAT RIVER EDUCATIONAL ARTS THEATRE: $20,000 · OtherGREAT RIVER EDUCATIONAL ARTS THEATRENORTHWEST MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $9,500 · OtherTRI-COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $9,500 · Other+31 more: $116,900 · Other+31 moreCOMMUNITYGIVING: $55,800 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITYGIVIN…NORTHLAND FOUNDATION: $9,500 · PhilanthropyNORTHLAND FOUN…WEST CENTRAL INITIATIVE: $9,500 · PhilanthropyWEST CENTRAL I…PARAMOUNT CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $18,000 · Human ServicesPARAMOUNT CE…ANNA MARIE'S ALLIANCE: $16,000 · Human ServicesANNA MARIE'S…Orphanos Foundation: $13,500 · Human ServicesOrphanos Fou…THE VINES FOUNDATION: $6,000 · Human ServicesTHE VINES FO…QUIET OAKS: $5,000 · Human ServicesQUIET OAKSCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ST CLOUD: $5,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHA…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $3,000 · Human ServicesCENTRACARE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $51,000 · HealthCENTRACARE…TEREBINTH REFUGE: $2,000 · HealthST CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EducationCOLLEGE OF SAINT BENEDICT: $9,500 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $8,000 · EducationST CLOUD TECHNICAL & COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $8,000 · EducationHANDS ACROSS THE WORLD: $5,000 · EducationUniversity of St Thomas: $2,000 · Education+1 more: $850 · EducationACTIVE CENTRAL MN: $43,000 · Recreation & SportsINITIATIVE FOUNDATION: $12,500 · Community ImprovementSOUTHWEST INITIATIVE FOUNDATION: $9,500 · Community ImprovementSOUTHERN MINNESOTA INITIATIVE FOUNDATION: $9,500 · Community ImprovementGREATER ST CLOUD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $5,000 · Community ImprovementDISTRICT 742 LOCAL EDUCATION ACTIVITIES FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Community Improvement
Other$267,050Philanthropy$74,800Human Services$66,500Health$53,000Education$43,350Recreation & Sports$43,000Community Improvement$41,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITYGIVING: $55,800 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRACARE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $51,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetACTIVE CENTRAL MN: $43,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA: $39,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetGREAT RIVER EDUCATIONAL ARTS THEATRE: $20,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetPARAMOUNT CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $18,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetANNA MARIE'S ALLIANCE: $16,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MN: $14,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetOrphanos Foundation: $13,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetINITIATIVE FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetST CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLEGE OF SAINT BENEDICT: $9,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHLAND FOUNDATION: $9,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHWEST INITIATIVE FOUNDATION: $9,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTRI-COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $9,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWEST CENTRAL INITIATIVE: $9,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN MINNESOTA INITIATIVE FOUNDATION: $9,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $9,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA: $8,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetST CLOUD TECHNICAL & COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSAINT JOHN'S UNIVERSITY: $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSt Cloud Area Family YMCA: $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VINES FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetHANDS ACROSS THE WORLD: $5,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetElevate Pregnancy and Family Resource Center: $5,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetQUIET OAKS: $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER ST CLOUD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ST CLOUD: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDISTRICT 742 LOCAL EDUCATION ACTIVITIES FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMINNESOTA CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFEEDING AREA CHILDREN TOGETHER: $4,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetNAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITECLOUD: $4,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJUGAAD LEADERSHIP PROGRAM: $3,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA: $2,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGREAT RIVER CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEREBINTH REFUGE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetENVIRONMENT NEXT INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of St Thomas: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL MN COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST CLOUD ROTARY FOUNDATION INC: $1,850 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetWine to Water: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNutritionfactsorg Inc: $850 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY MANKATO FOUNDATION INC: $850 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMADELIA HEALTH: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 COMMUNITYGIVING ↗
  • Who funds CENTRACARE HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ACTIVE CENTRAL MN ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds GREAT RIVER EDUCATIONAL ARTS THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds PARAMOUNT CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds ANNA MARIE'S ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MN ↗
  • Who funds Orphanos Foundation ↗
  • Who funds INITIATIVE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ST CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE OF SAINT BENEDICT ↗
  • Who funds NORTHLAND FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHWEST INITIATIVE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TRI-COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds WEST CENTRAL INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN MINNESOTA INITIATIVE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds ST CLOUD TECHNICAL & COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SAINT JOHN'S UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds St Cloud Area Family YMCA ↗
  • Who funds THE VINES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HANDS ACROSS THE WORLD ↗
  • Who funds Elevate Pregnancy and Family Resource Center ↗
  • Who funds QUIET OAKS ↗
  • Who funds GREATER ST CLOUD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ST CLOUD ↗
  • Who funds DISTRICT 742 LOCAL EDUCATION ACTIVITIES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗

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.

CommunitygivingMN61.7× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communitygiving · Granite Partners Foundation of Minnesota Inc · Morgan Family Foundation · Initiative Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · United Way of Central Minnesota · Central Mn Noon Optimist Club Inc · The McKnight Foundation · Ja Wedum Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Central Minnesota Arts Board

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 Rick and Helga Bauerly Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rick and Helga Bauerly Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%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
1get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Rick and Helga Bauerly 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 65 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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