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Robert B Daugherty Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$38M
Granted FY2024still arriving
120
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$4.8M
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 2024.

Education$103MRecreation & Sports$71MArts & Culture$28MYouth Development$18MAnimals$17MHuman Services$12MHealth$12MPhilanthropy$12MOther$0
02FY2024 · 120 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $595k
  • $50k–250k69 grants · $5.9M
  • $250k+29 grants · $31M
$80,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$840M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of Nebraska Foundation$4,810,000
University of Nebraska Foundation$3,250,000
Community Information Trust$3,000,000
Mental Health Innovation Foundation$3,000,000
Opas Foundation$2,000,000
Joslyn Art Museum$1,800,000
Nebraska Game and Parks Foundation$1,600,000
Omaha Zoo Foundation$1,000,000
Community Alliance Inc$1,000,000
Project Harmony-Haven for Abuse Response Members Serving Our$900,000
Childrens Hospital & Medical Center Foundation$800,000
Nebraska Youth Justice Initiative$750,000
City of Fremont$750,000
Gothenburg Early Childhood Learning Coalition$750,000
Boys & Girls Clubs of the Midlands$650,000
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, $10.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Hope Harbor Inc: $125k → 12%Gothenburg Early Childhood Learning Coalition: $750k → 12%Young Mens Christian Association: $500k → 11%Kearney Family Young Mens Christian Association: $600k → 13%Young Mens Christian Association: $500k → 11%Heartland Equine Therapeutic Riding Academy Inc: $50k → 6%Heartland Equine Therapeutic Riding Academy Inc: $50k → 6%Cedars Home For Children Foundation Inc: $100k → 13%Heartland Equine Therapeutic Riding Academy Inc: $50k → 6%Cedars Home for Children Foundation Inc: $100k → 13%New Visions Homeless Services: $50k → 12%Intercultural Senior Center: $150k → 12%Kids Can Community Center: $50k → 12%Intercultural Senior Center: $75k → 12%Kids Can Community Center: $50k → 12%Intercultural Senior Center: $50k → 12%Kids Can Community Center: $50k → 12%Kids Can Community Center: $50k → 12%Urban League Of Nebraska: $125k → 12%Urban League Of Nebraska: $120k → 12%Urban League Of Nebraska: $120k → 12%Urban League Of Nebraska: $100k → 12%Ymca of Greater Omaha: $500k → 12%Ymca Of Greater Omaha: $500k → 12%Omaha Development Foundation: $300k → 12%Omaha Development Foundation: $100k → 12%Omaha Development Foundation: $100k → 12%Omaha Development Foundation: $100k → 12%Wounded Warriors Family Support Inc: $75k → 12%Justice For Our Neighbors Nebraska: $500k → 12%Heartland Family Service: $100k → 12%Justice for Our Neighbors Nebraska: $100k → 12%Justice for Our Neighbors Nebraska: $100k → 12%Justice For Our Neighbors Nebraska: $100k → 12%Together Inc of Metropolitian Omaha: $150k → 12%Together Inc of Metropolitian Omaha: $150k → 12%Together Inc Of Metropolitan Omaha: $100k → 12%Together Inc Of Metropolitan Omaha: $100k → 12%Together Inc Of Metropolitan Omaha: $100k → 12%Together Inc Of Metropolitan Omaha: $100k → 12%Together Inc of Metropolitan Omaha: $100k → 12%Together Inc Of Metropolitan Omaha: $100k → 12%Project Houseworks: $80k → 12%Women's Center for Advancement: $500k → 12%Womens Center for Advancement: $100k → 12%Womens Center For Advancement: $100k → 12%Womens Center For Advancement: $100k → 12%Womens Center For Advancement: $100k → 12%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

MT
MN
NY
IA
PA
CA
NE
KS
MS
FL
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$293M · 153 repeat orgs$20M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against -4% for those funded once.

153 repeat relationships: 89 still active in FY2024, 64 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

153
93

Total granted

$293M
$16M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
-4%

Still filing today

92%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.3M 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
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthPhilanthropyRecreation & 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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $56M · revenue +70%
  • MC
    METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $15M · revenue +213%
  • CU
    Creighton University
    5× · 2017–2023 · $6.0M · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • DT
    DONORS TRUST
    one grant, 2017 · $1.6M
  • KM
    Kountze Memorial Evangelical Lutheran Church
    one grant, 2017 · $1.0M
  • YM
    Young Mens Christian Association (dba Fremont
    one grant, 2019 · $1.0M
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
One Omaha

One omaha empowers people where they live with education, training, and engagement to develop thriving neighborhoods.

Community Improvement
2
Omaha Economic Development Corporation

The mission of oedc is to implement economic development projects, housing, and community revitalization programs that create jobs, business ownership opportunities and other economic benefits for area residents.

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3
Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce

To increase business, employment, and investment in the greater omaha area.

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4
Community Action of Nebraska Inc

Mission: community action of nebraska strives to alleviate poverty through enhancing program development, providing technical assistance, and advocating public policy to support all community action agencies in nebraska.

Community Improvement
5
The Nebraska Land Trust Inc

To foster the protection of agricultural, historical and natural resources on land in nebraska through education, partnering and permanent conservation.

Environment
6
Community Justice Center

A restorative justice agency committed to habilitating justice in nebraska.

Crime & Legal
7
Nebraska Credit Union League Inc

To promote credit unions in nebraska

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8
Nebraska Realtors Association

Unite realtor boards to be able to influence matters affecting real estate state wide, unify laws and regulations and promote education among members

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9
Nebraska Civic Engagement Table

The nebraska civic engagement table works with nonprofits to increase voting and build an engaged nebraska.

Civil Rights
10
Nebraska Community College Assoc

Support for community colleges

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11
Eastern Nebraska Community Action Partnership

Encap provides high-impact programs to help people get ahead.

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12
Stand for Schools

Stand for schools supports nebraska's public schools, working to advance policies that make them stronger while opposing policies that would weaken them.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nebraska Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Greater Loup Valley Activities. 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

229 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. 229 of the 281 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)
46
Early backer (in before they grew)
224/229
Grantees still filing
122/229
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $56,368,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATIONMETROPOLITAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $14,850,000 · EducationMETROPOLITAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUND…Creighton University: $6,020,000 · EducationCreighton UniversityCARLETON COLLEGE: $5,000,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY INFORMATION TRUST: $4,250,000 · Education+18 more: $14,170,000 · Education+18 moreDOWNTOWN RIVERFRONT TRUST: $61,000,000 · Community ImprovementDOWNTOWN RIVERFRONT TR…+3 more: $520,000 · Community ImprovementOMAHA SHELTER FOR HOMELESS TRUST: $4,000,000 · OtherFather Flanagans Boys Home: $3,600,000 · OtherNEBRASKA GAME AND PARKS FOUNDATION: $4,600,000 · OtherNEBRASKA GAME AND PARKS FOUN…LAKE CUNNINGHAM DEVELOPMENT TRUST: $3,200,000 · OtherMENTAL HEALTH INNOVATION FOUNDATION: $3,050,000 · OtherPROJECT HARMONY: $4,014,000 · Other+117 more: $57,438,412 · Other+117 moreHERITAGE SERVICES: $5,325,000 · Arts & CultureOPAS FOUNDATION: $4,000,000 · Arts & CultureJOSLYN ART MUSEUM: $2,865,000 · Arts & CultureOMAHA PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY: $1,569,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DURHAM MUSEUM: $1,385,000 · Arts & CultureOMAHA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $1,240,000 · Arts & CultureOPERA OMAHA INC: $985,000 · Arts & CultureKANEKO: $900,000 · Arts & CultureOMAHA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $825,000 · Arts & Culture+15 more: $4,207,235 · Arts & CultureOMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION: $14,717,000 · AnimalsNEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,800,000 · AnimalsBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS: $7,335,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOMPLETELY KIDS: $3,210,000 · Youth DevelopmentNORTHSTAR FOUNDATION: $2,535,000 · Youth DevelopmentNEBRASKA YOUTH JUSTICE INITIATIVE DBA RADIUS: $1,500,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INCORPORATED OF OMAHA: $1,378,549 · Youth Development+2 more: $250,000 · Youth DevelopmentUNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS: $3,178,058 · PhilanthropyNEBRASKA PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $3,000,000 · PhilanthropyNEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $1,500,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MADONNA FOUNDATION: $1,250,000 · PhilanthropyOCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 · PhilanthropyNEBRASKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $831,500 · PhilanthropySHARE OMAHA: $800,000 · PhilanthropyNORTH PLATTE COMM COLLEGE FOUND INC: $500,000 · Philanthropy+9 more: $2,207,500 · Philanthropy
Education$100,658,500Community Improvement$61,520,000Other$79,902,412Arts & Culture$23,301,235Animals$16,517,000Youth Development$16,208,549Philanthropy$14,267,058

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%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDOWNTOWN RIVERFRONT TRUST: $61,000,000 over 7y, 35% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $56,368,500 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetMETROPOLITAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $14,850,000 over 8y, 23% of budgetOMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION: $14,717,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS: $7,335,000 over 8y, 15% of budgetCreighton University: $6,020,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetHERITAGE SERVICES: $5,325,000 over 6y, 88% of budgetCARLETON COLLEGE: $5,000,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetNEBRASKA GAME AND PARKS FOUNDATION: $4,600,000 over 7y, 64% of budgetCOMMUNITY INFORMATION TRUST: $4,250,000 over 3y, 28% of budgetPROJECT HARMONY: $4,014,000 over 8y, 5.5% of budgetOPAS FOUNDATION: $4,000,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetOMAHA SHELTER FOR HOMELESS TRUST: $4,000,000 over 4y, 42% of budgetCOMPLETELY KIDS: $3,210,000 over 7y, 11% of budgetLAKE CUNNINGHAM DEVELOPMENT TRUST: $3,200,000 over 4y, 44% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS: $3,178,058 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetCENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $3,050,000 over 5y, 57% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH INNOVATION FOUNDATION: $3,050,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetNEBRASKA PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $3,000,000 over 2y, 80% of budgetJOSLYN ART MUSEUM: $2,865,000 over 4y, 7.6% of budgetNORTHSTAR FOUNDATION: $2,535,000 over 8y, 16% of budgetCOLLEGE OF SAINT MARY: $2,500,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetSEVENTY-FIVE NORTH REVITALIZATION CORPORATION: $2,500,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetCity of Omaha Police Foundation Inc: $2,281,212 over 8y, 42% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $2,000,000 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OMAHA INC: $1,875,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetNEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,800,000 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetOMAHA PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY: $1,569,000 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetNEBRASKA YOUTH JUSTICE INITIATIVE DBA RADIUS: $1,500,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetNEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $1,500,000 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC: $1,460,000 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetTHE DURHAM MUSEUM: $1,385,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF OMAHA: $1,378,549 over 8y, 14% of budgetBLUFFS ARTS COUNCIL: $1,300,000 over 6y, 19% of budgetTHE MADONNA FOUNDATION: $1,250,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetOMAHA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $1,240,000 over 7y, 7.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND OF OMAHA: $1,220,000 over 7y, 17% of budgetONEWORLD COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC: $1,124,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetOMAHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $1,061,200 over 3y, 8.0% of budgetTOGETHER INC OF METROPOLITAN OMAHA: $1,000,000 over 8y, 4.3% of budgetOCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetRISE ACADEMY: $1,000,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetNEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $1,000,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetJUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS-NEBRASKA: $1,000,000 over 8y, 13% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $1,000,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetYMCA OF GREATER OMAHA: $1,000,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetWOMEN'S CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT: $1,000,000 over 6y, 14% of budgetOPERA OMAHA INC: $985,000 over 7y, 6.5% 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 DOWNTOWN RIVERFRONT TRUST ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds OMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
  • Who funds Creighton University ↗
  • Who funds HERITAGE SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds CARLETON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds NEBRASKA GAME AND PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY INFORMATION TRUST ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT HARMONY ↗
  • Who funds OPAS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds OMAHA SHELTER FOR HOMELESS TRUST ↗
  • Who funds COMPLETELY KIDS ↗
  • Who funds LAKE CUNNINGHAM DEVELOPMENT TRUST ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MENTAL HEALTH INNOVATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NEBRASKA PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
  • Who funds JOSLYN ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE OF SAINT MARY ↗
  • Who funds SEVENTY-FIVE NORTH REVITALIZATION CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds City of Omaha Police Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OMAHA INC ↗
  • Who funds NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds DONORS TRUST ↗
  • Who funds OMAHA PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds NEBRASKA YOUTH JUSTICE INITIATIVE DBA RADIUS ↗
  • Who funds NEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds HASTINGS COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE DURHAM MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF OMAHA ↗
  • Who funds BLUFFS ARTS COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds THE MADONNA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds OMAHA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗

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.

The Sherwood FoundationNE227.1× affinity138 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Sherwood Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · Mutual of Omaha Foundation · The Holland Foundation · Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation · Mammel 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 Robert B Daugherty Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert B Daugherty Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    77report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 Robert B Daugherty 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 281 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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