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Robert Lehman Foundation Inc

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.

$1.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
45
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 FY2020–2024.

Arts & Culture$9.0MEducation$370kScience & Tech$68kYouth Development$65kInternational$50kSocial Science$35kEnvironment$35kCrime & Legal$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k18 grants · $102k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $417k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
$10,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$40M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$1,042,500
PORTLAND ART MUSEUM$100,000
THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM$50,000
BROOKS SCHOOL$50,000
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART$35,000
THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM$33,000
PARRISH ART MUSEUM$31,000
NEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL OF DRAWING PAINTING & SCULPTURE$30,000
NXTHVN INC$27,500
THE JEWISH MUSEUM$25,000
THE BARNES FOUNDATION$25,000
STERLING & FRANCINE CLARK ART INSTITUTE$25,000
DETROIT INSTITUE OF ARTS$20,000
BRONX MUSEUM OF THE ARTS$15,000
PUBLICOLOR INC$15,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BROOKS SCHOOL: $50k → 10%STERLING & FRANCINE CLARK INSTITUTE: $30k → 12%ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER: $50k → 16%PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $25k → 22%CORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS: $25k → 10%STORM KING ART CENTER: $25k → 14%NEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL OF DRAWING PAINTING & SCULPTURE: $30k → 17%THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION: $25k → 14%THE JOHN AND MABLE RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART: $25k → 10%WILLAIM A FARNSWORTH LIBRARY & ART MUSEUM: $25k → 11%BROOKS SCHOOL: $50k → 10%STERLING & FRANCINE CLARK ART INSTITUTE: $25k → 12%ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER: $25k → 16%THE BARNES FOUNDATION: $25k → 22%NEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL: $25k → 17%THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION: $25k → 14%PORTLAND ART MUSEUM: $100k → 12%THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART: $50k → 17%SEATTLE ART MUSEUM: $25k → 9%WILLAIM A FARNSWORTH LIBRARY & ART MUSEUM: $25k → 11%WOODMERE ART MUSEUM: $25k → 22%NPR INC: $25k → 14%PORTLAND ART MUSEUM: $70k → 12%PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $25k → 22%PORTLAND ART MUSEUM: $25k → 12%SEATTLE ART MUSEUM: $25k → 9%NXTHVN INC: $28k → 12%PARRISH ART MUSEUM: $33k → 7%BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS & SCIENCE: $35k → 20%PARRISH ART MUSEUM: $31k → 7%WHITNEY MUSUEM OF AMERICAN ART: $25k → 17%THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM: $35k → 20%THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM: $33k → 20%BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS & SCIENCE DBA: $30k → 20%NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART: $35k → 14%AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC: $25k → 17%MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM: $50k → 17%THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM: $50k → 17%MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $25k → 17%METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $1.8M → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL GALLERY LONDON: $50k → 17%METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $1.1M → 17%METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $1.1M → 17%METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $1.0M → 17%METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $795k → 17%MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $30k → 17%SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION SMITHSONIAN INSTITUT: $50k → 17%THE DRAWING CENTER INC: $31k → 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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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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.4M · 55 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

55 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

55
92

Total granted

$7.4M
$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+11%

Still filing today

93%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $201k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementReligionOther

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

  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
    4× · 2021–2024 · $5.2M · revenue +69%
  • PORTLAND ART MUSEUM
    3× · 2021–2024 · $195k · revenue +40%
  • TB
    THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
    4× · 2020–2024 · $133k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
    one grant, 2020 · $811k
  • SI
    SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION SMITHSONIAN INSTITUT
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • CM
    CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +14%

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.

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Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute

Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…

Arts & Culture
2
Clyfford Still Museum

Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.

Arts & Culture
3
Berggruen Institute
Education
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Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
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Art Explorium
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Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
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The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
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The Museum of Fine Arts Houston

The museum of fine arts, houston serves as a welcoming and inclusive place for all people, connecting the communities of houston with diverse histories of art spanning 6,000 years and six continents. through our permanent collections,…

Arts & Culture
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Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery

The huntington library, art museum, and botanical gardens shares its world-renowned collections to support scholarship, foster learning, inspire creativity, and offer transformative experiences for diverse audiences.

Arts & Culture
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Newport Art Museum and Art Association

The newport art museum's mission is to share a diversity of art and experiences that spark reflection, inspiration, and connection within our newport community and beyond. the museum was founded in 1912 on the belief that arts and culture…

Arts & Culture
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Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation

Committed to innovation, the solomon r. guggenheim foundation (the "foundation") collects, (continued on schedule o)

Arts & Culture
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Institute of Contemporary Art Miami Inc

The institute of contemporary art, miami (ica miami), is dedicated to promoting the work of contemporary artists, and to the exchange of art and ideas throughout the miami region and internationally. through an energetic calendar of…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Folk Art Museum and the most unlike its peers is Archives for Research in Archetypal Symbolisminc. 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 FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …Jewish Community Organizati…Community Arts CentersCommunity College Foundatio…Youth Mentoring ProgramsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Local History Museums
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 49 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr20%4%10–20yr19%19%20–35yr13%28%35–55yr16%45%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%1%10–20yr19%69%20–35yr13%8%35–55yr16%23%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% 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 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/109
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,651

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

108 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 108 of the 167 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
108/108
Grantees still filing
72/108
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $5,154,861 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART+74 more — $2,098,000 · Arts & Culture+74 moreMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $811,454 · OtherMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM …NEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL — $88,000 · Other+64 more — $835,496 · Other+64 moreBROOKS SCHOOL — $100,000 · EducationThe Pierpont Morgan Library — $100,000 · EducationAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL GALLERY LONDON INC — $50,000 · EducationAMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC — $45,000 · EducationPUBLICOLOR INC — $45,000 · EducationPRATT INSTITUTE — $34,500 · EducationCARLETON COLLEGE — $20,080 · EducationMASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · Education+12 more — $96,559 · EducationMYRIAD USA INC — $50,000 · InternationalART OMI INC — $10,000 · InternationalNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN — $20,000 · EnvironmentMADISON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $15,000 · EnvironmentYOUNG NEW YORKERS INC — $20,000 · Crime & LegalSOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK INC — $15,000 · Community Improvement
Arts & Culture$7,252,861Other$1,734,950Education$511,139International$60,000Environment$35,000Crime & Legal$20,000Community Improvement$15,000

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 budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $5,154,861 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPORTLAND ART MUSEUM — $195,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES — $133,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBROOKS SCHOOL — $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Pierpont Morgan Library — $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL — $88,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art — $86,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC — $75,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PARRISH ART MUSEUM INC — $70,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSTERLING AND FRANCINE CLARK ART INSTITUTE — $55,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSUN VALLEY CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC — $55,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE PHILLIPS COLLECTION — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WILLIAM A FARNSWORTH LIBRARY AND ART MUSEUM INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL GALLERY LONDON INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSEATTLE ART MUSEUM — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRANSFORMER INC — $47,500 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetTHE DRAWING CENTER INC — $46,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSTUDIO IN A SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC — $45,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetURBANGLASS NEW YORK CONTEMPORARY GLASS CENTER INC — $45,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC — $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPUBLICOLOR INC — $45,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Gallery of Art — $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Museum of Contemporary Art — $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetART21 INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPRATT INSTITUTE — $34,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWOODMERE ART MUSEUM — $34,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HYDE COLLECTION TRUST — $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE ARTS INC — $30,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetThe Bronx Museum of the Arts — $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM — $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNXTHVN INC — $27,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSWISS INSTITUTE — $27,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JOHN & MABLE RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE HEARD MUSEUM — $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTORM KING ART CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBRIC ARTS MEDIA BKLYN INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BARNES FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Frick Collection — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

The Cowles Charitable…Hillman Family Founda…Helen Frankenthaler F…The Andy Warhol Found…Ag FoundationTerra Foundation for …Milton and Sally Aver…Arison Arts FoundationThe Hyde and Watson F…Lily Auchincloss Foun…The New York Communit…Wolf Kahn Foundation …
The Cowles Charitable TrustNY40× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cowles Charitable Trust · Hillman Family Foundations · Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Inc · The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · Ag Foundation · Terra Foundation for American Art · Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation · Arison Arts Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · Wolf Kahn Foundation 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 Robert Lehman Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Yale University — 12% of income from government
  • The Montclair Art Museum — 11% of income from government
  • The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Camp 45 Contemporary Converge 45 — 8% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • New Britain Museum of American Art Inc — 7% of income from government
  • University of Miami — 5% of income from government
  • Oregon Center for Contemporary Art Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Baltimore Museum of Art — 4% of income from government
  • Eastern Oregon Regional Arts Council dba Art Center East — 3% of income from government
  • The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Portland Art Museum — 1% of income from government
  • Nxthvn Inc — 1% of income from government
  • The College of New Jersey Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
31report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 Robert Lehman Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Robert Lehman Foundation Inc 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 167 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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