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Rudi Schulte Family 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.

$500k
Granted FY2025still arriving
69
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$1.2MHuman Services$623kEducation$546kArts & Culture$392kRecreation & Sports$328kAnimals$303kCivil Rights$155kYouth Development$139kOther$0
02FY2025 · 69 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k50 grants · $175k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $265k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$5,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$9.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK IN$60,000
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT$30,000
TEDDY BEAR CANCER FOUNDATION$25,000
SOLVANG FRIENDSHIP HOUSE$25,000
UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION$20,000
YOUNG AMERICA'S FOUNDATION$20,000
SANTA BARBARA COUNTY VETERANS$15,000
FLORA VISTA ELEMENTARY PTA$15,000
JASMINE STAR FOUNDATION$15,000
CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC$10,000
SOLVANG FESTIVAL THEATER$10,000
AMAZING STRAYS RESCUE$10,000
SANTA BARBARA VETERANS FOUNDATION$10,000
ARIEL THEATRICAL INC$10,000
WALDORF SCHOOL OF SANTA BARBARA$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $580k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SEND IT FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $2k → 21%IMPACT HUB TRUST: $20k → 9%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $33k → 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $30k → 11%SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE: $5k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $25k → 11%SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE: $5k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $20k → 11%SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE: $5k → 14%ANGELS FOSTER FAMILY NETWORK: $6k → 11%SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE: $5k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $10k → 11%ANGELS FOSTER FAMILY NETWORK: $5k → 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 11%ANGELS FOSTER CARE: $7k → 14%CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $42k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $41k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $40k → 11%ANGELS FOSTER CARE: $3k → 14%CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $30k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $10k → 11%ANGELS FOSTER CARE: $3k → 14%CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $10k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $10k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $10k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $6k → 11%CASA DE AMISTAD: $3k → 11%SOLVANG FRIENDSHIP HOUSE: $25k → 14%SOLVANG FRIENDSHIP HOUSE: $15k → 14%SOLVANG FRIENDSHIP HOUSE: $8k → 14%SOLVANG FRIENDSHIP HOUSE: $8k → 14%SOLVANG FRIENDSHIP HOUSE: $8k → 14%SOLVANG FRIENDSHIP HOUSE: $7k → 14%SOLVANG FRIENDSHIP HOUSE: $5k → 14%SOLVANG FRIENDSHIP HOUSE: $3k → 14%COMMUNIFY: $10k → 14%COMMUNIFY: $10k → 14%COMMUNIFY: $5k → 14%DREAM FOUNDATION: $24k → 14%DREAM FOUNDATION: $13k → 14%DREAM FOUNDATION: $6k → 14%DREAM FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%DREAM FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%DREAM FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%DREAM FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%ADAM'S ANGELS: $10k → 14%ADAM'S ANGELS: $5k → 14%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

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NH
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ID
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
IN
PA
CT
CA
MO
KY
VA
MD
DE
AZ
DC
HI
OK
GA
TX
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.0M · 146 repeat orgs$416k to everyone else

146 repeat relationships: 50 still active in FY2025, 96 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

146
113

Total granted

$4.0M
$349k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+40%

Still filing today

63%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthAnimalsArts & CultureEducationRecreation & 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

  • PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $458k · revenue +24%
  • TB
    TEDDY BEAR CANCER FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $228k · revenue +52%
  • CA
    CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $199k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • EF
    ENCHANGED FARM SANCTUARY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $35k
  • IH
    IMPACT HUB TRUSTgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +203%
  • TW
    THE WAHINE PROJECTgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $17k · revenue +115%
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
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
2
Santa Barbara Channelkeeper Inc

The organization was established to protect and restore the santa barbara channel and its watersheds through science-based advocacy, education, field work, community engagement, and citizen enforcement of environmental laws.

Environment
3
Fund for Santa Barbara Inc

Provide cash grants and free consulting to grassroots organizations in santa barbara county.

Philanthropy
4
Santa Barbara Public Library Foundation

The santa barbara public library foundation supports the long-term health and sustainability of the santa barbara public library through public-private partnerships.

Public Benefit
5
Santa Barbara Maritime Museum

Creating excellent exhibits and educational experiences that celebrate the santa barbara channel and illuminate our rich connections with the sea.

Arts & Culture
6
Southern California Equine Foundation Inc

Providing equine veterinary hospital facilities and support services in the care of injured or sick race horses

Animals
7
Santa Barbara Cemetery Association

Cemetery association

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8
The Santa Barbara Bird Sanctuary

To rescue, house and rehabilitate unwanted birds and provide education to parrot owners.

Animals
9
St Francis Foundation of Santa Barbara

The mission of st. francis foundation of santa barbara is to promote and support health care.

Health
10
Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara

The scholarship foundation of santa barbara inspires, encourages and supports santa barbara county students to and through college, graduate and vocational school by providing information, advising, and scholarships.

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11
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
12
Santa Barbara County Trails Council

Our mission is to protect public trail access build and maintain safe and sustainable trails and promote public engagement in land stewardship and trail use for all types of outdoor recreation.

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Yardi 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

169 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. 169 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
54
Early backer (in before they grew)
164/169
Grantees still filing
115/169
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Young America's Foundation: $135,000 · OtherYoung America's FoundationBISHOP GARCIA DIEGO HIGH SCHOOL INC: $130,500 · OtherBISHOP GARCIA DIEGO HIGH SCHOOL INCSOLVANG FESTIVAL THEATER: $111,500 · OtherSOLVANG FESTIVAL THEATERJASMINE STAR FOUNDATION: $80,000 · OtherST RAPHAEL SCHOOL: $78,200 · OtherST RAPHAEL CATHOLIC CHURCH: $71,000 · Other+122 more: $1,385,900 · Other+122 morePANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $457,500 · HealthPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION…TEDDY BEAR CANCER FOUNDATION: $228,050 · HealthTEDDY BEAR CANCER FOUNDA…GWENDOLYN STRONG FOUNDATION: $88,601 · HealthGWENDOLYN STRONG FOUNDAT…PALOMAR HEALTH FOUNDATION: $80,000 · HealthPALOMAR HEALTH FOUNDATIO…CUREBOUND: $40,000 · Health+10 more: $74,000 · Health+10 moreCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $198,500 · Human ServicesCHALLENGED ATHLETE…WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $122,500 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PR…THE COLAB FOUNDATION: $88,500 · Human ServicesTHE COLAB FOUNDATI…Solvang Friendship House: $79,000 · Human ServicesSolvang Friendship…DALMATIAN DREAMS DBA DREAM FOUNDATION: $62,450 · Human ServicesDALMATIAN DREAMS D…THE ALABASTER JAR PROJECT: $35,000 · Human ServicesSAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE: $30,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ACTION COMMISSION OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY INC: $25,000 · Human Services+11 more: $84,970 · Human Services+11 moreARIEL THEATRICAL INC: $56,000 · Arts & CultureThe Adderley School Foundation: $30,000 · Arts & CultureNotes For Notes Inc: $29,500 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA NATURE ART MUSEUM: $21,500 · Arts & CultureCarriage & Western Art Museum of Santa Barbara: $16,500 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA SURF MUSEUM: $15,000 · Arts & CultureARTS MENTORSHIP PROGRAM INC: $14,500 · Arts & CulturePIERRE CLAEYSSENS VETERANS FOUNDATION: $14,500 · Arts & CultureFELLOWSHIP FOR PERFORMING ARTS INC: $10,200 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $28,500 · Arts & CultureUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $84,700 · EducationNEW MILLENNIUM SECONDARY SCHOOL: $30,500 · EducationENDOWMENT FOR YOUTH COMMITTEE: $20,000 · EducationSANTA BARBARA CHARTER SCHOOL: $16,000 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATION: $12,000 · EducationSANTA ROSA JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationLOMPOC TEEN CENTER: $8,000 · EducationFREEDOM 4 YOUTH: $7,000 · EducationSanta Barbara Education Foundation: $7,000 · Education+2 more: $8,500 · EducationSANTA BARBARA ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $74,566 · AnimalsATLAS ANIMAL RESCUE CORPORATION: $28,000 · AnimalsGRAND-PAWS SENIOR SANCTUARY: $10,000 · AnimalsAMAZING STRAYS RESCUE: $10,000 · AnimalsRETURN TO FREEDOM INC: $9,000 · AnimalsK-9 PLACEMENT AND ASSISTANCE LEAGUE INC: $7,000 · AnimalsGOLDEN YEARS DOG SANCTUARY: $6,000 · Animals+3 more: $8,500 · AnimalsSave the Waves Coalition: $94,222 · EnvironmentSANTA BARBARA AUDUBON SOCIETY: $10,500 · EnvironmentWHITE BUFFALO LAND TRUST: $6,000 · Environment
Other$1,992,100Health$968,151Human Services$725,920Arts & Culture$236,200Education$203,700Animals$153,066Environment$110,722

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%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $457,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetTEDDY BEAR CANCER FOUNDATION: $228,050 over 9y, 3.0% of budgetCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $198,500 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $135,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $122,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSave the Waves Coalition: $94,222 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetGWENDOLYN STRONG FOUNDATION: $88,601 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetTHE COLAB FOUNDATION: $88,500 over 9y, 37% of budgetUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $84,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPALOMAR HEALTH FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetSolvang Friendship House: $79,000 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetSANTA BARBARA ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $74,566 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetDALMATIAN DREAMS DBA DREAM FOUNDATION: $62,450 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetCHELSEA'S LIGHT FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetARIEL THEATRICAL INC: $56,000 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetSANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION: $41,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetCUREBOUND: $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ALABASTER JAR PROJECT: $35,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetNEW MILLENNIUM SECONDARY SCHOOL: $30,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetWE SUPPORT THE TROOPS INC: $30,500 over 6y, 6.7% of budgetSAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Adderley School Foundation: $30,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetNotes For Notes Inc: $29,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetATLAS ANIMAL RESCUE CORPORATION: $28,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY INC: $27,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSAFETY TOWN OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $25,500 over 5y, 8.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION COMMISSION OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA NATURE ART MUSEUM: $21,500 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetPACIFIC PRIDE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetENDOWMENT FOR YOUTH COMMITTEE: $20,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetOPERATION SURF: $20,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetIMPACT HUB TRUST: $20,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetUNITE TO LIGHT INC: $19,500 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetCarriage & Western Art Museum of Santa Barbara: $16,500 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetSANTA BARBARA PRO SKILLS ACADEMY: $16,000 over 3y, 91% of budgetSANTA BARBARA CHARTER SCHOOL: $16,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetST VINCENT'S INSTITUTION: $15,060 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA SURF MUSEUM: $15,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetONE805 INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetADAMS ANGELS: $15,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetANGELS FOSTER CARE OF SANTA BARBARA: $14,870 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetARTS MENTORSHIP PROGRAM INC: $14,500 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetUNITED BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $14,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetVIKING CHARITIES INC: $13,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANGELS FOSTER FAMILY AGENCY: $11,100 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHearts Aligned Inc: $11,000 over 3y, 1.6% 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 PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds TEDDY BEAR CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC ↗
  • Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds Save the Waves Coalition ↗
  • Who funds GWENDOLYN STRONG FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE COLAB FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PALOMAR HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Solvang Friendship House ↗
  • Who funds SANTA BARBARA ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DALMATIAN DREAMS DBA DREAM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHELSEA'S LIGHT FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ARIEL THEATRICAL INC ↗
  • Who funds SANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds CUREBOUND ↗
  • Who funds THE ALABASTER JAR PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds NEW MILLENNIUM SECONDARY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds WE SUPPORT THE TROOPS INC ↗
  • Who funds SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds The Adderley School Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Notes For Notes Inc ↗
  • Who funds ATLAS ANIMAL RESCUE CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds SAFETY TOWN OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗

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.

Santa Barbara FoundationCA101.9× affinity60 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Santa Barbara Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Manitou Fund · Towbes Foundation · Schlinger Family Foundation · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation · James S Bower Foundation · Kim and Andrew D Busch 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 Rudi Schulte Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rudi Schulte Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • National Safe Boating Council Inc: 61% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation: 2% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
34report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.

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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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