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Ruggles 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.

$2.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
94
Grants FY2025still arriving
19
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$2.4MYouth Development$2.0MEducation$1.9MArts & Culture$1.5MScience & Tech$1.3MHuman Services$771kEnvironment$763kPhilanthropy$488kOther$0
02FY2025 · 94 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k36 grants · $127k
  • $10k–50k44 grants · $833k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+1 grant · $400k
$10,000
Median grant
19
States reached
$36M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE$400,000
RUDY RUGGLES JR FAMILY FUND - BESSEMER GIVING FUND$200,000
J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE$200,000
Individual grant recipient$100,000
THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL$75,000
ACT A CONTEMPORARY THEATRE OF CT$75,000
UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND$75,000
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL$60,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER$50,000
SCARBOROUGH LAND TRUST$50,000
AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY$50,000
AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC$50,000
TROUT UNLIMITED$50,000
SIGMA XI THE SCIENTIFIC$50,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$45,000
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 (FY17–25, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%DESTIN HARVEST: $10k → 8%PREBLE STREET: $5k → 7%SAWUBONA INC: $10k → 9%PREBLE STREET: $5k → 7%SHE'S THE FIRST: $10k → 17%PREBLE STREET: $5k → 7%SHE'S THE FIRST: $5k → 17%REGIONAL HOSPICE: $10k → 9%REGIONAL HOSPICE: $10k → 9%PINE STREET INN: $75k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $20k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $20k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $15k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $15k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $10k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $10k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $10k → 16%PROSPECTS OPPORTUNITY AND ENRICHMENT INC: $20k → 9%ROOM TO GROW: $8k → 16%ROOM TO GROW: $8k → 16%HUDSON GUILD: $15k → 17%DIGNITY MATTERS: $20k → 8%HUDSON GUILD: $15k → 17%DIGNITY MATTERS: $20k → 8%HUDSON GUILD: $15k → 17%DIGNITY MATTERS: $15k → 8%HUDSON GUILD: $10k → 17%DIGNITY MATTERS: $10k → 8%HUDSON GUILD: $10k → 17%PLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE: $400k → 10%HUDSON GUILD: $10k → 17%THE CHILDREN'S ROOM: $20k → 8%PLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE: $150k → 10%THE CHILDREN'S ROOM: $20k → 8%PLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE: $150k → 10%HUDSON GUILD: $10k → 17%THE CHILDREN'S ROOM: $20k → 8%PLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE: $150k → 10%THE CHILDREN'S ROOM: $20k → 8%PLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE: $150k → 10%THE CHILDREN'S ROOM: $20k → 8%PLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE: $20k → 10%PLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE: $20k → 10%THE PLUMMER HOME FOR BOYS INC: $20k → 10%THE CHILDREN'S ROOM: $10k → 8%THE CHILDREN'S ROOM: $10k → 8%THE CHILDREN'S ROOM: $10k → 8%WOMEN IN NEED -WIN: $10k → 17%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

ME
VT
NH
WA
MT
MN
IL
NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
NC
SC
DC
GA
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 126 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

126 repeat relationships: 84 still active in FY2025, 42 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

126
35

Total granted

$12M
$650k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+25%

Still filing today

68%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $374k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentArts & CultureScience & TechInternationalOther
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

  • PLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +111%
  • TP
    The Pierpont Morgan Library
    7× · 2017–2025 · $239k · revenue +109%
  • OF
    ORGANIZATION FOR TROPICAL STUDIES INC
    4× · 2017–2024 · $215k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • DH
    DANBURY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $140k
  • FO
    FOUNDATIONS OF NUVANCE HEALTH
    one grant, 2022 · $90k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $60k
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
5
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
6
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
7
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
8
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)

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9
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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10
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
11
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
12
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Side Center for Community Life; the most unlike its peers is The 5 Gyres Institute. 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

118 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. 118 of the 175 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
118/118
Grantees still filing
83/118
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $482,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $346,200 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGCS CAPITAL CAMPAIGN: $325,000 · OtherACT A CONTEMPORARY THEATRE OF CT: $300,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $280,000 · OtherFRONTLINE JOURNALISM FUND: $225,000 · OtherBOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $220,000 · Other+103 more: $4,018,494 · Other+103 moreUNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND: $340,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF …The Pierpont Morgan Library: $238,800 · EducationThe Pierpont M…THE NEWBERRY LIBRARY: $175,000 · EducationTHE NEWBERRY L…GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $125,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNI…GRACE CHURCH SCHOOL: $125,000 · EducationGRACE CHURCH S…THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL: $105,000 · EducationTHE HOTCHKISS …THE WINSOR SCHOOL: $100,000 · EducationTHE WINSOR SCH…BOZEMAN SUMMIT SCHOOL INC: $85,000 · EducationTHE GO PROJECT INC: $75,000 · EducationAMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY: $75,000 · EducationESPERANZA ACADEMY INC: $70,000 · EducationHord Foundation Inc: $65,000 · EducationThe New School: $60,000 · Education+10 more: $137,084 · Education+10 morePLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE INC: $1,060,000 · Human ServicesPLUMMER YOUTH …PINE STREET INN INC: $175,000 · Human ServicesPINE STREET IN…The Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children: $130,000 · Human ServicesThe Childrens …HUDSON GUILDINC: $90,000 · Human ServicesDignity Matters Inc: $65,000 · Human Services+10 more: $190,000 · Human Services+10 moreTHE DREAMYARD PROJECT INC: $740,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DREAMY…MUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $190,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF …CHARLES RIVER MUSEUM OF INDUSTRY AND INNOVATION INC: $131,000 · Arts & CultureCHARLES RI…ACT OF CONNECTICUT: $85,000 · Arts & CultureACT OF CON…THE RIDGEFIELD PLAYHOUSE FOR MOVIES AND THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $50,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $45,500 · Arts & CultureDanbury Hospital & New Milford Hospital Foundation Inc: $940,000 · HealthDanbury H…Endeavor Health Clinical Operations: $125,000 · HealthEndeavor …THE VINCENT CLUB INC: $50,000 · Health+2 more: $13,500 · HealthJ CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE: $820,000 · Science & TechAMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY: $135,000 · Science & Tech+4 more: $53,500 · Science & TechORGANIZATION FOR TROPICAL STUDIES INC: $215,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $55,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $50,000 · InternationalTHE BILL COOK FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · InternationalHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $20,000 · International+1 more: $7,000 · International
Other$6,197,194Education$1,775,884Human Services$1,710,000Arts & Culture$1,241,500Health$1,128,500Science & Tech$1,008,500International$372,000

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 budgetPLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE INC: $1,060,000 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetDanbury Hospital & New Milford Hospital Foundation Inc: $940,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetJ CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE: $820,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetTHE DREAMYARD PROJECT INC: $740,000 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND: $340,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Pierpont Morgan Library: $238,800 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetORGANIZATION FOR TROPICAL STUDIES INC: $215,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetMUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $190,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEWBERRY LIBRARY: $175,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC: $175,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF RIDGEFIELD: $150,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetAMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY: $135,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHARLES RIVER MUSEUM OF INDUSTRY AND INNOVATION INC: $131,000 over 7y, 6.9% of budgetThe Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children: $130,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetBEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I: $125,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetEndeavor Health Clinical Operations: $125,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $125,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGRACE CHURCH SCHOOL: $125,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC: $120,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTHE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL: $105,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WINSOR SCHOOL: $100,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDRENS STOREFRONT: $100,000 over 7y, 3.1% of budgetEagle Mount: $90,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetBOZEMAN LIBRARY FRIENDS AND FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetHUDSON GUILDINC: $90,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBOZEMAN SUMMIT SCHOOL INC: $85,000 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetACT OF CONNECTICUT: $85,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetTROUT UNLIMITED INC: $83,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $80,000 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetTHE GO PROJECT INC: $75,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetAMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY: $75,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $72,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetESPERANZA ACADEMY INC: $70,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetDignity Matters Inc: $65,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetHord Foundation Inc: $65,000 over 3y, 28% of budgetROOT NS INC: $65,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC: $62,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe New School: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBozeman Deaconess Foundation: $57,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $55,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRVNAHEALTH INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RIDGEFIELD PLAYHOUSE FOR MOVIES AND THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE VINCENT CLUB INC: $50,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetFOOD LINK INC: $47,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetCENTER FOR WOMEN & ENTERPRISE INC: $42,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC: $35,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetKIDS IN CRISIS INC: $33,000 over 2y, 0.5% 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 PLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE INC ↗
  • Who funds Danbury Hospital & New Milford Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds THE DREAMYARD PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND ↗
  • Who funds The Pierpont Morgan Library ↗
  • Who funds ORGANIZATION FOR TROPICAL STUDIES INC ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF SCIENCE ↗
  • Who funds THE NEWBERRY LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF RIDGEFIELD ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds CHARLES RIVER MUSEUM OF INDUSTRY AND INNOVATION INC ↗
  • Who funds The Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children ↗
  • Who funds BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I ↗
  • Who funds Endeavor Health Clinical Operations ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds GRACE CHURCH SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE WINSOR SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDRENS STOREFRONT ↗
  • Who funds Eagle Mount ↗
  • Who funds BOZEMAN LIBRARY FRIENDS AND 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.

Boston Foundation IncMA27× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Eastern Bank Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Union Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Trust · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Analog Devices Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc

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 Ruggles Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ruggles Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 210%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Abilis Inc: 74% of income from government
  • Plummer Youth Promise Inc: 64% of income from government
  • Kids in Crisis Inc: 49% of income from government
  • Center for Women & Enterprise Inc: 27% of income from government
  • Root Ns Inc: 26% of income from government
  • International Institute of New England Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Regional Hospice and Home Care of Western Connecticut Inc: 17% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • Food Link Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Wellspring House Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Watch Inc: 9% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • American Antiquarian Society: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Rvnahealth Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Essex County Community Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • American Physical Society: 1% of income from government
  • Appalachian Mountain Club: 1% of income from government
  • Act of Connecticut: 1% of income from government
  • Beacon Academy Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Ridgefield Playhouse for Movies and the Performing Arts Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Museum of Science: 0% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
21get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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 175 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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