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Seattle Children's Hospital

SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL (seattle children's) will be an innovative leader in pediatric health and wellness through our unsurpassed quality, clinical care, relentless spirit of inquiry, and compassion for all children and their families.

$64M
Granted FY2025still arriving
181
Grants FY2025still arriving
41
States reached
$15M
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.

Health$293MHousing & Shelter$3.9MCommunity Improvement$2.0MRecreation & Sports$523kEducation$318kArts & Culture$302kEnvironment$185kYouth Development$168kOther$0
02FY2025 · 181 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 181 grants below total $56,289,059, the rows itemized in this filing. The $63,608,988 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $7,319,929 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k21 grants · $162k
  • $10k–50k64 grants · $1.4M
  • $50k–250k55 grants · $6.5M
  • $250k+41 grants · $48M
$57,582
Median grant
41
States reached
$6.0B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$15,285,396
OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY$6,536,305
COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY$2,463,219
FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER CENTER$2,165,165
THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE$1,984,470
FIELDLINE MEDICAL$1,490,893
EMORY UNIVERSITY$1,060,147
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER$1,051,436
DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE$1,033,892
ALLEN INSTITUTE$963,932
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA$857,760
RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$793,412
BENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT VIRGINIA MASON$791,373
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS FOR RESEARCH INC$768,154
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA$747,855
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, $529k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 27% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%YOUTH RALLY COMMITTEE INC: $10k → 5%COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS INC: $20k → 9%YAKUTAT TLINGIT TRIBE: $15k → 12%COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS INC: $8k → 15%YOUTH ADVOCATES OF SITKA: $20k → 8%HOPELINK: $10k → 9%YOUTH ADVOCATES OF SITKA: $15k → 8%HOPELINK: $7k → 9%HOPELINK: $7k → 9%HOPELINK: $7k → 9%HOPELINK: $7k → 9%AIDS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $46k → 14%AIDS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $36k → 14%AIDS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%AIDS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $12k → 14%THE SHERI AND LES BILLER FAMILY FOUNDATION: $20k → 9%YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SEATTLE-KING COUNTY-SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $20k → 9%YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SEATTLE-KING COUNTY-SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $10k → 9%YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SEATTLE-KING COUNTY-SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $9k → 9%YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SEATTLE-KING COUNTY-SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $6k → 9%EL CENTRO DE LA RAZA: $13k → 9%EL CENTRO DE LA RAZA: $8k → 9%PROGRAM FOR EARLY PARENT SUPPORT: $10k → 9%PROGRAM FOR EARLY PARENT SUPPORT: $6k → 9%YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE: $108k → 9%CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $16k → 9%YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE: $8k → 9%CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $8k → 9%CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $8k → 9%CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $8k → 9%CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $7k → 9%CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $6k → 9%UNIVERSITY DISTRICT FOOD BANK: $11k → 9%CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $6k → 9%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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ME
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IL
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OH
PA
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MO
KY
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DE
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AR
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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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$348M · 249 repeat orgs$3.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

249 repeat relationships: 153 still active in FY2025, 96 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

249
75

Total granted

$348M
$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+17%

Still filing today

65%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M 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
HealthEducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsScience & TechEnvironmentOther
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

  • TA
    THE ASSOCIATION OF CHRMC AND UNIVERSITY PHYSICIANS
    3× · 2021–2023 · $21M · revenue +34%
  • FH
    FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER
    5× · 2017–2021 · $17M · revenue +27%
  • FH
    Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
    4× · 2022–2025 · $10M · revenue +97%

Funded once

  • UC
    U C B BIOSCIENCES INC
    one grant, 2022 · $566k
  • SH
    SWEDISH HEALTH SERVICESgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $87k · revenue +37%
  • HU
    HAMPTON UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $77k · revenue +25%
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
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
2
Seattle Children's Hospital

Seattle children's hospital (seattle children's) will be an innovative leader in pediatric health and wellness through our unsurpassed quality, clinical care, relentless spirit of inquiry, and compassion for all children and their…

Health
3
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
4
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
5
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
6
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
7
Washington University

The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)

Education
8
Western University of Health Sciences

To produce, in a humanistic tradition, health care professionals and biomedical knowledge that will enhance and extend the quality of life in our communities.

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9
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
10
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
11
Uw Physicians Network

To improve the health of the public.

Education
12
Rush University Medical Center

The mission of Rush is to improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Biomedical Research Institute; the most unlike its peers is Inatai Community Fund. 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

241 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. 241 of the 354 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)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
234/241
Grantees still filing
187/241
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $80,305,699 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY: $37,766,979 · OtherOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITYFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $17,002,987 · OtherFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER+77 more: $68,877,402 · Other+77 moreTHE ASSOCIATION OF CHRMC AND UNIVERSITY PHYSICIANS: $21,413,125 · HealthTHE ASSOCIATION OF CHRMC AND UNIVE…OBCC OTHELLO QALICB: $18,951,611 · HealthOBCC OTHELLO QALICBFred Hutchinson Cancer Center: $10,245,208 · HealthFred Hutchinson Cancer CenterBENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT VIRGINIA: $7,492,299 · HealthBENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT VIR…THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $7,436,638 · HealthTHE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTERonald McDonald House Charities of Western Washington & Alaska: $6,101,640 · HealthRonald McDonald House Charities of…Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $4,108,338 · Health+63 more: $31,698,196 · Health+63 moreEmory University: $5,525,616 · EducationEmory Univ…Baylor College of Medicine: $3,286,758 · EducationBaylor Col…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $1,818,487 · EducationTHE BOARD …SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $1,619,805 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $1,605,883 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $1,574,581 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $1,488,332 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1,265,476 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $1,169,543 · Education+32 more: $12,116,556 · Education+32 moreThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies: $2,441,334 · Science & TechINSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY: $2,308,937 · Science & TechUniversity of Kansas Center for Research Inc: $2,293,778 · Science & TechBATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE: $734,063 · Science & Tech+2 more: $261,205 · Science & TechGAPPS Global Alliance To Prevent Prematurity And Stillbirth: $1,930,211 · Community ImprovementThe Rand Corporation: $380,727 · Public BenefitUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $245,000 · Philanthropy
Other$203,953,067Health$107,447,055Education$31,471,037Science & Tech$8,039,317Community Improvement$1,930,211Public Benefit$380,727Philanthropy$245,000

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 budgetTHE ASSOCIATION OF CHRMC AND UNIVERSITY PHYSICIANS: $21,413,125 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetOBCC OTHELLO QALICB: $18,951,611 over 2y, 100% of budgetFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $17,002,987 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetFred Hutchinson Cancer Center: $10,245,208 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT VIRGINIA: $7,492,299 over 9y, 3.3% of budgetTHE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $7,436,638 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Western Washington & Alaska: $6,101,640 over 9y, 19% of budgetEmory University: $5,525,616 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $4,108,338 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $3,286,758 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $3,158,902 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $3,055,460 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies: $2,441,334 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY: $2,308,937 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetUniversity of Kansas Center for Research Inc: $2,293,778 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $2,257,266 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetALLEN INSTITUTE: $2,021,863 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetGAPPS Global Alliance To Prevent Prematurity And Stillbirth: $1,930,211 over 4y, 83% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $1,818,487 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $1,619,805 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $1,605,883 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $1,574,581 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $1,525,398 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $1,503,061 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $1,488,332 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1,265,476 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $1,169,543 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetASHLEY HOUSE: $1,100,000 over 4y, 8.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $1,017,152 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEMOURS FOUNDATION: $964,352 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $963,405 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetVanderbilt University: $959,320 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $907,611 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $907,267 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $905,060 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S NATIONAL: $826,061 over 8y, 20% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $796,402 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $762,463 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $740,192 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE: $734,063 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $733,928 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $726,641 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital: $716,523 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $702,557 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $665,413 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation: $563,460 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER OF AKRON: $522,857 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $513,513 over 9y, 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 THE ASSOCIATION OF CHRMC AND UNIVERSITY PHYSICIANS ↗
  • Who funds OBCC OTHELLO QALICB ↗
  • Who funds FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center ↗
  • Who funds BENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT VIRGINIA ↗
  • Who funds THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of Western Washington & Alaska ↗
  • Who funds Emory University ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds The Salk Institute for Biological Studies ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY ↗
  • Who funds University of Kansas Center for Research Inc ↗
  • Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ALLEN INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds GAPPS Global Alliance To Prevent Prematurity And Stillbirth ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗

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.

Cystic Fibrosis FoundationMD51.1× affinity23 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cystic Fibrosis Foundation · The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center · Rasmuson Foundation · Vanderbilt University Medical Center · Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington · American Heart Association Inc · Mayo Clinic · Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center · The Alaska Community Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Emory University

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 Seattle Children's Hospital funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Seattle Children's Hospital. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Inc: 37% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: 6% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • Connecticut Children's Medical Center: 5% of income from government
  • Nova Southeastern University Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Nemours Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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 354 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 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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