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Share Winter Foundation

To improve the lives, health, and fitness of youth in the United States through winter sports.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
69
Grants FY2025still arriving
23
States reached
$50k
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.

Recreation & Sports$5.9MYouth Development$3.0MHuman Services$664kEducation$361kCivil Rights$171kEnvironment$57kCommunity Improvement$56kPhilanthropy$53kOther$0
02FY2025 · 69 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k60 grants · $1.1M
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$15,000
Median grant
23
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOS Outreach$50,000
Association of Africans Living in Vermont Inc$37,000
The Chill Foundation$35,000
Youth Enrichment Services (YES)$35,000
Catamount Trail Association$32,000
Shred Foundation$30,000
National Winter Activity CenterWinter 4 Kids$25,000
Sky Tavern$25,000
University Prep Public Charter Schools$25,000
Crystal Community Ski Club$25,000
New England Nordic Ski Association$25,000
Upper Valley Snowsports Foundation (Whaleback)$25,000
The Loppet Foundation$25,000
Skiku Inc$25,000
Hoods to Woods$25,000
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 (FY19–25, $683k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 42% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%Good Shepherd Services: $15k → 17%Leelanau Investing For Teens: $20k → 7%CITC (Cook Inlet Tribal Council): $25k → 10%YMCA of Southern Nevada: $20k → 13%YMCA of Northern Utah: $25k → 8%Asian Pacific Development Center: $13k → 10%CITC (Cook Inlet Tribal Council): $25k → 10%YMCA of Southern Nevada: $18k → 13%YMCA of Metropolitan Los Angeles: $10k → 14%YMCA OF NORTHERN UTAH: $20k → 8%Ogden Valley Adaptive Sports: $15k → 9%ASIAN PACIFIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $9k → 10%CITC (Cook Inlet Tribal Council Inc): $20k → 10%YMCA of Northern Utah: $15k → 8%Ogden Valley Adaptive Sports: $15k → 9%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN LOS ANGELES: $10k → 14%Ogden Valley Adaptive Sports: $15k → 9%Ogden Valley Adaptive Sports: $15k → 9%Minnesota Youth Ski League: $37k → 11%Association of Africans Living in Vermont Inc: $37k → 10%Minnesota Youth Ski League: $35k → 11%Association of Africans Living in Vermont: $36k → 10%MINNESOTA YOUTH SKI LEAGUE: $25k → 11%Association of Africans Living in Vermont Inc: $32k → 10%MINNESOTA YOUTH SKI LEAGUE: $20k → 11%MINNESOTA YOUTH SKI LEAGUE: $37k → 11%Minnesota Youth Ski League: $35k → 11%Minnesota Youth Ski League: $25k → 11%Association of Africans Living in Vermont: $20k → 10%ASSOCIATION OF AFRICANS LIVING IN VERMONT: $20k → 10%Greater Burlington YMCA: $7k → 10%Greater Burlington YMCA: $7k → 10%Greater Burlington YMCA: $6k → 10%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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MT
MN
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
OH
PA
NJ
RI
CA
UT
CO
AZ
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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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 75 repeat orgs$210k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

75 repeat relationships: 58 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

75
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Total granted

$11M
$82k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+14%

Still filing today

83%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $128k 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
Youth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • SO
    SOS OUTREACH
    8× · 2018–2025 · $468k · revenue +152%
  • TL
    THE LOPPET FOUNDATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $443k · revenue +43%
  • CC
    CENTRAL CROSS COUNTRY SKIING INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $411k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • TN
    THE NATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF SNOWSPORTSgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +270%
  • FC
    Friendship Community Center Incgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +74%
  • BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -1%
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
Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club Inc

To create champions on and off the mountain by developing life skills and providing growth opportunities through participation in sports.

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2
Team Breckenridge Sports Club Inc

It is our mission to provide this community with an athletic environment that allows each athlete to reach their potential and pursue their life's goals through through snow sports.

Recreation & Sports
3
Boys & Girls Club of Northwest Colo

The mission of the clubs is to enable and inspire the youth of our area to reach their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens. the clubs offers core programs designed to engage youth with peers and caring adults to…

Youth Development
4
Aspen Youth Center

Aspen youth center (the organization) provides opportunities for youth in grades 4-12, during out-of-school hours, by offering a safe, supervised, and supportive environment centered in positive youth development.

Youth Development
5
Team Summit

Team summit is a youth development organization empowering our athletes to realize and celebrate their personal podiums through athletics, education and life skills by participating in innovative programming at our world class venues.

Recreation & Sports
6
Boys and Girls Club of the Northern Cheyenne Nation

The boys & girls club's mission is to inspire and enable all youth of the northern cheyenne nation and surrounding areas to be productive citizens.

Youth Development
7
Loon Ski Club Inc

To provide the best possible high performance youth ski racing program by sustaining a supportive, family-friendly environment in which our athletes can grow and challenge themselves. we prepare each athlete to compete at their fullest…

Recreation & Sports
8
Telluride Ski and Snowboard Club Inc

Our Mission is to instill and nurture a passion for all snow sports along with developing character, discipline and desire, which encourages young athletes to reach their highest potential.

Human Services
9
Lake Eldora Racing Team

Youth outdoor educcation, sports and sportmanship. winter programs include ski and snowboard alpine training and racing as well as freestyle freeride ski and snowboard training and competitions. summer season includes mountain biking and…

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10
Boys and Girls Club of Glacier Country

To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.

Youth Development
11
Boys & Girls Clubs of the North Valley

To inspire and enable all young people to reach their full potential as caring, productive, and responsible citizens.

Youth Development
12
Jackson Hole Ski & Snowboard Club

To inspire and develop student-athletes through innovative and accessible ski and snowboard programs that provide opportunities to pursue personal excellence in snowsports and life.

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Clubs of Western Nevada; the most unlike its peers is Taos Pueblo 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

77 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. 77 of the 92 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)
31
Early backer (in before they grew)
77/77
Grantees still filing
55/77
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL WINTER ACTIVITY CENTER: $2,500,000 · Recreation & SportsNATIONAL WINTER ACTIVITY CENTERSOS OUTREACH: $468,250 · Recreation & SportsSOS OUTREACHTHE LOPPET FOUNDATION INC: $442,500 · Recreation & SportsTHE LOPPET FOUNDATION INCCENTRAL CROSS COUNTRY SKIING INC: $410,692 · Recreation & SportsCENTRAL CROSS COUNTRY SKIING INCUPPER VALLEY SNOW SPORTS FOUNDATION: $300,000 · Recreation & SportsUPPER VALLEY SNOW SPORTS FOUNDATIONSky Tavern Inc: $285,000 · Recreation & SportsNEW ENGLAND NORDIC SKI ASSOCIATION INC: $243,786 · Recreation & SportsUnited States Ski Association: $189,185 · Recreation & Sports+9 more: $745,500 · Recreation & Sports+9 moreYOUTH ENRICHMENT SERVICES INC: $342,567 · OtherYOUTH ENRICHMENT SERVICE…SALT LAKE COUNTY: $250,000 · OtherSALT LAKE COUNTYBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NORTH LAKE TAHOE: $219,900 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF N…CRYSTAL COMMUNITY SKI CLUB: $152,300 · OtherCRYSTAL COMMUNITY SKI CL…CATAMOUNT TRAIL ASSOCIATION: $148,000 · OtherCATAMOUNT TRAIL ASSOCIAT…MUCKLESHOOT INDIAN TRIBE: $122,000 · OtherYMCA of Greater Flint: $116,400 · OtherMOUNT MANSFIELD MODIFIED UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT: $100,700 · OtherPUEBLO OF TESUQUE: $95,000 · OtherBishop Union High School: $93,500 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER HOLYOKE INC: $85,000 · Other+22 more: $735,700 · Other+22 moreSHRED FOUNDATION: $369,900 · Youth DevelopmentSHRED FOUNDATIONCHILL FOUNDATION: $365,300 · Youth DevelopmentCHILL FOUNDATIONBIG SKY YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT INC: $280,000 · Youth DevelopmentBIG SKY YOUTH EMPOWER…The Doug Coombs Foundation: $270,000 · Youth DevelopmentThe Doug Coombs Found…MT ASHLAND ASSOCIATION: $164,450 · Youth DevelopmentMT ASHLAND ASSOCIATIO…Hoods to Woods Inc: $159,500 · Youth DevelopmentHoods to Woods IncThe Service Board: $155,000 · Youth DevelopmentThe Service BoardBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION: $104,500 · Youth Development+13 more: $335,300 · Youth Development+13 moreMINNESOTA YOUTH SKI LEAGUE: $214,000 · Human ServicesAssociation of Africans Living in Vermont Inc: $145,400 · Human ServicesCook Inlet Tribal Council: $70,000 · Human ServicesYoung Mens Christian Association Of Northern Utah: $60,000 · Human ServicesSNOWBASIN ADAPTIVE SPORTS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $60,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $38,000 · Human Services+5 more: $95,810 · Human ServicesUNIVERSITY PREP PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS: $125,000 · EducationSTOKED MENTORING INC: $70,000 · EducationThe Hive DGO: $42,500 · EducationMater Academy of Northern Nevada: $34,500 · EducationPACIFIC HERITAGE SCHOOLS: $32,200 · EducationDSST PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $23,000 · EducationYOUTH WINTER SPORTS ALLIANCE: $90,000 · PhilanthropyLOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE - BLACK UNITED FUND INC: $67,500 · PhilanthropyTAOS PUEBLO FOUNDATION: $69,000 · Community ImprovementVAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION: $5,135 · Community Improvement
Recreation & Sports$5,584,913Other$2,461,067Youth Development$2,203,950Human Services$683,210Education$327,200Philanthropy$157,500Community Improvement$74,135

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL WINTER ACTIVITY CENTER: $2,500,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetSOS OUTREACH: $468,250 over 8y, 7.1% of budgetTHE LOPPET FOUNDATION INC: $442,500 over 9y, 2.2% of budgetCENTRAL CROSS COUNTRY SKIING INC: $410,692 over 9y, 11% of budgetSHRED FOUNDATION: $369,900 over 9y, 92% of budgetCHILL FOUNDATION: $365,300 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetYOUTH ENRICHMENT SERVICES INC: $342,567 over 9y, 3.7% of budgetUPPER VALLEY SNOW SPORTS FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 7y, 7.5% of budgetSky Tavern Inc: $285,000 over 9y, 6.6% of budgetBIG SKY YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT INC: $280,000 over 7y, 3.7% of budgetThe Doug Coombs Foundation: $270,000 over 6y, 9.5% of budgetNEW ENGLAND NORDIC SKI ASSOCIATION INC: $243,786 over 9y, 11% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NORTH LAKE TAHOE: $219,900 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetMINNESOTA YOUTH SKI LEAGUE: $214,000 over 7y, 11% of budgetUnited States Ski Association: $189,185 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMT ASHLAND ASSOCIATION: $164,450 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetHoods to Woods Inc: $159,500 over 5y, 78% of budgetThe Service Board: $155,000 over 7y, 7.8% of budgetCATAMOUNT TRAIL ASSOCIATION: $148,000 over 5y, 7.8% of budgetAssociation of Africans Living in Vermont Inc: $145,400 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetPAYETTE LAKES SKI CLUB INC: $140,000 over 7y, 4.8% of budgetASPEN VALLEY SKISNOWBOARD CLUB INC: $135,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY PREP PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS: $125,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBRIDGER SKI FOUNDATION: $119,500 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetYMCA of Greater Flint: $116,400 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetSKIKU INC FORMERLY NORDIC JOURNEYS INC: $115,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION: $104,500 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetANTELOPE BUTTE FOUNDATION INC: $95,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetYOUTH WINTER SPORTS ALLIANCE: $90,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER HOLYOKE INC: $85,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetSUN VALLEY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetSpirit of the Sun Inc: $72,900 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetCook Inlet Tribal Council: $70,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTOKED MENTORING INC: $70,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetTAOS PUEBLO FOUNDATION: $69,000 over 4y, 91% of budgetLOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE - BLACK UNITED FUND INC: $67,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetLAMBERT HOUSE: $67,500 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetNATURECONNECT CENTRAL OREGON: $60,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetYoung Mens Christian Association Of Northern Utah: $60,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSNOWBASIN ADAPTIVE SPORTS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetCINCINNATI RECREATION FOUNDATION: $56,000 over 3y, 8.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS IN COLORADO INC: $51,800 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC: $49,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetVAMOS OUTDOORS PROJECT: $45,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetThe Hive DGO: $42,500 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetAURORA COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC: $41,900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MONROE COUNTY: $40,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetYMCA OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $38,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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 NATIONAL WINTER ACTIVITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SOS OUTREACH ↗
  • Who funds THE LOPPET FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL CROSS COUNTRY SKIING INC ↗
  • Who funds SHRED FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHILL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH ENRICHMENT SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds UPPER VALLEY SNOW SPORTS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Sky Tavern Inc ↗
  • Who funds BIG SKY YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds The Doug Coombs Foundation ↗
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND NORDIC SKI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NORTH LAKE TAHOE ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA YOUTH SKI LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds United States Ski Association ↗
  • Who funds MT ASHLAND ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Hoods to Woods Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Service Board ↗
  • Who funds CATAMOUNT TRAIL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Association of Africans Living in Vermont Inc ↗
  • Who funds PAYETTE LAKES SKI CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds ASPEN VALLEY SKISNOWBOARD CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY PREP PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGER SKI FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds YMCA of Greater Flint ↗
  • Who funds SKIKU INC FORMERLY NORDIC JOURNEYS INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION ↗
  • Who funds ANTELOPE BUTTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH WINTER SPORTS ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER HOLYOKE INC ↗
  • Who funds SUN VALLEY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Spirit of the Sun Inc ↗
  • Who funds Cook Inlet Tribal Council ↗

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.

National Recreation Foundation IncorporatedIL23.3× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Recreation Foundation Incorporated · Boys & Girls Clubs of America · Boys & Girls Clubs of America (Group Return) · Rei Cooperative Action Fund · Colorado Gives Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · Tahoe Community Foundation · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · The Vermont Community Foundation · National Council of YMCAs of the USA · Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation · Union Pacific 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 Share Winter Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Share Winter Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Association of Africans Living in Vermont Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Catamount Trail Association: 10% of income from government
  • Chill Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
36report 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 92 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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