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Simmons First Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$868k
Granted FY2024still arriving
102
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.0MYouth Development$650kRecreation & Sports$537kHuman Services$465kHousing & Shelter$302kFood & Nutrition$229kCommunity Improvement$221kHealth$185kOther$0
02FY2024 · 102 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k61 grants · $168k
  • $10k–50k40 grants · $639k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$5,436
Median grant
7
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$60,256
U OF A COLLEGEIMPACT AR FELLOWSHIP$26,750
WINGS OF HOPE FAMILY CRISIS SERVICES$26,000
OUR DAILY BREAD FOOD & RESOURCE CENTER$25,000
HOOPLIFE$25,000
THE ALLEN SCHOOL$25,000
PGA TOUR CHARITIES$25,000
CENTERS FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES$25,000
MIRACLE LEAGUE OF LITTLE ROCK$25,000
BELIEVE MEMPHIS ACADEMY$23,310
COLUMBIA CENTER FOR URBAN AGRICULTURE$23,000
REACHING FOR LIFE INC$22,200
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JEFFERSON COUNTY$20,000
BRYANT BOYS & GIRLS CLUB$19,968
NEW HOPE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER$19,959
02The need
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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 (FY17–24, $332k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TIMOTHY HILL CHILDREN'S RANCH INC: $1k → 7%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN FORT WORTH: $1k → 11%CORNERSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $8k → 18%TOGETHER WE FOSTER: $1k → 16%KULTURE CITY: $10k → 16%DREW LEWIS FOUNDATION: $15k → 15%GIFT OF HOPE INC: $1k → 14%THE KITCHEN INC: $5k → 15%FOSTERADOPT CONNECT: $1k → 15%MOUNTAIN VIEW FAMILY YOUTH CENTER: $25k → 19%HIS CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%HISPANIC FAMILY FOUNDATION: $8k → 14%RISE FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%RIVER VALLEY FOOD 4 KIDS: $1k → 15%VERA LLOYD PRESBYTERIAN FAMILY SERVICES: $33k → 17%DREW LEWIS FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 15%CHRISTOS HOUSE INC: $13k → 19%JOSEPH'S HOUSE OF RUSSELLVILLE: $1k → 15%FOSTERADOPT CONNECT: $1k → 15%MOUNTAIN VIEW FAMILY YOUTH CENTER: $18k → 19%THE STORE: $10k → 14%HISPANIC FAMILY FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%STARKEY: $4k → 16%OZARKS REGIONAL YMCA: $20k → 15%CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $5k → 14%FORT SMITH CHILDREN'S EMERGENCY SHE: $1k → 17%VERA LLOYD PRESBYTERIAN FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WEST TENNESSEE: $15k → 17%CARE TO LEARN: $4k → 15%MOUNTAIN VIEW FAMILY YOUTH CENTER: $2k → 19%THE SAVILLE CENTER: $1k → 19%SOLES 4 SOULS: $10k → 14%WINGS OF HOPE FAMILY CRISIS SERVICES: $26k → 19%HISPANIC COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $4k → 17%LOVE COLUMBIA: $1k → 17%URBAN LEAGUE OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $9k → 14%RISE FOUNDATION: $16k → 17%HISPANIC COMMUNITY SERVICES: $1k → 17%NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR: $3k → 22%TOPPS: $2k → 22%NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR: $2k → 22%NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR: $500 → 22%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

ND
NY
MO
KS
AR
TN
NC
OK
AL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 5% of Simmons First Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Simmons First Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.0% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

26%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 46 repeat orgs$3.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

46 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 80 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
224

Total granted

$1.1M
$2.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+14%

Still filing today

67%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $617k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • CF
    CENTERS FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $66k · revenue +39%
  • HH
    HURRICANE HYPE CENTER
    2× · 2021–2023 · $61k · revenue +68%
  • VL
    VERA LLOYD PRESBYTERIAN FAMILY SERVICES INC
    2× · 2021–2023 · $58k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • GF
    GO FORWARD PINE BLUFFTHE GENERATOR
    one grant, 2021 · $500k
  • DU
    DUCKS UNLIMITED
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS EARLY ACCESS
    one grant, 2019 · $75k
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
Central Arkansas Development Council

To provide services to low income individuals.

Community Improvement
2
The Arkansas Center for Independence

Habilitation and residential services for adults with developmental disabilities

Human Services
3
Child Advocacy Center of Cullman Inc

Nurturing hope, encouraging health, and promoting healing in troubled families through community collaboration, communication and cooperation

Human Services
4
East Arkansas Youth Services Inc

The mission of east arkansas youth services, inc. is to provide a comprehensive continuum of care to include therapeutic, educational, and advocacy services, to youth and their families, and to instill motivation and courage to empower…

Human Services
5
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Memphis Inc

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Memphis, Inc. sees a world where every family has what they need to ensure the best health outcomes for their children. They provide essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and…

Health
6
Legal Aid of Arkansas

To provide legal assistance & housing counseling to the underprivileged citizens of north arkansas.

Crime & Legal
7
Casa of North Arkansas

The organization and its volunteers serve as advocates for abused and neglected children.

Civil Rights
8
Teen Challenge Ranch of Nw Arkansas

Provide residential intervention and education services for delinquent and at-risk youth.

Health
9
Habitat for Humanity Williamson -Maury

Habitat for humanity of williamson-maury (hfhwm) seeks to put god's love into action by partnering with communites to build affordable housing, inspiring hope and life-changing stability for families through homeownership.

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10
Jackson County Community Children's Services Fund

Children's services fund ('csf') is an innovative way to support child well-being projects. while we are funded by a jackson county sales tax, we are a stand-alone organization led by an independent board. (continued on schedule o)we are…

Human Services
11
Tennessee Children's Home Inc

Tennessee children's home, inc. is a not-for-profit organization that provides a home for neglected and pre-delinquent children who have an unstable family situation and who are beginning to develop problems which cannot be solved in their…

Human Services
12
United Housing Connections

We connect people at-risk for or experiencing homlessness with safe, sustainable, and affordable homes. we work to promote and preserve the dignity and quality of life for all citizens in upstate south carolina.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crowley's Ridge Development Council Inc; the most unlike its peers is His Children Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

165 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. 165 of the 351 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
34
Early backer (in before they grew)
158/165
Grantees still filing
101/165
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GO FORWARD PINE BLUFFTHE GENERATOR: $500,000 · OtherGO FORWARD PINE BLUFFTHE GENERATORTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $150,000 · OtherDUCKS UNLIMITED: $100,000 · Other+134 more: $2,193,245 · Other+134 moreCENTERS FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC: $66,000 · Human ServicesCENTERS FOR…VERA LLOYD PRESBYTERIAN FAMILY SERVICES INC: $58,118 · Human ServicesVERA LLOYD …MTN VIEW FAMILY YOUTH CENTER: $44,796 · Human ServicesMTN VIEW FA…RISE MEMPHIS INC: $40,500 · Human ServicesRISE MEMPHI…STILLWATER DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $26,000 · Human ServicesSTILLWATER …BOST INC: $21,900 · Human ServicesHEART HOUSE: $20,000 · Human ServicesOZARKS REGIONAL YMCA: $20,000 · Human ServicesCROWLEY'S RIDGE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC: $16,250 · Human ServicesDREW LEWIS FOUNDATION INC: $15,500 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WEST TENNESSEE INC: $15,000 · Human Services+11 more: $96,175 · Human Services+11 moreBoys & Girls Club of Jefferson County: $39,652 · Youth DevelopmentCITY YOUTH MINISTRIES INC: $39,573 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INCORPORATED OF TENNESSEE VALLEY: $27,000 · Youth DevelopmentFORT SMITH BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS: $26,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TENNESSEE VALL: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentPGA TOUR CHARITIES INC: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentAT LAST: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentGreat Rivers Council - Boy Scouts of America: $24,343 · Youth DevelopmentDELIVER HOPE INC: $19,900 · Youth DevelopmentHOUSEABOUTIT COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AGENCY: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentAR KIDS READ: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentBoys & Girls Club of Denison Texas: $10,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $6,000 · Youth DevelopmentOZARK MISSION PROJECT INC: $51,000 · Housing & ShelterHome Again Pine Bluff: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterOKLAHOMA CITY HOUSING SERVICES REDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $23,125 · Housing & ShelterUNITED HOUSING INC: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterCOLUMBIA COMMUNITY HOUSING TRUST: $11,000 · Housing & ShelterUNIVERSAL HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIO: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterUNIVERSITY DISTRICT DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterThe Works Inc: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterNASHVILLE SAFE HAVEN FAMILY SHELTER INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterMENNONITE HOUSING REHABILITATION SERVICES INC: $8,625 · Housing & ShelterPartners for Better Housing: $8,500 · Housing & ShelterHOPE INC: $8,500 · Housing & ShelterALCY BALL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $7,771 · Housing & Shelter+2 more: $11,000 · Housing & ShelterHURRICANE HYPE CENTER: $61,205 · EducationCHRIST'S LEGACY ACADEMY INC: $31,320 · EducationBELIEVE MEMPHIS ACADEMY INC: $23,310 · EducationSTILLWATER PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $14,800 · EducationLANE COLLEGE: $14,250 · EducationImpact Ventures Accelerator dba Impact Ventures: $10,000 · EducationCITY GARDEN MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $7,080 · EducationFRIENDSHIP ASPIRE ARKANSAS INC: $6,500 · EducationSEARK CONCERT ASSN: $46,500 · Arts & CultureSOUTH ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER: $9,000 · Arts & CultureYOUTH ADVOCATE RESOURCE NETWORK INC: $7,500 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY RESOURCING INC dba OUR DAILY BREAD FOOD & RESOURCE CTR: $51,000 · Food & NutritionARKANSAS FOODBANK: $6,300 · Food & Nutrition
Other$2,943,245Human Services$440,239Youth Development$297,468Housing & Shelter$209,521Education$168,465Arts & Culture$63,000Food & Nutrition$57,300

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%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTERS FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC: $66,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHURRICANE HYPE CENTER: $61,205 over 2y, 11% of budgetVERA LLOYD PRESBYTERIAN FAMILY SERVICES INC: $58,118 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY RESOURCING INC dba OUR DAILY BREAD FOOD & RESOURCE CTR: $51,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetOZARK MISSION PROJECT INC: $51,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetSEARK CONCERT ASSN: $46,500 over 2y, 47% of budgetMTN VIEW FAMILY YOUTH CENTER: $44,796 over 3y, 19% of budgetRISE MEMPHIS INC: $40,500 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetCOMPASS ACADEMY: $40,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Jefferson County: $39,652 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetCITY YOUTH MINISTRIES INC: $39,573 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetColumbia Center for Urban Agriculture: $36,700 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MEMPHIS AND THE MID-SOUTH INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetOUR KIDS INC: $35,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCHRIST'S LEGACY ACADEMY INC: $31,320 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF TENNESSEE VALLEY: $27,000 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetPRINCESS NORA'S WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $26,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetFORT SMITH BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS: $26,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSTILLWATER DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $26,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetWOMENS FOUNDATION OF ARKANSAS: $25,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TENNESSEE VALL: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHome Again Pine Bluff: $25,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetPGA TOUR CHARITIES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAT LAST: $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetGreat Rivers Council - Boy Scouts of America: $24,343 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBELIEVE MEMPHIS ACADEMY INC: $23,310 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOKLAHOMA CITY HOUSING SERVICES REDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $23,125 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetBOST INC: $21,900 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAUSTIN YMBL SUNSHINE CAMP: $20,790 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHEART HOUSE: $20,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WEST TENNESSEINC STARKS: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SALINE COUNTY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetOZARKS REGIONAL YMCA: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBLOUNT COUNTY CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $19,959 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetDELIVER HOPE INC: $19,900 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetREGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC: $16,750 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetCROWLEY'S RIDGE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC: $16,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAGAPE CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $15,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SAN ANTONIO: $15,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDREW LEWIS FOUNDATION INC: $15,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHOUSEABOUTIT COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AGENCY: $15,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa: $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF EAST TENNESSEE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WEST TENNESSEE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAR KIDS READ: $15,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetUNITED HOUSING INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CITY OF HOPE OUTREACH: $15,000 over 1y, 2.7% 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.

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.

Arkansas Community Foundation IncAR55.9× affinity39 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · Arvest Foundation · Delta Dental of Arkansas Foundation Inc · United Way of the Mid South · Cadence Bank Foundation · Dollar General Literacy Foundation · Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc · Regions Foundation · Heart of Arkansas United Way · Riggs Benevolent Fund · Veterans United Foundation · The Charlie & Mary Beth O'Reilly 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 Simmons First Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Simmons First Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    7get no government money at all
    69report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Simmons First Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Simmons First 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 351 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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