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Sioux Empire United Way Inc

To lead, sustain, and nurture a unified, effective response to community needs.

$6.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
52
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$819k
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.

Human Services$33MYouth Development$5.7MHealth$3.9MPublic Safety & Disaster$3.6MEducation$3.2MCrime & Legal$2.0MReligion$2.0MArts & Culture$1.7MOther$0
02FY2025 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $316k
  • $50k–250k29 grants · $3.3M
  • $250k+7 grants · $3.2M
$80,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES$818,910
CHILDREN'S HOME SHELTER FOR FAMILY SAFETY$722,835
ACTIVE GENERATIONS$438,050
SFSD - ACCESS FOR ALL$350,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE SIOUX EMPIRE$342,000
LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES - PATH$294,000
AVERA FOUNDATION - FAMILY WELLNESS$264,382
HELPLINE CENTER$248,500
SFSD - REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT ACADEMIC$241,000
SFSD - PRESCHOOL OPPORTUNITIES PROGRAM$225,296
COMMUNITY OUTREACH$220,000
SCOUTING AMERICA SIOUX COUNCIL$212,976
FAMILY SERVICE - COUNSELING$166,500
USD SCOTTISH RITE$164,400
INTERLAKES CAP - HEATLAND HOUSE$121,000
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, $23.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%INTERLAKES CAP - HEARTLAND HOUSE: $135k → 10%SIOUX FALLS HOPE COALITION: $171k → 5%CENTER FOR ACTIVE GENERATIONS: $448k → 9%ACTIVE GENERATIONS: $438k → 9%ACTIVE GENERATIONS: $436k → 9%CENTER FOR ACTIVE GENERATIONS: $416k → 9%CENTER FOR ACTIVE GENERATIONS: $355k → 9%CENTER FOR ACTIVE GENERATIONS: $335k → 9%CENTER FOR ACTIVE GENERATIONS: $334k → 9%CENTER FOR ACTIVE GENERATIONS: $316k → 9%CENTER FOR ACTIVE GENERATIONS: $309k → 9%CHILDREN'S HOME SHELTER FOR FAMILY: $916k → 9%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY: $880k → 9%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY: $880k → 9%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY: $873k → 9%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY: $873k → 9%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY: $862k → 9%CHILDREN'S HOME SHELTER FOR FAMILY SAFETY: $723k → 9%CHILDREN'S HOME SHELTER FOR FAMILY SAFETY: $723k → 9%CHILDREN'S HOME SHELTER FOR FAMILY: $700k → 9%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE SIOUX EMPIRE: $417k → 9%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE SE-CIG: $405k → 9%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE SIOUX EMP: $370k → 9%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE SIOUX EMPIRE: $342k → 9%SIOUX FALLS FAMILY YMCA: $321k → 9%SIOUX FALLS FAMILY YMCA: $309k → 9%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE SIOUX EMP: $249k → 9%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE SIOUX EMP: $244k → 9%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE SE-CIG: $244k → 9%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE SE: $244k → 9%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $238k → 9%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE SE-CIG: $193k → 9%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE SIOUX EMP: $193k → 9%SIOUX FALLS FAMILY YMCA: $176k → 9%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $166k → 9%SIOUX FALLS FAMILY YMCA: $165k → 9%SIOUX FALLS FAMILY YMCA: $150k → 9%SIOUX FALLS FAMILY YMCA: $143k → 9%SIOUX FALLS FAMILY YMCA: $129k → 9%COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $360k → 9%COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $341k → 9%COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $340k → 9%COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $321k → 9%COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $320k → 9%COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $320k → 9%COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $310k → 9%COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $280k → 9%COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $220k → 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.
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.
$66M · 55 repeat orgs$583k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

55 repeat relationships: 39 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

55
11

Total granted

$66M
$500k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+9%

Still filing today

71%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $82k 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 ServicesHealthEducationCrime & LegalFood & NutritionCivil RightsOther
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

  • LS
    LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF SOUTH DAKOTA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $9.2M · revenue +19%
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF SOUTH DAKOTA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $7.4M · revenue +85%
  • SC
    SENIOR CITIZEN SERVICES INC DBA ACTIVE GENERATIONS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $3.5M · revenue +115%

Funded once

  • LS
    LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES
    one grant, 2023 · $289k
  • TC
    The Carroll Institutegraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $51k · revenue +71%
  • FV
    FAMILY VISITATION CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $40k · revenue -46%
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
Southeastern North Dakota Community Action Agency

Southeastern north dakota community action agency (sendcaa) was formed in 1965 to provide a range of services and activities in a six county area designed to alleviate poverty and give low-income people the opportunity to improve their…

Human Services
2
Sioux Falls Environmental Access Inc
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3
Lutheran Social Services of South Dakota

Inspired by god's love, we care for, support, and strengthen individuals, families and communities.

—
4
South Dakota Voices for Peace

Sd voices for peace provides five programming areas to assist vulnerable communities access services throughout the state: legal services, multilingual outreach, training and education, advocacy and civic engagement and rapid response.

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5
Sioux Empire Triage Center

Empowering individuals to seek care and providing a link to services that will help them thrive as they address the challenges of living with mental health and/or substance use disorder issues.

Health
6
Western South Dakota Senior Services Inc

To assist seniors in maintaining optimal health, independence, and socialization, deferring admission to long term care facilities and improving their quality of life.

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7
Downtown Sioux Falls

Downtown Sioux Falls boldly leads the downtown community by championing diverse experiences, economic growth, and a healthy environment.

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8
Compassion Child Care

We exist to strengthen working-poor families so they can experience the fullness of god's love through jesus christ. with your help we can make a difference.

Human Services
9
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Siouxland

Establish relationships between siouxland youth and mature, responsible screened adult volunteers.

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10
Ywca of Fort Dodge Ia

We are a state licensed substance abuse facility which functions to provide a clinically managed residence treatment center for women and women with children.

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11
Corporate Care of the Sioux Empire

Corporate Care strategizes with workplace leadership to foster an environment of mutual care and service both inside and outside the workplace. Corporate Care provides short-term, on-site pastoral counseling to employees who wish to use…

Religion
12
Disability Rights South Dakota

Disability rights south dakota is a non-profit legal services agency dedicated to protecting and advocating for the rights and inclusion of south dakotans with disabilities.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Senior Citizen Services Inc Dba Active Generations; the most unlike its peers is Tea Area School District Association. 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

50 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. 50 of the 69 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.

9
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/50
Grantees still filing
36/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $9,216,990 · OtherLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF SOUTH DAKOTASIOUX FALLS SCHOOL DISTRICT #49-5: $5,236,803 · OtherSIOUX FALLS SCHOOL DISTRICT #49-5VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA INC: $3,995,566 · OtherVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA INCHELPLINE CENTER INC: $2,541,528 · OtherHELPLINE CENTER INCSIOUX COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC: $2,060,287 · OtherSIOUX COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INCFAMILY SERVICE INC: $1,569,339 · OtherSANFORD: $1,349,800 · OtherEMBE: $1,335,417 · OtherSOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $1,255,400 · Other+32 more: $7,882,324 · Other+32 moreCHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $7,429,440 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF SOUTH DAKOTASENIOR CITIZEN SERVICES INC DBA ACTIVE GENERATIONS: $3,523,880 · Human ServicesSENIOR CITIZEN SERVICES INC DBA ACTIVE …BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE SIOUX EMPIRE: $3,414,139 · Human ServicesBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE SIOUX EMPIRECOMMUNITY OUTREACH: $2,811,531 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY OUTREACHYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $1,747,355 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONINTER-LAKES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC: $1,626,394 · Human ServicesINTER-LAKES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHI…THE SIOUX FALLS MINISTRY CENTER: $787,500 · Human Services+8 more: $1,813,275 · Human Services+8 moreAvera Health: $1,689,789 · HealthAvera McKennan: $710,487 · HealthDELTA DENTAL OF SOUTH DAKOTA FOUNDATION: $392,500 · HealthSOUTHEASTERN BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE: $206,620 · HealthSOUTH DAKOTA DENTAL FOUNDATION: $125,640 · Health+2 more: $84,320 · HealthTHE COMPASS CENTER: $1,364,364 · Crime & LegalEast River Legal Services Corporation: $75,000 · Crime & LegalFEEDING SOUTH DAKOTA: $1,030,358 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $13,104 · Food & NutritionSIOUX FALLS AREA CASA PROGRAM: $840,336 · Civil RightsHARMONY SOUTH DAKOTA INC: $698,031 · Arts & Culture
Other$36,443,454Human Services$23,153,514Health$3,209,356Crime & Legal$1,439,364Food & Nutrition$1,043,462Civil Rights$840,336Arts & Culture$698,031

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 budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $9,216,990 over 9y, 4.6% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $7,429,440 over 9y, 4.5% of budgetSENIOR CITIZEN SERVICES INC DBA ACTIVE GENERATIONS: $3,523,880 over 9y, 11% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE SIOUX EMPIRE: $3,414,139 over 9y, 7.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY OUTREACH: $2,811,531 over 9y, 58% of budgetHELPLINE CENTER INC: $2,541,528 over 9y, 15% of budgetSIOUX COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC: $2,060,287 over 9y, 14% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $1,747,355 over 9y, 9.9% of budgetAvera Health: $1,689,789 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetINTER-LAKES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC: $1,626,394 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE INC: $1,569,339 over 9y, 17% of budgetTHE COMPASS CENTER: $1,364,364 over 9y, 27% of budgetEMBE: $1,335,417 over 7y, 5.9% of budgetST FRANCIS HOUSE OF SIOUX FALLS: $1,145,874 over 9y, 5.8% of budgetFEEDING SOUTH DAKOTA: $1,030,358 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetMulti-Cultural Center of Sioux Falls: $960,088 over 5y, 24% of budgetSIOUX FALLS AREA CASA PROGRAM: $840,336 over 9y, 17% of budgetTHE SIOUX FALLS MINISTRY CENTER: $787,500 over 9y, 11% of budgetDAKOTABILITIES INC: $745,000 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetAvera McKennan: $710,487 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHARMONY SOUTH DAKOTA INC: $698,031 over 7y, 80% of budgetFURNITURE MISSION OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $611,000 over 9y, 9.5% of budgetHANDI RIDERS INC: $559,289 over 9y, 32% of budgetSIOUX FALLS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $528,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED CHILDCARE AND PRESCHOOL INC: $491,979 over 6y, 21% of budgetREACH LITERACY: $440,960 over 9y, 54% of budgetDELTA DENTAL OF SOUTH DAKOTA FOUNDATION: $392,500 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE SIOUX EMPIRE: $380,260 over 3y, 37% of budgetFAMILY CONNECTION: $293,911 over 9y, 27% of budgetSOUTHEASTERN BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE: $206,620 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTea Area School District Association: $163,294 over 9y, 31% of budgetSioux Falls Thrive Inc: $154,000 over 7y, 9.8% of budgetToy Lending Library of SD: $127,800 over 2y, 26% of budgetSOUTH DAKOTA DENTAL FOUNDATION: $125,640 over 7y, 13% of budgetPROJECT CAR: $105,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetBETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $78,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetEmilys Hope: $75,830 over 2y, 15% of budgetEast River Legal Services Corporation: $75,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetTHE GLORY HOUSE OF SIOUX FALLS: $69,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetThe Carroll Institute: $51,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFAMILY VISITATION CENTER: $40,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetTHE LOST AND FOUND ASSOCIATION: $33,320 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTALLGRASS RECOVERY & SOBER LIVING HOMES: $32,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF SIOUX FALLS: $30,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS - DAKOTA HORIZONS: $28,468 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA FOUNDATION: $14,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRANSFORMATION PROJECT INC: $12,445 over 1y, 2.1% 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 LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
  • Who funds SENIOR CITIZEN SERVICES INC DBA ACTIVE GENERATIONS ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE SIOUX EMPIRE ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY OUTREACH ↗
  • Who funds HELPLINE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds SIOUX COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Avera Health ↗
  • Who funds INTER-LAKES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE COMPASS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds EMBE ↗
  • Who funds ST FRANCIS HOUSE OF SIOUX FALLS ↗
  • Who funds FEEDING SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
  • Who funds Multi-Cultural Center of Sioux Falls ↗
  • Who funds SIOUX FALLS AREA CASA PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds THE SIOUX FALLS MINISTRY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds DAKOTABILITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds Avera McKennan ↗
  • Who funds HARMONY SOUTH DAKOTA INC ↗
  • Who funds FURNITURE MISSION OF SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
  • Who funds HANDI RIDERS INC ↗
  • Who funds SIOUX FALLS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED CHILDCARE AND PRESCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds REACH LITERACY ↗
  • Who funds DELTA DENTAL OF SOUTH DAKOTA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE SIOUX EMPIRE ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH DAKOTA YOUTH HERITAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY CONNECTION ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHEASTERN BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE ↗

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.

Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation IncSD88× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc · Avera Health · South Dakota Community Foundation · Sanford Group Return · Midcontinent Foundation · The Mike Cindy and Kylie Huether Family Foundation · Sheldon F Reese Foundation · Levo Cares Foundation · Larson Foundation · The Robert and Rita Elmen Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Tenfold 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 Sioux Empire United Way Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sioux Empire United Way Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 69 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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