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Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina

The Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina (SCF) is dedicated to furthering the mission, ministry, and purpose of the Sisters of Charity of St.

$2.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
104
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$100k
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$6.7MEducation$3.6MHealth$3.0MHousing & Shelter$2.0MCrime & Legal$981kCommunity Improvement$513kEnvironment$465kPhilanthropy$462kOther$0
02FY2024 · 104 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 104 grants below total $2,248,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,872,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $623,500 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $134k
  • $10k–50k85 grants · $1.9M
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $165k
$25,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$86M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Healthy Learners$100,000
South Carolina Center for Fathers and Families$65,000
United Way of Greenville County$35,500
Homeless No More$35,000
Midlands Housing Alliance$35,000
Homes of Hope$35,000
The Aspen Institute Criminal Justice Reform Initiative$35,000
Metanoia Community Development Corporation$35,000
Lowcountry Youth Services$30,500
Northside Development Corporation$30,500
CommunityWorks$30,000
Turn90$30,000
E3 Educate Empower Elevate$27,000
The Village Group$25,500
Anderson Interfaith Ministries$25,500
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 (FY17–24, $5.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%The Sophia Institute: $25k → 12%Community Initiatives: $20k → 18%South Carolina Center for Fathers and Families: $435k → 17%Phoebe Pember Foundation: $20k → 12%New Directions of Horry County: $37k → 13%New Directions of Horry County: $32k → 13%Anderson Interfaith Ministries Inc: $25k → 15%Neighborhood Outreach Connection: $25k → 10%New Directions of Horry County: $30k → 13%New Directions of Horry County: $30k → 13%Mill Village Ministries: $25k → 10%Mill Community Ministries: $25k → 10%Mill Community Ministries: $21k → 10%South Carolina Center for Fathers and Families: $850k → 16%South Carolina Center for Fathers and Families: $808k → 16%The South Carolina Center for Fathers and Families: $600k → 16%South Carolina Center for Fathers and Families: $300k → 16%Healthy Learners: $200k → 16%Healthy Learners: $200k → 16%South Carolina Center for Fathers and Families: $160k → 16%Healthy Learners: $150k → 16%Healthy Learners: $150k → 16%Healthy Learners: $125k → 16%Healthy Learners: $100k → 16%South Carolina Center for Fathers and Families: $78k → 16%South Carolina Center for Fathers and Families: $65k → 16%Healthy Learners: $33k → 16%Alliance for the Collaboration with the Hispanic Community: $20k → 10%The Hive Community Circle: $26k → 16%The Hive Community Circle: $25k → 16%The Hive Community Circle: $17k → 16%WINGS: $35k → 12%Women's Rights And Empowerment Network: $25k → 16%WINGS For Kids: $35k → 12%Women's Rights And Empowerment Network: $25k → 16%WINGS: $35k → 12%Wings for Kids: $30k → 12%WINGS: $30k → 12%Wings for Kids: $30k → 12%Florence Crittenton Programs of South Carolina: $25k → 12%Florence Crittenton Programs of South Carolina: $25k → 12%Florence Crittenton Programs of South Carolina: $25k → 12%Womens Rights And Empowerment Network: $20k → 16%WINGS: $25k → 12%Serve and Connect: $20k → 16%WINGS: $25k → 12%Florence Crittenton Programs of South Carolina Inc: $23k → 12%Florence Crittenton Programs of South Carolina: $20k → 12%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

NY
OH
CA
MO
NC
SC
DC
AL
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$17M · 133 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

133 repeat relationships: 84 still active in FY2024, 49 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

133
59

Total granted

$17M
$892k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+23%

Still filing today

95%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k 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 ServicesEducationHealthCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • HL
    HEALTHY LEARNERS
    7× · 2018–2024 · $958k · revenue +122%
  • HA
    HELPING AND LENDING OUTREACH SUPPORT
    8× · 2017–2024 · $395k · revenue +132%
  • HN
    Homeless No More Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $395k · revenue +110%

Funded once

  • HL
    Healthy Learners
    one grant, 2017 · $262k
  • SA
    SC Association of Nonprofit Organizations
    one grant, 2017 · $45k
  • FS
    FAMILY SHELTER INC
    one grant, 2017 · $30k
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
South Carolina Network of Children's Advocacy Centers

Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse

Youth Development
2
South Carolina Council On Competitiveness

The south carolina council on competitiveness is a nonpartisan, business-led non-profit organization committed to advancing the long term competitiveness of south carolina through actionable research, support of industry clusters and…

Community Improvement
3
Alliance for a Healthier South Carolina

Convene and connect diverse stakeholders to align and catalyze efforts to improve health and well-being for communities across South Carolina.

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4
Carolina Family Health Centers Inc

Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST

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5
Family Services Inc

Origin sc empowers individuals to achieve financial, housing and mental health stability through advocacy, counseling, and education.

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6
Sc Chamber of Commerce

Enhancing the quality of life for all south carolinians, achieving global competiteveness and ultimately increasing prosperity for sc citizens.

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7
Carolina Family Connections

Recruit and train and license foster parents to receive foster children from county government agencies.

Human Services
8
South Carolina Public Interest Foundation
Crime & Legal
9
Beyond Housing

We strive to serve the community by constructing and rehabilitating homes for affordable homeownership, providing new housing rentals for low to moderate wealth families in south carolina, and providing services that aid in all aspects of…

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10
Freedom Action Network of Sc

Social welfare advocacy organization

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11
Santee Lynches Affordable Housing and Community Development Corporat

We are independent, community based, nonprofit with a Mission to enhance communities by providing quality, safe, decent and affordable housing, and other forms of economic opportunities that benefit low to moderate income individuals…

Housing & Shelter
12
Regenesis Health Care Inc

We strive to give health services to residents in and around the spartanburg, cherokee, and union sc areas. we believe that services to families can make a difference in the community, helping neighbors move towards healthier lifestyles…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Compass of Carolina Inc; the most unlike its peers is Thumbs Up Inc. 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

194 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. 194 of the 212 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)
53
Early backer (in before they grew)
191/194
Grantees still filing
123/194
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SOUTH CAROLINA CENTER FOR FATHERS AND FAMILIES: $3,295,092 · Human ServicesSOUTH CAROLINA CENTER FOR FATHERS AND F…HEALTHY LEARNERS: $957,500 · Human ServicesHEALTHY LEARNERSNEW DIRECTIONS OF HORRY COUNTY INC: $248,000 · Human ServicesWINGS FOR KIDS: $245,000 · Human Services+32 more: $1,681,600 · Human Services+32 moreUSC School of Medicine Greenville: $366,309 · OtherUSC School of Medicine GreenvilleUNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INC: $274,583 · OtherHealthy Learners: $262,237 · OtherMidlands Housing Alliance Inc: $209,700 · OtherTEACH MY PEOPLE: $245,000 · OtherUNITED MINISTRIES: $220,000 · OtherHELPING AND LENDING OUTREACH SUPPORT: $395,000 · OtherHELPING AND LENDING OUTREACH SUPPOR…MIDDLE TYGER COMMUNITY CENTER: $197,500 · Other+83 more: $3,670,575 · Other+83 moreUniversity of South Carolina Educational Foundation: $437,950 · EducationUniversity of…STUDENT ACTION WITH FARMWORKERS: $215,000 · EducationSTUDENT ACTIO…The Charleston Promise Neighborhood: $185,192 · EducationThe Charlesto…MISS RUBY'S KIDS: $165,000 · EducationMISS RUBY'S K…Columbia College: $130,000 · EducationColumbia Coll…GREENVILLE TECH FOUNDATION INC: $119,000 · EducationGREENVILLE TE…PUBLIC EDUCATION PARTNERS GREENVILLE COUNTY: $110,000 · EducationTRI-COUNTY CRADLE TO CAREER COLLABORATIVE: $110,000 · EducationTeach for America Inc: $110,000 · EducationCOMPASS OF CAROLINA INC: $106,000 · EducationCommunities in Schools of South Carolina: $90,000 · EducationWHOLESPIRE INC: $80,000 · Education+14 more: $356,592 · Education+14 moreMETANOIA: $370,000 · Community ImprovementSUSTAINABILITY INSTITUTE: $275,000 · Community ImprovementNORTHSIDE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $228,000 · Community ImprovementTOGETHER SC: $181,747 · Community ImprovementLowcountry Local First: $137,000 · Community ImprovementCHARLESTON AREA JUSTICE MINISTRY: $65,000 · Community ImprovementKoinonia of Columbia Inc: $55,000 · Community ImprovementCentral Midlands Justice Ministry: $53,000 · Community Improvement+2 more: $24,400 · Community ImprovementHomeless No More Inc: $395,000 · Housing & ShelterHOMES OF HOPE INC: $370,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITYWORKS INC: $266,000 · Housing & ShelterLOWCOUNTRY YOUTH SERVICES: $48,500 · Housing & ShelterSouth Carolina Community Loan Fund: $45,000 · Housing & ShelterGreenville Housing Fund: $40,000 · Housing & Shelter+2 more: $15,500 · Housing & ShelterTURN90: $236,312 · Crime & LegalROOT & REBOUND: $225,000 · Crime & LegalSOTERIA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $147,900 · Crime & LegalJASMINE ROAD INC: $90,000 · Crime & LegalPRO BONO LEGAL SERVICES INC: $80,000 · Crime & LegalCharleston Legal Access: $69,400 · Crime & LegalEQUAL JUSTICE WORKS: $65,000 · Crime & LegalANGEL'S CHARGE MINISTRY: $45,192 · Crime & LegalSouth Carolina Legal Services: $40,000 · Crime & Legal+2 more: $32,000 · Crime & LegalSOUTH CAROLINA INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH: $180,000 · HealthFREE MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $118,000 · HealthWELVISTA: $72,500 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $45,000 · HealthPATHWAYS TO HEALING: $36,000 · Health+13 more: $127,200 · Health
Human Services$6,427,192Other$5,840,904Education$2,214,734Community Improvement$1,389,147Housing & Shelter$1,180,000Crime & Legal$1,030,804Health$578,700

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 budgetSOUTH CAROLINA CENTER FOR FATHERS AND FAMILIES: $3,295,092 over 8y, 11% of budgetHEALTHY LEARNERS: $957,500 over 7y, 18% of budgetUniversity of South Carolina Educational Foundation: $437,950 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHELPING AND LENDING OUTREACH SUPPORT: $395,000 over 8y, 12% of budgetHomeless No More Inc: $395,000 over 8y, 4.8% of budgetHOMES OF HOPE INC: $370,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetMETANOIA: $370,000 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetSUSTAINABILITY INSTITUTE: $275,000 over 8y, 22% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INC: $274,583 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITYWORKS INC: $266,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetNEW DIRECTIONS OF HORRY COUNTY INC: $248,000 over 8y, 3.2% of budgetWINGS FOR KIDS: $245,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetTEACH MY PEOPLE: $245,000 over 8y, 5.4% of budgetTURN90: $236,312 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetNORTHSIDE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $228,000 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetROOT & REBOUND: $225,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetUNITED MINISTRIES: $220,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetSTUDENT ACTION WITH FARMWORKERS: $215,000 over 8y, 4.3% of budgetMidlands Housing Alliance Inc: $209,700 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetANDERSON INTERFAITH MINISTRIES: $207,500 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetMIDDLE TYGER COMMUNITY CENTER: $197,500 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetHELPING HANDS OF GEORGETOWN INC: $191,692 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE INC: $190,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetThe Charleston Promise Neighborhood: $185,192 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetTOGETHER SC: $181,747 over 6y, 4.8% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH: $180,000 over 6y, 8.5% of budgetALLIANCE FOR THE COLLABORATION WITH THE HISPANIC COMMUNITY: $177,000 over 7y, 4.5% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR CHILD SUCCESS INC: $169,799 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetFELICIAN CENTER INC: $168,000 over 8y, 6.6% of budgetMISS RUBY'S KIDS: $165,000 over 8y, 11% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA APPLESEED LEGAL JUSTICE CENTER: $160,000 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetThe Village Group: $155,500 over 7y, 7.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE PIEDMONT INC: $151,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetSOTERIA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $147,900 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetCatholic Charities of South Carolina: $146,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetFlorence Crittenton Programs of South Carolina Inc: $142,700 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetSERVE AND CONNECT: $139,200 over 6y, 7.4% of budgetLowcountry Local First: $137,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS: $133,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetColumbia College: $130,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetOUR LADY OF MERCY COMMUNITY OUTREACH SERVICES: $120,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetGREENVILLE TECH FOUNDATION INC: $119,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetFREE MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $118,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetPUBLIC EDUCATION PARTNERS GREENVILLE COUNTY: $110,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetWOMENS RIGHTS AND EMPOWERMENT NETWORK: $110,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetTRI-COUNTY CRADLE TO CAREER COLLABORATIVE: $110,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $110,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOPHIA INSTITUTE: $110,000 over 6y, 10% 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 SOUTH CAROLINA CENTER FOR FATHERS AND FAMILIES ↗
  • Who funds HEALTHY LEARNERS ↗
  • Who funds University of South Carolina Educational Foundation ↗
  • Who funds HELPING AND LENDING OUTREACH SUPPORT ↗
  • Who funds Homeless No More Inc ↗
  • Who funds HOMES OF HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds METANOIA ↗
  • Who funds SUSTAINABILITY INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITYWORKS INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW DIRECTIONS OF HORRY COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds WINGS FOR KIDS ↗
  • Who funds TEACH MY PEOPLE ↗
  • Who funds TURN90 ↗
  • Who funds NORTHSIDE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds ROOT & REBOUND ↗
  • Who funds UNITED MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds STUDENT ACTION WITH FARMWORKERS ↗
  • Who funds Midlands Housing Alliance Inc ↗
  • Who funds ANDERSON INTERFAITH MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds MIDDLE TYGER COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds HELPING HANDS OF GEORGETOWN INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE INC ↗
  • Who funds The Charleston Promise Neighborhood ↗
  • Who funds TOGETHER SC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE FOR THE COLLABORATION WITH THE HISPANIC COMMUNITY ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR CHILD SUCCESS INC ↗
  • Who funds FELICIAN CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MISS RUBY'S KIDS ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA APPLESEED LEGAL JUSTICE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds The Village Group ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE PIEDMONT INC ↗
  • Who funds SOTERIA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Catholic Charities of South Carolina ↗
  • Who funds Florence Crittenton Programs of South Carolina Inc ↗
  • Who funds SERVE AND CONNECT ↗
  • Who funds Lowcountry Local First ↗

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.

Central Carolina Community FoundationSC122.2× affinity80 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Central Carolina Community Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · The Leon Levine Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Jolley Foundation · Dabo's All in Team Foundation · Hollingsworth Funds Inc · United Way of the Midlands · Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc · United Way of Greenville County Inc · The Duke Endowment · Trident United Way

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 Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
77report 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 212 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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