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Snave Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$639k
Granted FY2024still arriving
67
Grants FY2024still arriving
16
States reached
$52k
Largest
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.5MArts & Culture$867kHuman Services$420kReligion$405kYouth Development$191kHousing & Shelter$112kCivil Rights$106kHealth$106kOther$0
02FY2024 · 67 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k53 grants · $95k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $192k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $352k
$2,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$7.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF DORCHESTER$52,000
THE MUSEUM SCHOOL$50,200
ADDISON HOUSING WORKS$50,000
INSPIRITUS$50,000
THE CARROLL SCHOOL$50,000
FRIENDS WORLD COMMITTEE FOR CONSULTATION$50,000
WESTFIELD FRIENDS SCHOOL$50,000
READING PARTNERS LOS ANGELES$45,000
Individual grant recipient$40,000
THEE QUAKER PROJECT$25,000
THE CLOTHESLINE FOR ARLINGTON KIDS$25,000
MIDDLEBURY COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER$20,000
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY & ECOVOICE PROJECT$20,000
AVONDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL EDUCATION FOUNDATION$16,667
GERMANTOWN FRIENDS SCHOOL$9,500
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, $361k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HOMEWARD BOUND: $250 → 11%THE FIARIA PROJECT INC: $2k → 6%REACH INC: $50k → 14%THE FIARIA PROJECT: $2k → 6%REACH INC: $30k → 14%SISTERSONG WOMEN OF COLOR REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE COL: $1k → 13%BYRD BARR PLACE: $500 → 9%THE FIARIA PROJECT INC: $2k → 6%REACH INC: $10k → 14%FRIENDS CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $59k → 12%QUAKER VOLUNTARY SERVICE: $2k → 13%THE FIARIA PROJECT INC: $2k → 6%REACH EDUCATION INC: $2k → 14%FRIENDS CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $51k → 12%YWCA OF SEATTLE - KING COUNTY - SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $750 → 9%FIARIA PROJECT: $1k → 6%FRIENDS CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $40k → 12%BOSTON HEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS: $2k → 16%THE FIARIA PROJECT: $1k → 6%PROJECT HOME: $2k → 22%FRIENDS CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $4k → 12%FIARIA PROJECT: $1k → 6%FRIENDS CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $2k → 12%PLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE: $2k → 10%FIARIA PROJECT: $1k → 6%REFUGEE WOMEN'S ALLIANCE: $500 → 9%FRIENDS CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $2k → 12%THE PLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE: $1k → 10%FRIENDS CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $1k → 12%FRIENDS CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $518 → 12%FRIENDS CHILD CARE CENTER: $76k → 22%GREATER DC DIAPER BANK: $250 → 14%CHARITY WATER: $1k → 17%ABORTION LIBERATION FUND OF PA: $6k → 22%ABORTION LIBERATION FUND OF PA: $1k → 22%BROAD STREET MINISTRY: $2k → 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

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MA
OR
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PA
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CA
CO
VA
MD
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DC
LA
AL
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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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.4M · 83 repeat orgs$884k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

83 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2024, 52 since wound down; 34 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

83
106

Total granted

$3.4M
$662k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+9%

Still filing today

70%
66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $222k 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
EnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesAnimalsHealthFood & NutritionOther
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

  • AS
    Arch Street Meeting House Preservation Trust
    6× · 2017–2024 · $189k · revenue ×49 · 45% of their budget
  • FC
    FRIENDS CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $159k · revenue +524%
  • BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $154k · revenue +127%

Funded once

  • FC
    FRIENDS CHILD CARE CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $76k · revenue +137%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $70k
  • FG
    FRIENDS GENERAL CONFERENCE
    one grant, 2022 · $60k
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
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
2
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
3
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
4
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
5
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
7
Ceres Inc

Ceres is a nonprofit advocacy organization working to accelerate the transition to a cleaner, more just, and resilient world. through education and research, we make the business case for action on the most pressing sustainability…

Environment
8
Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation

Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.

Community Improvement
9
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
10
Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation

Visit philadelphia is our name and our mission. as the region's official tourism marketing agency, we build greater philadelphia's image, drive visitation and boost the economy.

Community Improvement
11
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
12
Wildlands Trust Inc

The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environment California Inc; the most unlike its peers is Jenkintown Education 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

160 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. 160 of the 229 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)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
157/160
Grantees still filing
97/160
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE MUSEUM SCHOOL: $200,200 · OtherTHE MUSEUM SCHOOLGERMANTOWN FRIENDS SCHOOL: $187,500 · OtherGERMANTOWN FRIENDS SCHOOLFRACTURED ATLAS - COURAGEOUS STAGE: $135,000 · OtherFRACTURED ATLAS - COURAGEOUS STAGEPHILADELPHIA YEARLY MEETING OF FRIENDS: $121,000 · OtherARCH STREET MEETING HOUSE TRUST: $115,029 · OtherFRIENDS WORLD COMMITTEE FOR CONSULTATION: $100,000 · OtherPendle Hill: $100,000 · OtherWEST CHESTER FRIENDS SCHOOL: $100,000 · OtherPHILDELPHIA YEARLY MEETING OF FRIENDS: $100,000 · OtherREADING PARTNERS LOS ANGELES: $90,000 · Other+132 more: $1,243,644 · Other+132 moreTHE CARROLL SCHOOL: $104,000 · EducationTHE CARROLL S…THE MIQUON SCHOOL: $98,000 · EducationTHE MIQUON SC…VALLEY FORGE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES: $91,250 · EducationVALLEY FORGE …WILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $72,000 · EducationWILLIAM PENN …CLOTHESLINE FOR ARLINGTON KIDS: $50,000 · EducationCLOTHESLINE F…MEDIA-PROVIDENCE FRIENDS SCHOOL: $30,000 · EducationMEDIA-PROVIDE…+13 more: $74,067 · Education+13 moreFRIENDS CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC: $158,768 · Human ServicesFRIENDS CENTE…Quaker Voluntary Service Inc: $143,000 · Human ServicesQuaker Volunt…REACH EDUCATION INC: $92,000 · Human ServicesREACH EDUCATI…FRIENDS CHILD CARE CENTER: $76,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS CHILD…+10 more: $32,250 · Human Services+10 moreInspiritus Inc: $149,000 · ReligionFRIENDS PUBLISHING CORPORATION: $75,000 · ReligionTHEE QUAKER PROJECT: $25,000 · Religion+2 more: $3,500 · ReligionArch Street Meeting House Preservation Trust: $189,000 · Philanthropy+6 more: $9,200 · PhilanthropyBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC: $154,000 · Youth Development+4 more: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentMIDDLEBURY COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER INC: $92,508 · Arts & CultureCommonwealth Youthchoirs Inc: $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BARNES FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $9,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$2,492,373Education$519,317Human Services$502,018Religion$252,500Philanthropy$198,200Youth Development$159,000Arts & Culture$142,008

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 budgetArch Street Meeting House Preservation Trust: $189,000 over 6y, 45% of budgetFRIENDS CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC: $158,768 over 8y, 3.8% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC: $154,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetInspiritus Inc: $149,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetQuaker Voluntary Service Inc: $143,000 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetTHE CARROLL SCHOOL: $104,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPendle Hill: $100,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetTHE MIQUON SCHOOL: $98,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetMIDDLEBURY COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER INC: $92,508 over 4y, 14% of budgetREACH EDUCATION INC: $92,000 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetVALLEY FORGE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES: $91,250 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS CHILD CARE CENTER: $76,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetFRIENDS PUBLISHING CORPORATION: $75,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetWILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $72,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNELLIES SCHOOLHOUSE: $63,000 over 4y, 46% of budgetADDISON COUNTY COMMUNITY TRUST: $53,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCLOTHESLINE FOR ARLINGTON KIDS: $50,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetTHE PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMEDIA-PROVIDENCE FRIENDS SCHOOL: $30,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCommonwealth Youthchoirs Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHEE QUAKER PROJECT: $25,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetYOUTH SENTENCING & REENTRY PROJECT INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetABINGTON HEALTH FOUNDATION: $17,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFIARIA PROJECT INC: $12,000 over 8y, 6.8% of budgetFRIENDS COUNCIL ON EDUCATION: $11,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE BARNES FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAWBURY ARBORETUM ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA: $9,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $7,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetABORTION LIBERATION FUND OF PA: $7,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Museum School Foundation Inc: $7,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetPhilabundance: $6,950 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT COLLEGE: $6,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetURBANARIAS INC: $4,750 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMals Pals Foundation: $4,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMULTIPLE SCLEROSIS FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER PHILADELPHIA: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GUILFORD FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA ANTI-DRUG ANTI-VIOLENCE NETWORK: $3,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetThe John W Graham Emergency Shelter and Service Inc: $3,000 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 Arch Street Meeting House Preservation Trust ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Inspiritus Inc ↗
  • Who funds Quaker Voluntary Service Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE CARROLL SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Pendle Hill ↗
  • Who funds THE MIQUON SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds MIDDLEBURY COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds REACH EDUCATION INC ↗
  • Who funds VALLEY FORGE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS CHILD CARE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS PUBLISHING CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds WILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds NELLIES SCHOOLHOUSE ↗
  • Who funds ADDISON COUNTY COMMUNITY TRUST ↗
  • Who funds THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds CLOTHESLINE FOR ARLINGTON KIDS ↗
  • Who funds THE PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗

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.

The William Penn FoundationPA27× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The William Penn Foundation · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · The Vermont Community Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Thomas H & Mary Williams Shoemaker Fd · T Wistar Brown Teacher's Fund · The Allen Hilles Fund · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Central Pennsylvania Scholarship Fund · The Cigna Group Foundation · The Neubauer 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 Snave Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Snave Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 150%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Plummer Youth Promise Inc: 64% of income from government
  • Vermont Land Trust Inc: 42% of income from government
  • Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services: 37% of income from government
  • Louis D Brown Peace Institute Corp: 32% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Center for Coastal Studies Inc: 26% of income from government
  • More Than Words Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Friends Center for Children Inc: 21% of income from government
  • The Green Mountain Club Inc Debonis: 17% of income from government
  • Addison County Community Trust: 16% of income from government
  • Vermont Foodbank: 13% of income from government
  • Outright Vermont: 13% of income from government
  • New England Aquarium Corporation: 12% of income from government
  • United Way of Addison County Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Middlebury Area Land Trust: 2% of income from government
  • The Red Sox Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Sea Turtle Conservancy: 1% of income from government
  • Connecticut College: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • The Vermont Community Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
15get no government money at all
36report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Snave Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Snave Foundation 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 229 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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