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Southwest Initiative Foundation

SOUTHWEST INITIATIVE FOUNDATION's (swif's) original mission was to strengthen southwest minnesota in three ways: improving the region's economic self-reliance, overcoming human distress, and promoting regional leadership coordination and partnerships.

$5.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
166
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$343k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

Community Improvement$4.2MEducation$3.8MHuman Services$3.5MRecreation & Sports$2.8MPublic Safety & Disaster$2.5MCivil Rights$1.5MPublic Benefit$1.0MFood & Nutrition$934kOther$0
02FY2025 · 166 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 166 grants below total $4,862,354, the rows itemized in this filing. The $5,602,139 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $739,785 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k39 grants · $279k
  • $10k–50k99 grants · $1.9M
  • $50k–250k26 grants · $2.0M
  • $250k+2 grants · $666k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$123M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ISD #466 - DASSEL-COKATO$342,996
CITY OF MARSHALL$323,400
CITY OF TRACY$211,500
LITTLE HUSKIES LEARNING CENTER$189,733
WALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS$133,512
CLARK-VINROOT PROPERTIES LLC$126,000
PIPESTONE SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER$116,904
MINNESOTA RIVER AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC$100,500
ISD #2884 - RED ROCK CENTRAL$79,300
PLAZITA RESTAURANT 4 LLC$75,000
FM BANK$75,000
ACE OF SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA$74,500
KIDS ROCK CHILD CARE CENTER INC$65,291
TYLER GOLF CLUB OF TYLER MINNESOTA$55,000
C AND B LLC$54,750
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 (FY17–25, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%KIDS ROCK CHILD CARE CENTER INC: $65k → 9%MINNESOTA RIVER AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC: $105k → 15%PET IA-LEIGHTON: $10k → 8%MINNESOTA RIVER AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC: $101k → 15%CONEXIONES: $10k → 11%MINNESOTA RIVER AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $79k → 15%MINNESOTA RIVER AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $77k → 15%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $33k → 14%MINNESOTA RIVER AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $67k → 15%MINNESOTA RIVER AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $52k → 15%FIRST CHILDREN'S FINANCE: $80k → 11%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $19k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA: $34k → 15%FIRST CHILDREN'S FINANCE: $40k → 11%MINNESOTA RIVER AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $11k → 15%FOUNDATION FOR ESSENTIAL NEEDS: $10k → 11%MINNESOTA RIVER AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC: $9k → 15%COMMON CUP MINISTRY: $20k → 7%FOUNDATION FOR ESSENTIAL NEEDS: $10k → 11%NATIVE GOVERNANCE CENTER: $10k → 11%LITTLE HUSKIES LEARNING CENTER: $190k → 9%MADISON ART AND INNOVATION CENTER: $20k → 10%ADULT CLIENT TRAINING SERVICE INC: $15k → 11%MARSHALL AREA YMCA: $25k → 11%CHILD'S PLACE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $10k → 11%BIBLES FOR MISSIONS THRIFT CENTERS: $25k → 11%CHIPPEWA ENTERPRISES INC: $15k → 10%THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WORTHINGTON MINNESOTA: $23k → 11%MARSHALL AREA YMCA: $20k → 11%KIDS-R-IT INCORPORATED: $20k → 11%WORTHINGTON AREA YMCA: $15k → 11%KIDS-R-IT INC: $13k → 11%WORTHINGTON AREA YMCA: $12k → 11%PRAIRIE PLAYHOUSE CHILD CARE INC: $14k → 10%THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WORTHINGTON MINNESOTA: $11k → 11%DAKOTA WICOHAN: $10k → 11%MARSHALL AREA YMCA: $10k → 11%KANDIYOHI AREA YMCA: $15k → 9%GREATER MILAN INITIATIVE: $10k → 10%GREATER MILAN INITIATIVE: $10k → 10%GREATER MILAN INITIATIVE: $10k → 10%WORTHINGTON AREA YMCA: $10k → 11%THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WORTHINGTON MINNESOTA: $10k → 11%BARGAINS & BLESSINGS: $15k → 9%WORTHINGTON AREA YMCA: $8k → 11%WORTHINGTON AREA YMCA: $8k → 11%YMCA OF WORTHINGTON: $8k → 11%TRACY KID'S WORLD: $15k → 11%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

NH
ND
MN
IL
WI
SD
IA
VA
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.
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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 12% of Southwest Initiative Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in MN; by stated purpose, 91%.

Southwest Initiative Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
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.

53%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 175 repeat orgs$11M to everyone else

175 repeat relationships: 68 still active in FY2025, 107 since wound down; 97 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

175
624

Total granted

$12M
$7.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+19%

Still filing today

31%
14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.2M 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 ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyFood & 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

  • PF
    Prairie Five Community Action Council Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $586k · revenue +51%
  • MR
    Minnesota River Area Agency on Aging Inc
    8× · 2017–2025 · $501k · revenue +29%
  • UC
    UNITED COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $164k · revenue +116%

Funded once

  • NF
    NORTHLAND FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $480k · revenue +20%
  • DO
    DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC TRANSFORMATION
    one grant, 2024 · $255k · revenue 0%
  • PA
    PIPESTONE AREA SOFTBALL-BASEBALL AS
    one grant, 2020 · $126k · revenue -82%
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
Minnesota Chamber Foundation

The organization's mission is to bring stakeholders together to promote prosperity and long-term growth of minnesota's economy.

Public Benefit
2
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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3
Prairie Pines Childcare Center

Provide quality childcare services at a central facility in the fosston, mn community. childcare is desperately needed in our area.

Human Services
4
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…

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5
Mn Community Measurement

Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.

Health
6
Association of Minnesota Counties

The association of minnesota counties is a voluntary non-partisan statewide organization that assists the state's 87 counties in providing effective county governance to the people of minnesota.

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7
Leadership Matters Mn

Leadership matters mn is focused on advancing a policy agenda that places working minnesotans first. we support economic growth, job creation and equitable tax and education policies that will allow every minnesotan to thrive.

Education
8
Area Partnership for Economic Expansion

Promote and develop economic expansion in duluth and northeastern mn and northwestern wisconsin. the organization leads regional research efforts related to human resources, and emerging industries to inform business development and…

Community Improvement
9
Minnesota Leadership Council On Aging

The Minnesota Leadership Council on Aging is uniting leaders to advance equitable opportunities for all Minnesotans as we age.

Education
10
Northern Pines Mental Health Center

Providing direct and indirect services in the areas of mental health, developmental disabilites, and substance use to residents of aitkin, cass, crow wing, morrison, todd, and wadena counties.

Health
11
Winona Area Chamber of Commerce

To promote business development and tourism in winona minnesota and the surrounding area

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12
Prairie Lakes Health Care System Inc

We make a positive difference in the health of the patients and communities we serve.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communitygiving; the most unlike its peers is Madison Art Gallery. 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

173 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. 173 of the 904 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)
169/173
Grantees still filing
100/173
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ISD #2902 - RUSSELL TYLER RUTHTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $800,181 · OtherISD #2902 - RUSSELL TYLER RUTHTON PUBLIC SCHOOLSPIPESTONE SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER: $670,506 · OtherPIPESTONE SENIOR CITIZENS CENTERGRANITE FALLS MUNICIPAL HOSPITAL AND MANOR: $650,674 · OtherPrairie Five Community Action Council Inc: $585,673 · Other+154 more: $9,615,506 · Other+154 moreNORTHLAND FOUNDATION: $480,000 · PhilanthropyWEST CENTRAL INITIATIVE: $480,000 · PhilanthropyPIPESTONE AREA SOFTBALL-BASEBALL AS: $125,834 · PhilanthropyA C E OF SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA: $74,500 · Philanthropy+7 more: $231,500 · PhilanthropyMinnesota River Area Agency on Aging Inc: $500,850 · Human ServicesLITTLE HUSKIES LEARNING CENTER: $189,733 · Human ServicesFIRST CHILDREN'S FINANCE: $120,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WORTHINGTON INC: $104,201 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $66,972 · Human ServicesKIDS ROCK CHILD CARE CENTER INC: $65,291 · Human ServicesMARSHALL AREA YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $60,850 · Human Services+7 more: $190,370 · Human ServicesSOUTHERN MINNESOTA INITIATIVE FOUNDATION: $480,000 · Community ImprovementINITIATIVE FOUNDATION: $480,000 · Community ImprovementUNITED COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC: $163,730 · Community ImprovementSOUTHWEST INITIATIVE FOUNDATION: $38,750 · Community ImprovementWALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS: $267,713 · EducationSOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $54,625 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR INNOVATION IN EDUCATION: $52,000 · EducationAUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION: $47,698 · EducationRIDGEWATER COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $46,375 · EducationTHE WILDFLOWER FOUNDATION: $43,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $25,962 · EducationLAKE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $25,700 · EducationNORTHWEST MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $480,000 · Public BenefitDEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC TRANSFORMATION: $255,000 · Arts & CultureMINI SOTA AGRICULTURAL CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $49,500 · Arts & CultureBIRD ISLAND CULTURAL CENTRE: $23,033 · Arts & CultureHUTCHINSON CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $20,520 · Arts & Culture
Other$12,322,540Philanthropy$1,391,834Human Services$1,298,267Community Improvement$1,162,480Education$563,073Public Benefit$480,000Arts & Culture$348,053

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 budgetPrairie Five Community Action Council Inc: $585,673 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetMinnesota River Area Agency on Aging Inc: $500,850 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetNORTHLAND FOUNDATION: $480,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetWEST CENTRAL INITIATIVE: $480,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetSOUTHERN MINNESOTA INITIATIVE FOUNDATION: $480,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetINITIATIVE FOUNDATION: $480,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetNORTHWEST MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $480,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetWALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS: $267,713 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetDEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC TRANSFORMATION: $255,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetLITTLE HUSKIES LEARNING CENTER: $189,733 over 1y, 29% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC: $163,730 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetPRAIRIE HOME HOSPICE INC: $129,307 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetFIRST CHILDREN'S FINANCE: $120,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WORTHINGTON INC: $104,201 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetA C E OF SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA: $74,500 over 1y, 11% of budgetSOUTHWEST MINNESOTA PRIVATE INDUSTRY COUNCIL INC: $74,465 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $66,972 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS ROCK CHILD CARE CENTER INC: $65,291 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetJackson County Agricultural Society: $62,200 over 4y, 9.9% of budgetMARSHALL AREA YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $60,850 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetSAINT JOHN'S UNIVERSITY: $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTYLER COMMUNITY GOLF CLUB: $55,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetSOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $54,625 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHWEST MINNESOTA HOUSING PARTNERSHIP: $53,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR INNOVATION IN EDUCATION: $52,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetIMMIGRANT LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA INC: $52,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetMINNESOTA SEEDS OF JUSTICE: $50,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetLUVERNE AREA CHAMBER: $50,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetMINI SOTA AGRICULTURAL CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $49,500 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetAUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION: $47,698 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRIDGEWATER COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $46,375 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetMINNESOTA HOUSING PARTNERSHIP: $45,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCouncil on Foundations Inc: $43,050 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WILDFLOWER FOUNDATION: $43,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN LEGION POST 104 NELSON: $41,529 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetWEST CENTRAL MN EDUC TELEVISION: $41,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCARRIS HEALTH FOUNDATION: $41,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCOMMUNITYGIVING: $39,550 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WEST CENTRAL MN: $39,400 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetSOUTHWEST INITIATIVE FOUNDATION: $38,750 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNobles County Historical Society: $38,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetMONTEVIDEO AREA YOUTH CENTER: $37,070 over 2y, 27% of budgetOUR LADY OF GUADALUPE FREE CLINIC: $37,000 over 3y, 8.5% of budgetLUVERNE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetREVERENCE FOR LIFE AND CONCERN FOR PEOPLE INC: $34,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $33,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS-R-IT INCORPORATED: $32,500 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetMCLEOD COUNTY EMERGENCY FOOD SHELF: $30,347 over 3y, 1.3% 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 Prairie Five Community Action Council Inc ↗
  • Who funds Minnesota River Area Agency on Aging Inc ↗
  • Who funds NORTHLAND FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WEST CENTRAL INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN MINNESOTA INITIATIVE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds INITIATIVE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC TRANSFORMATION ↗
  • Who funds LITTLE HUSKIES LEARNING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds PRAIRIE HOME HOSPICE INC ↗
  • Who funds PIPESTONE AREA SOFTBALL-BASEBALL AS ↗
  • Who funds FIRST CHILDREN'S FINANCE ↗

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.

Southwest Minnesota A…C K Blandin FoundationUnited Way of Southwe…CommunitygivingMinnesota Community F…Minnesota River Area …Worthington Regional …Mardag FoundationBCBSM Foundation IncMinnesota Council on …Otto Bremer TrustMinnesota Historical …
Southwest Minnesota Arts CouncilMN65.1× affinity34 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Southwest Minnesota Arts Council · C K Blandin Foundation · United Way of Southwest Minnesota · Communitygiving · Minnesota Community Foundation · Minnesota River Area Agency on Aging Inc · Worthington Regional Health Care Foundation Inc · Mardag Foundation · BCBSM Foundation Inc · Minnesota Council on Foundations · Otto Bremer Trust · Minnesota Historical Society

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 Southwest Initiative Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Southwest Initiative Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%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
    0get no government money at all
    24report 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 904 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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