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Tegna Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$212k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$211k
Largest

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of Tegna Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to American Online Giving Foundation Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

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’18
39
’19
84
’20
83
’21
98
’22
122
’23
68
’24
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’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Philanthropy$15MHuman Services$1.4MArts & Culture$1.1MEducation$945kHealth$428kFood & Nutrition$396kCivil Rights$356kYouth Development$250kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $925
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $211k
$211,396
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC$211,396
CAROLE KNEELAND PRJT FOR RESPONSIBLE JOURNALISM$925
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 (FY18–24, $513k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NEADS INC: $5k → 11%PROJECT 4301: $3k → 11%SOUTHEAST TEXAS FOOD BANK INC: $5k → 19%HOPE IN LANCASTER: $3k → 11%EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION: $69k → 11%DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL: $4k → 10%YOUTH IN NEED: $5k → 5%OUTMEMPHIS: $3k → 17%NEW COVENANT COMMUNITY DEV CTR: $3k → 7%GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY: $5k → 16%BYRD BARR PLACE: $15k → 9%GENDERCOOL PROJECT: $5k → 8%STEP SISTERS: $10k → 4%ABOUNDING PROSPERTY INC: $5k → 14%VOLUNTEER INTERFAITH CAREGIVERS SW: $10k → 16%MISTY MEADOWS MITEY RIDERS: $3k → 7%SAFE ALLIANCE: $3k → 10%GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY INC: $4k → 16%ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - ATLANTA: $25k → 9%STEP SISTERS: $5k → 4%WARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION: $10k → 11%SUMMERHOUSE HOUSTON: $10k → 16%ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - ATLANTA: $3k → 9%WEEMBRACE: $3k → 12%FREEDOM OF THE PRESS FOUNDATION: $20k → 20%MULTICULTURAL REFUGEE COALITION: $5k → 10%WESLEY HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $10k → 21%UBUNTU VILLAGE NOLA: $12k → 23%AVDA: $10k → 16%CY-FAIR HELPING HANDS: $5k → 16%WHEELS FOR SUCCESS: $5k → 13%MY WARRIORS PLACE: $9k → 13%FREE2LUV: $5k → 9%LOAVES AND FISHES FRIENDSHIP TRAYS: $5k → 10%TONY'S PLACE: $3k → 16%LOAVES & FISHES: $5k → 10%LOAVES & FISHES: $4k → 10%REFUGEE WOMENS ALLIANCE: $10k → 9%L'ARCHE INC: $5k → 14%L'ARCHE INC: $5k → 14%CAPITAL CARING: $10k → 6%CAPITAL HOSPICE: $7k → 6%GIRLS WHO CODE: $7k → 17%LOAVES AND FISHES INC: $15k → 10%LOAVES & FISHES INC: $7k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $26k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $21k → 14%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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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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.8M · 86 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

86 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 85 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

86
313

Total granted

$5.8M
$2.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+10%

Still filing today

85%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthPhilanthropyArts & CultureFood & 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

  • NA
    NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACK JOURNALISTS
    7× · 2018–2024 · $261k · revenue +62%
  • THE REPORTERS COMMITTEE FOR FREEDOM OF THE PRESS
    4× · 2020–2023 · $160k · revenue +74%
  • BF
    BROADCASTERS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA
    7× · 2018–2024 · $135k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAYS OF TEXAS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +12%
  • TB
    THE BROOKLYN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +69%
  • GD
    Greenspace Dallas
    one grant, 2024 · $75k · revenue -5%
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.

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The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition
2
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
3
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…

Philanthropy
4
Atlanta Community Food Bank Inc

The mission of the atlanta community food bank is to engage, educate and empower our community to fight hunger. our bold goal is to see that all people in our service area have access to the nutritious meals they need when they need them.

Food & Nutrition
5
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition
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Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc

Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.

Food & Nutrition
7
Homeward Bound Inc

Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.

Human Services
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Great Plains Food Bank

End hunger together.

Food & Nutrition
9
Nashville Public Radio

Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.

Arts & Culture
10
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
11
Opportunity Partners

Mission: together we advance the quality of life for people with disabilities. vision: people of all abilities thrive in the world. values: impact- generate solutions that make a difference. choice - create opportunities for people to lead…

Employment
12
Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation

The neighborhood reinvestment corporation (d.b.a neighborworks america) is a congressionally chartered public non-profit corporation that creates opportunities for people to live in affordable homes, improve their lives, and strengthen…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Washington Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Morris and Leah West 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

334 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. 334 of the 410 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)
63
Early backer (in before they grew)
327/334
Grantees still filing
219/334
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,783,269 · PhilanthropyROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE: $2,729,989 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY WORLDWIDETHE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND: $701,887 · Philanthropy+17 more: $600,896 · PhilanthropyBENEVITY: $1,923,610 · OtherBENEVITYYOURCAUSE: $1,022,244 · OtherYOURCAUSE+86 more: $1,885,416 · Other+86 moreUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $110,000 · EducationTHE BROOKLYN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · EducationNational Merit Scholarship Corporation: $87,900 · EducationBLUE RIDGE SCHOOL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $75,000 · EducationONLINE NEWS ASSOCIATION: $65,000 · EducationUNITED TO LEARN: $50,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $49,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Education+25 more: $294,750 · EducationNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACK JOURNALISTS: $261,000 · Arts & CultureASIAN AMERICAN JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION: $90,000 · Arts & CultureINVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS & EDITORS INC: $70,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BROADCASTERS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S MEDIA FOUNDATION: $37,000 · Arts & CultureTRUST FOR THE NATIONAL MALL: $24,500 · Arts & CultureNATIVE AMERICAN JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION: $23,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $87,425 · Arts & CultureAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $97,000 · Human ServicesEMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC: $68,500 · Human ServicesNourish Up: $36,000 · Human ServicesASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE ATLANTA INC: $28,000 · Human ServicesFREEDOM OF THE PRESS FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Human ServicesCapital Hospice: $18,000 · Human ServicesTHE STEP SISTERS: $15,000 · Human ServicesGEORGETOWN VILLAGE INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesLARCHE Inc: $15,000 · Human ServicesBYRD BARR PLACE: $15,000 · Human Services+14 more: $119,500 · Human ServicesNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $106,250 · Civil RightsChinese for Affirmative Action: $50,000 · Civil RightsASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - AAJC INC: $31,250 · Civil RightsTHE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER: $12,500 · Civil RightsReporters Without Borders Inc: $7,500 · Civil Rights+2 more: $10,000 · Civil RightsTHE TIGERLILY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $20,000 · HealthJOSEPH'S HOUSE INC: $15,000 · HealthBlack Mamas Matter Alliance Inc: $15,000 · HealthKIDS ESCAPING DRUGS INC: $15,000 · HealthHEAR MY CRY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthHELPLINE OF DELAWARE AND MORROW COUNTIES: $10,000 · HealthEaster Seals Serving DC MD VA Inc: $9,000 · HealthCOASTAL BEND WELLNESS FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 · HealthCapital Caring Health: $8,000 · HealthPERIOD INC: $7,500 · Health+3 more: $15,000 · Health
Philanthropy$14,816,041Other$4,831,270Education$861,650Arts & Culture$642,925Human Services$447,000Civil Rights$217,500Health$157,500

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 budgetROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,783,269 over 7y, 3.7% of budgetUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE: $2,729,989 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTHE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND: $701,887 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACK JOURNALISTS: $261,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC: $211,396 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE REPORTERS COMMITTEE FOR FREEDOM OF THE PRESS: $160,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetBROADCASTERS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $135,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $110,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $106,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAYS OF TEXAS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $97,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Media Institute: $92,500 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION: $90,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetNational Merit Scholarship Corporation: $87,900 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGreenspace Dallas: $75,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetBLUE RIDGE SCHOOL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $75,000 over 5y, 7.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA: $70,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetINVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS & EDITORS INC: $70,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetEMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC: $68,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetONLINE NEWS ASSOCIATION: $65,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetNational Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association: $52,500 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetChinese for Affirmative Action: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BROADCASTERS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetUNITED TO LEARN: $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $49,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST HARVEST EMM: $47,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S MEDIA FOUNDATION: $37,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNourish Up: $36,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTAMPA BAY SPORTS COMMISSION INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCENTRAL UNION MISSION: $34,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - AAJC INC: $31,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAYS OF CALIFORNIA: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOOKS BETWEEN KIDS INC: $28,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE ATLANTA INC: $28,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TIGERLILY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetSHARE INCORPORATED: $25,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUST FOR THE NATIONAL MALL: $24,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFEEDING THE FOOTHILLS: $24,166 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Food Bank: $24,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $24,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION: $23,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA FRANK BATTEN SCHO OF LEADERSHIP & PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION: $22,500 over 2y, 2.0% 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.

Rochester Area Community FoundationNY31× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rochester Area Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc · The Nielsen Foundation Inc · Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable And · Rays Baseball Foundation Inc · Debartolo Family Foundation Inc · The Scripps Howard Foundation · John S and James L Knight Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · Vinik 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 Tegna Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tegna Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • The Bridge Family Center Inc: 61% of income from government
  • Selah Freedom Inc: 53% of income from government
  • Easter Seals Serving Dc Md Va Inc: 29% of income from government
  • The Morgan State University Foundation Inc: 7% of income from government
  • A Wider Circle Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Saint Elizabeth University: 2% of income from government
  • Neads Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
  • Period Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Capital Hospice: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
63report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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.
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Find your warmest path to Tegna 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 410 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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