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Telligen Community Initiative

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.

$2.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
43
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$142k
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 2025.

Health$8.5MHuman Services$2.1MEducation$1.6MCommunity Improvement$1.2MEmployment$962kCrime & Legal$936kHousing & Shelter$588kFood & Nutrition$536kOther$0
02FY2025 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $539k
  • $50k–250k21 grants · $1.7M
$48,710
Median grant
4
States reached
$41M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TELLIGEN COMMUNITY INITIATIVE SYNERGY CENTER$141,873
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DES MOINES - FISCAL AGENT FOR CENTRAL IOWA$100,000
CROSSOVER HEALTH SERVICES$99,997
CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION$99,829
TULSA AREA UNITED WAY$90,000
IMANI'S VILLAGE INC$89,500
COMMUNITY ACTION PROJECT - TULSA COUNTY$75,000
MERCER COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT$75,000
PARENT PROMISE$75,000
ONE HOPE UNITED$75,000
SHAWNEE HEALTH SERVICES AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$75,000
LITTLE HEROES LEAGUE$75,000
PEACEFUL FAMILY OKLAHOMA$75,000
OPTIONS FOR YOUTH$75,000
KREIDER SERVICES INC$74,614
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, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE COMMON GOOD: $74k → 14%UNITED COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $50k → 17%YOUTH AND FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $50k → 19%BUILDING DIRECTION FOR FAMILIES INC: $50k → 10%ELDERBRIDGE AGENCY ON AGING: $50k → 12%YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC: $50k → 17%WELLSPRING COMMUNITY: $3k → 3%YOUTH AND FAMILY COUNSELING: $50k → 8%FAMILYCORE: $25k → 14%HEALTH ALLIANCE FOR THE UNINSURED: $50k → 15%CITY CARE: $45k → 16%YOUTH AND FAMILY RESOURCES CENTER INC: $50k → 19%CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER: $29k → 9%FAMILY INC: $75k → 12%TRU COMMUNITY CARE: $50k → 12%STATUS CODE 4 INC (SC4I): $10k → 9%FOSTER SOURCE: $25k → 10%LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA: $25k → 10%IOWA CITY HOSPICE: $35k → 15%COLORADO CHILDREN'S IMMUNIZATION COALITION: $49k → 10%YWCA TULSA: $50k → 15%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $45k → 14%YOUTH OUTREACH SERVICES: $20k → 14%RESONANCE CENTER FOR WOMEN INC: $50k → 15%LABORATORY TO COMBAT HUMAN TRAFFICKING: $50k → 12%LABORATORY TO COMBAT HUMAN TRAFFICKING: $50k → 12%RENAISSANCE SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $16k → 14%COMMUNITY SERVICE COUNCIL: $50k → 15%PROJECT IOWA: $50k → 10%NDOULA COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC: $75k → 14%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SERVICES INC: $75k → 15%ERIE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $75k → 14%ERIE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $50k → 14%COMMUNITY ACTION PROJECT OF TULSA COUNTY: $75k → 15%COMMUNITY ACTION PROJECT - TULSA COUNTY: $75k → 15%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $50k → 14%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $50k → 15%COMMUNITY ACTION PROJECT OF TULSA COUNTY: $25k → 15%OPTIONS FOR YOUTH: $75k → 14%BRAVE SPACE ALLIANCE: $50k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOME AND AID: $75k → 14%THRIVING FAMILIES: $75k → 12%IGNITE: $50k → 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.
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 14% of Telligen Community Initiative’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 25% of the giving stays in IA; by stated purpose, 21%.

Telligen Community Initiativelessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.8% directed abroad (not shown)
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.

30%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.3M · 46 repeat orgs$12M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

46 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
237

Total granted

$5.3M
$11M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+16%

Still filing today

83%
66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M 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
HealthHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • SH
    SHAWNEE HEALTH SERVICE & DEVEL CORP
    3× · 2023–2025 · $300k · revenue +5%
  • COMMUNITY ACTION PROJECT OF TULSA COUNTY INC
    3× · 2020–2025 · $175k · revenue +16%
  • The University of Tulsa
    2× · 2023–2024 · $148k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • TC
    TELLIGEN COMMUNITY INITIATIVE SYNERGY
    one grant, 2024 · $133k
  • OS
    OKLAHOMA STATE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $90k
  • TY
    THE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER DES MOINES
    one grant, 2020 · $88k · revenue +3%
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
Regional West Health Services

Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.

Health
2
Community Health Care Inc

Community health care provides the communities we serve with excellence in patient-centered medical, dental, and behavioral health care that is compassionate, affordable, and accessible.

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3
Community Health Centers of Southeastern Iowa Inc

To provide primary health care to residents of the greater se iowa region, especially those individuals/families with limited resources or with other barriers to health care. see schedule o for additional information.

Health
4
Heartland Community Health Clinic D/B/a Heartland Health Services

Provide affordable, high-quality health services and remove inequities to improve the lives of all.

Health
5
Infant Welfare Society of Chicago

Infant welfare society of chicago (iws) (d/b/a iws family health) provides quality medical, dental and behavioral health services for the health, physical and mental development of children and their families in the chicagoland community.

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6
Community Health Partnership of Illinois

Strive to improve the health and well being of migrant and seasonal farmworkers and other medically vulnerable populations by providing quality accessable, affordable, and culturally responsive health care within the community we serve.

Health
7
Summit Community Care Clinic Inc

Provide exceptional, integrated, patient-centered health care services designed to meet the needs of all patients, particularly those who experience barriers to accessing care, regardless of their ability to pay.

Health
8
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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9
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
10
Interior Community Health Center

Our mission is to provide universal access to excellent primary health care for patients of all ages, stages of life, and backgrounds.

Health
11
Community Health Center of Central Wyoming Inc

To maintain a high quality patient care delivery system that provides access to comprehensive health care services, regardless of ability to pay. it is the desire of chccw to treat all patients with the dignity and respect they deserve…

Health
12
Community Care Health Plan Inc

Community care health plan's mission is to develop and demonstrate innovative, flexible, community-based approaches to care for at-risk adults, in order to optimize their quality of life and optimize the allocation of community resources.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Health and Medicine Policy Research Group; the most unlike its peers is Colorado Health Institute. 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

224 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. 224 of the 314 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)
55
Early backer (in before they grew)
221/224
Grantees still filing
145/224
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TELLIGEN COMMUNITY INITIATIVE SYNERGY CENTER: $441,960 · OtherTELLIGEN COMMUNITY INITIATIVE SYNERGY CENTERTELLIGEN COMMUNITY INITIATIVE SYNERGY CENTER (SHARED OFFICE SPACE - HUBBELL: $239,223 · Other+97 more: $6,199,178 · Other+97 moreSHAWNEE HEALTH SERVICE & DEVEL CORP: $300,000 · HealthSHAWNEE HEALTH SERVICE & DEVE…GYEDI PROJECT: $149,562 · HealthCOLORADO HEALTH INSTITUTE: $145,000 · HealthIMANIS VILLAGE INC: $129,500 · HealthIOWA BLACK DOULA COLLECTIVE: $126,400 · HealthVariety Care Inc: $125,000 · HealthHEALTH AND MEDICINE POLICY RESEARCH GROUP: $124,004 · Health+40 more: $2,589,239 · Health+40 moreCOMMUNITY ACTION PROJECT OF TULSA COUNTY INC: $175,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ACTIO…ERIE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $125,000 · Human ServicesERIE NEIGHBORHO…YOUTH AND FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesLABORATORY TO COMBAT HUMAN TRAFFICKING: $100,000 · Human ServicesTHE NIGHT MINISTRY: $95,000 · Human ServicesChicago Volunteer Doulas Inc: $75,000 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SERVICES: $75,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesTHRIVING FAMILIES: $75,000 · Human ServicesNDoula Community Alliance Incorporated: $75,000 · Human ServicesOPTIONS FOR YOUTH: $75,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL: $75,000 · Human ServicesTHE COMMON GOOD INC: $73,975 · Human Services+15 more: $750,000 · Human Services+15 moreThe University of Tulsa: $147,981 · EducationOklahoma Christian University: $123,775 · EducationCOLORADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $75,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · EducationSISTERS WORKING IT OUT: $50,000 · EducationSOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $50,000 · EducationIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationOPPORTUNITIES INC: $50,000 · EducationHUNGER FREE COLORADO: $75,000 · Food & NutritionFEEDING ILLINOIS: $50,000 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC: $50,000 · Food & NutritionIOWA FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION: $50,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $50,000 · Food & NutritionBOULDER FOOD RESCUE: $50,000 · Food & NutritionHUNGER FREE OKLAHOMA INC: $50,000 · Food & NutritionPathways to a Healthy Stephens County Inc: $50,000 · Food & NutritionLEGAL AID SERVICES OF OKLAHOMA INC: $125,000 · Crime & LegalElyssas Mission NFP: $99,925 · Crime & LegalEXCHANGE CLUB CENTER FOR THE PREVENTION OF CHILD ABUSE OF OKLAHOMA INC: $75,000 · Crime & LegalIowa Legal Aid: $50,000 · Crime & LegalROCKY MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER: $50,000 · Crime & LegalPROJECT ANGEL HEART: $110,000 · Community ImprovementHEALTHTEAMWORKS: $75,000 · Community ImprovementCenter for African American Health: $75,000 · Community ImprovementMARIA DROSTE SERVICES OF COLORADO INC: $74,935 · Community ImprovementUNITED WAYS OF IOWA: $50,000 · Community Improvement
Other$6,880,361Health$3,688,705Human Services$1,943,975Education$621,756Food & Nutrition$425,000Crime & Legal$399,925Community Improvement$384,935

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 budgetSHAWNEE HEALTH SERVICE & DEVEL CORP: $300,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PROJECT OF TULSA COUNTY INC: $175,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe University of Tulsa: $147,981 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO HEALTH INSTITUTE: $145,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetIMANIS VILLAGE INC: $129,500 over 2y, 41% of budgetIOWA BLACK DOULA COLLECTIVE: $126,400 over 2y, 38% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DUBUQUE: $125,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNEW WORKFORCE DIRECTIONS INC: $125,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetLEGAL AID SERVICES OF OKLAHOMA INC: $125,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetVariety Care Inc: $125,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetERIE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $125,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHEALTH AND MEDICINE POLICY RESEARCH GROUP: $124,004 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetOklahoma Christian University: $123,775 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL HEART: $110,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetDENTAL CONNECTIONS INC: $110,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetUNITY HEALTHCARE: $107,898 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetARAPAHOE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetYOUTH AND FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $100,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetIowa Primary Care Association Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetOKLAHOMA DENTAL FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetCREOKS MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN TENANTS ORGANIZATION: $100,000 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetCENTENNIAL MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCHILD ADVOCATES - DENVER CASA: $100,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetLABORATORY TO COMBAT HUMAN TRAFFICKING: $100,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetOMNI INSTITUTE: $99,987 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetElyssas Mission NFP: $99,925 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetCHILDREN'S MEDICAL RESEARCH INC: $99,829 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCOLORADO PERINATAL CARE QUALITY COLLABORATIVE: $99,568 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN COLORADO AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER: $96,352 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetTHE NIGHT MINISTRY: $95,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ARCHER GROUP: $93,953 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetTHE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER DES MOINES: $88,490 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetALLIANCECHICAGO: $80,640 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetGREATER SIOUX COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $75,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetChicago Volunteer Doulas Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetCOLORADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SERVICES: $75,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHUNGER FREE COLORADO: $75,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetVISION TO LEARN: $75,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLA COCINA: $75,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetHEALTHTEAMWORKS: $75,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetFAMILY INC: $75,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetTHRIVING FAMILIES: $75,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNDoula Community Alliance Incorporated: $75,000 over 1y, 56% of budgetEXCHANGE CLUB CENTER FOR THE PREVENTION OF CHILD ABUSE OF OKLAHOMA INC: $75,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetOPTIONS FOR YOUTH: $75,000 over 1y, 4.8% 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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

The Colorado Health FoundationCO61.5× affinity44 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Colorado Health Foundation · Caring for Colorado Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Delta Dental of Iowa Foundation · Mid-Iowa Health Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · The Hws Charitable Foundation Inc · Sarkeys Foundation · Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago (Aka) Vna Foundation · Caring for Colorado Centennial Fund

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Hunger Free Oklahoma Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Southern Plains Tribal Health Board Foundation: 83% of income from government
  • United Community Action Program Inc: 62% of income from government
  • Community Action Project of Tulsa County Inc: 37% of income from government
  • Community Health Connection Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Domestic Violence Intervention Services: 15% of income from government
  • Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Variety Care Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Opportunities Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Mental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma: 8% of income from government
  • Central Oklahoma American Indian Health Council Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Good Shepherd Community Clinicinc: 5% of income from government
  • The University of Tulsa: 5% of income from government
  • Ywca Tulsa Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Family & Childrens Services Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Oklahoma Christian University: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
94report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely 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 314 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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