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The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation

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.

$2k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0185% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Arts & Culture$1.9MPhilanthropy$1.5MEducation$722kHealth$161kFood & Nutrition$153kInternational$121kReligion$108kHuman Services$84kPublic Benefit$71kOther$1.0M
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,250
Median grant
1
States reached
$8k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CLEVELAND POPS ORCHESTRA$2,250
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $84k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICES OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $250 → 15%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $1k → 6%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICES: $250 → 10%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $100 → 9%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $1k → 6%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $100 → 9%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $100 → 9%SPECIAL CHILDREN CENTER: $1k → 11%MISERICORDIA HOME: $250 → 14%SHOES AND CLOTHES FOR KIDS INC: $5k → 17%SHOES AND CLOTHES FOR KIDS INC: $5k → 17%SENIOR TRANSPORTATION CONNECTION OF CUYAHOGA COUNT: $4k → 17%NORTH COAST COMMUNITY HOMES INC: $100 → 17%NORTH COAST COMMUNITY HOMES: $100 → 17%NORTH COAST COMMUNITY HOMES INC: $100 → 17%GINN FOUNDATION: $40k → 17%GINN FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%PLEXUS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%CLEVELAND SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND: $250 → 17%CLEVELAND SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND: $250 → 17%GLOBAL CLEVELAND: $10k → 17%GATHERING PLACE: $2k → 17%GATHERING PLACE: $1k → 17%EARLY CHILDHOOD ENRICHMENT CENTER INC: $250 → 17%EARLY CHILDHOOD ENRICHMENT CENTER INC: $250 → 17%EARLY CHILDHOOD ENRICHMENT CENTER: $250 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
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MI
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OH
PA
NJ
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MD
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DC
OK
LA
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TX
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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.0M · 128 repeat orgs$783k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

128 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 127 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

128
133

Total granted

$4.0M
$783k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+9%

Still filing today

79%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
EducationArts & CultureHealthInternationalHuman ServicesReligionOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • TM
    The Musical Arts Association
    6× · 2018–2023 · $1.4M · revenue +27%
  • GC
    GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC
    4× · 2019–2023 · $145k · revenue +27%
  • CI
    CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC
    3× · 2019–2022 · $120k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • JF
    JOSEPH & FLORENCE MANDEL JEWISH DAY SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +26%
  • GF
    GINN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -8%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF GINN ACADEMY CORPORATION
    one grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue -84% · 25% of their budget

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
2
The Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati
Philanthropy
3
JewishColumbus

Make Jewish life vibrant, accessible and secure in Columbus, Israel and around the world.

Religion
4
Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust

The museum of jewish heritage - a living memorial to the holocaust is new york's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. see schedule o for additional information.

Arts & Culture
5
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
6
Madav Ix Foundation

Further the charitable, educational and religious purposes of the jewish federation of cleveland (federation).

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7
Clal-the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership Inc

A leading advocate for pluralism and diversity, clal offers jewish wisdom that enhances public life, deepens civic engagement and cultivates personal growth.

Religion
8
Hillel Jewish University Center

To enrich the lives of jewish undergraduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world.

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9
Ostara

To further the charitable, educational and religious purposes of the jewish federation of cleveland ("federation").

Community Improvement
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Commission On Cemetery Preservation

Further the charitable, educational, and religious purposes of the jewish federation of cleveland including the preservation of jewish cemeteries

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Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy
12
The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America

The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Cleveland Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Barbara and Abraham Miller Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyUnited Way AffiliatesJewish Community Organizati…Youth Sports ProgramsCommunity FoundationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Volunteer Fire & Ems Servic…School District FoundationsDance Arts OrganizationsPublic Library OperationsLgbtq+ Community SupportCancer Support ServicesMilitary Veterans SupportChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Christian Missionary Organi…Pregnancy Support ServicesYouth Development ServicesDomestic Violence ServicesIndependent K-12 SchoolsEnvironmental Conservation …Animal Rescue and ShelterCommunity Arts CentersHealth Access Advocacy and …Elementary Literacy TutoringPolicy Research and AdvocacyFood Banks and PantriesCommunity FoundationsOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%1%<5yr12%4%5–10yr21%14%10–20yr14%20%20–35yr16%28%35–55yr20%34%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr12%2%5–10yr21%7%10–20yr14%8%20–35yr16%16%35–55yr20%66%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%4/232
the rest of the field
11%
8,033/74,074

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

207 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 207 of the 269 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
32
Early backer (in before they grew)
198/207
Grantees still filing
138/207
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

The Musical Arts Association — $1,444,900 · Arts & CultureThe Musical Arts AssociationThe Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage — $105,000 · Arts & CultureThe Maltz Museum of Jewish HeritageThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $79,150 · Arts & Culture+24 more — $247,090 · Arts & Culture+24 moreJEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND — $817,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAN…UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND — $525,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELA…THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION — $100,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION+6 more — $80,650 · PhilanthropyPARK SYNAGOGUE — $113,000 · OtherPARK SYNAGOGUEKOL ISRAEL FOUNDATION INC — $98,950 · OtherKOL ISRAEL FOUNDATION INCHEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELAND — $80,000 · OtherHEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELA…MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY — $65,000 · OtherOfeq Institute Inc — $50,000 · OtherGINN FOUNDATION — $50,000 · OtherTHE CLEVELAND POLICE FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Other+91 more — $781,301 · Other+91 moreCLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC — $120,000 · EducationCLEVELAND INS…CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $95,660 · EducationCLEVELAND STA…THE RATNER SCHOOL — $68,200 · EducationTHE RATNER SC…JOSEPH & FLORENCE MANDEL JEWISH DAY SCHOOL — $50,000 · EducationJOSEPH & FLOR…THE CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND — $44,520 · EducationTHE CITY CLUB…FRIENDS OF GINN ACADEMY CORPORATION — $40,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF GI…VALUES-IN-ACTION FOUNDATION — $39,600 · EducationVALUES-IN-ACT…CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY — $36,005 · EducationFRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS — $25,000 · EducationGLOBAL LANGUAGE AMBASSADORS ACADEMY — $25,000 · Education+24 more — $176,384 · Education+24 moreAMUDIM COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC — $50,000 · HealthTHE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $28,500 · HealthINMOTION — $25,000 · HealthNFX — $18,000 · HealthTHE MONTEFIORE HOME — $10,000 · Health+9 more — $26,225 · HealthGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC — $145,000 · Food & Nutrition+2 more — $7,000 · Food & NutritionCARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE — $55,000 · InternationalCLEVELAND COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAIRS — $10,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $8,000 · InternationalHands Together Inc — $8,000 · InternationalCLEVELAND HUNGARIAN DEVELOPMENT PANEL — $7,700 · InternationalTHE NEGEV FOUNDATION — $6,000 · InternationalLIBERIA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE CORPORATION — $5,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL SPORT CENTER FOR THE DISABLED — $5,000 · InternationalCOAR PEACE MISSION INC — $4,000 · International+6 more — $11,300 · International
Arts & Culture$1,876,140Philanthropy$1,522,650Other$1,288,251Education$720,369Health$157,725Food & Nutrition$152,000International$120,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetThe Musical Arts Association — $1,444,900 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND — $817,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND — $525,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC — $145,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC — $120,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage — $105,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKOL ISRAEL FOUNDATION INC — $98,950 over 4y, 42% of budgetCLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $95,660 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetHEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELAND — $80,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $79,150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RATNER SCHOOL — $68,200 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetCARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE — $55,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum — $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetJOSEPH & FLORENCE MANDEL JEWISH DAY SCHOOL — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND POLICE FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetAMUDIM COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetOfeq Institute Inc — $50,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetGINN FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetTHE CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND — $44,520 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF GINN ACADEMY CORPORATION — $40,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetFUCHS MIZRACHI SCHOOLS — $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVALUES-IN-ACTION FOUNDATION — $39,600 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY — $36,005 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN OHIO — $32,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe CREW Foundation — $31,500 over 2y, 34% of budgetMatan BSayser of Cleveland Inc — $30,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetJewish Learning Connection — $30,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $29,220 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $28,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS — $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BAIL PROJECT INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINMOTION — $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetOhr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKARAMU HOUSE INC — $24,300 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCUYAHOGA COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetOPEN BOOKS LTD — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPIANO INTERNATIONAL ASSOC OF NORTHERN OH — $19,040 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetNFX — $18,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCLEVELAND FILM SOCIETY — $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHOLD ON TO YOUR MUSIC INC — $15,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LAURA AND ALVIN SIEGAL COLLEGE OF JUDAIC STUDIES EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $13,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCLEVELAND BOTANICAL GARDEN — $11,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Inc — $10,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Army Historical Foundation Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Jewish Federation of …The Cleveland Foundat…The George Gund Found…Richard Horvitz and E…Abr Family Foundation…The Char and Chuck Fo…John P Murphy Foundat…The Good Community Fo…The Lozick Family Fou…Jack Joseph & Morton …Third Federal Foundat…The Swagelok Foundati…
Jewish Federation of ClevelandOH123.6× affinity68 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Cleveland · The Cleveland Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · Richard Horvitz and Erica Hartman-Horvitz Foundation · Abr Family Foundation No 1 · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · John P Murphy Foundation · The Good Community Foundation · The Lozick Family Foundation · Jack Joseph & Morton Mandel Foundation · Third Federal Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
  • The Special Children Center — 5% of income from government
  • The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
64report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

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How do I get to The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 269 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

Source object · view filing

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