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The Ascienzo 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.

$362k
Granted FY2025still arriving
69
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$24k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Youth Development$458kEducation$438kHuman Services$398kFood & Nutrition$385kPhilanthropy$141kEnvironment$127kHealth$97kCrime & Legal$90kOther$0
02FY2025 · 69 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k63 grants · $282k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $80k
$7,500
Median grant
12
States reached
$900k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN$23,691
RED HOOK CENTRAL SCHOOLS$16,500
ISLAND AUTISM GROUP INC$10,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ULSTER COUNT$10,000
RED HOOK COMMUNITY CENTER$10,000
HISTORIC RED HOOK$10,000
BARD CENTER FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT$9,000
FLEUR DE LIS CAMP$7,750
LITERACY PITTSBURG$7,750
COLUMBIA COUNTY PATHWAYS TO RECOVER$7,500
LAND TO LEARN$7,500
THE ART EFFECT OF THE HUDSON VALLEY$7,500
CENTER FOR THE PREVENTION OF CHILD$7,500
VOLUNTEER VENTURES MA INC$7,500
POUGHKEEPSIE FARM PROJECT$7,500
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 (FY17–25, $406k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 32% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%VOLUNTEER VENTURES MA INC: $8k → 8%SPRINGBOARD TO OPPORTUNITIES: $12k → 23%MAINE NEEDS: $8k → 7%VOLUNTEER VENTURES MA INC: $5k → 8%MYSTIC LEARNING CENTER: $8k → 8%BUDGET BUDDIES: $10k → 8%MAINE NEEDS: $5k → 7%WOMENS MONEY MATTERS: $8k → 8%WOMENS MONEY MATTERS: $8k → 8%BUDGET BUDDIES: $8k → 8%BUDGET BUDDIES: $5k → 8%WOMENS MONEY MATTERS: $8k → 10%GREATER HUDSON PROMISE NEIGHBORHOOD: $8k → 11%GREATER HUDSON PROMISE NEIGHBORHOOD: $8k → 11%WOMENS MONEY MATTERS: $8k → 10%ULSTER IMMIGRANT DEFENSE NETWORK: $8k → 16%THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $10k → 16%ULSTER IMMIGRANT DEFENSE NETWORK: $8k → 16%THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $10k → 16%GOODWORK INSTITUTE: $8k → 16%THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $10k → 16%ULSTER IMMIGRANT DEFENSE NETWORK: $8k → 16%THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $8k → 16%SUSIE REIZOD FOUNDATION: $4k → 16%THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $8k → 16%SUSIE REIZOD FOUNDATION: $3k → 16%DUTCHESS OUTREACH: $8k → 9%DUTCHESS OUTREACH: $8k → 9%SUSIE REIZOD FOUNDATION: $3k → 16%DUTCHESS OUTREACH: $8k → 9%DUTCHESS OUTREACH: $8k → 9%SUSIE REIZOD FOUNDATION: $3k → 16%HUDSON VALLEY HOSPICE: $8k → 9%SUSIE REIZOD FOUNDATION: $3k → 16%SUSIE REIZOD FOUNDATION: $3k → 16%INFLIGHT: $21k → 9%RED HOOK COMMUNITY CENTER: $16k → 9%RED HOOK COMMUNITY CENTER: $15k → 9%RED HOOK COMMUNITY CENTER: $11k → 9%RED HOOK COMMUNITY CENTER: $11k → 9%RED HOOK COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 9%RED HOOK COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 9%INFLIGHT INC: $8k → 9%RED HOOK COMMUNITY CENTER: $8k → 9%INFLIGHT INC: $7k → 9%INFLIGHT INC: $6k → 9%RED HOOK COMMUNITY CENTER: $6k → 9%INFLIGHT INC: $5k → 9%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
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NJ
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CA
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DC
MS
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 97 repeat orgs$570k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

97 repeat relationships: 43 still active in FY2025, 54 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

97
102

Total granted

$1.9M
$444k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+2%

Still filing today

52%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $126k 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 ServicesEducationFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • RH
    RED HOOK RESPONDS INCORPORATED
    5× · 2021–2025 · $132k · revenue +18% · 59% of their budget
  • TR
    THE RED HOOK COMMUNITY CENTER INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $92k · revenue +378%
  • CI
    CULTURECONNECT INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $74k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $33k
  • NL
    NOBODY LEAVES MID-HUDSON
    one grant, 2020 · $29k
  • SF
    SOUL FIRE FARM INSTITUTE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $29k · revenue -62%
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
Feeding Westchester Inc

Driven by the belief that access to healthy food is a basic right for all people, feeding westchester leads hunger action programs and mobilizes the resources needed to eradicate hunger in westchester county.

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2
Hunger Solutions New York Inc

We strive to maximize participation in, and support for, federally funded nutrition assistance programs including supplemental nutrition assistance program (snap), the school breakfast program and national school lunch program, the summer…

Food & Nutrition
3
Red Hook Initiative

Rhi believes that social change to overcome systemic inequities begins with empowered youth. in partnership with community adults, we nurture young people in red hook to be inspired, resilient, and healthy, and to envision themselves as…

Human Services
4
Farm Training Collective Nyc Inc

The goal of Farm School NYC is to train the next generation of farmers in New York City and beyond, with a focus on limited resourced and socially disadvantaged individuals and communities, and to increase access to healthy, local food in…

Education
5
West Side Center for Community Life

To pursue anti-hunger initiatives through the west side campaign against hunger (wscah) program whose mission is to alleviate hunger by ensuring that all new yorkers have access with dignity to a choice of healthy food and supportive…

Youth Development
6
Island Harvest Ltd

The mission of island harvest is to end hunger and reduce food waste on long island.

Human Services
7
All Farmers Inc

We envision a food system that reflects the diverse communities of our region in leadership, ownership, and priorities. all farmers lowers barriers to enable refugee and immigrant farmers to grow resilient community farms through access to…

Food & Nutrition
8
East End Food Institute

East End Food is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to support, promote and advocate for farmers and producers, while ensuring everyone in the community can enjoy and be nourished by local food. We envision the East End of Long…

Food & Nutrition
9
The Way Back Inc

To provide rehabilitative housing services and support to help people with psychiatric disabilities reintegrate into the community.the agency provides rehabilitative housing services and staff support as a primary mechanism for achieving…

Human Services
10
Goodwill Industries of Greater New York & Northern New Jersey Inc

Goodwill nynj empowers people with disabilities and other barriers to employment to gain independence through the power of work. goodwill nynj provided services to more than 11,087 adults in fiscal year 2025 through all programs.

Employment
11
Pathways Kitchen

Pathways kitchen helps justice-impacted youth thrive over survive by providing training, work opportunities and individualized support to ensure they can chart their own path forward

Crime & Legal
12
Food Bank for New York City

Food bank for nyc has been the city's major hunger-relief organization driven by our mission to empower every new yorker to achieve food security for good. we harness the collective power of our network of food providers, partners, and…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Services Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Loyalty 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

112 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. 112 of the 226 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
32
Early backer (in before they grew)
112/112
Grantees still filing
72/112
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RED HOOK CENTRAL SCHOOLS: $81,319 · OtherRED HOOK CENTRAL SCHOOLSRED HOOK PUBLIC LIBRARY: $72,123 · OtherPOUGHKEEPSIE FARM PROJECT: $66,250 · OtherWorker Justice Center of New York Inc: $61,000 · OtherWE CARE SOLAR: $50,000 · Other+135 more: $1,152,592 · Other+135 moreTHE RED HOOK COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $92,146 · Human ServicesTHE RED HOOK COMMU…WOMEN'S MONEY MATTERS INC: $52,500 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S MONEY MATT…IN FLIGHT INC: $46,500 · Human ServicesIN FLIGHT INCTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesTHE HOME FOR LITTL…DUTCHESS OUTREACH INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesDUTCHESS OUTREACH …THE SUSIE REIZOD FOUNDATION: $24,500 · Human ServicesTHE SUSIE REIZOD F…ULSTER IMMIGRANT DEFENSE NETWORK: $24,000 · Human ServicesULSTER IMMIGRANT D…GREATER HUDSON PROMISE NEIGHBORHOOD INC: $15,000 · Human Services+15 more: $75,666 · Human Services+15 moreCULTURECONNECT INC: $73,500 · Youth DevelopmentWILD EARTH WILDERNESS SCHOOL: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentMINDS MATTER OF NYC INC: $23,000 · Youth DevelopmentHit the Books Inc: $15,500 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INC: $15,250 · Youth Development+1 more: $250 · Youth DevelopmentRED HOOK RESPONDS INCORPORATED: $131,697 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF ULSTER COUNTY INC: $7,500 · Philanthropy+1 more: $250 · PhilanthropySOUL FIRE FARM INSTITUTE INC: $29,000 · Food & NutritionSKY HIGH FARM INC: $23,500 · Food & NutritionREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC: $17,205 · Food & NutritionABOUT FRESH INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionMARTHAS KITCHEN: $10,000 · Food & NutritionLAND TO LEARN: $7,500 · Food & NutritionCommon Good City Farm: $7,000 · Food & Nutrition+5 more: $4,515 · Food & NutritionRAMAPO FOR CHILDREN INC: $65,000 · Recreation & SportsCROSSROADS FOR KIDS INC: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsFLEUR DE LIS CAMP INC: $7,750 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $250 · Recreation & SportsBARD COLLEGE: $22,500 · EducationRED HOOK EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $16,000 · EducationNYS CLSA: $10,500 · EducationLITERACY PITTSBURGH: $8,000 · EducationChildren's Reading Connection: $7,500 · EducationA WIDER CIRCLE INC: $5,000 · EducationFREE SCIENCE INC: $4,972 · Education+5 more: $6,000 · Education
Other$1,483,284Human Services$405,312Youth Development$157,500Philanthropy$139,447Food & Nutrition$108,720Recreation & Sports$83,000Education$80,472

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 budgetRED HOOK RESPONDS INCORPORATED: $131,697 over 5y, 59% of budgetTHE RED HOOK COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $92,146 over 9y, 9.4% of budgetCULTURECONNECT INC: $73,500 over 7y, 16% of budgetPOUGHKEEPSIE FARM PROJECT: $66,250 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetRAMAPO FOR CHILDREN INC: $65,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetWorker Justice Center of New York Inc: $61,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetWOMEN'S MONEY MATTERS INC: $52,500 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetWE CARE SOLAR: $50,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetIN FLIGHT INC: $46,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $45,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSUNFLOWER BAKERY INC: $42,750 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetJEFFERSON COUNTY GREENWAYS FOUNDATION: $38,750 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetKITE'S NEST INC: $32,500 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetWILD EARTH WILDERNESS SCHOOL: $30,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetDUTCHESS OUTREACH INC: $30,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSOUL FIRE FARM INSTITUTE INC: $29,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SUSIE REIZOD FOUNDATION: $24,500 over 8y, 4.2% of budgetULSTER IMMIGRANT DEFENSE NETWORK: $24,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetSKY HIGH FARM INC: $23,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMINDS MATTER OF NYC INC: $23,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetBARD COLLEGE: $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC: $17,205 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRED HOOK EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $16,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetHit the Books Inc: $15,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetJANE ADDAMS RESOURCE CORPORATION: $15,250 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGIRLS INC: $15,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOverbrook West Neighbors: $15,250 over 3y, 9.9% of budgetGREATER HUDSON PROMISE NEIGHBORHOOD INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMaine Needs Inc: $12,750 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetVOLUNTEER VENTURES MA INC: $12,500 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetSPRINGBOARD TO OPPORTUNITIES: $12,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHISTORIC RED HOOK: $11,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetFAMILY SERVICES INC: $10,534 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNYS CLSA: $10,500 over 2y, 94% of budgetABOUT FRESH INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCROSSROADS FOR KIDS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE RED HOOK DAILY CATCH INC: $9,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetLITERACY PITTSBURGH: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFLEUR DE LIS CAMP INC: $7,750 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCity Slicker Farms: $7,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetPROJECT SISTER FAMILY SERVICES: $7,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLAND TO LEARN: $7,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetPartners for World Health: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ULSTER COUNTY INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHudson Valley Hospice Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHospitality Homes Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCINCINNATI BLACK THEATRE COMPANY: $7,500 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetGood Work Institute Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% 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 RED HOOK RESPONDS INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds THE RED HOOK COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CULTURECONNECT INC ↗
  • Who funds POUGHKEEPSIE FARM PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds RAMAPO FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds Worker Justice Center of New York Inc ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S MONEY MATTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds WE CARE SOLAR ↗
  • Who funds IN FLIGHT INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC ↗
  • Who funds SUNFLOWER BAKERY INC ↗
  • Who funds JEFFERSON COUNTY GREENWAYS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KITE'S NEST INC ↗
  • Who funds WILD EARTH WILDERNESS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds DUTCHESS OUTREACH INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUL FIRE FARM INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SUSIE REIZOD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ULSTER IMMIGRANT DEFENSE NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds SKY HIGH FARM INC ↗
  • Who funds MINDS MATTER OF NYC INC ↗
  • Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC ↗

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.

Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley IncNY47.5× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley Inc · The Dyson Foundation · Ulster Savings Charitable Foundation · Hudson Valley Foundation for Youth Health · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · United Way of the Dutchess-Orange Region Inc · Bank of Greene County Charitable Foundation · Novo Foundation · Vassar College · The Alexander and Marjorie Hover Foundation · The Thendara 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 The Ascienzo Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ascienzo Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc: 46% of income from government
  • The Home for Little Wanderers Inc: 38% of income from government
  • Junta for Progressive Action Inc: 35% of income from government
  • United Way of Northwest Vermont Inc: 34% of income from government
  • Mystic Learning Center Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Smart From the Start Inc: 7% of income from government
  • A Wider Circle Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Crossroads for Kids Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Women's Money Matters Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
40report 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.
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How do I get to The Ascienzo Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Ascienzo 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 226 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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