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The Clara Weiss Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$449k
Granted FY2025still arriving
213
Grants FY2025still arriving
27
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$712kArts & Culture$547kHealth$455kHuman Services$291kFood & Nutrition$265kYouth Development$201kScience & Tech$144kRecreation & Sports$130kOther$0
02FY2025 · 213 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k204 grants · $339k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $111k
$1,500
Median grant
27
States reached
$5.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Union of Concerned Scientists$15,000
Food & Friends$15,000
Girl Scouts of North East Ohio$15,000
Sweet Briar College$13,000
Food & Friends$12,500
Lake Erie Nature & Science Center$10,000
College of Wooster$10,000
Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill$10,000
Powhatan School$10,000
Catholic Charities$7,500
Carolina Ballet$6,500
Emanuel Food Pantry$5,200
Lake Ridge Academy$5,005
Applewood Centers Inc$5,000
Arc of Medina County Camp Paradise$5,000
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, $135k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 61% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Miriam's Kitchen: $3k → 14%Miriam's Kitchen: $1k → 14%Miriam's Kitchen: $1k → 14%Miriam's Kitchen: $1k → 14%Community Cooperative: $1k → 11%Miriam's Kitchen: $1k → 14%Community Cooperative: $1k → 11%Shenandoah Area Agency on Aging: $1k → 10%Shenandoah Area Agency on Aging: $1k → 10%Shenandoah Area Agency on Aging: $1k → 10%Shenandoah Area Agency on Aging: $1k → 10%Shenandoah Area Agency on Aging: $1k → 10%Shenandoah Area Agency on Aging: $1k → 10%Blue Ridge Hospice Inc: $2k → 16%Hope & Healing Survivor Resource Center: $10k → 7%Hope & Healing Survivor Resource Center: $5k → 7%Hope & Healing Survivor Resource Center: $5k → 7%Blue Ridge Hospice Inc: $2k → 16%Blue Ridge Hospice Inc: $2k → 16%Fish of Clarke County Inc: $4k → 7%Battered Women's Shelter: $5k → 13%Blue Ridge Hospice Inc: $2k → 16%Battered Women's Shelter: $5k → 13%Battered Women's Shelter: $5k → 13%Fish of Clarke County Inc: $4k → 7%Battered Women's Shelter: $5k → 13%Fish of Clarke County Inc: $4k → 7%Battered Women's Shelter: $5k → 13%Fish of Clarke County Inc: $4k → 7%Fish of Clarke County Inc: $4k → 7%Blue Ridge Hospice Inc: $2k → 16%FISH of Clarke County Inc: $4k → 7%Blue Ridge Hospice Inc: $2k → 16%Blue Ridge Hospice Inc: $2k → 16%FISH of Clarke County VA: $3k → 7%Blue Ridge Hospice Inc: $2k → 16%FISH of Clarke County VA: $3k → 7%Blue Ridge Hospice Inc: $2k → 16%Love Inc of Cuyahoga County: $2k → 17%Love Inc of Cuyahoga County: $2k → 17%FISH of Clarke County VA: $3k → 7%Love Inc of Cuyahoga County: $1k → 17%Cleveland Sight Center: $3k → 17%Cleveland Sight Center: $3k → 17%Cleveland Sight Center: $3k → 17%Cleveland Sight Center: $3k → 17%Cleveland Sight Center: $2k → 17%Cleveland Sight Center: $1k → 17%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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NH
MT
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MA
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OH
PA
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CA
CO
MO
KY
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MD
NM
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NC
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FL
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.6M · 276 repeat orgs$73k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

276 repeat relationships: 192 still active in FY2025, 84 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

276
30

Total granted

$3.6M
$61k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+22%

Still filing today

53%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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

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EducationHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentInternationalOther
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

  • TC
    TRURO CENTER FOR THE ARTS AT CASTLE HILL INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $165k · revenue +107%
  • FF
    FOOD & FRIENDS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $138k · revenue +158%
  • THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $138k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • TC
    Truro Center for the Arts Capital Camp
    one grant, 2023 · $30k
  • EJ
    Enders John H Fire CO & Rescue
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • DW
    Doctors without Borders 13-3433452
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
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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Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
5
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
6
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
7
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
8
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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9
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
10
Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
11
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
12
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Help Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Winchester Little Theatre Inc. 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

165 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. 165 of the 320 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)
35
Early backer (in before they grew)
163/165
Grantees still filing
118/165
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PRETRIAL JUSTICE INSTITUTE: $63,500 · Other+127 more: $1,554,862 · Other+127 moreSWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE: $112,000 · EducationSWEET BRIAR INSTITU…THE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER: $100,000 · EducationTHE COLLEGE OF WOOS…POWHATAN SCHOOL INC: $54,500 · EducationPOWHATAN SCHOOL INCLAKE RIDGE ACADEMY: $45,010 · EducationLAKE RIDGE ACADEMYUNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC: $27,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $25,000 · EducationAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $23,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF WOODSTOCK SCHOOL INC: $23,000 · EducationCOLGATE UNIVERSITY: $21,000 · EducationFREMONT STREET NURSERY: $20,000 · Education+12 more: $135,307 · Education+12 moreTRURO CENTER FOR THE ARTS AT CASTLE HILL INC: $165,000 · Arts & CultureTRURO CENTER …LAKE ERIE NATURE AND SCIENCE CENTER: $104,000 · Arts & CultureLAKE ERIE NAT…BARNS OF ROSE HILL: $45,000 · Arts & CultureBARNS OF ROSE…CAROLINA BALLET INC: $34,500 · Arts & CultureCAROLINA BALL…+9 more: $75,236 · Arts & Culture+9 moreFOOD & FRIENDS INC: $137,500 · HealthFOOD & FRI…DR TERRY SINCLAIR HEALTH CLINIC INC: $36,000 · HealthDR TERRY S…CAMP HO MITA KODA FOUNDATION: $22,075 · HealthCAMP HO MI…PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $19,000 · HealthPLANNED PA…American Heart Association Inc: $12,250 · HealthAKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $12,000 · HealthRAINBOW BABIES & CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $12,000 · Health+12 more: $84,610 · Health+12 moreTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $137,500 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO: $35,500 · InternationalPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $13,629 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $9,089 · InternationalECHO Inc: $8,000 · InternationalMEDSHARE INTERNATIONAL INC: $8,000 · International+1 more: $5,000 · InternationalHOPE AND HEALING SURVIVOR RESOURCE CENTER: $45,000 · Human ServicesFISH OF CLARKE COUNTY INC: $32,500 · Human ServicesTHE LAUREL CENTER INTERVENTION FOR DOMESTIC & SEXUAL VIOLENCE: $29,500 · Human ServicesCLEVELAND SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND: $19,010 · Human ServicesBLUE RIDGE HOSPICE INC: $18,137 · Human ServicesMIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $8,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $6,836 · Human ServicesSHENANDOAH AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $6,000 · Human ServicesGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH EAST OHIO: $127,500 · Youth DevelopmentNORTHERN VIRGINIA 4-H EDUCATIONAL CENTER: $9,000 · Youth DevelopmentWarrior Dog Foundation: $8,210 · Youth Development
Other$1,618,362Education$585,817Arts & Culture$423,736Health$335,435International$216,718Human Services$164,983Youth Development$144,710

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 budgetTRURO CENTER FOR THE ARTS AT CASTLE HILL INC: $165,000 over 9y, 3.1% of budgetFOOD & FRIENDS INC: $137,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $137,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH EAST OHIO: $127,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetSWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE: $112,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetLAKE ERIE NATURE AND SCIENCE CENTER: $104,000 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetTHE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER: $100,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPRETRIAL JUSTICE INSTITUTE: $63,500 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetPOWHATAN SCHOOL INC: $54,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetLAKE RIDGE ACADEMY: $45,010 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBARNS OF ROSE HILL: $45,000 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetHOPE AND HEALING SURVIVOR RESOURCE CENTER: $45,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budget4-H CAMP CLIFTON: $39,000 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetAPPLEWOOD CENTERS INC: $38,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetDR TERRY SINCLAIR HEALTH CLINIC INC: $36,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO: $35,500 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetCAROLINA BALLET INC: $34,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFISH OF CLARKE COUNTY INC: $32,500 over 9y, 4.9% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF MEDINA COUNTY INC: $32,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetTHE LAUREL CENTER INTERVENTION FOR DOMESTIC & SEXUAL VIOLENCE: $29,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC: $27,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $26,530 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetVOCATIONAL GUIDANCE SERVICES: $25,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $25,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMEDINA CREATIVE HOUSING INC: $24,500 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $23,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF WOODSTOCK SCHOOL INC: $23,000 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetCAMP HO MITA KODA FOUNDATION: $22,075 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetCOLGATE UNIVERSITY: $21,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFREMONT STREET NURSERY: $20,000 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetSKIDMORE COLLEGE: $19,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCLEVELAND SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND: $19,010 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $19,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE RIDGE HOSPICE INC: $18,137 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWINCHESTER RESCUE MISSION: $18,116 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $18,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $17,560 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING MEDINA COUNTY: $16,566 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetPROCTOR ACADEMY: $16,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY: $14,916 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCLEVELAND HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER: $14,180 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE: $14,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetVASSAR COLLEGE: $14,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTRI-RIVER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $14,000 over 7y, 19% of budgetPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $13,629 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWARREN WILSON COLLEGE: $13,620 over 9y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds TRURO CENTER FOR THE ARTS AT CASTLE HILL INC ↗
  • Who funds FOOD & FRIENDS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH EAST OHIO ↗
  • Who funds SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds LAKE ERIE NATURE AND SCIENCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER ↗
  • Who funds PRETRIAL JUSTICE INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds POWHATAN SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds LAKE RIDGE ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds BARNS OF ROSE HILL ↗
  • Who funds HOPE AND HEALING SURVIVOR RESOURCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds 4-H CAMP CLIFTON ↗
  • Who funds APPLEWOOD CENTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds DR TERRY SINCLAIR HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO ↗
  • Who funds CAROLINA BALLET INC ↗
  • Who funds FISH OF CLARKE COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF MEDINA COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE LAUREL CENTER INTERVENTION FOR DOMESTIC & SEXUAL VIOLENCE ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds MEDINA CREATIVE HOUSING INC ↗
  • Who funds AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF WOODSTOCK SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds CAMP HO MITA KODA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COLGATE UNIVERSITY ↗

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.

The Bank of Clarke County FoundationVA37.4× affinity16 shared granteesties to 6 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of Clarke County Foundation · Akron Community Foundation · The Westfield Insurance Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · American Woodmark Foundation Inc · The Swagelok Foundation · The Community Foundation of the Northern Shenandoah Valley · United Way of Summit and Medina · Andrew U Ferrari Foundation · The Hillier Family Foundation · United Way of Northern Shenandoah Valley Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable 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 Clara Weiss Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Clara Weiss Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 60%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown Inc: 27% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • World Ocean School Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Smith College: 1% of income from government
  • Amherst College Trustees: 0% of income from government
  • Seaside Seabird Sanctuary: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
48report 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 320 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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