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The Community Foundation for Ocala Marion County Inc

Our mission at the community foundation for ocala/marion county is to enhance the quality of life for all residents of our community by fostering philanthropy and stewarding charitable resources.

$2.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
57
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$269k
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 2024.

Human Services$1.6MReligion$1.4MHealth$1.2MArts & Culture$1.1MYouth Development$701kEducation$521kPhilanthropy$417kHousing & Shelter$287kOther$0
02FY2024 · 57 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 57 grants below total $2,189,213, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,520,673 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $331,460 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $67k
  • $10k–50k35 grants · $755k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+1 grant · $269k
$22,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION$268,995
MONASTIC FAITH HEALING MINISTRIES PRIORY #180$229,747
EMPOWERED OF CENTRAL FLORIDA$134,000
WINGS OF FAITH FELLOWSHIP CHURCH OF GOD$101,000
EMPOWERED OF CENTRAL FLORIDA$87,588
INTERFAITH EMERGENCY SERVICES INC$86,386
MARION COUNTY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC DBA KIMBERLY'S CENTER FOR CHI$78,300
FLORIDA CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC$73,381
FRIENDS OF MARION COUNTY VETERANS PARK INC$70,500
HONORING THE FATHER MINISTRIES INC$62,804
REILLY ARTS CENTER$62,750
ST PAUL CENTER FOR BIBLICAL THEOLOGY$62,000
ST JOHN LUTERAN CHURCH AND SCHOOL OF OCALA FOUNDATION INC$50,000
XTREME SOULUTIONS INC$44,162
ESTELLA BYRD WHITMAN WELLNESS AND COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC$43,355
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 (FY18–24, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%LIFE MODEL WORKS: $11k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%FLORIDA UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $5k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF NORTH FLORIDA: $10k → 14%INTERFAITH EMERGENCY SERVICES INC: $240k → 16%GUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS INC: $36k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $10k → 13%INTERFAITH EMERGENCY SERVICES INC: $86k → 16%MARION COUNTY CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE INC: $25k → 16%MARION COUNTY CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE INC: $25k → 16%INTERFAITH EMERGENCY SERVICES INC: $11k → 16%INTERFAITH EMERGENCY SERVICES INC: $11k → 16%INTERFAITH EMERGENCY SERVICES INC: $10k → 16%ADVOCACY RESOURCE CENTER MARION INC: $410k → 16%MARION COUNTY SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER: $26k → 16%KENNYS PLACE OF MARION COUNTY INC: $25k → 16%MARION COUNTY FOSTER PARENT ASSOCIATION INC DBA THE FOSTERING FOUNDATION: $7k → 16%MARION COUNTY VETERANS HELPING VETERANS INC: $40k → 16%PROJECT HOPE OF MARION COUNTY INC: $25k → 16%PROJECT HOPE OF MARION COUNTY INC: $13k → 16%THE PEARL PROJECT INC: $9k → 16%THE PEARL PROJECT INC: $7k → 16%STIRRUPS 'N STRIDES THERAPEUTIC RIDING CTR INC: $37k → 16%HELP AGENCY OF THE FOREST INC DBA SOZO KIDS: $150k → 16%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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CA
CO
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KY
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AL
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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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 80% of The Community Foundation for Ocala Marion County Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 89% of the giving stays in FL; by stated purpose, 20%.

The Community Foundation for Ocala Marion County Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
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.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.1M · 39 repeat orgs$3.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

39 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
46

Total granted

$4.1M
$3.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+31%

Still filing today

82%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $700k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthReligionAnimalsArts & CultureOther
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

  • EO
    Empowered of Central Florida Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $355k · revenue +49% · 36% of their budget
  • WC
    WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $215k · revenue +6%
  • TB
    The Boys and Girls Club of Marion County Inc
    7× · 2018–2024 · $190k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • AR
    ADVOCACY RESOURCE CENTER MARIONINC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $410k · revenue +15%
  • OC
    OCALA CIVIC THEATRE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $314k · revenue +22% · 31% of their budget
  • HO
    HEART OF FLORIDA HEALTH CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $312k · revenue +166%
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
Marion County Homeless Council Inc

The mission is to assist the homeless and near-homeless in Marion County, Florida. The organization strives to maximize resources to prevent homelessness and eliminate gaps in services

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2
Marion County Humane Society

The mission of the Marion County Humane Society is to provide shelter for abandoned, abused, neglected and home-less animals to work with our rescued animals until we can find forever loving homes for them and to work within the community…

Animals
3
Marion County Child Advocacy Center

The goal of the Marion County Child Advocacy Center is to provide a safe place for children who are victims of sexual and physical abuse to have their stories clearly heard and begin the healing process. The Marion County Child Advocacy…

Crime & Legal
4
Manatee County Habitat for Humanity

In partnership with god, manatee county habitat develops resources, educates, and mobilizes people to work alongside families in need, rehabilitating existing homes and building sustainable, affordable homes, thereby improving the quality…

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5
Central Florida Community Action Agency Inc

To promote economic mobility by helping people living in poverty achieve self-sufficiency.

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6
Samaritan Health & Wellness Center Inc

The mission of the samaritan health and wellness center, inc. is to reclaim the healing ministry of jesus christ by providing affordable, professional primary health care and counseling for the working uninsured and under insured in lee…

Health
7
Fifth Circuit Public Guardian Corporation

Provide guardian and guardianship services to indigent and developmentally disabled citizens with no family or friends to make medical or financial decisions for them in citrus, hernando, lake, sumter and marion counties.

Human Services
8
Marion County Farm BureauInc

To increase net income of farmers and ranchers and to improve the quality of rural life and work for the betterment of agriculture.

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9
Mental Health Association of Central Florida Inc

To provide mental health services, support, and information to the members of the central florida community.

Health
10
Casa of Marion County Inc

Through our volunteers, casa of marion county inc. advocates for abused and neglected children who need safe and permanent homes.

Human Services
11
Marion County Commission On Youth Inc

Mccoy is investing in youth today, improving conditions tomorrow. at the core of our approach are four strategic roles: advocate, resource, capacity builder, and convener. mccoy provides central indiana with the opportunity to support all…

Human Services
12
Central Florida Commission On Homelessness Inc

The corporation is organized for the purpose of permanently reducing the number of homeless individuals and families in the central florida region.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heart of Florida Health Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Ora Clubhouse Inc. 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

85 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. 85 of the 109 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)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
79/85
Grantees still filing
53/85
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MARION SENIOR SERVICES INC: $255,703 · OtherMARION SENIOR SERVICES INCWINGS OF FAITH FELLOWSHIP: $241,000 · OtherWINGS OF FAITH FELLOWSHIPOcala Symphony Orchestra Inc: $232,138 · OtherOcala Symphony Orchestra IncMUNROE REGIONAL HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $230,345 · OtherMUNROE REGIONAL HEALTH SYSTEM INCMONASTIC FAITH HEALING MINISTRIES PRIORY #180: $229,747 · OtherMONASTIC FAITH HEALING MINISTRIES PRIORY #180CITY OF OCALA: $216,317 · OtherThe Boys and Girls Club of Marion County Inc: $190,178 · OtherReilly Arts Center: $189,550 · OtherGOOD SHEPHERD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $144,000 · OtherOCALA CIVIC THEATRE INC: $313,954 · OtherOCALA CIVIC THEATRE INCMarion County Children's Avocacy Center Inc: $184,750 · OtherFriends of Marion County Veterans Park Inc: $141,000 · Other+47 more: $1,535,402 · Other+47 moreADVOCACY RESOURCE CENTER MARIONINC: $409,818 · Human ServicesADVOCACY RESOURCE C…INTERFAITH EMERGENCY SERVICES INC: $357,385 · Human ServicesINTERFAITH EMERGENC…HELP AGENCY OF THE FOREST INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesHELP AGENCY OF THE …ARNETTE HOUSE INC: $70,000 · Human ServicesTRANSITIONS LIFE CENTER & COMMUNITY INC: $57,100 · Human ServicesMarion County Children's Alliance Inc: $50,000 · Human Services+13 more: $279,078 · Human Services+13 moreHEART OF FLORIDA HEALTH CENTER INC: $312,123 · HealthPHOENIX PROGRAMS OF FLORIDA INC: $101,898 · HealthESTELLA BYRD WHITMAN WELLNESS AND COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $93,000 · HealthNAMI MARION COUNTY INC: $35,000 · HealthAdventHealth Foundation Inc: $26,750 · Health+2 more: $25,000 · HealthWEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $215,000 · EducationEARLY LEARNING COALITION OF MARION COUNTY INC: $61,892 · EducationUNITED HANDS: $55,511 · EducationVICTORY ACADEMY OCALA INC: $51,052 · EducationAMBLESIDE OCALA INC: $40,843 · EducationAMBLESIDE SCHOOLS INTERNATIONAL: $38,500 · EducationWILD HORSEMANSHIP CENTER INC: $34,944 · EducationPUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF MARION COUNTY INC: $34,750 · EducationMARION COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INC: $25,729 · Education+2 more: $21,000 · EducationST PAUL CENTER FOR BIBLICAL THEOLOGY: $189,000 · ReligionHonoring The Father Ministries Inc: $149,401 · ReligionXTREME SOULUTIONS INC: $106,740 · ReligionST JOHN LUTHERAN CHURCH AND SCHOOL OF OCALA FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · ReligionHAVEN OF PEACE INC: $25,000 · Religion+1 more: $6,000 · ReligionAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $268,995 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Marion County Inc: $148,125 · PhilanthropyBRIDGE TO HOPE INC: $66,700 · PhilanthropyOUTREACH ALLIANCE SUPPORTING NEURODEVELOPMENT INC: $25,955 · PhilanthropyEmpowered of Central Florida Inc: $354,588 · Youth DevelopmentFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $84,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $5,490 · Youth Development
Other$4,104,084Human Services$1,373,381Health$593,771Education$579,221Religion$526,141Philanthropy$509,775Youth Development$444,078

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 budgetADVOCACY RESOURCE CENTER MARIONINC: $409,818 over 2y, 14% of budgetINTERFAITH EMERGENCY SERVICES INC: $357,385 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetEmpowered of Central Florida Inc: $354,588 over 2y, 36% of budgetOCALA CIVIC THEATRE INC: $313,954 over 1y, 31% of budgetHEART OF FLORIDA HEALTH CENTER INC: $312,123 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $268,995 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARION SENIOR SERVICES INC: $255,703 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetOcala Symphony Orchestra Inc: $232,138 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetWEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $215,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetThe Boys and Girls Club of Marion County Inc: $190,178 over 7y, 7.6% of budgetST PAUL CENTER FOR BIBLICAL THEOLOGY: $189,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetMarion County Children's Avocacy Center Inc: $184,750 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetHELP AGENCY OF THE FOREST INC: $150,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetHonoring The Father Ministries Inc: $149,401 over 4y, 7.6% of budgetUnited Way of Marion County Inc: $148,125 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetFriends of Marion County Veterans Park Inc: $141,000 over 2y, 51% of budgetOPEN ARMS VILLAGE INC: $126,691 over 4y, 33% of budgetXTREME SOULUTIONS INC: $106,740 over 5y, 38% of budgetPHOENIX PROGRAMS OF FLORIDA INC: $101,898 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetESTELLA BYRD WHITMAN WELLNESS AND COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $93,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetMARION CULTURAL ALLIANCE INC: $87,301 over 2y, 13% of budgetVOICES OF CHANGE ANIMAL LEAGUE INC: $86,020 over 2y, 13% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $84,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC: $73,381 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetHIS HOUSE FOR HER INC: $70,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetARNETTE HOUSE INC: $70,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetBRIDGE TO HOPE INC: $66,700 over 1y, 19% of budgetEARLY LEARNING COALITION OF MARION COUNTY INC: $61,892 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTRANSITIONS LIFE CENTER & COMMUNITY INC: $57,100 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetUNITED HANDS: $55,511 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetHumane Society of Marion County Inc: $53,676 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetVICTORY ACADEMY OCALA INC: $51,052 over 1y, 15% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Marion County: $50,390 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetWear Gloves Inc: $50,151 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetMarion County Children's Alliance Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES OF MID-FLORIDA INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetST JOHN LUTHERAN CHURCH AND SCHOOL OF OCALA FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetMarion Therapeutic Riding Association Inc: $47,317 over 2y, 14% of budgetFAITHFULLY GUIDED INC: $46,410 over 1y, 22% of budgetFlorida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition Inc: $45,795 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAMBLESIDE OCALA INC: $40,843 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetAMBLESIDE SCHOOLS INTERNATIONAL: $38,500 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetSTIRRUPS N STRIDES THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC: $37,400 over 1y, 18% of budgetPROJECT HOPE OF MARION COUNTY INC: $37,049 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetGUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS INC: $35,679 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNAMI MARION COUNTY INC: $35,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetWILD HORSEMANSHIP CENTER INC: $34,944 over 1y, 60% of budgetPUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF MARION COUNTY INC: $34,750 over 2y, 0.9% 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.

United Way of Marion County IncFL45.2× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Marion County Inc · Clay Electric Foundation Inc · Palmer Foundation Inc · Enchanted Backpack · Munroe Regional Health System Inc · Browder Family Foundation · The Colen Foundation Inc · The Lilac Foundation Corporation · The DeLuca Family Foundation · Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc · Mantz Foundation · Lutheran Services Florida Inc

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 Community Foundation for Ocala Marion County Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Community Foundation for Ocala Marion County Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 270%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Marion County Children's Alliance Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Heart of Florida Health Center Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Marion Cultural Alliance Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Phoenix Programs of Florida Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Arnette House Inc: 7% of income from government
  • America's Second Harvest of the Big Bend Inc: 6% of income from government
  • United Way of Marion County Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Catholic Charities of Central Florida Inc: 3% of income from government
  • The Pearl Project Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Community Legal Services of Mid-Florida Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Marion Therapeutic Riding Association Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Southeastern Livestock Assn: 0% of income from government
  • Humane Society of Marion County Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wear Gloves Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Ocala Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Marion Senior Services Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
27get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 109 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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