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The Crawford Taylor 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.

$54M
Granted FY2025still arriving
49
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$16M
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182025.

Arts & Culture$95MHealth$60MEnvironment$33MEducation$28MCommunity Improvement$28MRecreation & Sports$17MScience & Tech$8.2MAnimals$5.7MOther$0
02FY2025 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $330k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $650k
  • $250k+16 grants · $53M
$50,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$772M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREAT RIVERS GREENWAY FOUNDATION$16,000,000
ST LUKES EPISCOPAL-PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL$15,000,000
KID SMART TOOLS FOR LEARNING$5,000,000
ST LOUIS ZOO$5,000,000
SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF ST LOUIS$2,475,000
MUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS$1,540,000
MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY$1,468,191
THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC$1,350,000
OUR LITTLE HAVEN$1,000,000
NAVAL AVIATION MUSEUM FOUNDATION$1,000,000
THE MAGIC HOUSE$700,000
FOREST PARK FOREVER INC$500,000
ST LOUIS POLICE FOUNDATION$500,000
GATEWAY TO HOPE$500,000
ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC$300,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UNLIMITED PLAY INC: $100k → 5%REFUGE AND RESTORATION: $10k → 11%REFUGE AND RESTORATION: $10k → 11%ONE HEART FAMILY MINISTRIES INC: $5k → 11%ONE HEART FAMILY MINISTRIES INC: $5k → 11%ONE HEART FAMILY MINISTRIES INC: $5k → 11%SAFE CONNECTIONS: $25k → 21%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $10k → 14%SAFE CONNECTIONS: $25k → 21%SAFE CONNECTIONS: $25k → 21%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $10k → 14%ONE HEART FAMILY MINISTRIES INC: $5k → 11%SAFE CONNECTIONS: $10k → 21%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $10k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $10k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $10k → 14%THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $250k → 11%LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%SNEAKERS WITH SOUL: $10k → 11%SNEAKERS WITH SOUL: $10k → 11%SNEAKERS WITH SOUL: $10k → 11%ONE HEART FAMILY MINISTRIES: $6k → 11%SNEAKERS WITH SOUL: $10k → 11%ONE HEART FAMILY MINISTRIES INC: $5k → 11%SNEAKERS WITH SOUL: $10k → 11%SNEAKERS WITH SOUL: $10k → 11%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $50k → 21%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $50k → 21%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $50k → 21%NURSES FOR NEWBORNS: $30k → 11%NURSES FOR NEWBORNS: $15k → 11%NURSES FOR NEWBORNS: $10k → 11%NURSES FOR NEWBORNS: $10k → 11%NURSES FOR NEWBORNS: $10k → 11%ST LOUIS ARC INC: $100k → 11%ST LOUIS ARC: $100k → 11%ST LOUIS ARC INC: $100k → 11%ST LOUIS ARC INC: $100k → 11%ST LOUIS ARC INC: $100k → 11%ST LOUIS ARC INC: $100k → 11%ST LOUIS ARC INC: $100k → 11%ST LOUIS ARC INC: $100k → 11%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $75k → 11%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $50k → 11%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $50k → 11%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $50k → 11%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $50k → 11%PROSPERITY CONNECTION: $10k → 21%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

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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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$250M · 69 repeat orgs$40M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.

69 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

69
47

Total granted

$250M
$29M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+3%

Still filing today

90%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther

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

  • MH
    MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    4× · 2018–2025 · $33M · revenue +73% · 52% of their budget
  • SL
    SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
    8× · 2018–2025 · $31M · revenue +72% · 49% of their budget
  • SL
    ST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2024 · $30M · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • CG
    CARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $10M · revenue +3%
  • WASHINGTON UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5.0M · revenue +76%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $4.0M · revenue -50%

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.

1
St Louis Community Foundation

To promote the possibilities of charitable giving, helping charitable citizens understand how they can effectively provide for the community they love and the causes they care deeply about.

Philanthropy
2
Mission St Louis

Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.

Community Improvement
3
Greater St Louis Inc

Greater st. louis, inc. brings together business and civic leaders to create jobs, drive inclusive economic growth, and increase the st. louis metro area's global competitiveness. we speak with a unified voice, lead with a bold agenda, and…

Community Improvement
4
St Louis Economic Development Partnership

Economic development.

5
The Saint Louis Zoo Association

The saint louis zoo association was established to support and enhance the saint louis zoo by providing facilities, funds, and advice. the association provides direct financial support to the zoo for renovations, new facilities, programs,…

Animals
6
St Louis Sports Commission Inc

Foster economic growth and improved quality of life in the st. louis area by producing events, enhancing its national and international image as a premier sports region, and increasing community awareness of the value of sports.

7
Jewish Federation of St Louis

Jewish federation of st. louis mobilizes the jewish community and its human and financial resources to preserve and enhance jewish life in st. louis, in israel and around the world.

Philanthropy
8
Forward Through Ferguson

Embracing the ferguson commission's mandate, forward through ferguson centers impacted communities and mobilizes accountable bodies to advance racially equitable systems and policies that ensure all people in the st. louis region can…

Civil Rights
9
Build Missouri Health

To foster and amplify community-led innovations through partnerships resulting in radical system changes that create equitable health outcomes.

Human Services
10
St Louis Art Museum Foundation

The sole purpose of the foundation is to support the saint louis art museum, including but not limited to fundraising and other activities and assisting in financing expansion and renovation of its facilities.

Arts & Culture
11
St Louis Learning Disabilities Association

To provide children with hope, understanding, and compassion so they can reach their full potential.

Human Services
12
Thomas Jefferson School

Thomas jefferson school engages its students in the education necessary to live as responsible citizens of the world. through the strongest possible college-prepatory program and within a nurturing community, students develop a…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Louis Crisis Nursery and the most unlike its peers is Peeps Foundation Inc. 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 backsteadyHospital Health SystemsSt. Louis Community Develop…Youth Sports DevelopmentReproductive Health & EquityFood Assistance Organizatio…Labor Union OrganizationsCommunity Support & Empower…Family Philanthropic Founda…Senior Residential CareIndustry Trade AssociationsAffordable Housing Developm…Independent Schools and Edu…Independent Schools & Educa…Performing Arts Organizatio…
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 38 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%2%<5yr13%4%5–10yr16%19%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr16%31%35–55yr19%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr16%12%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr16%17%35–55yr19%51%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% 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 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/107
the rest of the field
14%
1,452/10,050

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

107 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 107 of the 122 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
104/107
Grantees still filing
66/107
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $32,967,391 · Arts & CultureMISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETYSAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $30,800,000 · Arts & CultureSAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAMUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS — $11,710,000 · Arts & CultureMUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF …THE MAGIC HOUSE — $3,550,000 · Arts & Culture+10 more — $6,815,000 · Arts & Culture+10 moreTHE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF ST LOUIS — $12,278,598 · OtherTHE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF…CARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $10,000,000 · OtherCARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN'S F…FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL WWII MEMORIAL — $8,999,999 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL WWII …THE NAVAL INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC — $6,500,000 · OtherTHE NAVAL INSTITUTE FOUNDATIO…ST LOUIS ZOO — $5,000,000 · OtherST LOUIS ZOOKID SMART TOOLS FOR LEARNING — $5,000,000 · OtherKID SMART TOOLS FOR LEARNINGThe Tower Grove Park Foundation — $4,750,000 · OtherThe Tower Grove Park Foundati…OUR LITTLE HAVEN — $3,500,000 · OtherURBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS — $3,250,000 · OtherCARDINAL RITTER COLLEGE PREP HIGH SCHOOL — $3,000,000 · Other+65 more — $13,714,200 · Other+65 moreST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $30,000,000 · HealthST LOUIS CHILDREN'…ST LUKES EPISCOPAL-PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITALS — $16,000,000 · HealthST LUKES EPISCOPAL…+10 more — $2,027,500 · HealthMISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES — $20,075,000 · EnvironmentMISSOURI BOTANICA…THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC — $12,700,000 · EnvironmentTHE EVERGLADES FO…Forest Park Forever Inc — $11,170,000 · EnvironmentForest Park Forev…+1 more — $5,000 · EnvironmentGREAT RIVERS GREENWAY FOUNDATION — $24,560,000 · Community ImprovementGREAT RIV…WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $5,000,000 · EducationBIOSTL — $1,600,000 · Education+8 more — $536,800 · EducationBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC — $4,000,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INCORPORATED OF ST LOUIS — $250,000 · Youth Development+4 more — $143,000 · Youth Development
Arts & Culture$85,842,391Other$75,992,797Health$48,027,500Environment$43,950,000Community Improvement$24,560,000Education$7,136,800Youth Development$4,393,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $32,967,391 over 4y, 52% of budgetSAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $30,800,000 over 8y, 49% of budgetST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $30,000,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetGREAT RIVERS GREENWAY FOUNDATION — $24,560,000 over 4y, 67% of budgetST LUKES EPISCOPAL-PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITALS — $16,000,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC — $12,700,000 over 7y, 61% of budgetTHE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF ST LOUIS — $12,278,598 over 8y, 34% of budgetMUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS — $11,710,000 over 8y, 13% of budgetForest Park Forever Inc — $11,170,000 over 8y, 24% of budgetCARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $10,000,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetTHE NAVAL INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC — $6,500,000 over 2y, 61% of budgetThe Tower Grove Park Foundation — $4,750,000 over 4y, 76% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC — $4,000,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetTHE MAGIC HOUSE — $3,550,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetOUR LITTLE HAVEN — $3,500,000 over 2y, 38% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS — $3,250,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetST LOUIS REGIONAL PUBLIC MEDIA INC — $2,500,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetSt Louis Police Foundation — $2,500,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC — $1,875,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetBIOSTL — $1,600,000 over 6y, 9.1% of budgetTHE LUMINARY INC — $1,050,000 over 7y, 43% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MEMORIAL INC — $1,000,000 over 1y, 52% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ST LOUIS — $1,000,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetKIPP ST LOUIS — $1,000,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST LOUIS ARC INC — $800,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetGATEWAY TO HOPE — $590,000 over 8y, 15% of budgetCONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM ST LOUIS — $590,000 over 8y, 13% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI — $560,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetPARAQUAD INC — $500,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetCHURCHILL CENTER AND SCHOOL FOR LEARNING DISABILITIES — $500,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetPEDAL THE CAUSE — $425,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetST LOUIS CRISIS NURSERY — $400,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetGATEWAY ARCH PARK FOUNDATION — $320,000 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetTHE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION — $300,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetCOUNTERPUBLIC — $300,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF ST LOUIS — $250,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetST LOUIS AMERICAN FOUNDATION — $175,000 over 7y, 11% of budgetTHE FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT HOUSE IN EBSWORTH PARK — $175,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetREADY READERS — $160,800 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetClayton Education Foundation — $140,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetMETRO THEATER COMPANY — $135,000 over 6y, 4.2% of budgetROMAN CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF EASTERN MISSOURI — $125,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCITY PARKS ALLIANCE INC — $124,700 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetDE LA SALLE INC — $120,000 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetUNLIMITED PLAY INC — $100,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetST LOUIS SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL — $100,000 over 1y, 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.

St Louis Community Foundation IncMO97.3× affinity54 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · World Wide Technology Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · St Louis Community Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Centene Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Pott Foundation · Trio Foundation of St Louis · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable

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 Crawford Taylor 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
202122232425
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 13%
  • Naval Aviation Museum Foundation Inc13% of income from government
  • The Center for Independent Documentary Inc6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
32report 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, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Crawford Taylor Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Crawford Taylor 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 122 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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