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The George Edward Durell Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
33
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$4.5MCivil Rights$1.4MPhilanthropy$1.3MReligion$1.2MSocial Science$1.1MPublic Benefit$590kYouth Development$370kHealth$305kOther$0
02FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k18 grants · $88k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $102k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $440k
  • $250k+2 grants · $500k
$7,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$31M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HILLSDALE COLLEGE$250,000
HILLSDALE COLLEGE$250,000
NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION$140,000
ACTON INSTITUTE$100,000
NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION$50,000
THE GLOBAL ORPHAN PROJECT INC$50,000
MERCATUS CENTER$50,000
FORGE LEADERSHIP NETWORK$50,000
INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE$25,000
FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES$20,000
PREVENTION ACTION ALLIANCE$15,000
PREVENTION ACTION ALLIANCE$12,000
CENTRAL OHIO YOUTH FOR CHRIST$10,000
LIVING ON THE EDGE$10,000
FOR COLUMBUS$10,000
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 (FY17–24, $210k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Good Samaritan Family Services: $8k → 9%Good Samaritan Family Services: $8k → 9%GOOD SAMARITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $8k → 9%GOOD SAMARITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $8k → 9%Good Samaritan Family Services: $5k → 9%Good Samaritan Family Services: $5k → 9%CANINE COMPANIONS - NORTH CENTRAL REGION: $5k → 15%CANINE COMPANIONS - NORTH CENTRAL REGION: $3k → 15%Pray for Columbus: $15k → 15%SON Ministries: $30k → 15%SON MINISTRIES: $10k → 15%SON MINISTRIES: $10k → 15%SON Ministries: $10k → 15%SON MINISTRIES: $3k → 15%SON MINISTRIES: $3k → 15%SON Ministries: $3k → 15%SON Ministries: $3k → 15%SON MINISTRIES: $3k → 15%SON MINISTRIES: $3k → 15%Urban Concern: $15k → 15%Urban Concern: $10k → 15%URBAN CONCERN: $8k → 15%Urban Concern: $5k → 15%URBAN CONCERN: $5k → 15%FOR COLUMBUS: $10k → 15%FOR COLUMBUS: $5k → 15%WESTERVILLE AREA RESOURCE MINISTRY: $5k → 15%PRAY FOR COLUMBUS: $5k → 15%WESTERVILLE AREA RESOURCE MINISTRY: $5k → 15%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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MI
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IN
OH
PA
CA
CO
MO
VA
DE
TN
DC
GA
FL

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.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 35% of The George Edward Durell Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 23% of the giving stays in OH; read by stated purpose it is 30% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

The George Edward Durell Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.4M · 59 repeat orgs$296k to everyone else

59 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 39 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

59
28

Total granted

$7.4M
$238k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+69%

Still filing today

66%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k 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
ReligionYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesEducationSocial SciencePublic BenefitOther

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

  • AI
    Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +3%
  • NC
    NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $1.1M · revenue ×103
  • IS
    INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $505k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • TE
    THE ENDOWMENT FUND OF PHI KAPPA PSI FRAT
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • CC
    Canine Companions - North Central R
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • AP
    American Principles Projectgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +224%

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
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
2
International Leadership Institute

The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…

Religion
3
Center for Christianity and Public Life

To contend for the credibility of christian resources in public life, for the public good.

Religion
4
Center of Theological Inquiry

The Center of Theological Inquiry is an independent research institution with an international visiting scholar program which convenes researchers in an ideal setting for interdisciplinary inquiries where theology casts light on global…

Religion
5
Evangel University

Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.

Education
6
Freedom in Christ Ministries

To provide resources, training, and continuing support to leaders in the us and around the world in order that they may help others find freedom in christ.

Religion
7
Reformed University Inc

Provide education in theology, divinity, religious education, ministerial training, business and organizational leadership.

Education
8
Regent University

Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.

9
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
10
Bibleproject

Bibleproject's mission is to help people experience the bible as a unified story that leads to jesus. this is achieved by creating biblical videos to be regularly released on a newly-created youtube channel. (continued on schedule o.)each…

Religion
11
Asbury Theological Seminary

Asbury Theological Seminary is a community called to prepare theologically educated, sanctified, Spirit-filled men and women to evangelize and to spread scriptural holiness throughout the world through the love of Jesus Christ, in the…

Education
12
The Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies

The institute's mission is to conduct research on key issues facing society to help both the church and society deal thoughtfully with the major issues they face globally. the institute also sponsors and conducts research and scholarship…

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Christian Virtue and the most unlike its peers is Streams in the Desert Recovery Hous. 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 backsteadyCommunity FoundationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Affordable Housing Developm…Policy Research and AdvocacyCommunity Food PantriesChristian Missionary Organi…
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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%14%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr16%18%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr16%15%20–35yr13%28%35–55yr16%49%55yr+

The field is 22% 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 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/61
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,504

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.

05the grantee network

58 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 20172026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 58 of the 91 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)
54/58
Grantees still filing
46/58
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HILLSDALE COLLEGE — $3,750,000 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGEINTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC — $505,000 · EducationINTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC+4 more — $40,500 · EducationNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION — $330,000 · OtherNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDAT…MISSION COLUMBUS INSTITUTE — $220,000 · OtherMISSION COLUMBUS INSTITUTENational Chrisitan Foundation — $165,000 · OtherNational Chrisitan Foundat…The Buckeye Institute — $115,000 · OtherCATO INSTITUTE — $375,000 · OtherCATO INSTITUTEPREVENTION ACTION ALLIANCE — $219,500 · OtherPREVENTION ACTION ALLIANCE+51 more — $1,243,500 · Other+51 moreActon Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty — $1,250,000 · Civil RightsActon Institu…CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN VIRTUE — $82,500 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR CH…+1 more — $20,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC — $1,130,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL CH…THE GLOBAL ORPHAN PROJECT INC — $50,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $15,000 · PhilanthropyMercatus Center Inc — $450,000 · Social ScienceAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH — $155,000 · Social ScienceAtlas Economic Research Foundation — $155,000 · Social ScienceFoundation for Economic Education Inc — $45,000 · Social Science+1 more — $5,000 · Social ScienceLuis Palau Association — $180,000 · ReligionSEARCH MINISTRIES — $120,000 · ReligionREFUGE INC — $110,000 · ReligionLiving on the Edge Ministries Inc — $80,000 · ReligionINSTITUTE FOR FAITH WORK & ECONOMICS INC — $70,000 · ReligionInternational Friendships Inc — $70,000 · ReligionInterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA — $30,000 · Religion+4 more — $37,500 · ReligionFORGE LEADERSHIP NETWORK — $175,000 · Youth DevelopmentFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $147,500 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFE — $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentLIFEWISE INC — $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF COLUMBUS INC — $20,000 · Youth Development+1 more — $15,000 · Youth Development
Education$4,295,500Other$2,668,000Civil Rights$1,352,500Philanthropy$1,195,000Social Science$810,000Religion$697,500Youth Development$462,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $3,750,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetActon Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty — $1,250,000 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC — $1,130,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetINTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC — $505,000 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetMercatus Center Inc — $450,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE — $375,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPREVENTION ACTION ALLIANCE — $219,500 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetLuis Palau Association — $180,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFORGE LEADERSHIP NETWORK — $175,000 over 8y, 6.7% of budgetAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH — $155,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAtlas Economic Research Foundation — $155,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $147,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSEARCH MINISTRIES — $120,000 over 6y, 39% of budgetThe Buckeye Institute — $115,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetREFUGE INC — $110,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetCENTER FOR CHRISTIAN VIRTUE — $82,500 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetLiving on the Edge Ministries Inc — $80,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG LIFE — $75,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSON MINISTRIES INC — $75,000 over 4y, 44% of budgetInternational Friendships Inc — $70,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetGRACEHAVEN INC — $66,500 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetTHE GLOBAL ORPHAN PROJECT INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFoundation for Economic Education Inc — $45,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetURBAN CONCERN INC — $42,500 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN FAMILY SERVICES — $40,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetTHE PHILADELPHIA SOCIETY — $40,000 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetSAGAMORE INSTITUTE INC — $40,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFOR COLUMBUS — $35,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetLIFEWISE INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR NATIONAL POLICY — $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetInterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA — $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES — $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLEE UNIVERSITY — $25,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDare 2 Share Ministries — $22,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF COLUMBUS INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Principles Project — $20,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCity Vision — $20,000 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJ JIREH DEVELOPMENT CORP — $15,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetCENTRAL OHIO YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCenter for Renewing America Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERVILLE AREA RESOURCE MINISTRY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEARTLAND HIGH SCHOOL — $5,500 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetOhio Citizen Advocates for Addiction Recovery — $5,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetCATALYST COLLABORATIVE — $5,000 over 1y, 3.4% 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.

  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE
  • Who funds Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty
  • Who funds NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC
  • Who funds Mercatus Center Inc
  • Who funds CATO INSTITUTE
  • Who funds PREVENTION ACTION ALLIANCE
  • Who funds Luis Palau Association
  • Who funds FORGE LEADERSHIP NETWORK
  • Who funds AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH
  • Who funds Atlas Economic Research Foundation
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES
  • Who funds SEARCH MINISTRIES
  • Who funds The Buckeye Institute
  • Who funds REFUGE INC
  • Who funds CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN VIRTUE
  • Who funds Living on the Edge Ministries Inc
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE
  • Who funds SON MINISTRIES INC
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR FAITH WORK & ECONOMICS INC
  • Who funds International Friendships Inc
  • Who funds GRACEHAVEN INC
  • Who funds THE GLOBAL ORPHAN PROJECT INC
  • Who funds Foundation for Economic Education Inc
  • Who funds URBAN CONCERN INC
  • Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN FAMILY SERVICES
  • Who funds THE PHILADELPHIA SOCIETY
  • Who funds SAGAMORE INSTITUTE INC
  • Who funds FOR COLUMBUS

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.

Columbus FoundationOH36.8× affinity20 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Columbus Foundation · Donors Trust Inc · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · Siemer Family Foundation · Harry C Moores Foundation · The Chase Foundation of Virginia · Delaware County Foundation · Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated · The Randolph 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 George Edward Durell 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%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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

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    How do I get to The George Edward Durell Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The George Edward Durell 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 91 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.

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