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The Irving I Moskowitz Foundation

To receive, administer, and distribute funds to charitable organizations for education, scientific, religious and charitable purposes.

$5.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
37
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$1.6M
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.

International$15MReligion$5.3MHealth$3.7MFood & Nutrition$3.2MHuman Services$2.9MEducation$2.4MScience & Tech$1.5MArts & Culture$1.1MOther$0
02FY2024 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $145k
  • $50k–250k23 grants · $2.1M
  • $250k+4 grants · $3.2M
$75,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$54M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTRAL FUND OF ISRAEL$1,596,000
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND$700,000
HAWAIIAN GARDENS FOOD BANK$645,000
COORDINATING COUNCIL OF JEWISH HOMELAND$263,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE EVEREST FOUNDATION$153,000
BEIS MIDRASH OF QUEENS$150,000
LANIADO DEVELOPMENT FUND$150,000
ISRAEL HERITAGE FOUNDATION$125,000
CHABAD HOUSE ON WHEELS$111,800
OHR SOMAYACH INTERNATIONAL$100,000
PROCLAIMING JUSTICE TO THE NATIONS INC$100,000
HATIKVAH EDUCATION FOUNDATION$100,000
GENERATIONS OF ISRAEL INC$100,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF WESTERN GALILEE HOSPITAL$100,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HOUSE OF HOPE$100,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HERITAGE POINTE: $20k → 10%HOME INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 11%LARGER THAN LIFE: $100k → 13%PARTNERSHIP WITH NATIVE AMERICANS (SOUTHWEST RESERVATION AID): $500 → 14%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC: $5k → 10%THE JEWISH PAVILION OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $10k → 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1k → 14%EZER MIZION: $30k → 9%LEAD FOUNDATION: $5k → 5%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $5k → 11%NJY CAMPS: $15k → 16%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $1k → 15%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $20k → 6%VISTA DEL MAR CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 14%LARGER THAN LIFE: $100k → 13%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC: $5k → 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $700 → 14%EZER MIZION: $15k → 9%NJY CAMPS: $15k → 16%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 6%HERITAGE POINTE: $10k → 10%LARGER THAN LIFE: $100k → 13%CHASDAY NAOMI USA FRIENDS: $7k → 16%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC: $5k → 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $140 → 14%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MEIR MEDICAL CENTER: $70k → 15%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 6%EZRA CENTER OF CALIFORNIA: $25k → 10%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $7k → 6%CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT: $50k → 14%SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION: $15k → 6%CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT: $50k → 14%CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT: $5k → 14%CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT: $15k → 14%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MEIR MEDICAL CENTER: $60k → 6%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $300k → 14%ISRAEL SPECIAL KIDS FUND: $10k → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $200k → 14%MIAMI LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND: $7k → 15%ORANGE COUNTY PROFESIONAL FIREFIGHTERS: $3k → 10%ISRAEL SPECIAL KIDS FUND: $10k → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $100k → 14%ORANGE COUNTY PROFESIONAL FIREFIGHTERS: $3k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $55k → 14%ORANGE COUNTY PROFESIONAL FIREFIGHTERS: $1k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $15k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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MA
SD
OH
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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 11% of The Irving I Moskowitz Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Irving I Moskowitz Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 30% directed abroad (not shown)
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$31M · 111 repeat orgs$5.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.

111 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2024, 83 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

111
115

Total granted

$31M
$4.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+32%

Still filing today

78%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $550k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’23’24
InternationalHealthHuman ServicesEducationReligionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • CF
    Central Fund of Israel
    8× · 2017–2024 · $7.8M · revenue +145%
  • HG
    HAWAIIAN GARDENS FOOD BANK INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +70% · 68% of their budget
  • AC
    AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC
    3× · 2017–2022 · $1.5M · revenue +168%

Funded once

  • BI
    BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY IN ISRAEL INC
    one grant, 2019 · $500k · revenue +17%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF IR DAVID INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $500k · revenue +46%
  • AA
    AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR BIKUR CHOLIM HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2018 · $375k
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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Sherit Isroel
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2
American Friends of Ish El Rayahu

To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.

Religion
3
Idf Memorial Foundation
Philanthropy
4
American Friends of Israel Emergency Aid Fund

To provide funding for medical and humanitarian projects throughout israel. the organization might make grants to other organizations providing such services, including, but not limited to, evp israel and israel emergency aid fund, israeli…

Public Safety & Disaster
5
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
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6
American Friends of Tzir Hemed
Philanthropy
7
American Friends of Even Yisroel Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
8
American Friends of the Us - Israel Binational Science Foundation

The mission of the american friends of the u.s.-israel binational science foundation (afbsf) is to ensure the continuation of collaborative world-class scientific research by israeli and american scientists through the us israel binational…

Science & Tech
9
American Friends of Torah and Tefilah Ramat Eshkol Inc

To promote and support jewish religious charitable and educational activities in israel & usa.

Religion
10
American Friends of Neveh Zion

To voluntarily assist the house of religious learning known as yeshiva neveh zion in israel

Religion
11
American Friends of Yeshivat Hakotel Inc

To support religious, charitable, scientific, literary and/or educational programs

Education
12
University of Judaism Foundation
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Emunah of America Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Friends of the Everest Foundation. 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

208 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. 208 of the 235 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)
62
Early backer (in before they grew)
201/208
Grantees still filing
147/208
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Central Fund of Israel: $7,787,000 · InternationalCentral Fund of IsraelJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $1,893,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INCAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC: $1,500,000 · InternationalAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF S…ONE ISRAEL FUND LTD: $1,410,000 · InternationalONE ISRAEL FUND LTDAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $570,000 · International+35 more: $3,605,180 · International+35 moreAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE EVEREST FOUNDATION: $2,115,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE EVERES…Western Wall Heritage Foundation Inc: $670,000 · OtherWestern Wall Heritage Foundati…COORDINATING COUNCIL FOR THE JEWISH HOMELAND INC: $563,000 · OtherCOORDINATING COUNCIL FOR THE J…BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY IN ISRAEL INC: $500,000 · OtherAMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR BIKUR CHOLIM HOSPITAL: $375,000 · OtherOHR SOMAYACH INTERNATIONAL INC: $370,000 · Other+85 more: $5,671,395 · Other+85 moreHAWAIIAN GARDENS FOOD BANK INC: $2,986,756 · Food & NutritionHAWAIIAN …+1 more: $5,000 · Food & NutritionAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY: $880,000 · EducationAMERICAN FRIENDS OF CHILDRENS NURSERY: $600,000 · EducationPROCLAIMING JUSTICE TO THE NATIONS INC: $575,000 · EducationAMERICAN REDISTRICTING PROJECT: $150,000 · EducationAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BET EL YESHIVA: $100,000 · Education+8 more: $354,490 · EducationNefesh B'Nefesh Jewish Souls United Inc: $1,200,000 · ReligionZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA: $262,000 · ReligionAFULA EDUCATIONAL CENTER INC: $200,000 · ReligionGENERATION OF ISRAEL INC: $175,000 · ReligionHELP US SAVE THE YOUTHS INC: $150,000 · ReligionTogether for Israel Inc: $90,000 · Religion+10 more: $362,000 · ReligionAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $670,000 · Human ServicesLARGER THAN LIFE USA INC: $300,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MEIR MEDICAL CENTER: $130,000 · Human ServicesChildren of the Night: $120,000 · Human Services+17 more: $293,840 · Human ServicesHELPING HAND FOUNDATION: $150,000 · HealthTAMAR FUND INTERNATIONAL INC: $150,000 · HealthLANIADO DEVELOPMENT FUND INC: $150,000 · HealthGIFT OF LIFE MARROW REGISTRY INC: $100,000 · HealthISRAEL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC: $77,500 · HealthISRAEL CHILDRENS CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $51,600 · HealthCHILD LIFE SOCIETY INC: $50,000 · HealthPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $50,000 · Health+7 more: $76,000 · Health
International$16,765,180Other$10,264,395Food & Nutrition$2,991,756Education$2,659,490Religion$2,439,000Human Services$1,513,840Health$1,030,100

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 budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $7,787,000 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetHAWAIIAN GARDENS FOOD BANK INC: $2,986,756 over 8y, 68% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE EVEREST FOUNDATION: $2,115,000 over 8y, 98% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $1,893,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC: $1,500,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetONE ISRAEL FUND LTD: $1,410,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetNefesh B'Nefesh Jewish Souls United Inc: $1,200,000 over 2y, 47% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY: $880,000 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetWestern Wall Heritage Foundation Inc: $670,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $670,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF CHILDRENS NURSERY: $600,000 over 3y, 69% of budgetPROCLAIMING JUSTICE TO THE NATIONS INC: $575,000 over 8y, 14% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $570,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetCOORDINATING COUNCIL FOR THE JEWISH HOMELAND INC: $563,000 over 5y, 27% of budgetBAR ILAN UNIVERSITY IN ISRAEL INC: $500,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF IR DAVID INC: $500,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetOHR SOMAYACH INTERNATIONAL INC: $370,000 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF WGH WESTERN GALILEE HOSPITAL NAHARIYA C/O THE LAPIN GROUP: $350,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetBeis Midrash of Queens: $325,000 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetWOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL ZIONIST ORGANIZATION: $300,180 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetHEBRON FUND INC: $300,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetLARGER THAN LIFE USA INC: $300,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $271,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA: $262,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetTHE GIVING BACK FUND: $210,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHATIKVAH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 3y, 53% of budgetAFULA EDUCATIONAL CENTER INC: $200,000 over 6y, 36% of budgetENDOWMENT FOR MIDDLE EAST TRUTH: $200,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetCLARION PROJECT INC: $195,000 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetGENERATION OF ISRAEL INC: $175,000 over 2y, 83% of budgetJEWISH INSTITUTE FOR NATIONAL SECURITY OF AMERICA: $155,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetAMERICAN REDISTRICTING PROJECT: $150,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetHELP US SAVE THE YOUTHS INC: $150,000 over 4y, 94% of budgetEZER MIZION: $150,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetHOPE FOR THE FUTURE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 4y, 50% of budgetMIDDLE EAST MEDIA AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $150,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetHELPING HAND FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetBinyamin Fund Inc DBA The Heart of Israel: $150,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetA CHANCE FOR THERAPY Inc: $150,000 over 3y, 25% of budgetTAMAR FUND INTERNATIONAL INC: $150,000 over 3y, 39% of budgetLANIADO DEVELOPMENT FUND INC: $150,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $140,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MEIR MEDICAL CENTER: $130,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HOUSE OF HOPE INC: $130,000 over 3y, 25% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC: $130,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetJUBILEE ORPHANAGE INC: $125,000 over 2y, 64% of budgetAdi Israel Foundation Inc: $125,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetChildren of the Night: $120,000 over 4y, 2.4% 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.

Cherna Moskowitz FoundationFL96× affinity44 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cherna Moskowitz Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Greater Miami Jewish Federation Inc · The Dennis Berman Family Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Dallas Jewish Community Foundation · The Frieman Foundation · Erlbaum Family Foundation · Iranian American Jewish Federation of New York Inc · Alyad Foundation Inc · Adelson Family 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 Irving I Moskowitz Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Irving I Moskowitz Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 250%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Sharsheret Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Legal Aid Service of Broward County Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Miami Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
25get 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 · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to The Irving I Moskowitz Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 235 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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