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The J Paul Getty Trust at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

· Private foundation

The J Paul Getty Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$29M
Granted FY2025still arriving
492
Grants FY2025still arriving
30
States reached
$11M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

Arts & Culture$97MEducation$33MPhilanthropy$12MReligion$5.8MEnvironment$5.3MScience & Tech$4.5MInternational$2.1MCommunity Improvement$1.4MOther$0
02FY2025 · 492 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k293 grants · $1.3M
  • $10k–50k140 grants · $3.8M
  • $50k–250k37 grants · $4.0M
  • $250k+22 grants · $20M
$7,900
Median grant
30
States reached
$13.9B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE CENTER FOR CULTURAL INNOVATION$10,909,326
NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES$1,550,000
CENTER FOR CURATORIAL LEADERSHIP$1,000,000
MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV$846,226
JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY$442,500
LOS ANGELES CONSERVANCY$420,000
BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE TATE GALLERY$408,850
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY$365,000
ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$343,530
ICA LA$335,000
THE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON$331,667
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION$310,000
COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC$304,000
SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH$300,000
FUNDACION DEL MUSEO GUGGENHEIM BILBAO$286,454
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

US giving: 72% of grant dollars ($118M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 28% that went abroad ($47M) is mapped below.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $91k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MATERIALS & APPLICATIONS: $8k → 14%MATERIALS & APPLICATIONS: $8k → 14%MATERIALS & APPLICATIONS: $8k → 14%MATERIALS & APPLICATIONS: $7k → 14%MATERIALS & APPLICATIONS: $7k → 14%REDISCOVER CENTER INC: $8k → 14%REDISCOVER CENTER INC: $7k → 14%ARTS AND SERVICES FOR DISABLED INC: $7k → 14%ARTS AND SERVICES FOR DISABLED INC: $7k → 14%Arts and Services for Disabled Inc: $6k → 14%SAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH: $12k → 14%United Friends of the Children: $9k → 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

ME
VT
NH
WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
DC
OK
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL

Beyond the US: 28% of all-years giving ($47M)

72 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
United Kingdom$12M · 138 grants
India$5.8M · 15 grants
Germany$4.6M · 83 grants
Italy$4.0M · 72 grants
France$2.7M · 65 grants
Netherlands$1.9M · 31 grants
Brazil$1.5M · 23 grants
Australia$1.3M · 18 grants
Switzerland$1.3M · 18 grants
Spain$1.2M · 24 grants
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 6% of The J Paul Getty Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The J Paul Getty Trustlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 28% 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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$111M · 671 repeat orgs$38M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

671 repeat relationships: 236 still active in FY2025, 435 since wound down; 220 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

671
1083

Total granted

$111M
$31M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+12%

Still filing today

48%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyInternationalCommunity ImprovementOther
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
    Center for Cultural Innovation
    2× · 2017–2025 · $11M · revenue ×31 · 43% of their budget
  • AC
    AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES
    7× · 2017–2024 · $5.0M · revenue +33%
  • NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES
    6× · 2020–2025 · $4.8M · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • IA
    INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR THE PROTECTION OF HERITAGE IN CONFLICT AREAS
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M
  • AF
    ARTS FOR HEALING AND JUSTICE NETWORK
    one grant, 2024 · $502k · revenue +1%
  • ST
    Stichting tot Beheer Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
    one grant, 2018 · $346k
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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California Institute of Contemporary Art
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2
California College of the Arts

California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…

Education
3
Boston Architectural College

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

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4
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
5
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
6
Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco

The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…

Arts & Culture
7
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
8
National Academy of Design

The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.

Education
9
Monterey Museum of Art

The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.

Arts & Culture
10
New York Academy of Art

The new york academy of art is a unique graduate school that combines intensive technical training in the fine arts with active critical discourse. we believe that rigorously trained artists are best able to realize their artistic vision.…

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11
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

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12
New York Studio School

The new york studio school is committed to giving a significant education to the aspiring artist, a preamble to a lifetime's engagement in drawing, painting, and sculpture. (see schedule o for continuation)

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arts for La; the most unlike its peers is The Broad. 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

584 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. 584 of the 1,987 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)
93
Early backer (in before they grew)
573/584
Grantees still filing
394/584
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Center for Cultural Innovation: $10,919,326 · Arts & CultureCenter for Cultural InnovationAMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES: $4,985,400 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIESNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES: $4,826,200 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE U…DESTINATION CRENSHAW: $4,025,125 · Arts & CultureDESTINATION CRENSHAW+52 more: $29,902,807 · Arts & Culture+52 moreCHHATRAPATI SHIVAJI MAHARAJ VASTU SANGRAHALAYA: $5,172,015 · OtherCHHATRAPATI SHIVAJI MAHARAJ VASTU SAN…THE BRITISH MUSEUM: $4,808,793 · OtherTHE BRITISH MUSEUMREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $3,795,950 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORN…+103 more: $28,227,427 · Other+103 morePresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $1,618,500 · EducationPresident and…LA PROMISE FUND: $1,590,000 · EducationLA PROMISE FU…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1,385,100 · EducationTRUSTEES OF T…New York University: $1,265,000 · EducationNew York Univ…UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $1,253,165 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF…Claremont Graduate University: $825,000 · EducationClaremont Gra…POMONA COLLEGE: $789,075 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITY: $533,000 · EducationTHE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES: $504,125 · Education+20 more: $5,233,375 · Education+20 moreCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $11,588,880 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA…+2 more: $489,900 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $543,428 · Community ImprovementLA PLAZA DE CULTURA Y ARTES: $357,050 · Community ImprovementSCHOOL FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH: $300,000 · Social ScienceAMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES: $265,400 · Social ScienceAMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME: $371,250 · InternationalTHE ASIA SOCIETY: $145,000 · International
Arts & Culture$54,658,858Other$42,004,185Education$14,996,340Philanthropy$12,078,780Community Improvement$900,478Social Science$565,400International$516,250

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%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $11,588,880 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCenter for Cultural Innovation: $10,919,326 over 2y, 43% of budgetAMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES: $4,985,400 over 7y, 3.6% of budgetNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES: $4,826,200 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetDESTINATION CRENSHAW: $4,025,125 over 4y, 16% of budgetCOLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC: $1,662,000 over 8y, 8.9% of budgetMUSEUM ASSOCIATES: $1,630,025 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $1,618,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLA PROMISE FUND: $1,590,000 over 8y, 9.9% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1,385,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC: $1,371,125 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS: $1,344,900 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetNew York University: $1,265,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $1,253,165 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetVINCENT PRICE ART FOUNDATION: $1,165,525 over 8y, 45% of budgetHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY: $1,087,520 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES: $1,025,627 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetCENTER FOR CURATORIAL LEADERSHIP INC: $1,000,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Gallery of Art: $983,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetACADEMY FOUNDATION: $966,675 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetAUTRY MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST: $908,175 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $905,295 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetICA LA: $897,650 over 8y, 10% of budgetAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF MUSEUMS: $850,000 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetClaremont Graduate University: $825,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPOMONA COLLEGE: $789,075 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION: $769,750 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AAMC FOUNDATION: $759,000 over 7y, 34% of budgetAMIGOS DEL MUSEO DEL BARRIO INC EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO: $750,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetSELF HELP GRAPHICS & ART INC: $648,525 over 8y, 4.7% of budgetSKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER: $625,775 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY FOUNDATION: $611,250 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetLOS ANGELES CONSERVANCY: $608,775 over 8y, 4.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $543,428 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetARMORY CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $536,550 over 8y, 6.7% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $533,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES: $504,125 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetARTS FOR HEALING AND JUSTICE NETWORK: $502,380 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $484,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES CONTEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS INC: $477,550 over 8y, 16% of budgetSAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART: $470,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetPERFORMING ARTS CENTER OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY: $455,685 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $400,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO: $395,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetTHE WENDE MUSEUM OF THE COLD WAR INC: $393,075 over 7y, 4.2% of budgetART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN: $379,220 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $378,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME: $371,250 over 3y, 1.5% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Center for Cultural Innovation ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES ↗
  • Who funds DESTINATION CRENSHAW ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM ASSOCIATES ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds LA PROMISE FUND ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds New York University ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds VINCENT PRICE ART FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY ↗
  • Who funds THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR CURATORIAL LEADERSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds National Gallery of Art ↗
  • Who funds ACADEMY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AUTRY MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST ↗
  • Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
  • Who funds ICA LA ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF MUSEUMS ↗
  • Who funds Claremont Graduate University ↗
  • Who funds POMONA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds THE AAMC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMIGOS DEL MUSEO DEL BARRIO INC EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO ↗
  • Who funds SELF HELP GRAPHICS & ART INC ↗
  • Who funds SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY FOUNDATION ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Ahmanson Foundati…The Ralph M Parsons F…Perenchio FoundationThe Annenberg Foundat…California Community …California HumanitiesThe Andrew W Mellon F…Pasadena Art AllianceThe Mike Kelley Found…The Rose Hills Founda…Snap FoundationThe Andy Warhol Found…
The Ahmanson FoundationCA105.6× affinity77 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ahmanson Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Perenchio Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · California Community Foundation · California Humanities · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Pasadena Art Alliance · The Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts · The Rose Hills Foundation · Snap Foundation · The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts 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 J Paul Getty Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The J Paul Getty Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Baltimore Museum of Art: 4% of income from government
  • American Academy of Arts & Sciences: 3% of income from government
  • Willamette University: 1% of income from government
  • Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc: 1% of income from government
  • American Repertory Theatre Co Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Museum of Fine Arts: 0% of income from government
  • Williams College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
55report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 1987 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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