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The Jackson Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Human Services$2.5MEducation$1.8MHousing & Shelter$590kArts & Culture$537kHealth$390kCivil Rights$364kPhilanthropy$345kEnvironment$210kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $555k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $730k
$45,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDSAVERS$75,000
FRIENDS OF RICHMOND COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL$65,000
FAMILY LIFELINE$60,000
HUMANKIND$60,000
BETTER HOUSING COALITION$60,000
VIRGINIA LEAGUE FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD$60,000
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF RICHMOND$50,000
GREATER RICHMOND SCAN$50,000
SACRED HEART CENTER$50,000
YWCA OF RICHMOND$50,000
REESTABLISH RICHMOND$50,000
VIRGINIA CENTER FOR INCLUSIVE COMMUNITIES$50,000
GREATER RICHMOND FIT4KIDS$50,000
PARTNERSHIP FOR THE FUTURE$45,000
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHESTERFIELD$45,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FULL CIRCLE GRIEF CENTER: $25k → 6%HUMANKIND: $60k → 9%FULL CIRCLE GRIEF CENTER: $25k → 6%HUMANKIND: $60k → 9%FULL CIRCLE GRIEF CENTER: $25k → 6%HUMANKIND: $55k → 9%HUMANKIND: $43k → 9%HUMANKIND: $43k → 9%HUMANKIND: $35k → 9%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF VIRGINIA: $25k → 9%YWCA OF RICHMOND: $70k → 22%YWCA OF RICHMOND: $70k → 22%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF VIRGINIA: $25k → 9%YWCA OF RICHMOND: $67k → 22%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF VIRGINIA: $25k → 9%YWCA OF RICHMOND: $52k → 22%YWCA OF RICHMOND: $50k → 22%HUMANKIND: $25k → 9%YWCA OF RICHMOND: $48k → 22%YWCA OF RICHMOND: $35k → 22%SHALOM FARMS: $35k → 9%SHALOM FARMS: $25k → 9%SHALOM FARMS: $25k → 9%SHALOM FARMS: $25k → 9%YWCA OF RICHMOND: $20k → 22%REESTABLISH RICHMOND: $50k → 22%PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $35k → 9%PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $35k → 9%REESTABLISH RICHMOND: $25k → 22%PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $35k → 9%FAMILY LIFELINE: $60k → 22%FAMILY LIFELINE: $50k → 22%FAMILY LIFELINE: $45k → 22%FAMILY LIFELINE: $45k → 22%FAMILY LIFELINE: $45k → 22%PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $25k → 9%FAMILY LIFELINE: $45k → 22%PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $25k → 9%FAMILY LIFELINE: $35k → 22%PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $25k → 9%SHALOM FARMS: $35k → 22%PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $25k → 9%FAMILY LIFELINE: $25k → 22%CAPITAL CENTER OF VIRGINIA: $10k → 22%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.6M · 42 repeat orgs$240k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against -6% for those funded once.

42 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
8

Total granted

$7.6M
$175k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
-6%

Still filing today

86%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther
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

  • FO
    Friends of Richmond Community High School
    8× · 2018–2025 · $461k · revenue +53% · 38% of their budget
  • YR
    YWCA RICHMOND
    8× · 2018–2025 · $411k · revenue +161%
  • FL
    FAMILY LIFELINE
    8× · 2018–2025 · $350k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • AC
    ADVISORY COUNCIL OF THE VTCC
    one grant, 2018 · $33k
  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF RICHMOND
    one grant, 2023 · $30k
  • HB
    HEALTH BRIGADEgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +83%
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
Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce

Chamberrva is the trusted voice for modern business in the richmond virginia region. we are change agents, rallying to do the hard things that will create a more connected, prosperous, health and equitable community.

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2
The Commonwealth Institute for

To use policy, research, and analysis to advance the well-being of Virginia communities, and improve the economic security and social opportunities of all Virginians.

Public Benefit
3
Richmond County Partnership for Children Inc

Richmond County Partnership for Children advances a high-quality, accountable system of care and early education for each child beginning with a healthy birth, and supports families to improve early childhood health and development to…

Education
4
Community Health Center of Richmond Inc

The organization's mission is to sustain a vibrant, healthy and strong community through affordable, culturally competent, quality primary health care.

Health
5
Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy

Working within the faith community to educate and mobilize citizen to create systemic social change for low income Virginians.

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6
The Richmond Forum

To present powerful voices so richmond can learn. to empower local voices so richmond can lead.

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7
ForRichmond

For Richmond convenes city wide events and presentations, prayer meetings and worship services to promote unity in the city of Richmond among Christians by building trusted relationships between churches and leaders, while doing good for…

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8
Vcu Investment Management Company

To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…

Education
9
Greater Richmond Partnership Inc

GRP's mission is to aggressively generate economic opportunities that create quality jobs for residents in the region and increase the tax base for needed community services.

Public Benefit
10
Virginia Commonwealth University Intellectual Property Foundation

The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…

Health
11
Vpm Media Corporation

To use the power of media to educate, entertain and inspire, using public television and public radio to make a positive impact on the communities throughout central virginia, charlottesville, the shenandoah valley, the northern neck and…

Arts & Culture
12
Richmond Art Center

To be a catalyst in Richmond for learning and living through art.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communities in Schools of Richmond Inc; the most unlike its peers is Full Circle Grief Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

46 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. 46 of the 53 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/46
Grantees still filing
34/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YWCA RICHMOND: $410,700 · Human ServicesYWCA RICHMONDFAMILY LIFELINE: $350,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY LIFELINEPRESBYTERIAN HOMES & FAMILY SVCS: $321,000 · Human ServicesPRESBYTERIAN HOMES & FA…PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $205,000 · Human ServicesPETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT …SHALOM FARMSINC: $145,000 · Human ServicesSHALOM FARMSINCFULL CIRCLE GRIEF CENTER: $75,000 · Human ServicesRE-ESTABLISH RICHMOND INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesChildren's Home Society of Virginia: $75,000 · Human Services+1 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesSACRED HEART CENTER INC: $335,000 · OtherSACRED HEART CENTER INCCHILDSAVERS- MEMORIAL CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC: $325,000 · OtherCHILDSAVERS- MEMORIAL CHILD GUIDANCE CL…Individual grant recipient: $225,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCHESTERFIELD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $115,000 · OtherROBINSON THEATER: $105,000 · OtherVirginia Center for Inclusive Communities: $235,000 · OtherVirginia Center for Inclusive Communiti…VOICES FOR VIRGINIA'S CHILDREN: $129,000 · OtherVIRGINIA LEAGUE FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD INCORPORATED: $315,000 · OtherVIRGINIA LEAGUE FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD …RICHMOND HILL INCORPORATED: $210,000 · OtherRICHMOND HILL INCORPORATEDJAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION: $210,000 · OtherJAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION+12 more: $545,400 · Other+12 moreFriends of Richmond Community High School: $461,000 · EducationFriends of Richmond…JSARGEANT REYNOLDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $320,000 · EducationJSARGEANT REYNOLDS …COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHESTERFIELD: $200,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHO…GREAT ASPIRATIONS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM INC: $180,000 · EducationGREAT ASPIRATIONS S…Partnership for Housing Affordability: $115,000 · EducationPartnership for Hou…VIRGINIAFIRST: $55,000 · Education+2 more: $45,000 · EducationGREATER RICHMOND SCAN - STOP CHILD ABUSE NOW INC: $340,000 · Crime & LegalGREATER R…COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF RICHMOND INC: $285,000 · Crime & LegalCOMMUNITI…VIRGINIA MENTORING PARTNERSHIP: $42,000 · Crime & LegalVIRGINIA …GREATER RICHMOND FIT4KIDS INC: $291,000 · PhilanthropyPARTNERSHIP FOR THE FUTURE: $265,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $8,685 · PhilanthropyTHE VALENTINE MUSEUM: $217,000 · Arts & CultureART 180 Inc: $115,000 · Arts & CultureROBINSON THEATER COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER: $75,000 · Arts & CultureSCIENCE MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureBETTER HOUSING COALITION: $320,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING FAMILIES FIRST: $80,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE MAGGIE WALKER COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $25,000 · Housing & Shelter
Human Services$1,666,700Other$2,749,400Education$1,376,000Crime & Legal$667,000Philanthropy$564,685Arts & Culture$432,000Housing & Shelter$425,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFriends of Richmond Community High School: $461,000 over 8y, 38% of budgetYWCA RICHMOND: $410,700 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetFAMILY LIFELINE: $350,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetGREATER RICHMOND SCAN - STOP CHILD ABUSE NOW INC: $340,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetSACRED HEART CENTER INC: $335,000 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetCHILDSAVERS- MEMORIAL CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC: $325,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN HOMES & FAMILY SVCS: $321,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetBETTER HOUSING COALITION: $320,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetJSARGEANT REYNOLDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $320,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetVIRGINIA LEAGUE FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD INCORPORATED: $315,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER RICHMOND FIT4KIDS INC: $291,000 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF RICHMOND INC: $285,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR THE FUTURE: $265,000 over 6y, 5.6% of budgetVirginia Center for Inclusive Communities: $235,000 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetTHE VALENTINE MUSEUM: $217,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetRICHMOND HILL INCORPORATED: $210,000 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetJAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION: $210,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetPETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $205,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHESTERFIELD: $200,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetGREAT ASPIRATIONS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM INC: $180,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetSHALOM FARMSINC: $145,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetVOICES FOR VIRGINIA'S CHILDREN: $129,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetART 180 Inc: $115,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetPartnership for Housing Affordability: $115,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetHOUSING FAMILIES FIRST: $80,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO RICHMOND: $80,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFULL CIRCLE GRIEF CENTER: $75,000 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetRE-ESTABLISH RICHMOND INC: $75,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetChildren's Home Society of Virginia: $75,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetROBINSON THEATER COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER: $75,000 over 3y, 9.4% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD RESOURCE CENTER: $55,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetRICHMOND OPPORTUNITIES INC: $50,000 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetRICHMOND COMMUNITY TOOLBANK: $45,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetREADING AND EDUCATION FOR ADULT DEVELOPMENT: $45,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetVIRGINIA MENTORING PARTNERSHIP: $42,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetTHE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHEALTH BRIGADE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSCIENCE MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCODEVA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPodium RVA: $20,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetCAPITAL CENTER OF VIRGINIA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE GREATER RICHMOND CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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 Friends of Richmond Community High School ↗
  • Who funds YWCA RICHMOND ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY LIFELINE ↗
  • Who funds GREATER RICHMOND SCAN - STOP CHILD ABUSE NOW INC ↗
  • Who funds SACRED HEART CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDSAVERS- MEMORIAL CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds PRESBYTERIAN HOMES & FAMILY SVCS ↗
  • Who funds BETTER HOUSING COALITION ↗
  • Who funds JSARGEANT REYNOLDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIA LEAGUE FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds GREATER RICHMOND FIT4KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF RICHMOND INC ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR THE FUTURE ↗
  • Who funds Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities ↗
  • Who funds THE VALENTINE MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds RICHMOND HILL INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHESTERFIELD ↗
  • Who funds GREAT ASPIRATIONS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds SHALOM FARMSINC ↗
  • Who funds VOICES FOR VIRGINIA'S CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds ART 180 Inc ↗
  • Who funds Partnership for Housing Affordability ↗
  • Who funds HOUSING FAMILIES FIRST ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO RICHMOND ↗
  • Who funds FULL CIRCLE GRIEF CENTER ↗
  • Who funds RE-ESTABLISH RICHMOND INC ↗
  • Who funds Children's Home Society of Virginia ↗
  • Who funds ROBINSON THEATER COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD RESOURCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIAFIRST ↗
  • Who funds RICHMOND OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds RICHMOND COMMUNITY TOOLBANK ↗
  • Who funds READING AND EDUCATION FOR ADULT DEVELOPMENT ↗

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.

Richmond Memorial Health FoundationVA72.1× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Richmond Memorial Health Foundation · Robins Foundation · Herndon Foundation · The Pauley Family Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · Virginia Nonprofit Housing Coalition · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Carmax Foundation · Shelton H Short Jr Trust · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · Bon Secours - Richmond Health System Inc · Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell 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 Jackson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jackson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    19report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Jackson Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Jackson 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 53 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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