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The Jaffe Family 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.

$4.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
103
Grants FY2024still arriving
17
States reached
$1.4M
Largest
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$7.1MEnvironment$4.3MEducation$3.5MHealth$1.5MInternational$631kAnimals$510kPhilanthropy$401kHuman Services$199kOther$0
02FY2024 · 103 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k52 grants · $110k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $443k
  • $50k–250k25 grants · $2.4M
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.7M
$9,884
Median grant
17
States reached
$58M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CLIMATE CHANGE FOR ALL EDUCATORS INC$1,370,000
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY$325,000
FARE$200,000
WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY$200,000
ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE$164,000
NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY$152,500
WGBH$150,000
YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE$125,000
PAUL TAYLOR DANCE FOUNDATION$110,000
TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$105,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$101,500
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF OUTSET$100,160
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION$100,000
JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER$100,000
ASHOKA$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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $246k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%RIP MEDICAL DEBT: $5k → 13%FOOD FOR PRESTON: $500 → 14%CARVER CENTER: $5k → 9%FOOD FOR PRESTON: $230 → 14%CARVER CENTER: $3k → 9%KAFSC - KOREAN AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICE CENTER: $5k → 13%CARVER CENTER: $1k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%CARVER CENTER: $750 → 9%LOS ANGELES HOUSE OF RUTH: $3k → 14%CARVER CENTER: $500 → 9%LOS ANGELES HOUSE OF RUTH: $2k → 14%BRIDGE FUND OF NEW YORK: $50k → 17%BRIDGE FUND OF NEW YORK: $25k → 17%BRIDGE FUND OF NEW YORK: $25k → 17%BRIDGE FUND OF NEW YORK: $25k → 17%BRIDGE FUND OF NEW YORK: $10k → 17%AFYA FOUNDATION: $518 → 9%COVENANT HOUSE: $2k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $1k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $516 → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $500 → 17%A PROJECT 83: $25k → 17%A PROJECT 83: $10k → 17%HARLEM CHILDRENS ZONE: $25k → 17%HARLEM CHILDRENS ZONE: $20k → 17%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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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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$17M · 136 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

136 repeat relationships: 73 still active in FY2024, 63 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

136
139

Total granted

$17M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+20%

Still filing today

62%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $384k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesInternationalEnvironmentOther
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

  • CC
    CLIMATE CHANGE FOR ALL EDUCATORS
    4× · 2021–2024 · $3.6M · revenue +656% · 98% of their budget
  • AM
    American Museum of Natural History
    6× · 2019–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +13%
  • NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $454k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • LC
    LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE ARTS
    one grant, 2020 · $300k
  • AF
    ASCENA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $225k · revenue -81%
  • LC
    LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $200k · revenue +55%
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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New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
2
The Architectural League of New York

The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…

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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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New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
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University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
7
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
9
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
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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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New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Success Academy Charter Schools Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ascena Foundation. 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

169 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. 169 of the 305 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
167/169
Grantees still filing
119/169
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FARE: $1,200,500 · OtherFAREARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE: $996,678 · OtherARCHITECTURAL LEAGUEWGBH: $861,000 · OtherWGBHYALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE: $659,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURETHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $448,000 · OtherICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDACINE MT SINAI: $400,000 · OtherWEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $400,000 · OtherCORNELL UNIVERSITY - DEPT OF ARCHITECTURE: $319,000 · Other+109 more: $3,748,944 · Other+109 moreAmerican Museum of Natural History: $2,155,500 · Arts & CultureAmerican Museum of Natu…JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC: $610,000 · Arts & CultureJAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER …PAUL TAYLOR DANCE FOUNDATION INC: $293,500 · Arts & CulturePAUL TAYLOR DANCE FOUND…Museum of Modern Art: $283,250 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Modern ArtLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $200,000 · Arts & Culture+22 more: $841,794 · Arts & Culture+22 moreCLIMATE CHANGE FOR ALL EDUCATORS: $3,595,000 · EnvironmentCLIMATE CHANGE FOR ALL …NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $453,500 · EnvironmentNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIET…Westchester Land Trust Inc: $178,040 · Environment+3 more: $38,296 · EnvironmentTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $862,120 · EducationTRUSTEES OF …THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $392,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES…Teachers College Columbia University: $282,500 · EducationTeachers Col…UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $200,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY O…ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $100,000 · EducationALL OUR KIN INC: $95,000 · EducationThe Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute: $90,000 · Education+15 more: $241,333 · Education+15 moreASHOKA: $525,000 · InternationalTHE NETHERLAND-AMERICA FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · International+8 more: $40,530 · InternationalTHE BRIDGE FUND OF NEW YORK INC: $135,000 · Human ServicesHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesA Project 83 Inc: $35,000 · Human ServicesPORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC: $10,750 · Human ServicesMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $10,000 · Human Services+6 more: $31,948 · Human ServicesFOOD ALLERGY FUND: $60,000 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $46,275 · HealthWE CARE SOLAR: $13,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC: $10,000 · HealthFOUNTAIN HOUSE INC: $7,119 · Health+2 more: $6,800 · Health
Other$9,033,122Arts & Culture$4,384,044Environment$4,264,836Education$2,262,953International$595,530Human Services$267,698Health$143,194

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 budgetCLIMATE CHANGE FOR ALL EDUCATORS: $3,595,000 over 4y, 98% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $2,155,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $862,120 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC: $610,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetASHOKA: $525,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $453,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $448,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $392,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPAUL TAYLOR DANCE FOUNDATION INC: $293,500 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $283,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTeachers College Columbia University: $282,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetASCENA FOUNDATION: $225,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWestchester Land Trust Inc: $178,040 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetTHE BRIDGE FUND OF NEW YORK INC: $135,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetBANG ON A CAN: $122,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF OUTSET INC: $100,160 over 1y, 21% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALL OUR KIN INC: $95,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSTEVEN MYRON HOLL FOUNDATION INC: $93,650 over 5y, 7.8% of budgetSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute: $90,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetUNIONDOCS INC: $90,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetANYONE CORPORATION: $79,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $65,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEW PROFIT INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD ALLERGY FUND: $60,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetWNET: $55,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF BIRDLIFE INTERNATIONAL INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $46,275 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTOREFRONT FOR ART AND ARCHITECTURE INC: $45,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetEDIBLE SCHOOLYARD NEW YORK: $35,053 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetA Project 83 Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetBILLION OYSTER PROJECT INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION: $34,800 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NETHERLAND-AMERICA FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSUNY IMPACT FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR ARCHITECTURE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTEEP ROCK ASSOCIATION INC: $24,306 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetATLANTIC CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $23,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetMYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC: $23,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBROOKLYN BOATWORKS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND: $18,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SKYSCRAPER MUSEUM: $16,000 over 4y, 0.8% 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 CLIMATE CHANGE FOR ALL EDUCATORS ↗
  • Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ASHOKA ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds PAUL TAYLOR DANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
  • Who funds Teachers College Columbia University ↗
  • Who funds ASCENA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Westchester Land Trust Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE BRIDGE FUND OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds BANG ON A CAN ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF OUTSET INC ↗
  • Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
  • Who funds ALL OUR KIN INC ↗
  • Who funds STEVEN MYRON HOLL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM 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 New York Community TrustNY31.4× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The New York Community Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Ag Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Wenden Foundation · Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts · Murray & Susan Haber Charitable Foundation · The Kestrel Foundation · Select Equity Group Foundation · May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation Inc · Arnhold Foundation Inc · The Connecticut Community 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 Jaffe Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jaffe Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Blue Hill Observatory Science Center Inc: 59% of income from government
  • American School at Hartford for the Deaf: 32% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Steep Rock Association Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc: 10% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Atlantic Center for the Arts Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Mystic Seaport Museum Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Baltimore Museum of Art: 4% of income from government
  • Washington Friends of Music Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Project Music Heals Us Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Breaktime United Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Bantam Cinema & Arts Center Inc: 1% of income from government
  • All Our Kin Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Pilobolus Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Friends of Mvyradio Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
43report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.
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Find your warmest path to The Jaffe Family 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 305 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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