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The Joan Shafran and Rob Haimes Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$459k
Granted FY2025still arriving
89
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fund
0172% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20172025.

Arts & Culture$844kEducation$78kEnvironment$38kCivil Rights$33kHealth$28kHuman Services$23kInternational$18kYouth Development$14kCommunity Improvement$10kOther$461k
02FY2025 · 89 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k83 grants · $114k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $95k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$1,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF MENDELSOHN$250,000
THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE FOUNDATION$25,000
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY$25,000
THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE FOUNDATION$25,000
CHICAGO MOBILE MAKERS$10,000
BOSTON ARCHITECTURAL COLLEGE$10,000
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$8,500
DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE INC$5,000
THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE FOUNDATION$5,000
FREE SPEECH FOR PEOPLE$2,500
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY$2,500
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY$2,500
PROJECT EDUCATION$2,500
FREE SPEECH FOR PEOPLE$2,500
NEW ISRAEL FUND$2,500
02The need
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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 (FY17–25, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%PROJECT EDUCATION: $3k → 12%PROJECT EDUCATION: $3k → 7%PROJECT EDUCATION INC: $3k → 12%PROJECT EDUCATION: $3k → 7%PROJECT EDUCATION INC: $3k → 12%PROJECT EDUCATION: $3k → 7%PROJECT EDUCATION INC: $1k → 12%PROJECT EDUCATION: $2k → 7%GROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECT: $1k → 20%PROJECT EDUCATION INC: $1k → 7%GROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECT: $1k → 20%THE BRIGID ALLIANCE: $500 → 17%THE BRIGID ALLIANCE: $500 → 17%CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER: $500 → 8%CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER: $500 → 8%CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER: $250 → 8%CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $250 → 8%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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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.

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Where the work is directed

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

About 5% of The Joan Shafran and Rob Haimes Foundation Inc’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.

The Joan Shafran and Rob Haimes Foundation Inclessmore 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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 72 repeat orgs$346k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

72 repeat relationships — 58 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

72
15

Total granted

$1.1M
$66k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+11%

Still filing today

82%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $279k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentCivil RightsAnimalsHuman ServicesOther

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

  • BA
    BOSTON ARCHITECTURAL COLLEGE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $255k · revenue +29%
  • CM
    CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
    4× · 2022–2025 · $210k · revenue +15%
  • WL
    WESTPORT LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $21k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
  • FS
    Freed Seed Federation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $4k · revenue +46%
  • FT
    FOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue -15%

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
The Paris Review Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…

Education
2
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
3
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.

4
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
5
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
6
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…

7
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

8
Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment
9
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
10
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
11
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
12
American Repertory Theatre Co Inc

Seeks to expand the boundaries of theater, producing, performing and presenting works of literary, experimental and educational value. provide a home for outstanding artists, a training ground for young artists (including an extensive…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Bedford Light and the most unlike its peers is Foundation to Combat Anti-Semitism Inc. 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…Jewish Community Organizati…Community Arts CentersPolicy Research and AdvocacyPregnancy Support ServicesDance Arts OrganizationsOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Animal Rescue and ShelterImmigrant Worker SupportWomen & Girls Leadership De…Affordable Housing Developm…Lgbtq+ Community SupportLocal Food System Organizat…Local History MuseumsElementary Literacy TutoringIndependent K-12 SchoolsChristian Missionary Organi…Environmental Conservation …
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 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%4%<5yr14%12%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr16%32%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%18%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%2%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr13%5%35–55yr16%44%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 18% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/89
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,476

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

87 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 87 of the 103 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)
86/87
Grantees still filing
64/87
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE FOUNDATION — $303,001 · Arts & CultureTHE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE FOUNDATIONFRIENDS OF MENDELSOHN — $250,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF MENDELSOHNCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY — $210,000 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY+19 more — $81,250 · Arts & Culture+19 moreBOSTON ARCHITECTURAL COLLEGE — $254,800 · OtherBOSTON ARCHITECTURAL COLLEGEAIDS PROJECT LOS ANGELES — $62,500 · OtherAIDS PROJECT LOS ANGELESIndividual grant recipient — $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+40 more — $135,289 · Other+40 moreMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $36,000 · EducationOUR SISTERS SCHOOL — $14,000 · EducationIsrael 21c — $7,500 · EducationWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC — $5,500 · EducationOPEN BOOKS LTD — $3,000 · Education+9 more — $12,250 · EducationWESTPORT LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC — $20,500 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF HORSESHOE LAKE INC — $5,000 · EnvironmentGREENPEACE FUND INC — $2,000 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $1,750 · EnvironmentWESTPORT RIVER WATERSHED ALLIANCE INC — $1,500 · EnvironmentNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS LILITH FUND — $1,500 · EnvironmentMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $1,500 · EnvironmentDARTMOUTH NATURAL RESOURCES TRUST INC — $1,500 · EnvironmentBUZZARDS BAY COALITION — $1,250 · Environment+1 more — $1,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $10,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $8,000 · Civil RightsFREE SPEECH FOR PEOPLE INC — $5,000 · Civil RightsACLU FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC — $3,500 · Civil RightsReporters Without Borders Inc — $3,005 · Civil RightsINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC — $2,000 · Civil RightsFOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC — $1,650 · Civil RightsDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $20,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC — $4,500 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $3,000 · HealthPROJECT EDUCATION INC — $18,500 · Human ServicesGROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECTINC — $2,000 · Human ServicesCAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $1,500 · Human ServicesTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC — $1,000 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$844,251Other$502,589Education$78,250Environment$37,500Civil Rights$33,155Health$27,500Human Services$23,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE FOUNDATION — $303,001 over 9y, 3.0% of budgetBOSTON ARCHITECTURAL COLLEGE — $254,800 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY — $210,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetAIDS PROJECT LOS ANGELES — $62,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $36,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWESTPORT LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC — $20,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT EDUCATION INC — $18,500 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $15,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetOUR SISTERS SCHOOL — $14,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation — $12,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND — $11,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY — $10,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetONE COMMUNITY NYC INC — $8,500 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetTHE GRIFFIN MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY INC — $8,500 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND — $8,334 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUDSON OPERA HOUSE INC — $8,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMetropolitan Opera Association Inc — $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetIsrael 21c — $7,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC — $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWATERSHED CENTER FOR THE CERAMIC ARTS — $5,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF HORSESHOE LAKE INC — $5,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC — $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW BEDFORD LIGHT — $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOOL CULTURE INC — $4,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetKAATSBAAN INTERNATIONAL DANCE CENTER INC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetACLU FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC — $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAMBRIDGE PUBLIC ACCESS CORPORATION INC — $3,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetReporters Without Borders Inc — $3,005 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetOPEN BOOKS LTD — $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCIRCUS UP INC — $2,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC — $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetConcert Artists Guild Inc — $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC — $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFIDALGO ISLAND ROTARY FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNARROWS CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC — $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECTINC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREENPEACE FUND INC — $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON NEIGHBORHOOD COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON — $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDeeds Not Words — $2,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC — $1,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $1,750 over 4y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Boston Foundation IncMA23.8× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · The Christopher W Schlesinger Foundation · Stevenson Family Charitable Trust · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · The Gertler Clark Foundation Inc · Alvord Family Foundation · Stearns Charitable Trust · Philip Snyder 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 Joan Shafran and Rob Haimes Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 120%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 5%
  • Buzzards Bay Coalition37% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology35% of income from government
  • International Institute of New England Inc24% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc22% of income from government
  • Just-a-Start Corporation16% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University12% of income from government
  • Cambridge Community Center Inc8% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc7% of income from government
  • Narrows Center for the Arts Inc5% of income from government
  • The Griffin Museum of Photography Inc5% of income from government
  • Yellow Farmhouse Education Center Inc5% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc3% of income from government
  • Mass Design Art & Technology Institute Inc3% of income from government
  • Handel and Haydn Society2% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc1% of income from government
  • Wgbh Educational Foundation1% of income from government
  • Boston Architectural College1% of income from government
  • Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc1% of income from government
  • Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation Inc0% of income from government
  • Our Sisters School0% of income from government
  • Animal Rescue League of Boston0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get 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 · 0–40%
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.

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 103 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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