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The John Bickford Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The John Bickford Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$204k
Granted FY2025still arriving
55
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$424kReligion$208kEducation$204kHuman Services$176kHealth$166kFood & Nutrition$59kInternational$59kCrime & Legal$53kOther$0
02FY2025 · 55 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k53 grants · $179k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
$3,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MORRIS MUSEUM INC$15,000
ART IN THE ATRIUM INC$10,000
FEMINIST HEALTH CENTER OF$7,500
ST JOHNS EPISCOPAL CHURCH$7,000
METTAWEE THEATRE CO INC$6,000
ALMA BACKYARD FARM$5,000
UNITED BOARD FOR CHRISTIAN HIGHER EDUCATION IN ASI$5,000
COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF MORRIS AND SU$5,000
GREAT WORKS REGIONAL LAND TRUST$5,000
REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION$5,000
CHILDREN ON THE GREEN INC$5,000
WILBURY THEATRE GROUP$5,000
NEWBRIDGE SERVICES INC$5,000
TWO STATE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION$5,000
PRINCETON NURSERY SCHOOL INC$5,000
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 (FY18–25, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE CENTER AT 353 INC: $5k → 11%THE CENTER AT 353 INC: $5k → 11%TRINITY COUNSELING SERVICES: $2k → 11%COMMUNITY ACTION SERVICE CENTER: $5k → 11%COMMUNITY ACTION SERVICE CENTER: $3k → 11%COMMUNITY ACTION SERVICE CENTER DBA RISE: $2k → 11%IT TAKES PHILLY ENCOURAGING AND EMPOWERING OUR CHI: $2k → 7%IT TAKES PHILLY INC: $2k → 7%IT TAKES PHILLY ENCOURAGING AND EMPOWERING OUR CHI: $2k → 7%IT TAKES PHILLY INC: $1k → 7%SEACOAST VILLAGE PROJECT: $2k → 5%SEACOAST VILLAGE PROJECT: $2k → 5%SEACOAST VILLAGE PROJECT: $2k → 5%CORNERSTONE FAMILY PROGRAMS: $5k → 4%CORNERSTONE FAMILY PROGRAMS: $5k → 4%CORNERSTONE FAMILY PROGRAMS: $5k → 4%CHILDREN ON THE GREEN INC: $5k → 4%CHILDREN OF THE GREEN: $3k → 4%CHILDREN OF THE GREEN: $3k → 4%CHILDREN OF THE GREEN: $2k → 4%COMMUNITY HOPE INC: $1k → 4%ROOTS & WINGS FOUNDATION A NEW JERSEY NON PROFIT C: $2k → 4%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
NH
WA
IL
NY
MA
SD
IN
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
MO
VA
TN
NC
SC
DC
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 99 repeat orgs$112k to everyone else

99 repeat relationships: 42 still active in FY2025, 57 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

99
34

Total granted

$1.6M
$78k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+27%

Still filing today

64%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthInternationalAnimalsOther
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

  • TM
    THE MORRIS MUSEUM INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $133k · revenue +11%
  • SB
    STRAWBERY BANKE MUSEUM
    9× · 2017–2025 · $41k · revenue +95%
  • IF
    INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +96%

Funded once

  • ST
    SIGNATURE THEATRE COMPANY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +27%
  • TC
    TRINITY COUNSELING SERVICES
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +2%
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTHERN CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY INC
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +4%
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
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
2
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
3
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
4
Manhattanville University

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

Education
5
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
6
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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7
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
8
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
9
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
10
The Newark Museum Association

Nmoa mission statement is: we welcome everyone with inclusive experiences that spark curiosity and foster community.

Arts & Culture
11
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
12
Mitchell College

Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cornerstone Family Programs; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Big Bear Valley. 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

97 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. 97 of the 145 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)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
95/97
Grantees still filing
64/97
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WALHALLA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $67,500 · OtherWALHALLA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHFLORIDA RESOURCE CENTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC: $65,000 · OtherFLORIDA RESOURCE CENTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INCST JOHNS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $48,000 · OtherMARYKNOLL SISTERS: $41,000 · OtherMETTAWEE RIVER THEATER CO #D405: $37,500 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NORTHERN NJ: $35,000 · OtherCORNERSTONE FAMILY SERVICES: $35,000 · OtherHOMELESS SOLUTIONS INC: $32,920 · Other+76 more: $602,230 · Other+76 moreTHE MORRIS MUSEUM INC: $133,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MORRIS MUSEUM I…STRAWBERY BANKE MUSEUM: $40,500 · Arts & CultureSTRAWBERY BANKE MUS…ART IN THE ATRIUM INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureART IN THE ATRIUM I…METTAWEE THEATRE CO INC: $19,000 · Arts & CultureMETTAWEE THEATRE CO…The Wilbury Theatre Group: $12,500 · Arts & CultureSEACOAST REPERTORY THEATRE: $12,000 · Arts & CultureFRANCES PERKINS CENTER: $11,500 · Arts & CultureTrinity Repertory Company: $11,000 · Arts & Culture+8 more: $34,500 · Arts & Culture+8 moreLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF MORRIS COUNTY INC: $23,500 · EducationLITERACY VOLUN…PRINCETON NURSERY SCHOOL: $22,500 · EducationPRINCETON NURS…AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $19,000 · EducationAMHERST COLLEG…MORRISTOWN AND MORRIS TOWNSHIP LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $17,500 · EducationMORRISTOWN AND…FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE: $16,000 · EducationFRANKLIN & MAR…GUNDALOW COMPANY: $14,500 · EducationGUNDALOW COMPA…Southern New Hampshire University: $13,000 · EducationSouthern New H…THE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD: $13,000 · EducationTHE CHAPIN SCH…PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY: $12,000 · EducationPHILLIPS EXETE…CORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE: $10,500 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $9,500 · EducationPRESCHOOL ADVANTAGE INC: $8,000 · EducationCHAPIN SCHOOL: $8,000 · Education+9 more: $31,000 · Education+9 moreCORNERSTONE FAMILY PROGRAMS: $15,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN ON THE GREEN INC: $12,500 · Human ServicesCENTER AT 353 INC: $11,500 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ACTION SERVICE CENTER DBA RISE: $10,000 · Human ServicesIT TAKES PHILLY: $7,000 · Human ServicesJERSEY BATTERED WOMEN'S SERVICE INC: $6,500 · Human ServicesSEACOAST VILLAGE PROJECT: $6,000 · Human Services+2 more: $3,000 · Human ServicesLITWORLD INTERNATIONAL INC: $23,000 · InternationalUNITED BOARD FOR CHRISTIAN HIGHER EDUCATION IN ASIA: $18,500 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $9,000 · InternationalOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $4,000 · InternationalTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $2,000 · InternationalINTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC: $40,000 · Food & NutritionJenkintown Food Cupboard Inc: $11,000 · Food & NutritionALMA BACKYARD FARM: $5,000 · Food & NutritionNewbridge Services Inc: $18,500 · HealthZUFALL HEALTH CENTER INC: $15,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTHERN CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY INC: $5,000 · HealthGOOD GRIEF INC: $4,000 · HealthHOPE ON HAVEN HILL INC: $2,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · Health
Other$964,150Arts & Culture$294,000Education$218,000Human Services$71,500International$56,500Food & Nutrition$56,000Health$45,500

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 budgetTHE MORRIS MUSEUM INC: $133,000 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetSTRAWBERY BANKE MUSEUM: $40,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetINTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC: $40,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetHOMELESS SOLUTIONS INC: $32,920 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF MORRIS COUNTY INC: $23,500 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetLITWORLD INTERNATIONAL INC: $23,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetPRINCETON NURSERY SCHOOL: $22,500 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE HUMANITIES COUNCIL: $20,500 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetART IN THE ATRIUM INC: $20,000 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetNew Hampshire Institute of Art: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMETTAWEE THEATRE CO INC: $19,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $19,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNewbridge Services Inc: $18,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED BOARD FOR CHRISTIAN HIGHER EDUCATION IN ASIA: $18,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF MORRIS COUNTY INC: $18,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMORRISTOWN AND MORRIS TOWNSHIP LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $17,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetFRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE: $16,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FLOWER DISTRICT: $15,500 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetCORNERSTONE FAMILY PROGRAMS: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetZUFALL HEALTH CENTER INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGUNDALOW COMPANY: $14,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetDOVER CHILDRENS HOME INC: $13,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSouthern New Hampshire University: $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD: $13,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN ON THE GREEN INC: $12,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetThe Wilbury Theatre Group: $12,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetSEACOAST REPERTORY THEATRE: $12,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY: $12,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFRANCES PERKINS CENTER: $11,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCENTER AT 353 INC: $11,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTrinity Repertory Company: $11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STICKLEY MUSEUM AT CRAFTSMAN FARMS INC: $11,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetJenkintown Food Cupboard Inc: $11,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetFriends of KHMER Culture Inc: $10,500 over 3y, 98% of budgetCORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE: $10,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF MORRIS AND SUSSEX COUNTIES INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION SERVICE CENTER DBA RISE: $10,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $9,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSIGNATURE THEATRE INC: $8,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPRESCHOOL ADVANTAGE INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNew Hampshire Outright: $8,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetCHAPIN SCHOOL: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD AFFILIATES OF NEW JERSEY: $7,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetGREAT WORKS REGIONAL LAND TRUST: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FEMINIST HEALTH CENTER OF PORTSMOUTH INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTWO STATE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $7,500 over 3y, 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 THE MORRIS MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds STRAWBERY BANKE MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds HOMELESS SOLUTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF MORRIS COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds LITWORLD INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds PRINCETON NURSERY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds NEW HAMPSHIRE HUMANITIES COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds ART IN THE ATRIUM INC ↗
  • Who funds New Hampshire Institute of Art ↗
  • Who funds METTAWEE THEATRE CO INC ↗
  • Who funds AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES ↗
  • Who funds Newbridge Services Inc ↗
  • Who funds UNITED BOARD FOR CHRISTIAN HIGHER EDUCATION IN ASIA ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF MORRIS COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds MORRISTOWN AND MORRIS TOWNSHIP LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE FLOWER DISTRICT ↗
  • Who funds CORNERSTONE FAMILY PROGRAMS ↗
  • Who funds ZUFALL HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds GUNDALOW COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds DOVER CHILDRENS HOME INC ↗

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.

Fm Kirby Foundation I…New Hampshire Charita…The Hyde and Watson F…The Provident Bank Fo…The Mimi Washington S…Investors Foundation …Community Foundation …Bristol-Myers Squibb …A Caring Community IncPrinceton Area Commun…United Way of Norther…Blue Foundry Charitab…
Fm Kirby Foundation IncNJ36× affinity15 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fm Kirby Foundation Inc · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Provident Bank Foundation · The Mimi Washington Starrett Foundation Inc · Investors Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · A Caring Community Inc · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Northern New Jersey Inc · Blue Foundry Charitable Foundation 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 John Bickford Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The John Bickford Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Community Hope Inc: 41% of income from government
  • Jersey Battered Women's Service Inc: 40% of income from government
  • Zufall Health Center Inc: 32% of income from government
  • Newbridge Services Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Family Promise of Morris County Inc: 17% of income from government
  • Edge New Jersey Inc: 7% of income from government
  • The Morris Museum Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Homeless Solutions Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Princeton Nursery School: 4% of income from government
  • Cornerstone Family Programs: 3% of income from government
  • Children On the Green Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Amherst College Trustees: 0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get 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
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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The John Bickford Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The John Bickford 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 145 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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