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The Joseph H Flom 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.

$862
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$862
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$13MPhilanthropy$6.9MHuman Services$3.9MCrime & Legal$2.7MYouth Development$1.5MHealth$1.4MRecreation & Sports$1.2MCivil Rights$775kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$862
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Tech Kids Unlimited Inc$862
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $3.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Springboard Collaborative: $250k → 22%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $200k → 22%Springboard Collaborative: $100k → 22%Kingsbridge Heights Community Center Inc: $25k → 28%ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC: $75k → 28%INCLUDENYC: $35k → 17%THE READING TEAM INC: $100k → 17%The Reading Team Inc: $100k → 17%THE READING TEAM INC: $75k → 17%THE CHILDRENS AID SOCIETY: $100k → 17%YM & YWHA OF WASHINGTON HEIGHTS AND INWOOD: $25k → 17%YM & YWHA OF WASHINGTON HEIGHTS AND INWOOD: $25k → 17%YM & YWHA of Washington Heights and Inwood: $10k → 17%GRAND STREET SETTLEMENT: $25k → 17%Grand Street Settlement: $25k → 17%GRAND STREET SETTLEMENT: $25k → 17%Grand Street Settlement: $10k → 17%GRAND STREET SETTLEMENT: $10k → 17%Union Settlement Association Inc: $101k → 17%UNION SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION INC: $101k → 17%UNION SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION INC: $101k → 17%Union Settlement Association Inc: $20k → 17%Room to Grow National Inc: $250k → 17%ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC: $185k → 17%Room to Grow National Inc: $135k → 17%GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES: $110k → 17%Good Shepherd Services: $110k → 17%GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES: $110k → 17%Room To Grow National Inc: $100k → 17%Association To Benefit Children: $128k → 17%ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $104k → 17%Association to Benefit Children: $103k → 17%ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $100k → 17%Association to Benefit Children: $100k → 17%RESOURCES FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS INC: $35k → 17%Resources for Children with Special Needs Inc (dba INLUDEnyc): $30k → 17%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 6% of The Joseph H Flom Foundation’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 Joseph H Flom Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.5% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$23M · 71 repeat orgs$2.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

71 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 70 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

71
46

Total granted

$23M
$2.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+20%

Still filing today

85%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthCrime & LegalPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • Trustees of Tufts College
    3× · 2021–2023 · $855k · revenue +17%
  • TA
    THE ARMORY FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2022 · $835k · revenue +36%
  • RA
    READ ALLIANCE INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $835k · revenue +130%

Funded once

  • MS
    MIT SLOAN ANNUAL FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $250k
  • LI
    LITERACY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +27%
  • PO
    POWER OF TWO NYC CORP
    one grant, 2019 · $210k

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.

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Manhattanville University

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

Education
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Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education
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Brooklyn Law School

To provide students with the knowledge, skills, ethical values needed for a career in law.

Education
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Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
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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
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New York Hall of Science

Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…

Arts & Culture
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Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
The New York Opportunity Network Inc Dba the Opportunity Network

The opportunity network ignites the drive, curiosity, and agency of underrepresented students on their paths to and through college and into thriving careers, powered by our commitment to access and community.

Education
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The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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The New School

The new school's mission is to prepare our students to understand, contribute to, and succeed in a rapidly changing society, and thus make the world a better and more just place. (continued on schedule o)

Education
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School in the Square Public Charter School

School in the square ("s2") engages, educates and empowers adolescents to respond mindfully and creatively to life's opportunities and challenges. s2 is a place where students, families and educators are seen, heard, and inspired and where…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Transcend Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Skadden Foundation. 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 backsteadyJewish Education and SupportFamily Philanthropic Founda…Disability Support ServicesFood Security and Hunger Re…Business & Industry Associa…Youth Sports ProgramsPrivate Membership ClubsDisease Research & AdvocacyCollege Student ServicesNonprofit Infrastructure & …Arts & Cultural Organizatio…Hospital Systems and Clinic…
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 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr15%4%5–10yr21%21%10–20yr21%23%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr10%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr15%2%5–10yr21%16%10–20yr21%36%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr10%24%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/95
the rest of the field
11%
5,269/46,711

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

91 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 91 of the 123 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)
90/91
Grantees still filing
65/91
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Trustees of Tufts College — $855,000 · EducationTrustees of Tufts CollegeREAD ALLIANCE INC — $835,000 · EducationREAD ALLIANCE INCBANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION — $790,000 · EducationBANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATIO…PUBLICOLOR INC — $610,000 · EducationPUBLICOLOR INCCHANCES FOR CHILDREN - NY INC — $580,000 · EducationCHANCES FOR CHILDREN - NY INCTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $499,681 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF P…THE WRITING REVOLUTION INC — $460,000 · EducationHARLEM ACADEMY — $431,762 · EducationBOOK TRUST — $342,452 · EducationREADING PARTNERS — $315,000 · Education+22 more — $3,426,715 · Education+22 moreDREAM — $900,000 · OtherDREAMTHE ARMORY FOUNDATION — $835,322 · OtherTHE ARMORY FOUNDATIONBANK STREET COLLEGE EDUCATION CCRE — $711,024 · OtherBANK STREET COLLEGE EDUCATION CCREThe Gateway Schools — $700,000 · OtherThe Gateway SchoolsMobilization for Justice Inc — $606,833 · OtherMobilization for Justice IncUNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA LAW SCHOOL — $521,194 · OtherTURNAROUND FOR CHILDREN INC — $475,000 · OtherTHE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC — $400,000 · OtherCITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK INC — $390,000 · OtherJOB PATH INC — $565,000 · OtherPowerMyLearning Inc — $530,675 · Other+51 more — $4,161,167 · Other+51 moreJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND — $3,487,334 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNAL FUNDVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM — $1,543,832 · PhilanthropyVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOW…NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $1,516,334 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR…HARLEM RBI INC — $400,000 · PhilanthropyHARLEM RBI INCThe Skadden Foundation — $284,000 · Philanthropy+2 more — $90,000 · PhilanthropyROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC — $745,000 · Human ServicesROOM TO GRO…SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE — $550,000 · Human ServicesSPRINGBOARD…ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN — $535,000 · Human ServicesASSOCIATION…GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES — $330,000 · Human ServicesGOOD SHEPHE…UNION SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION INC — $322,558 · Human ServicesUNION SETTL…READING TEAM INC — $275,000 · Human ServicesREADING TEA…+6 more — $480,000 · Human Services+6 moreTHE LEGAL AID SOCIETY — $650,000 · Crime & LegalNosilenceNoviolence Inc — $280,000 · Crime & LegalVOLUNTEERS OF LEGAL SERVICE INC — $110,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more — $25,000 · Crime & LegalTHE DREAMYARD PROJECT INC — $390,000 · Arts & CultureTHEATRE DEVELOPMENT FUND INC — $237,500 · Arts & CultureVOLUNTEER LAWYERS FOR THE ARTS INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureTECH KIDS UNLIMITED INC — $336,862 · Youth DevelopmentHORIZONS NEW YORK CITY — $200,000 · Youth DevelopmentExtreme Kids and Crew Inc — $30,000 · Youth Development
Education$9,145,610Other$10,796,215Philanthropy$7,321,500Human Services$3,237,558Crime & Legal$1,065,000Arts & Culture$727,500Youth Development$566,862

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 budgetJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND — $3,487,334 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM — $1,543,832 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $1,516,334 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College — $855,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ARMORY FOUNDATION — $835,322 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetREAD ALLIANCE INC — $835,000 over 6y, 10% of budgetBANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION — $790,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC — $745,000 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetTHE LEGAL AID SOCIETY — $650,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPUBLICOLOR INC — $610,000 over 4y, 8.8% of budgetMobilization for Justice Inc — $606,833 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetCHANCES FOR CHILDREN - NY INC — $580,000 over 5y, 24% of budgetJOB PATH INC — $565,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetSPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE — $550,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN — $535,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetPowerMyLearning Inc — $530,675 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $499,681 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTURNAROUND FOR CHILDREN INC — $475,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetTHE WRITING REVOLUTION INC — $460,000 over 3y, 8.5% of budgetHARLEM ACADEMY — $431,762 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetHARLEM RBI INC — $400,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC — $400,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetTHE DREAMYARD PROJECT INC — $390,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetCITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK INC — $390,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetBOOK TRUST — $342,452 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetTECH KIDS UNLIMITED INC — $336,862 over 8y, 8.3% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES — $330,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNION SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION INC — $322,558 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetREADING PARTNERS — $315,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations — $300,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALL OUR KIN INC — $300,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $300,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTEACHING MATTERS INC — $285,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetMOUSE INC — $284,000 over 2y, 9.0% of budgetThe Skadden Foundation — $284,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetNosilenceNoviolence Inc — $280,000 over 6y, 48% of budgetREADING TEAM INC — $275,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetDREAM CHARTER SCHOOL — $270,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetEDGE FOUNDATION — $252,000 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetLITERACY INC — $250,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetTHEATRE DEVELOPMENT FUND INC — $237,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC — $230,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMY MONEY WORKSHOP INC — $222,500 over 6y, 25% of budgetHORIZONS NEW YORK CITY — $200,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetFENCERS CLUB INC — $200,000 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetTHE GO PROJECT INC — $190,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $185,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE ENGINE INC — $175,000 over 2y, 2.4% 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.

Robin Hood FoundationThe Hyde and Watson F…Jewish Communal FundThe Goldman Sachs Cha…The New York Communit…Mother Cabrini Health…Pinkerton FoundationThe Jean & Louis Drey…Gray FoundationAltman FoundationViking Global Foundat…The Sidley Austin Fou…
Robin Hood FoundationNY40.1× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Robin Hood Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The New York Community Trust · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Pinkerton Foundation · The Jean & Louis Dreyfus Foundation Inc · Gray Foundation · Altman Foundation · Viking Global Foundation Inc · The Sidley Austin 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 Joseph H Flom Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
  • All Our Kin Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 123 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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