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The Murray Family Foundation

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.

$346k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$45k
Largest
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 FY20172025.

International$564kEducation$210kHealth$201kFood & Nutrition$195kPublic Safety & Disaster$185kHuman Services$145kEnvironment$107kPhilanthropy$103kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $316k
$10,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$7.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARIZONA LEGAL WOMEN AND YOUTH SERVICES$45,000
NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FDN INC$35,862
ST MARYS FOOD BANK ALLIANCE$25,000
WATER ORG INC$25,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCORPORATED$24,930
THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC$20,000
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH$20,000
CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC$20,000
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC$20,000
CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING$15,000
GROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY PROJECT$15,000
CASA CORNELIA LEGAL SERVICES$10,000
BELLINGCAT FUND$10,000
JACKSON HOUSE CRISIS INTERVENTION$10,000
TALLER SALUD INC$10,000
02The need
03

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, $181k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 79% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%DESERT MISSION INC: $5k → 11%YAVAPAI FOOD BANK INC: $4k → 14%HIPPOCRATES HEALTH INSTITUTE INC: $5k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF JACKSON LENAWEE AND HILLSDAL: $2k → 13%UNBOUND: $3k → 16%HENDERSON COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $3k → 12%MANKIND PROJECT: $10k → 6%DESERT MISSION INC: $1k → 11%YAVAPAI FOOD BANK INC: $3k → 14%THE SAN FRANCISCO PARTICULAR COUNCIL OF THE SOCIET: $5k → 10%HIPPOCRATES HEALTH INSTITUTE INC: $5k → 11%NORTHWEST MICHIGAN SUPPORTIVE HOUSING: $5k → 7%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF JACKSON LENAWEE AND HILLSDAL: $2k → 13%THE MANKIND PROJECT: $10k → 6%YAVAPAI FOOD BANK INC: $2k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF JACKSON LENAWEE AND HILLSDAL: $1k → 13%THE MANKIND PROJECT: $5k → 6%YAVAPAI FOOD BANK INC: $2k → 14%NORTHWEST MICHIGAN SUPPORTIVE HOUSING: $3k → 7%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF JACKSON LENAWEE AND HILLSDAL: $1k → 13%MANKIND PROJECT: $2k → 6%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF JACKSON LENAWEE AND HILLSDAL: $1k → 13%APOPO US INC: $3k → 14%NORTHWEST MICHIGAN SUPPORTIVE HOUSING: $3k → 7%BENEVILLA: $2k → 11%ADRIAN ARMORY COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $23k → 12%APOPO US INC: $2k → 14%ADRIAN ARMORY COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $10k → 12%RYAN HOUSE: $5k → 11%APOPO US INC: $5k → 14%ADRIAN ARMORY COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $5k → 12%CIRCLE THE CITY: $5k → 11%RYAN HOUSE: $5k → 11%CIRCLE THE CITY: $5k → 11%CIRCLE THE CITY: $3k → 11%RYAN HOUSE: $2k → 11%AYUDA: $5k → 14%DRESS FOR SUCCESS PHOENIX: $2k → 11%SINGLETON MOMS: $5k → 11%NOT MY KID INC: $3k → 11%NOT MY KID INC: $2k → 11%NOT MY KID INC: $1k → 11%NOT MY KID INC: $1k → 11%AREA AGENCY ON AGING REGION ONE INCORPORATED: $5k → 11%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

VT
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MN
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MA
OR
IN
NJ
CA
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CO
MO
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DE
AZ
KS
AR
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GA
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FL

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.

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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.6M · 71 repeat orgs$974k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.

71 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 56 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

71
88

Total granted

$1.6M
$791k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+32%

Still filing today

83%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $183k 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
InternationalHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionHealthCrime & LegalOther

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

  • BF
    BRAZIL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2024 · $114k · revenue +95%
  • NA
    NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $107k · revenue +184%
  • W
    WATERORG
    8× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $200k
  • OW
    One World Childrens Fund
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -52%
  • LI
    Local Independent Online News Publishers Incgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +71%

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
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
2
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
3
Counterpart International Inc

For over 60 years, counterpart international has partnered with communities worldwide to turn local ideas into lasting solutions, connecting local vision with global opportunity. (continued on schedule o)we believe people closest to the…

International
4
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
5
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
6
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
7
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
8
Arizona Family Health Partnership

To make sexual and reproductive healthcare accessible to everyone

9
Devworks International

Devworks international is dedicated to a society where all people enjoy the freedom to pursue their own sustainable development. we contribute to this by strengthening the capacity of local organizations.

Human Services
10
Common Impact Inc

Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…

Unclassified
11
People Inc

People inc. provides health and human services that enrich lives and communities through innovation and supportive services. with a goal to help people achieve greater independence and quality of life, people inc. provides day,…

Human Services
12
Accion International

Our mission is to create a fair and inclusive economy where underserved people have quality financial choices and opportunities to improve their economic well-being. we find and help build innovative companies with the potential to reach…

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evidence Action and the most unlike its peers is Adrian Schools Education 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 backsteadyChristian Missionary Organi…Community College Foundatio…Policy Research and AdvocacyAffordable Housing Developm…United Way AffiliatesYouth Mentoring ProgramsEnvironmental Conservation …Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Youth Development CentersImmigrant Worker SupportCommunity Arts CentersAnimal Rescue and ShelterYouth Sports ProgramsSenior Support ServicesFood Banks and PantriesHealth Access Advocacy and …Pregnancy Support ServicesElementary Literacy TutoringPublic Library OperationsCommunity FoundationsCommunity Foundations
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 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr16%34%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr16%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr16%44%20–35yr13%19%35–55yr16%15%55yr+

The field is 22% 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 0.6% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.6%1/160
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,405

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.

04the grantee network

154 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 20172026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 154 of the 174 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)
38
Early backer (in before they grew)
149/154
Grantees still filing
106/154
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $200,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAMERICAN RED CROSS — $105,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSSBELLINGCAT FUND — $85,000 · OtherBELLINGCAT FUNDAYRES-KNUTH FARM FOUNDATION INC — $49,000 · OtherArizona Legal Women and Youth Services — $45,000 · Other+86 more — $772,931 · Other+86 moreBRAZIL FOUNDATION — $114,000 · InternationalBRAZIL FOUNDATIONWATERORG — $80,000 · InternationalWATERORGWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $54,930 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN…HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC — $30,000 · InternationalHIMALAYAN CATARACT PR…CAMFED USA FOUNDATION — $30,000 · InternationalCAMFED USA FOUNDATIONHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $20,000 · InternationalTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $20,000 · International+17 more — $140,500 · International+17 moreOne World Childrens Fund — $100,000 · PhilanthropyOne World…LENAWEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $36,000 · PhilanthropyLENAWEE C…CASA BRAZIL INC — $30,000 · PhilanthropyCASA BRAZ…TIDES FOUNDATION — $25,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOU…SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS — $10,000 · PhilanthropyFONDOS UNIDOS DE PUERTO RICO INC & UNITED WAY PUERTO RICO — $10,000 · Philanthropy+2 more — $10,000 · PhilanthropyNORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $106,899 · EducationNORTHERN …SAN JUAN COMMUNITY LIBRARY AT BUCAPLAA INC — $20,000 · EducationSAN JUAN …VILLAGEREACH — $20,000 · EducationVILLAGERE…READ BETTER BE BETTER — $13,000 · EducationREAD BETT…SIENA HEIGHTS UNIVERSITY — $13,000 · EducationSIENA HEI…ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $8,000 · Education+8 more — $31,500 · Education+8 moreADRIAN ARMORY COMMUNITY CENTER — $38,000 · Human ServicesMankind Project — $27,000 · Human ServicesCIRCLE THE CITY — $12,500 · Human ServicesRYAN HOUSE — $12,000 · Human ServicesYavapai Food Bank Inc — $11,000 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST MICHIGAN SUPPORTIVE HOUSING — $10,834 · Human ServicesAPOPO US INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesHIPPOCRATES HEALTH INSTITUTE INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesNOTMYKID — $7,000 · Human ServicesCatholic Charities of Jackson — $7,000 · Human Services+11 more — $40,500 · Human ServicesST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE — $65,000 · Food & NutritionARIZONA FOOD BANK NETWORK — $20,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding America — $17,500 · Food & NutritionBELLAIRE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC — $7,000 · Food & NutritionFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC — $5,000 · Food & Nutrition+5 more — $11,000 · Food & NutritionLocal Independent Online News Publishers Inc — $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CARING PLACE OF HOT SPRINGS INC — $47,000 · Arts & CultureGRACE CARES INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF PUBLIC RADIO ARIZONA — $8,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $8,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,256,931International$489,430Philanthropy$221,000Education$212,399Human Services$185,834Food & Nutrition$125,500Arts & Culture$123,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBRAZIL FOUNDATION — $114,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetNORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $106,899 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOne World Childrens Fund — $100,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetWATERORG — $80,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE — $65,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $54,930 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLocal Independent Online News Publishers Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE CARING PLACE OF HOT SPRINGS INC — $47,000 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetArizona Legal Women and Youth Services — $45,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetHELPING HANDS FOR SINGLE MOMS — $38,980 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetADRIAN ARMORY COMMUNITY CENTER — $38,000 over 3y, 9.0% of budgetLENAWEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $36,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetDEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCASA BRAZIL INC — $30,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetHIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC — $30,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCAMFED USA FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGROUNDWORK CENTER FOR RESILIENT COMMUNITIES INC — $27,833 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetMankind Project — $27,000 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetBAY ISLANDS COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATION — $25,000 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetWHEN WE ALL VOTE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE - GREATER PHOENIX — $25,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINDIVISIBLE CIVICS — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD ARIZONA INC — $22,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVIEQUES ROTARY CLUB INC — $20,000 over 1y, 94% of budgetSAN JUAN COMMUNITY LIBRARY AT BUCAPLAA INC — $20,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX — $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetONEGOAL — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVILLAGEREACH — $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJACKSON HOUSE CRISIS INTERVENTION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetARIZONA FOOD BANK NETWORK — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYouth Impact Mentoring — $19,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetFeeding America — $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN — $17,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY PROJECT — $15,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetAfrican Mission Healthcare Foundation — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEVIDENCE ACTION — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREAD BETTER BE BETTER — $13,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetSIENA HEIGHTS UNIVERSITY — $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCIRCLE THE CITY — $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TIA FOUNDATION INC — $12,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetRYAN HOUSE — $12,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MANNA FOOD PROJECT INC DBA - THE MANNA FOOD PROJECT — $11,333 over 3y, 0.2% 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.

Arizona Community FoundationAZ53.3× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Thunderbirds Charities · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · BHHS Legacy Foundation · John F Long Foundation Inc · The Yelp Foundation · American Express Foundation · Fiesta Events Inc · Valley of the Sun United Way · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · Phoenix Suns Charities Inc

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 Murray Family 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 70%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    7get no government money at all
    47report 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, 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 174 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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