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The Orokawa 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.

$5.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
57
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$1.2M
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$7.2MHuman Services$6.9MHealth$5.7MEnvironment$2.3MRecreation & Sports$1.5MHousing & Shelter$1.5MCrime & Legal$1.2MYouth Development$1.1MOther$0
02FY2025 · 57 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $460k
  • $50k–250k22 grants · $2.0M
  • $250k+7 grants · $3.3M
$50,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$100M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MD BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC$1,176,000
YMCA OF CENTRAL MD$500,000
LIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATION$425,000
CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION$350,000
THE LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$335,000
CAMP SUNSHINE$300,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$250,000
ST JOSEPH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC$200,000
ROCA BALTIMORE LLC$150,000
PAUL'S PLACE OUTREACH CENTER INC$150,000
THE FAMILY TREE$147,180
NEXT ONE UP FOUNDATION INC$125,000
WORLDWIDE ORPHANS FOUNDATION$112,500
INSIDEOUT WRITERS$100,000
ASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC$100,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION: $75k → 6%SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION: $75k → 6%SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION: $50k → 6%SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION: $25k → 6%SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION: $25k → 6%THE CHILDREN'S GUILD INC: $50k → 11%THE CHILDREN'S GUILD INC: $50k → 11%THE CHILDREN'S GUILD INC: $25k → 11%CHILDREN'S GUILD: $25k → 11%THE BALTIMORE HUNGER PROJECT INC: $35k → 11%THE BALTIMORE HUNGER PROJECT INC: $35k → 11%THE BALTIMORE HUNGER PROJECT INC: $25k → 11%THE BALTIMORE HUNGER PROJECT INC: $25k → 11%HORIZON DAY CAMP: $50k → 19%BALTIMORE HUNGER PROJECT: $25k → 11%BALTIMORE HUNGER PROJECT: $20k → 11%TEENS WITH TRAUMA INC: $10k → 11%CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES: $75k → 19%CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES: $75k → 19%CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES: $75k → 19%CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES: $50k → 19%CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES: $50k → 19%CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES: $40k → 19%DRINK AT THE WELL INC: $10k → 19%ASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $125k → 19%ASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $100k → 19%ASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $100k → 19%ASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $100k → 19%ASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $100k → 19%ASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $100k → 19%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
WA
MT
IL
NY
MA
PA
CA
CO
MD
NC
DC
GA
TX
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$28M · 65 repeat orgs$2.9M to everyone else

65 repeat relationships: 46 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

65
16

Total granted

$28M
$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+24%

Still filing today

74%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +61%
  • CS
    CAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +9%
  • AC
    ASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $625k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE FOUNDATION DR ROD
    one grant, 2023 · $500k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $400k
  • LC
    LIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATION TOMMOROW'S PROMISE CAMPAIGN
    one grant, 2023 · $300k
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 Arc Baltimore Inc

The arc baltimore supports people with developmental disabilities to lead fulfilling lives with a sense of belonging, purpose, and meaningful relationships.

Human Services
2
Baltimore Corps Inc

To cultivate career advancement opportunities for local talent, facilitate talent acquisition for local employers, increase access to capital for local entrepreneurs' social ventures, and foster cross-sector collaboration to address city…

Employment
3
Healthcare Access Maryland Inc

We are making maryland healthier by connecting residents to insurance and care, educating the community about healthier living, and advocating a more equitable health care system.

Health
4
University of Maryland Physicians Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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5
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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6
University of Maryland Facultyphysicians Inc

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland, school of medicine, administrative support services are provided to the physician practices of the university of maryland, including but not limited to information technology,…

Health
7
University of Maryland Oncology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
8
University of Maryland Surgical Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
9
University of Maryland Pediatric Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
10
University of Maryland Family Medicine Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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11
University of Maryland Neurology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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12
University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Guild Inc; the most unlike its peers is Nature Sacred. 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

60 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. 60 of the 92 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/60
Grantees still filing
40/60
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YMCA OF CENTRAL MD: $2,700,000 · OtherYMCA OF CENTRAL MDLIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATION: $1,700,000 · OtherLIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATIONHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $1,500,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITYLEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY: $1,141,000 · OtherLEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETYUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE FOUNDATIONINSIDEOUT WRITERS INC: $600,000 · Other+58 more: $7,860,390 · Other+58 moreUNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC: $1,625,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF BALTI…UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC: $1,352,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MARYL…UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC: $1,176,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MARYL…WORLDWIDE ORPHANS FOUNDATION: $515,700 · EducationWORLDWIDE ORPHANS F…BALTIMORE EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP TRUST: $240,000 · EducationGREEN STREET ACADEMY INC: $180,000 · EducationTHE ODYSSEY SCHOOL INC: $180,000 · EducationCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $1,953,700 · EnvironmentIRVINE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER INC: $231,029 · Environment+1 more: $40,000 · EnvironmentBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $835,000 · HealthItineris Foundation Inc: $575,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $300,000 · HealthB'MORE CLUBHOUSE INC: $200,000 · HealthCHORDOMA FOUNDATION: $145,000 · HealthCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $135,000 · HealthASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $625,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES INC: $365,000 · Human ServicesSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $300,000 · Human ServicesBALTIMORE HUNGER PROJECT LLC: $165,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S GUILD INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesWEEKEND BACKPACKS BALTIMORE INC: $65,000 · Human Services+2 more: $20,000 · Human ServicesPAUL'S PLACE INC: $1,600,000 · Food & NutritionCAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC: $1,300,000 · Recreation & SportsATHLETES SERVING ATHLETES: $150,000 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $55,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$16,501,390Education$5,268,700Environment$2,224,729Health$2,190,000Human Services$1,690,000Food & Nutrition$1,600,000Recreation & Sports$1,505,000

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 budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $1,953,700 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC: $1,625,000 over 3y, 8.9% of budgetPAUL'S PLACE INC: $1,600,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC: $1,352,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetCAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC: $1,300,000 over 6y, 6.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC: $1,176,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $835,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $625,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetINSIDEOUT WRITERS INC: $600,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetItineris Foundation Inc: $575,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetROCA INC: $550,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetWORLDWIDE ORPHANS FOUNDATION: $515,700 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetST JOSEPH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $510,000 over 4y, 37% of budgetTHE FAMILY TREE INC: $493,645 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetNEXT ONE UP FOUNDATION INC: $450,000 over 4y, 8.0% of budgetTHE BALTIMORE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $404,050 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetCENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES INC: $365,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $345,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $300,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $300,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetBALTIMORE EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP TRUST: $240,000 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetIRVINE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER INC: $231,029 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetB'MORE CLUBHOUSE INC: $200,000 over 6y, 4.7% of budgetROCA PALLIN YOUTH CENTER INC: $200,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetFAMILY CRISIS CENTER OF BALTIMORE COUNTY INC: $195,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetGREEN STREET ACADEMY INC: $180,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ODYSSEY SCHOOL INC: $180,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetBALTIMORE HUNGER PROJECT LLC: $165,000 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S GUILD INC: $150,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetATHLETES SERVING ATHLETES: $150,000 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetBALTIMORE SQUASHWISE INC: $150,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC: $150,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSE OF RUTH: $150,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCHORDOMA FOUNDATION: $145,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetSHAREBABY INC: $145,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $135,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE IGNITES BALTIMORE INC: $100,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetWEEKEND BACKPACKS BALTIMORE INC: $65,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetMOVEABLE FEAST INC: $65,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetPIVOT INC: $56,215 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAVALON FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATURE SACRED: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUpstream Alliance Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetBALTIMORE HOMECOMING INC: $35,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $34,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PAUL'S PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds ASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds INSIDEOUT WRITERS INC ↗
  • Who funds Itineris Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds ROCA INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLDWIDE ORPHANS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ST JOSEPH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE FAMILY TREE INC ↗
  • Who funds NEXT ONE UP FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BALTIMORE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES INC ↗
  • Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BALTIMORE EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP TRUST ↗
  • Who funds IRVINE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds B'MORE CLUBHOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds ROCA PALLIN YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY CRISIS CENTER OF BALTIMORE COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds GREEN STREET ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ODYSSEY SCHOOL 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.

Baltimore Community Foundation IncMD49.5× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The Marion I & Henry J Knott Foundation Inc · Sherman Family Foundation · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · The Abell Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · The Bunting Family Foundation · Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Orokawa Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Orokawa Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 190%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Roca Inc: 78% of income from government
  • Center for Urban Families Inc: 36% of income from government
  • The Baltimore Children's Museum Inc: 33% of income from government
  • Paul's Place Inc: 29% of income from government
  • Baltimore Squashwise Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Family Crisis Center of Baltimore County Inc: 21% of income from government
  • Moveable Feast Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Jubilee Baltimore Inc: 16% of income from government
  • The Maryland Food Bank Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Associated Catholic Charities Inc: 10% of income from government
  • The Family Tree Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Avalon Foundation Inc: 6% of income from government
  • University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • National Aquarium Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Gilchrist Hospice Care Inc: 0% of income from government
  • University of Maryland Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
19get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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 92 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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