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The Parker Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
75
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$90k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.5MHuman Services$1.1MEducation$766kHealth$670kCommunity Improvement$518kHousing & Shelter$506kFood & Nutrition$425kYouth Development$315kOther$0
02FY2024 · 75 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k64 grants · $1.4M
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $390k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$48M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAN DIEGO TIJUANA WORLD DESIGN CAPITAL 2024$90,000
NORTH COUNTY HEALTH PROJECT INC$50,000
SERVING SENIORS$50,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY$50,000
VIETNAM VETERANS OF SAN DIEGO$50,000
CATALYST OF SAN DIEGO AND IMPERIAL COUNTIES$50,000
OCEAN DISCOVERY INSTITUTE$50,000
ANGELS FOSTER FAMILY NETWORK$45,000
THE MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO$40,000
THINK DIGNITY$40,000
SUPPORT THE ENLISTED PROJECT$40,000
VICTIM OFFENDER RECONCILIATION PROGRAM INC$40,000
LA JOLLA MUSIC SOCIETY$35,000
COMMUNITY HOUSINGWORKS$35,000
NATIONAL CONFLICT RESOLUTION CENTER$35,000
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 (FY21–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS: $25k → 14%REALIZE IMPACT: $50k → 10%FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN WARRIORS: $15k → 14%THE CHICANO FEDERATION OF SAN DIEGO: $40k → 11%THE CHICANO FEDERATION: $25k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF SAN DIEGO: $50k → 11%ANGELS FOSTER FAMILY NETWORK: $45k → 11%GENERATEHOPE: $30k → 11%ZERO8HUNDRED: $30k → 11%WALDEN ENVIRONMENT INC: $20k → 11%WALDEN ENVIRONMENT: $15k → 11%ZERO8HUNDRED: $15k → 11%SAN DIEGO CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $25k → 11%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $20k → 11%CASA FAMILIAR INC: $35k → 11%BAYSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $20k → 11%BAYSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 11%METROPOLITAN AREA ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON ANTI-POVERTY OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY IN: $20k → 11%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER SAN DIEGO: $5k → 11%CAMP KESEM NATIONAL: $3k → 11%EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES: $20k → 11%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF NORTH COAST: $25k → 11%SHARIA'S CLOSET: $20k → 11%UNITED WOMEN OF EAST AFRICA SUPPORT TEAM: $15k → 11%RISE UP INDUSTRIES: $50k → 11%CRISIS HOUSE: $40k → 11%RISE UP INDUSTRIES: $30k → 11%NORTH COUNTY LIFELINE INC: $25k → 11%IMPACT CUBED: $15k → 11%SHORELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $25k → 11%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $20k → 11%PAIGE'S PANTRY: $12k → 11%SERVING SENIORS: $50k → 11%YWCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $15k → 11%PARTNERSHIP FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF NEW AMERICANS: $150k → 11%MISSION EDGE SAN DIEGO: $30k → 11%MISSION EDGE SAN DIEGO: $25k → 11%CASA DE AMISTAD CENTRO DE ENSENANZA: $25k → 11%CASA DE AMISTAD CENTRO DE ENSENANZA: $24k → 11%PATHWAYS TO CITIZENSHIP: $15k → 11%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.
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.

28%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 37 repeat orgs$5.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

37 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 57 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
127

Total granted

$2.0M
$3.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+20%

Still filing today

100%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • Catalyst of San Diego & Imperial Counties
    3× · 2021–2024 · $195k · revenue +12%
  • MT
    Mission Trails Regional Park Foundation Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +507%
  • SD
    SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF MAN DBA MUSEUM OF US
    3× · 2021–2024 · $90k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • PF
    PARTNERSHIP FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF NEW AMERICANS
    one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue -74%
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE PACIFIC SOUTHWEST
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +3%
  • TS
    THE SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -11%
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 San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
2
San Diego Habitat Conservancy

Acquire, manage and protect land in perpetuity that supports sensitive habitats and species, and to educate and inspire people and communities as stewards and advocates of their natural environment.

Arts & Culture
3
San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council Afl-Cio

The Labor Council offers an avenue for local unions to come together as one group.

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4
United Way of San Diego County

To spark breakthrough community action that elevates every child and family toward a brighter future.

Philanthropy
5
San Diego Jewish Academy

San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.

Education
6
San Diego Theatres Inc

San Diego Theatres, Inc. (SDTI) is a not-for-profit public benefit corporation established to manage and operate publicly owned performing arts theatres. SDTI was established in 2003 by the San Diego Convention Center Corporation (SDCCC),…

Arts & Culture
7
San Diego Municipal Employees Assn

The san diego municipal employees association (sdmea) is dedicated to being a strong and effective advocate for san diego city employees. sdmea is united to improve employees' standard of living and promote their fair treatment by…

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8
San Diego Junior Theatre

San Diego Junior Theatre (Junior Theatre) was incorporated in 1948 as a nonprofit corporation and is the oldest youth theatre in the nation, offering affordable camps, classes, and outreach programs for children ages 3-18; as well as six…

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9
San Diego Community Housing Corporation

To increase, preserve and improve quality affordable housing opportunities for working families.

Housing & Shelter
10
San Diegans for Health Care Coverage

Promote Access to Health Care for all San Diegans

Health
11
San Diego Regional Economic Development Foundation

To support and cultivate sustainable employment opportunities for San Diego County residents contributing to a prosperous local economy.

Community Improvement
12
San Diego County Bar Association

The mission of the san diego county bar association is to be the representative of the san diego county legal profession, serving the prblic and the profession by enhancing the legal system and promoting justice, professional excellence,…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Diego Opera Association; the most unlike its peers is Mohuman. 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

211 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. 211 of the 224 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
47
Early backer (in before they grew)
209/211
Grantees still filing
135/211
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $100,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY…SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF MAN DBA MUSEUM OF US: $90,000 · Arts & CultureSAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF MA…NEW VILLAGE ARTS INC: $65,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PUTNAM FOUNDATION DBA TIMKEN MUSEUM OF ART: $60,000 · Arts & CultureVOICE OF SAN DIEGO: $55,000 · Arts & CultureVIA INTERNATIONAL: $50,000 · Arts & CultureMingei International Inc: $50,000 · Arts & CultureINSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO: $50,000 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS ESCONDIDO FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Arts & Culture+31 more: $872,500 · Arts & Culture+31 morePARTNERSHIP FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF NEW AMERICANS: $150,000 · Human ServicesPARTNERSHIP FOR TH…Rise Up Industries: $80,000 · Human ServicesRise Up IndustriesCHICANO FEDERATION OF SAN DIEGO: $65,000 · Human ServicesCHICANO FEDERATION…SOMALI FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $58,000 · Human ServicesMISSION EDGE SAN DIEGO: $55,000 · Human ServicesRealize Impact: $50,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF SAN DIEGO: $50,000 · Human ServicesSERVING SENIORS: $50,000 · Human ServicesCASA DE AMISTAD CENTRO DE ENSENANZA: $48,760 · Human ServicesANGELS FOSTER FAMILY AGENCY: $45,000 · Human ServicesZero8Hundred Inc: $45,000 · Human ServicesCRISIS HOUSE: $40,000 · Human Services+20 more: $437,000 · Human Services+20 moreCatalyst of San Diego & Imperial Counties: $195,000 · OtherCatalyst of San Diego & Imperial CountiesCOMMUNITY HOUSING WORKS: $120,000 · OtherMission Trails Regional Park Foundation Inc: $100,000 · Other+74 more: $2,295,550 · Other+74 moreUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $75,000 · EducationUC SAN DIEGO…SAN DIEGO HOUSING FEDERATION: $75,000 · EducationSAN DIEGO HO…Diamond Educational Excellence Partnership: $70,000 · EducationDiamond Educ…INVESTIGATIVE NEWSOURCE: $50,000 · EducationINVESTIGATIV…OCEAN DISCOVERY INSTITUTE: $50,000 · EducationOCEAN DISCOV…VAPA Foundation: $50,000 · EducationVAPA Foundat…THE SAN MARCOS PROMISE: $45,000 · EducationTHE SAN MARC…CRISTO REY SAN DIEGO HIGH SCHOOL INC: $45,000 · EducationCRISTO REY S…Think Dignity: $40,000 · Education+13 more: $283,500 · Education+13 morePLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE PACIFIC SOUTHWEST: $100,000 · HealthSCRIPPS HEALTH: $60,000 · HealthMCALISTER INSTITUTE FOR TREATMENT & EDUCATION INC: $50,000 · HealthVISTA HILL FOUNDATION: $44,000 · HealthGrossmont Hospital Foundation: $43,500 · HealthALZHEIMER'S SAN DIEGO: $40,000 · HealthPATHFINDERS OF SAN DIEGO: $34,000 · HealthSharp Healthcare Foundation: $25,000 · HealthSAN DIEGO EDUCATION FUND: $25,000 · HealthBirthline of San Diego County Inc: $25,000 · HealthResounding Joy Inc: $25,000 · HealthCENTRO DE SALUD DE LA COMUNIDAD DE SAN YSIDRO INC: $22,000 · HealthLA MAESTRA FAMILY CLINIC INC: $18,300 · Health+1 more: $13,125 · HealthSAN DIEGO TIJUANA WORLD DESIGN CAPITAL 2024: $90,000 · Public BenefitVIETNAM VETERANS OF SAN DIEGO DBA VETERANS VILLAGE OF SAN DIEGO: $50,000 · Public BenefitKIM CENTER FOR SOCIAL BALANCE: $50,000 · Public BenefitUNITED THROUGH READING: $50,000 · Public BenefitSUPPORT THE ENLISTED PROJECT INC: $40,000 · Public BenefitBASIC ASSISTANCE TO STUDENTS IN THE COMMUNITY: $40,000 · Public BenefitPROJECT NEW VILLAGE: $50,000 · Food & NutritionSan Diego Food System Alliance: $50,000 · Food & NutritionFEEDING SAN DIEGO: $50,000 · Food & NutritionYOUTH ASSISTANCE COALITION INC: $36,000 · Food & NutritionSAN DIEGO HUNGER COALITION: $35,000 · Food & NutritionBROTHER BENNO FOUNDATION INC: $32,400 · Food & NutritionMEALS-ON-WHEELS GREATER SAN DIEGO INC: $29,000 · Food & NutritionMAMA'S KITCHEN: $17,000 · Food & NutritionEQUATION COLLABORATIVE CORP: $15,000 · Food & Nutrition
Arts & Culture$1,442,500Human Services$1,173,760Other$2,710,550Education$783,500Health$524,925Public Benefit$320,000Food & Nutrition$314,400

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetCatalyst of San Diego & Imperial Counties: $195,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF NEW AMERICANS: $150,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOUSING WORKS: $120,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMission Trails Regional Park Foundation Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE PACIFIC SOUTHWEST: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAN DIEGO TIJUANA WORLD DESIGN CAPITAL 2024: $90,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF MAN DBA MUSEUM OF US: $90,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetRANCHO SANTA FE FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRise Up Industries: $80,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetTHE ESCONDIDO CREEK CONSERVANCY: $75,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO HOUSING FEDERATION: $75,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetDiamond Educational Excellence Partnership: $70,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetNEW VILLAGE ARTS INC: $65,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetCHICANO FEDERATION OF SAN DIEGO: $65,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF OCEANSIDE INC: $65,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetSCRIPPS HEALTH: $60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PUTNAM FOUNDATION DBA TIMKEN MUSEUM OF ART: $60,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO FISHERMENS WORKING GROUP: $60,000 over 2y, 87% of budgetSOMALI FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $58,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetMISSION EDGE SAN DIEGO: $55,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetVOICE OF SAN DIEGO: $55,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetINVESTIGATIVE NEWSOURCE: $50,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetHOME START INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKITCHENS FOR GOOD: $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetOCEAN DISCOVERY INSTITUTE: $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMCALISTER INSTITUTE FOR TREATMENT & EDUCATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRealize Impact: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetVOICES FOR CHILDREN: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPROJECT NEW VILLAGE: $50,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetNORTH COUNTY HEALTH PROJECT INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSan Diego Food System Alliance: $50,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetVIA INTERNATIONAL: $50,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetSTARPAL: $50,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetInterfaith Community Services Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVIETNAM VETERANS OF SAN DIEGO DBA VETERANS VILLAGE OF SAN DIEGO: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKIM CENTER FOR SOCIAL BALANCE: $50,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetMingei International Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED THROUGH READING: $50,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF SAN DIEGO: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO: $50,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetAGUA HEDIONDA LAGOON FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetVAPA Foundation: $50,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetSERVING SENIORS: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCALIFORNIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS ESCONDIDO FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFEEDING SAN DIEGO: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% 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.

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.

The Conrad Prebys FoundationCA243.9× affinity131 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Conrad Prebys Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · David C Copley Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Samuel I & John Henry Fox Foundation · Pratt Memorial Fund · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · Sempra 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 Parker Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Parker Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    99report 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.
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    How do I get to The Parker Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Parker 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 224 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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