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The Riggio 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.

$3.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
36
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Arts & Culture$11MEducation$6.9MHousing & Shelter$5.8MHealth$2.4MEnvironment$2.3MAnimals$1.9MYouth Development$1.0MRecreation & Sports$609kOther$0
02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $53k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $247k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $205k
  • $250k+4 grants · $3.1M
$10,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$67M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC$2,000,000
WEILL CORNELL$600,000
GREEN IS THE NEW BLUE$250,000
HAYGROUND SCHOOL AND CAMP$250,000
UNION SQUARE PARTNERSHIP$154,800
THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND$50,000
HAMPTON CLASSIC HORSE SHOW INC$40,000
CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY$30,000
FRACTURED ATLAS$27,000
THE ELLIS ISLAND HONORS SOCIETY$25,000
THE BASILICA OF ST PATRICKS OLD CATHEDRAL$25,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$20,000
AIKEN HORSE PARK FOUNDATION$15,000
EQUESTRIAN AID FOUNDATION$15,000
GUILD HALL OF EAST HAMPTON$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, $482k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 23% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HUMAN NEEDS PROJECT: $20k → 8%EAST END HOSPICE INC: $100k → 7%GLENEAYRE EQUESTRIAN PROGRAM: $2k → 7%PROMISE LANDING FARM INC: $10k → 11%PROMISE LANDING FARM INC: $6k → 11%ELLIS MARSHALLS CENTER FOR MUSIC: $20k → 23%BELMONT CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION: $5k → 6%AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR STUTTERING: $15k → 17%BELMONT CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION: $3k → 6%BELMONT CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION: $3k → 6%CARIDAD CENTER: $5k → 11%CARIDAD CENTER: $5k → 11%CARIDAD CENTER: $5k → 11%CARIDAD CENTER: $5k → 11%CARIDAD CENTER: $5k → 11%THE BRIDGEHAMPTON CHILD CARE AND RECREATION CENTER: $150k → 7%CARIDAD CENTER: $5k → 11%CARIDAD CENTER: $5k → 11%THE BRIDGEHAMPTON CHILD CARE & RECREATION CENTER: $50k → 7%THE BRIDGEHAMPTON CHILD CARE AND RECREATION CENTER: $15k → 7%THE BRIDGEHAMPTON CHILD CARE & RECREATION CENTER: $10k → 7%THE BRIDGEHAMPTON CHILD CARE AND RECREATION CENTER: $8k → 7%THE BRIDGEHAMPTON CHILD CARE AND RECREATION CENTER: $5k → 7%THE BRIDGEHAMPTON CHILD CARE AND RECREATION CENTER: $3k → 7%GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES: $10k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $10k → 17%NATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF ITALIAN AMERICAN WOMEN: $5k → 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

NH
ID
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MA
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IN
PA
NJ
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CA
UT
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
TN
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DC
LA
GA
TX
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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 8% of The Riggio 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. Read by recipient address, 85% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 79% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

The Riggio Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.0% 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.

53%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$17M · 84 repeat orgs$16M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

84 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 55 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

84
106

Total granted

$17M
$15M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+13%

Still filing today

80%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $214k 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
Arts & CultureAnimalsEducationHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentOther

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

  • DC
    DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC
    5× · 2019–2025 · $3.1M · revenue +41%
  • GI
    GREEN IS THE NEW BLUE INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +54% · 97% of their budget
  • JA
    JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC
    4× · 2018–2021 · $1.6M · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • PH
    PROJECT HOME AGAIN
    one grant, 2017 · $5.8M
  • WC
    Weill Cornell Medicine
    one grant, 2021 · $2.4M
  • TS
    THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM
    one grant, 2018 · $2.3M · revenue 0%

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
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
2
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
3
Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences dba the Staten Island Museum

Founded in 1881 the Staten Island Museum engages visitors with interdisciplinary exhibitions, public programs, and educational activities for all ages. It is the mission of the Staten Island Museum to spark curiosity and generate…

Arts & Culture
4
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
5
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
6
Governors Island Corporation

The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…

Animals
7
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
8
New York Studio School

The new york studio school is committed to giving a significant education to the aspiring artist, a preamble to a lifetime's engagement in drawing, painting, and sculpture. (see schedule o for continuation)

9
Thompson Park Conservancy Inc

Zoo new york, by example and action, provides knowledge and motivation for conserving nature in new york state through science-based natural and cultural experiences.

Arts & Culture
10
New York Landmarks Conservancy Inc

The conservancy preserves and revitalizes new york's architecture. by doing so, it contributes to new york's economy, tourism and quality of life.

11
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
12
World Animal Protection

World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Yorkers for Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Aiken Horse Park 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 backsteadyEquine Therapy ProgramsEnvironmental Conservation …Health Access Advocacy and …Elementary Literacy TutoringCancer Support ServicesMilitary Veterans SupportPolicy Research and AdvocacyYouth Sports ProgramsIndependent K-12 SchoolsCommunity Arts CentersVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Local History MuseumsWomen & Girls Leadership De…Senior Support ServicesCommunity College Foundatio…Animal Rescue and ShelterCommunity FoundationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
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 36 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%1%<5yr14%3%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr19%31%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr16%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%8%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr19%18%20–35yr13%33%35–55yr16%33%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 1% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%2/153
the rest of the field
10%
11,856/120,607

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

150 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 150 of the 199 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)
34
Early backer (in before they grew)
146/150
Grantees still filing
106/150
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PROJECT HOME AGAIN — $5,784,494 · OtherPROJECT HOME AGAINWeill Cornell Medicine — $2,400,000 · OtherWeill Cornell MedicineWeill Cornell — $1,600,000 · OtherWeill CornellHAYGROUND SCHOOL and Camp — $1,010,000 · OtherHAYGROUND SCHOOL and Camp+92 more — $2,408,989 · Other+92 moreDIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC — $3,110,000 · Arts & CultureDIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INCTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM — $2,320,000 · Arts & CultureTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEMJAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC — $1,560,000 · Arts & CultureJAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INCCOLUMBUS CITIZENS FOUNDATION INC — $1,013,000 · Arts & CultureCOLUMBUS CITIZENS FOUNDATION INCEXPLORING THE ARTS INC — $620,750 · Arts & CultureEXPLORING THE ARTS INC+31 more — $1,758,039 · Arts & Culture+31 moreSpelman College — $2,000,000 · EducationSpelman Coll…BROOKLYN TECH ALUMNI FOUNDATION INC — $1,100,000 · EducationBROOKLYN TEC…THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND — $124,200 · Education+13 more — $274,500 · Education+13 moreOMEGA HORSE RESCUE AND REHABILITATION CENTER INC — $1,224,355 · AnimalsAIKEN HORSE PARK FOUNDATION — $269,000 · AnimalsWildlife Conservation Society — $115,000 · Animals+24 more — $474,500 · AnimalsGREEN IS THE NEW BLUE INC — $1,625,000 · Recreation & SportsSECRETARIAT CENTER INC — $120,000 · Recreation & Sports+3 more — $110,030 · Recreation & SportsKINGSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $1,000,000 · PhilanthropyHAMPTON CLASSIC HORSE SHOW INC — $380,000 · Philanthropy+5 more — $141,900 · PhilanthropyBridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center Inc — $240,000 · Human ServicesEast End Hospice Inc — $100,000 · Human ServicesCaridad Center Inc — $35,000 · Human ServicesELLIS MARSALIS CENTER FOR MUSIC INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesHuman Needs Project Inc — $20,000 · Human Services+7 more — $67,225 · Human Services
Other$13,203,483Arts & Culture$10,381,789Education$3,498,700Animals$2,082,855Recreation & Sports$1,855,030Philanthropy$1,521,900Human Services$482,225

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 budgetDIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC — $3,110,000 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM — $2,320,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetSpelman College — $2,000,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGREEN IS THE NEW BLUE INC — $1,625,000 over 6y, 97% of budgetJAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC — $1,560,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetOMEGA HORSE RESCUE AND REHABILITATION CENTER INC — $1,224,355 over 9y, 18% of budgetBROOKLYN TECH ALUMNI FOUNDATION INC — $1,100,000 over 2y, 50% of budgetCOLUMBUS CITIZENS FOUNDATION INC — $1,013,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetKINGSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $1,000,000 over 1y, 45% of budgetEXPLORING THE ARTS INC — $620,750 over 6y, 9.5% of budgetHAMPTON CLASSIC HORSE SHOW INC — $380,000 over 9y, 4.1% of budgetPOETS AND WRITERS INC — $275,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetAIKEN HORSE PARK FOUNDATION — $269,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetPECONIC LAND TRUST INC — $250,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center Inc — $240,000 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetAFRICAN ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FOUNDATION — $235,000 over 4y, 29% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC — $221,100 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUNION SQUARE PARTNERSHIP INC — $154,800 over 1y, 16% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art — $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEquestrian Aid Foundation — $131,100 over 5y, 13% of budgetThe Marty Lyons Foundation Inc — $125,000 over 6y, 7.4% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND — $124,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSECRETARIAT CENTER INC — $120,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society — $115,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $107,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetEast End Hospice Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUTAH FILM CENTER — $100,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE PARRISH ART MUSEUM INC — $98,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART — $95,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGUILD HALL OF EAST HAMPTON INC — $75,439 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetWOLF CONSERVATION CENTER INC — $65,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetTHE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC — $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK INC — $60,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History — $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW VOCATIONS RACEHORSE ADOPTION — $56,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $55,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDOGS TRUST USA INC — $50,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPARK & RECREATION ASSOCIATION OF SAG HARBOR INC — $50,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetEQUINE ADVOCATES INCORPORATED — $50,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetI HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDANNY & RONS RESCUE — $47,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTHE ELLEN P HERMANSON FOUNDATION — $47,500 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $45,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE FUND OF THE HAMPTONS INC — $43,500 over 4y, 0.6% 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.

Jewish Communal FundNY28.3× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Tracy Farmer Foundation Inc · May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation Inc · The Charles Cohn Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Emma and Georgina Bloomberg Foundation · Thoroughbred Charities of America Inc · Leslie L Alexander Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Yaffa Foundation Inc · The Francesco and Mary Giambelli Foundation 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 Riggio 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
202122232425
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 2%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc30% of income from government
  • Bridgewater State University Foundation2% of income from government
  • Caridad Center Inc0% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
39report 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, 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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Riggio Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Riggio 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 199 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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