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The Shanbrom Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
53
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$250k
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$2.9MEnvironment$1.5MHealth$1.5MEducation$820kAnimals$631kHuman Services$428kInternational$345kHousing & Shelter$230kOther$0
02FY2025 · 53 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k39 grants · $685k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $381k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$15,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OJAI VALLEY LAND CONSERVANCY$250,000
MAYO CLINIC$100,000
ANAHEIM BALLET$75,000
OJAI FESTIVALS LTD$56,000
FRIENDS OF THE CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY INC$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA ARTS & LECTURES$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION (UCI)$50,000
THE TURTLE CONSERVANCY$40,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SANTA BARBARA VENTURA & SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTIES INC$40,000
COMMUNITY MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM$30,000
CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY$25,000
CARE$25,000
MOZART FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$25,000
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, $438k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%COMMUNITY COUNSELING CENTER: $13k → 12%DIRECT RELIEF FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%NATE'S PLACE WELLNESS AND RECOVERY CENTER: $10k → 10%DIRECT RELIEF FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%DIRECT RELIEF FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%DIRECT RELIEF FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%DIRECT RELIEF FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%DIRECT RELIEF FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%DIRECT RELIEF FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%DIRECT RELIEF FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%DIRECT RELIEF FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%RWANDA GIRLS INITIATIVE: $25k → 9%RWANDA GIRLS INITIATIVE: $20k → 9%RWANDA GIRLS INITIATIVE: $20k → 9%RWANDA GIRLS INITIATIVE: $20k → 9%RWANDA GIRLS INITIATIVE: $20k → 9%RWANDA GIRLS INITIATIVE: $20k → 9%RWANDA GIRLS INITIATIVE: $20k → 9%RWANDA GIRLS INITIATIVE: $10k → 9%RWANDA GIRLS INITIATIVE: $10k → 9%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
NH
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CA
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VA
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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.

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.8M · 77 repeat orgs$583k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

77 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

77
44

Total granted

$7.8M
$468k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+15%

Still filing today

68%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k 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 & CultureHealthEducationEnvironmentAnimalsInternationalOther

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

  • OF
    OJAI FESTIVALS LTD
    9× · 2017–2025 · $781k · revenue +15%
  • AB
    Anaheim Ballet
    9× · 2017–2025 · $590k · revenue +25% · 31% of their budget
  • TO
    THE OJAI VALLEY LAND CONSERVANCY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $490k · revenue +268%

Funded once

  • CC
    Caramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -22%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION (UCI)-COVID 19
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • PC
    PACIFIC CHORALEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +66%

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
Cuenca Los Ojos

Cuenca los ojos works to preserve and restore the biodiversity of the us/mexican borderlands through land protection, habitat restoration and wildlife reintroduction.

Environment
2
California Ocean Science Trust

California ocean science trust (ost) is a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating progress towards a healthy and productive ocean future for california. created by state legislation, ost bridges the gap between cutting-edge…

Environment
3
Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation

The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.

Animals
4
Opera Santa Barbara

See schedule 0founded in 1994, opera santa barbara is the signature provider of professional opera on the california central coast. we aspire to be a cultural leader in the santa barbara region, voicing and advancing our community's spirit…

Arts & Culture
5
The Institute for Bird Populations

The institute for bird populations enables science-based conservation of species and habitats by studying the abundance, demography, and ecology of birds and other wildlife.

Animals
6
Santa Lucia Conservancy

To protect and steward in perpetuity the unique natural, cultural, and asthetic resources of the preserve and serve as a model of ecologically sustainable development to committees outside the preserve.

Environment
7
Los Angeles Conservancy

The los angeles conservancy is a nonprofit membership organization that works through education and advocacy to recognize, preserve, and revitalize the historic architectural and cultural resources of los angeles county.

Arts & Culture
8
Los Angeles Opera Company

To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…

Arts & Culture
9
The Trust for Public Land

The trust for public land creates parks and protects land for people, ensuring healthy, livable communities for generations to come. in the past year, we helped communities to plan for parks and conservation, fund parks and conservation,…

Environment
10
San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory

The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.

Environment
11
The California Channel

To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…

12
San Diego Opera Association

Mission: the mission of san diego opera is to deliver exceptional performances and exciting, accessible programs to diverse audiences, focusing on community partnerships, and the transformative and expressive power of the human voice. as…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation Santa Cruz County and the most unlike its peers is Raven Rock Ranch. 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 backsteadyCommunity FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …Dance Arts OrganizationsHealth Access Advocacy and …Cancer Support ServicesChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Food Banks and PantriesMilitary Veterans SupportFaith-Based Social ServicesWomen & Girls Leadership De…Community FoundationsAffordable Housing Developm…United Way AffiliatesPolicy Research and AdvocacyOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…
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 39 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%3%<5yr15%8%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr17%18%20–35yr11%34%35–55yr13%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%1%<5yr15%2%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr17%16%20–35yr11%31%35–55yr13%39%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/87
the rest of the field
14%
26,002/186,891

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

85 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. 85 of the 131 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)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
84/85
Grantees still filing
58/85
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $250,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDESERT MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $200,000 · OtherDESERT MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA ARTS & LECTURES — $190,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA AR…UC REGENTS — $188,000 · OtherUC REGENTSTATEUCHI CENTER — $168,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SANTA BARBARA VENTURA & SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTIES INC — $145,000 · OtherOVERLAKE HOSPITAL — $120,000 · OtherCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC — $145,000 · OtherConcerned Resource & Environmental Workers — $120,000 · OtherPLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES — $130,000 · Other+66 more — $1,626,500 · Other+66 moreOJAI FESTIVALS LTD — $781,000 · Arts & CultureOJAI FESTIVALS LTDAnaheim Ballet — $590,000 · Arts & CultureAnaheim BalletPacific Symphony — $125,000 · Arts & CulturePacific SymphonyMUSIC OF REMEMBRANCE — $110,000 · Arts & CultureSEATTLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $70,000 · Arts & Culture+14 more — $414,000 · Arts & Culture+14 moreMAYO CLINIC — $525,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICLIVINGSTON MEMORIAL VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION — $205,000 · HealthLIVINGSTON ME…COMMUNITY MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM — $120,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY MEM…OJAICARES INC — $90,000 · HealthOJAICARES INCKCNT1 SLACK EPILEPSY FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 · Health+5 more — $72,000 · Health+5 moreTHE OJAI VALLEY LAND CONSERVANCY — $490,000 · EnvironmentTHE OJAI VA…LOS PADRES FORESTWATCH INC — $128,000 · EnvironmentLOS PADRES …THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY — $120,000 · EnvironmentTHE WILDERN…Ojai Raptor Center — $115,000 · EnvironmentOjai Raptor…ECOLOGISTICS INC — $60,000 · EnvironmentECOLOGISTIC…+2 more — $30,000 · EnvironmentUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION — $400,000 · EducationWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC — $90,000 · EducationAGORA FOUNDATION INC — $85,000 · EducationOther Minds — $60,000 · Education+4 more — $32,500 · EducationTURTLE CONSERVANCY — $145,000 · AnimalsWILD AT HEART INC — $140,000 · AnimalsCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC — $105,000 · AnimalsAmerican Bird Conservancy — $68,000 · AnimalsVENTANA WILDLIFE SOCIETY — $40,000 · AnimalsHAWK MOUNTAIN SANCTUARY ASSOCIATION — $20,000 · Animals+1 more — $5,000 · AnimalsDIRECT RELIEF FOUNDATION — $250,000 · Human ServicesRwanda Girls Initiative — $165,000 · Human Services+2 more — $22,500 · Human Services
Other$3,282,500Arts & Culture$2,090,000Health$1,052,000Environment$943,000Education$667,500Animals$523,000Human Services$437,500

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 budgetOJAI FESTIVALS LTD — $781,000 over 9y, 9.6% of budgetAnaheim Ballet — $590,000 over 9y, 31% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $525,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OJAI VALLEY LAND CONSERVANCY — $490,000 over 9y, 4.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION — $400,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF FOUNDATION — $250,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetLIVINGSTON MEMORIAL VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION — $205,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetRwanda Girls Initiative — $165,000 over 9y, 3.7% of budgetTURTLE CONSERVANCY — $145,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC — $145,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWILD AT HEART INC — $140,000 over 9y, 5.9% of budgetPLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES — $130,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetLOS PADRES FORESTWATCH INC — $128,000 over 9y, 3.4% of budgetPacific Symphony — $125,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY — $120,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetConcerned Resource & Environmental Workers — $120,000 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM — $120,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOjai Raptor Center — $115,000 over 9y, 6.2% of budgetMUSIC OF REMEMBRANCE — $110,000 over 9y, 5.9% of budgetCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC — $105,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetOJAICARES INC — $90,000 over 9y, 19% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC — $90,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAGORA FOUNDATION INC — $85,000 over 9y, 8.4% of budgetTHE PEREGRINE FUND INC — $80,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $70,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $70,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Bird Conservancy — $68,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM — $65,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetOther Minds — $60,000 over 9y, 2.2% of budgetECOLOGISTICS INC — $60,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetPATH WITH ART — $55,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetCaramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPACIFIC CHORALE — $50,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCENTRAL COAST STATE PARKS ASSOCIATION — $50,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetSpokes — $48,000 over 7y, 6.5% of budgetVENTANA WILDLIFE SOCIETY — $40,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetKCNT1 SLACK EPILEPSY FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetLEGAL VOICE — $40,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetFIBCO FAMILY SERVICES INC — $40,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSIMONS LAUFER MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE — $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY — $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPHILHARMONIC SOCIETY OF ORANGE COUNTY — $35,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFARESTART — $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTREEHOUSE — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFoothills Food Bank — $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSAN LUIS OBISPO MUSEUM OF ART — $30,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetHONORHEALTH FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetISLAND CONSERVATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

  • Who funds OJAI FESTIVALS LTD
  • Who funds Anaheim Ballet
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC
  • Who funds THE OJAI VALLEY LAND CONSERVANCY
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds DIRECT RELIEF FOUNDATION
  • Who funds LIVINGSTON MEMORIAL VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds Rwanda Girls Initiative
  • Who funds TURTLE CONSERVANCY
  • Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC
  • Who funds WILD AT HEART INC
  • Who funds PLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES
  • Who funds LOS PADRES FORESTWATCH INC
  • Who funds Pacific Symphony
  • Who funds THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY
  • Who funds Concerned Resource & Environmental Workers
  • Who funds COMMUNITY MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM
  • Who funds Ojai Raptor Center
  • Who funds MUSIC OF REMEMBRANCE
  • Who funds CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC
  • Who funds OJAICARES INC
  • Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds AGORA FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds THE PEREGRINE FUND INC
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY
  • Who funds SEATTLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
  • Who funds American Bird Conservancy
  • Who funds MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM

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.

The Community Foundation San Luis ObispoCA33.7× affinity14 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation San Luis Obispo · Ventura County Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Harold J Miossi Charitable Trust · Monimos Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Hind Foundation · Hughes Charitable Foundation · David & Sylvia Weisz Foundation · The Clements Family Charitable Trust · Bull Henry W Foundation · Ann & Gordon Getty 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 Shanbrom 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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no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 5%
  • Music to Life Inc5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 131 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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