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The Shared Earth Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
48
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$275k
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 FY20172024.

Environment$8.9MAnimals$7.4MArts & Culture$2.2MEducation$1.7MFood & Nutrition$1.0MInternational$722kScience & Tech$700kPhilanthropy$300kOther$0
02FY2024 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $4k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $629k
  • $50k–250k23 grants · $2.4M
  • $250k+1 grant · $275k
$50,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$600k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE$275,000
BHUTAN FOUNDATION$220,000
LEAP$217,000
CHESAPEAKE BAY MARITIME MUSEUM$200,000
UPSTREAM ALLIANCE$185,000
ENTERTAINMENT 2 AFFECT CHANGE$150,000
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY$150,000
GAME CHANGERS FOUNDATION$150,000
SNOW LEOPARD CONSERVANCY$125,000
SMITHSONIAN NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK$125,000
WILDLANDS NETWORK$100,000
ABRAHAM FOUNDATION$100,000
BAY JOURNAL MEDIA$85,000
THE LAST ANIMAL FOUNDATION$65,000
Individual grant recipient$60,000
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 (FY17–23, $275k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 60% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%EARTH SANGHA: $50k → 6%EARTH SANGHA: $10k → 6%EARTH SANGHA: $50k → 6%STREET SENSE MEDIA: $50k → 14%STREET SENSE MEDIA: $50k → 14%STREET SENSE: $25k → 14%STREET SENSE: $20k → 14%STREET SENSE: $20k → 14%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

WA
MN
NY
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DC
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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.

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 23% of The Shared Earth 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, 18% of the giving stays in MD; read by stated purpose it is 9% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

The Shared Earth Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 26% 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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$22M · 67 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

67 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

67
20

Total granted

$22M
$543k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+87%

Still filing today

82%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $602k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsEnvironmentArts & CultureEducationInternationalHuman ServicesOther

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

  • DO
    Defenders of Wildlife
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +43%
  • UA
    Upstream Alliance Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +649% · 44% of their budget
  • GC
    Game Changers Foundation Inc
    5× · 2018–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +269% · 39% of their budget

Funded once

  • TO
    THE OPS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • CM
    CHESAPEAKE MEDIA SERVICES
    one grant, 2017 · $78k
  • NL
    NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & ENVIRONMENTAL FUND
    one grant, 2018 · $50k

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
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
2
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
3
Environment Now
4
Endangered Species International

Endangered Species International is strongly committed to reversing the trend of human-induced species extinction, saving endangered animals, and preserving wild places.

Animals
5
Cascadia Wildlands

Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…

Environment
6
Reel Earth Films

Reel Earth Films promotes wildlife conservation by creating films that nurture the human connection to nature, spread awareness about life-threatening challenges facing species worldwide, and advance environmental activism and research.

Arts & Culture
7
Int'l Union for Conservation of Nature & Natural Resources - Us

Iucn-us fund builds bridges between us donors and iucn by catalyzing, accelerating, funding and promoting iucn's work - conserving nature and natural resources in the united states and throughout the world.

Environment
8
Wildcoast

The mission of wildcoast is to conserve coastal and marine ecosystems and address climate change through natural solutions. our staff is dedicated to conserving threatened and endangered coastlines and wildlife in california and mexico.…

Environment
9
Wild Earth Allies Inc

Our mission is to protect vital areas of our natural world for the benefit of wildlife, habitats, and people by inspiring collaborative action. Our vision is a world where wildlife and people flourish in healthy ecosystems that sustain us…

Environment
10
Nature and Culture International

Nature and culture international conserves biologically diverse landscapes in latin america, in concert with local cultures, for the well-being of the planet.

Environment
11
Wildearth Guardians

Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.

Unclassified
12
Wildlife Conservation Global Inc

Wildlife conservation global, inc. operates the okapi conservation project (ocp) which works in the democratic republic of the congo with the institute in congo for the conservation of nature (iccn) and local communities throughout the…

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wildlife Conservation Network Inc and the most unlike its peers is Speak Out for Animals. 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 FoundationsChristian Missionary Organi…Community Arts CentersAnimal Rescue and ShelterIndependent K-12 SchoolsHealth Access Advocacy and …Policy Research and AdvocacyEnvironmental Conservation …
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 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%1%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%25%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr16%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%32%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr13%16%35–55yr16%25%55yr+

The field is 22% 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 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/76
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,489

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

74 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. 74 of the 100 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)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
73/74
Grantees still filing
65/74
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE — $1,267,800 · OtherSMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY I…Individual grant recipient — $995,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientThe Bhutan Foundation — $525,000 · OtherThe Bhutan FoundationIndividual grant recipient — $508,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWESTERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER — $430,000 · OtherWESTERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTERTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $280,000 · OtherThe Abraham Foundation — $365,000 · Other+34 more — $2,882,600 · Other+34 moreDefenders of Wildlife — $2,020,000 · AnimalsDefenders of WildlifeSnow Leopard Conservancy — $935,000 · AnimalsSnow Leopard ConservancyANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC — $515,000 · AnimalsANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND …AKASHINGA INC — $335,000 · AnimalsAKASHINGA INCWILDAID INC — $290,000 · AnimalsNORTHERN JAGUAR PROJECT — $290,000 · AnimalsNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $230,000 · Animals+14 more — $979,000 · Animals+14 moreUpstream Alliance Inc — $1,130,000 · EnvironmentUpstream Alliance In…BAY JOURNAL MEDIA INC — $657,500 · EnvironmentBAY JOURNAL MEDIA IN…CHESAPEAKE CONSERVANCY INC — $570,000 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAKE CONSERVAN…ENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT — $350,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL INTEGR…EASTERN SHORE LAND CONSERVANCY INC — $315,000 · EnvironmentEASTERN SHORE LAND C…CLEAN WATER FUND — $280,000 · EnvironmentCLEAN WATER FUNDCHESAPEAKE LEGAL ALLIANCE INC — $275,000 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAKE LEGAL ALL…ALLIANCE FOR INT'L REFORESTATION — $190,000 · EnvironmentMONGABAY ORG CORP — $175,000 · Environment+6 more — $320,000 · Environment+6 moreWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC — $725,025 · Arts & CultureWOMEN MAKE M…SULTANA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $400,000 · Arts & CultureSULTANA EDUC…Wild Earth Society Incorporated — $345,000 · Arts & CultureWild Earth S…SAVANNAH SCIENCE MUSEUM INC — $225,975 · Arts & CultureSAVANNAH SCI…ENTERTAINMENT 2 AFFECT CHANGE — $200,000 · Arts & CultureENTERTAINMEN…CHESAPEAKE BAY MARITIME MUSEUM INC — $200,000 · Arts & CultureCHESAPEAKE B…National Gallery of Art — $150,000 · Arts & CultureNational Gal…TRICYCLE FOUNDATION — $90,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more — $255,000 · Arts & Culture+6 moreLEAP INC — $1,359,500 · EducationLEAP INCNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY — $700,000 · EducationNATIONAL GE…WASHINGTON COLLEGE — $274,000 · EducationWASHINGTON …+1 more — $25,000 · EducationGame Changers Foundation Inc — $1,025,000 · Food & NutritionENVIRONMENTAL INVESTIGATION AGENCY — $360,000 · InternationalELEPHANT CARE INTERNATIONAL — $140,000 · InternationalRAINFOREST TRUST — $60,000 · International+1 more — $12,000 · International
Other$7,253,900Animals$5,594,000Environment$4,262,500Arts & Culture$2,591,000Education$2,358,500Food & Nutrition$1,025,000International$572,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDefenders of Wildlife — $2,020,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetLEAP INC — $1,359,500 over 8y, 75% of budgetUpstream Alliance Inc — $1,130,000 over 8y, 44% of budgetGame Changers Foundation Inc — $1,025,000 over 5y, 39% of budgetSnow Leopard Conservancy — $935,000 over 7y, 39% of budgetWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC — $725,025 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY — $700,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBAY JOURNAL MEDIA INC — $657,500 over 8y, 18% of budgetCHESAPEAKE CONSERVANCY INC — $570,000 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetThe Bhutan Foundation — $525,000 over 6y, 5.1% of budgetANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC — $515,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetWESTERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER — $430,000 over 7y, 5.9% of budgetSULTANA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $400,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetThe Abraham Foundation — $365,000 over 5y, 66% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL INVESTIGATION AGENCY — $360,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT — $350,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetWild Earth Society Incorporated — $345,000 over 8y, 4.8% of budgetAKASHINGA INC — $335,000 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetEASTERN SHORE LAND CONSERVANCY INC — $315,000 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetWILDAID INC — $290,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetNORTHERN JAGUAR PROJECT — $290,000 over 6y, 14% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $280,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCLEAN WATER FUND — $280,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetCHESAPEAKE LEGAL ALLIANCE INC — $275,000 over 6y, 18% of budgetWASHINGTON COLLEGE — $274,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $230,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSAVANNAH SCIENCE MUSEUM INC — $225,975 over 7y, 23% of budgetBAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL — $221,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetENTERTAINMENT 2 AFFECT CHANGE — $200,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY MARITIME MUSEUM INC — $200,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetALLIANCE FOR INT'L REFORESTATION — $190,000 over 5y, 22% of budgetPhysicians Committee for Responsible Med — $190,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetRACHEL'S NETWORK INC — $188,000 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetWOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $184,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKENT CULTURAL ALLIANCE INC — $180,000 over 3y, 37% of budgetMONGABAY ORG CORP — $175,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetStreet Sense Inc — $165,000 over 5y, 6.6% of budgetORANG UTAN REPUBLIK FOUNDATION INC — $160,000 over 8y, 11% of budgetLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUCATION FUND — $154,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetNational Gallery of Art — $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL AQUARIUM INC — $140,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetELEPHANT CARE INTERNATIONAL — $140,000 over 3y, 65% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society — $120,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEarth Sangha — $110,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE — $105,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOLD-GROWTH FOREST NETWORK INC — $100,000 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetLAST ANIMALS FOUNDATION — $95,000 over 2y, 78% of budgetTRICYCLE FOUNDATION — $90,000 over 3y, 1.0% 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 Defenders of Wildlife
  • Who funds LEAP INC
  • Who funds Upstream Alliance Inc
  • Who funds Game Changers Foundation Inc
  • Who funds Snow Leopard Conservancy
  • Who funds WOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC
  • Who funds NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
  • Who funds BAY JOURNAL MEDIA INC
  • Who funds CHESAPEAKE CONSERVANCY INC
  • Who funds The Bhutan Foundation
  • Who funds ANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC
  • Who funds WESTERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER
  • Who funds SULTANA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds The Abraham Foundation
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL INVESTIGATION AGENCY
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT
  • Who funds Wild Earth Society Incorporated
  • Who funds AKASHINGA INC
  • Who funds EASTERN SHORE LAND CONSERVANCY INC
  • Who funds WILDAID INC
  • Who funds NORTHERN JAGUAR PROJECT
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY
  • Who funds CLEAN WATER FUND
  • Who funds CHESAPEAKE LEGAL ALLIANCE INC
  • Who funds WASHINGTON COLLEGE
  • Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION
  • Who funds SAVANNAH SCIENCE MUSEUM INC
  • Who funds BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL
  • Who funds ENTERTAINMENT 2 AFFECT CHANGE
  • Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY MARITIME MUSEUM INC
  • Who funds ALLIANCE FOR INT'L REFORESTATION
  • Who funds Physicians Committee for Responsible Med
  • Who funds RACHEL'S NETWORK INC
  • Who funds WOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY
  • Who funds KENT CULTURAL ALLIANCE INC
  • Who funds MONGABAY ORG CORP

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 Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment IncMD21× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment Inc · Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Dock Street Foundation · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Rsf Social Finance Inc · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The Henry Sears Foundation Inc · Farvue Foundation Inc · Watson Stone Family Foundation Inc · Grayce B Kerr Fund Inc · Seadream Family 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 Shared Earth 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
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 governmentmedian 27%
  • Eastern Shore Land Conservancy Inc100% of income from government
  • Pride of Baltimore Inc30% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Conservancy Inc27% of income from government
  • Kent Cultural Alliance Inc27% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum Inc17% of income from government
  • Sultana Education Foundation Inc8% of income from government
  • National Aquarium Inc1% of income from government
  • Washington College0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
12report 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, 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 100 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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