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The Sharpe Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.5M
Granted FY2023
45
Grants FY2023
11
States reached
$315k
Largest

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of The Sharpe Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to The Rhode Island Community Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year The Sharpe Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 33 organizations, $2M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

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25
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28
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28
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33
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33
23
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24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Philanthropy$23MEnvironment$2.6MEducation$1.6MArts & Culture$790kHealth$411kScience & Tech$307kFood & Nutrition$253kYouth Development$205kOther$0
02FY2023 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k17 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $398k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $746k
  • $250k+1 grant · $315k
$15,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$8.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$315,000
LAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC$135,000
CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION$123,000
SOUTH KENT SCHOOL$120,000
CONCORD ACADEMY$105,000
CERES INC$93,000
THE PUBLIC'S RADIO$70,000
RHODE ISLAND LAND TRUST COUNCIL$50,000
NATURE CONSERVANCY INC MASSACHUSETTS CHAPTER$50,000
FRENCHMAN BAY CONSERVANCY$42,000
UTEC INC$32,500
ABBE MUSEUM$30,000
ENVIRONMENT AMERICA RESEARCH & POLICY CENTER$25,000
MOUNT DESERT ISLAND BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY$25,000
FENN SCHOOL INC$23,000
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, $165k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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 SERVINGS: $100k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $20k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $20k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $10k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $10k → 16%CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $5k → 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

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NH
WA
NY
MA
CT
RI
CA
CO
VA
KS
DC

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.2M · 57 repeat orgs$428k to everyone else

57 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2023, 17 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
52

Total granted

$6.2M
$406k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+45%

Still filing today

65%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationEnvironmentArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentHuman 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

  • LT
    LAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $560k · revenue +45%
  • CA
    CONCORD ACADEMY
    7× · 2017–2023 · $490k · revenue +70%
  • CI
    CERES INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $451k · revenue +129%

Funded once

  • RI
    RHODE ISLAND PUBLIC RADIO
    one grant, 2017 · $70k · revenue -45%
  • RI
    RHODE ISLAND PUBLIC RADIO (THE PUBLIC'S RADIO)
    one grant, 2021 · $35k
  • COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTICgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue +45%

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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

2
Preserve Rhode Island

Preserve ri's vision is a future where historic preservation creates positive change, making our diverse cultures, the environment, and the economy better for the people who live, visit and work in rhode island. preserve ri's mission is to…

Arts & Culture
3
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
4
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
5
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
6
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
7
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…

Environment
8
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
9
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
10
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
11
Marine Biological Laboratory

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…

Science & Tech
12
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save the Bay Inc and the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. 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 backsteadyPublic Library OperationsLocal Food System Organizat…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Health Access Advocacy and …Local History MuseumsIndependent K-12 SchoolsEnvironmental Conservation …Community Foundations
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 44 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%1%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%4%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr13%31%35–55yr16%39%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%0%10–20yr16%42%20–35yr13%51%35–55yr16%7%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%0/84
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,481

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

83 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. 83 of the 116 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)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
81/83
Grantees still filing
69/83
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $11,798,040 · PhilanthropyTHE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONBoston Foundation Inc — $10,784,540 · PhilanthropyBoston Foundation Inc+4 more — $92,000 · PhilanthropyTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY- MASSACHUSETTS CHAPTER — $270,000 · OtherTHE NATURE…THE FENN SCHOOL — $230,500 · OtherTHE FENN S…MDI BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY — $180,000 · OtherMDI BIOLOG…THE PUBLIC'S RADIO — $140,000 · OtherAUDUBON SOCIETY OF RI — $131,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY- RHODE ISLAND FIELD OFFICE — $131,000 · OtherWRNI — $130,000 · OtherCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION — $111,000 · OtherEMERSON UMBRELLA CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $103,500 · OtherRHODE ISLAND LAND TRUST COUNCIL — $103,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY SERVINGS INC — $160,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY …BROWN UNIVERSITY — $112,500 · Other+45 more — $937,800 · Other+45 moreLAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC — $560,000 · EnvironmentCERES INC — $450,500 · EnvironmentFrenchman Bay Conservancy — $278,500 · EnvironmentMaine Coast Heritage Trust — $156,000 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC — $138,000 · EnvironmentSAVE THE BAY INC — $94,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENT AMERICA RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER INC — $70,000 · EnvironmentNarrow River Land Trust Inc — $70,000 · Environment+6 more — $53,500 · EnvironmentCONCORD ACADEMY — $490,000 · EducationSOUTH KENT SCHOOL CORPORATION — $330,000 · EducationRHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN — $205,000 · EducationCONCORD FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY CORPORATION — $39,500 · Education+11 more — $51,000 · EducationLOWELL COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC — $208,300 · HealthEMERSON HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC — $139,000 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $70,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $21,000 · Health+6 more — $31,000 · HealthAbbe Museum — $249,000 · Arts & CultureCONCORD ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY D/B/A CONCORD MUSEUM — $18,400 · Arts & Culture+8 more — $39,500 · Arts & CultureUTEC Inc — $162,500 · Youth DevelopmentLOWELL YOUTH LEADERSHIP PROGRAM INC — $40,000 · Youth Development+2 more — $2,000 · Youth Development
Philanthropy$22,674,580Other$2,740,300Environment$1,870,500Education$1,115,500Health$469,300Arts & Culture$306,900Youth Development$204,500

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 budgetTHE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $11,798,040 over 8y, 7.3% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc — $10,784,540 over 8y, 5.1% of budgetLAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC — $560,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetCONCORD ACADEMY — $490,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetCERES INC — $450,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTH KENT SCHOOL CORPORATION — $330,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetFrenchman Bay Conservancy — $278,500 over 7y, 5.5% of budgetAbbe Museum — $249,000 over 7y, 9.8% of budgetTHE FENN SCHOOL — $230,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetLOWELL COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC — $208,300 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetRHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN — $205,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUTEC Inc — $162,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVINGS INC — $160,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust — $156,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetEMERSON HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC — $139,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC — $138,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $112,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE THE BAY INC — $94,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetRHODE ISLAND NATURAL HISTORY SURVEY — $81,000 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR FREE FLIGHT — $77,000 over 7y, 16% of budgetUNITED WAY OF RHODE ISLAND INC — $75,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetENVIRONMENT AMERICA RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER INC — $70,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetNarrow River Land Trust Inc — $70,000 over 6y, 81% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $70,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRHODE ISLAND PUBLIC RADIO — $70,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMount Desert Island Biological Laboratory — $46,200 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetLOWELL YOUTH LEADERSHIP PROGRAM INC — $40,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetCONCORD FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY CORPORATION — $39,500 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetCOLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC — $35,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $21,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS ASSOCIATION — $20,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEVERGREEN COLLABORATIVE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCONCORD ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY D/B/A CONCORD MUSEUM — $18,400 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetRHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Land Institute — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT — $14,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGAINING GROUND INC — $13,500 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetFriends of Acadia — $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCONCORD CARLISLE FOUNDATION INC — $12,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCONCORD LAND CONSERVATION TRUST — $12,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFILMMAKERS COLLABORATIVE — $10,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAppalachian Mountain Club — $7,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY WORKS INC — $7,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetEMERSON UMBRELLA INC — $7,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation — $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF NEW ENGL — $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% 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 THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Boston Foundation Inc
  • Who funds LAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC
  • Who funds CONCORD ACADEMY
  • Who funds CERES INC
  • Who funds SOUTH KENT SCHOOL CORPORATION
  • Who funds Frenchman Bay Conservancy
  • Who funds Abbe Museum
  • Who funds THE FENN SCHOOL
  • Who funds LOWELL COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC
  • Who funds RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN
  • Who funds UTEC Inc
  • Who funds COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC
  • Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust
  • Who funds EMERSON HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds SAVE THE BAY INC
  • Who funds RHODE ISLAND NATURAL HISTORY SURVEY
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR FREE FLIGHT
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF RHODE ISLAND INC
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENT AMERICA RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER INC
  • Who funds Narrow River Land Trust Inc
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION
  • Who funds RHODE ISLAND PUBLIC RADIO
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL MASSACHUSETTS RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER
  • Who funds Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory

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 Champlin FoundationPA41.6× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Champlin Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Ida Ballou Littlefield Memorial Trust · The Sand 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 Sharpe 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 120%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • Utec Inc46% of income from government
  • Lowell Community Health Center Inc34% of income from government
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation23% of income from government
  • Community Servings Inc12% of income from government
  • Gaining Ground Inc5% of income from government
  • Society for the Preservation of New Engl2% of income from government
  • Appalachian Mountain Club1% of income from government
  • Emerson Umbrella Inc1% of income from government
  • Concord Antiquarian Society D/B/a Concord Museum1% of income from government
  • Wgbh Educational Foundation1% of income from government
  • South Kent School Corporation0% of income from government
  • Ceres Inc0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation0% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
17report 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, 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 116 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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