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The Spivey Family Foundation Inc

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.

$34k
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$5k
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.

Health$101kArts & Culture$72kEducation$21kPhilanthropy$16kFood & Nutrition$14kEnvironment$6kInternational$5kHuman Services$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$821k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PACIFIC VISION FOUNDATION$5,000
SANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC$5,000
NAPA VALLEY MUSEUM$3,000
CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA$3,000
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION$2,500
CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$2,500
BELLOSGUARDO FOUNDATION INC$2,500
SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION$1,550
SANTA BARBARA COTTAGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$1,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCORPORATED$1,000
THE EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD PROJECT$1,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA$1,000
BOSTON UNIVERSITY$1,000
RARE VILLAGE FOUNDATION$500
JACQUES PEPIN FOUNDATION$500
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, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SF NEW DEAL: $250 → 10%WAYPOINT SERVICES FOR WOMEN CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $500 → 9%NEWS: $500 → 9%SF NEW DEAL: $250 → 10%EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $500 → 14%THE DALMATIAN DREAMS FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%THE DALMATIAN DREAMS FOUNDATION: $800 → 14%THE DALMATIAN DREAMS FOUNDATION: $500 → 14%SANTA BARBARA COUNTY FOOD ACTION NETWORK: $500 → 14%THE DALMATIAN DREAMS FOUNDATION: $500 → 14%THE DALMATIAN DREAMS FOUNDATION: $500 → 14%THE DALMATIAN DREAMS FOUNDATION: $500 → 14%THE DALMATIAN DREAMS FOUNDATION: $500 → 14%MONTECITO RETIREMENT ASSOCIATION: $1k → 14%THE DALMATIAN DREAMS FOUNDATION: $300 → 14%THE DALMATIAN DREAMS FOUNDATION: $300 → 14%SANTA BARBARA COUNTY FOOD ACTION NETWORK: $250 → 14%THE DALMATIAN DREAMS FOUNDATION: $250 → 14%THE DALMATIAN DREAMS FOUNDATION: $250 → 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

NY
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CO
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DC
OK
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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.

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Where the work is directed

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

About 7% of The Spivey Family Foundation Inc’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.

The Spivey Family Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$209k · 38 repeat orgs$32k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.

38 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
48

Total granted

$209k
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+7%

Still filing today

82%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationInternationalRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $48k · revenue +34%
  • SB
    Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation
    8× · 2018–2025 · $17k · revenue +74%
  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • SN
    SAVE NAPA VALLEY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue -73%
  • TJ
    THE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue +9%
  • TM
    THE MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue -21%

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.

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Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
2
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
3
The San Diego Foundation

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

Philanthropy
4
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.

Philanthropy
5
San Francisco Film Society

SFFILM is a nonprofit organization whose mission ensures independent voices in film are welcomed, heard, and given the resources to thrive. SFFILM connects and inspires audiences, students and teachers, and filmmakers through our film…

6
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
7
California College of the Arts

California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…

Education
8
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
9
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
10
Uc Santa Cruz Foundation

To benefit the university of california santa cruz.

Education
11
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
12
The Bar Association of San Francisco

The bar association of san francisco champions equal access to justice and promotes humanity, excellence, and diversity in the legal profession. we provide legal services to disadvantaged and underserved individuals in san francisco. we…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Asian Mental Health Collective Inc. 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 FoundationsCancer Support ServicesFood Banks and PantriesYouth Sports ProgramsSchool District FoundationsImmigrant Worker SupportAffordable Housing Developm…Domestic Violence ServicesCommunity Arts CentersWomen & Girls Leadership De…Independent K-12 SchoolsEnvironmental Conservation …Policy Research and AdvocacyLocal Food System Organizat…Local History MuseumsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Health Access Advocacy and …
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 33 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%3%<5yr15%11%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr17%26%20–35yr11%23%35–55yr13%25%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%3%<5yr15%2%5–10yr20%6%10–20yr17%14%20–35yr11%34%35–55yr13%41%55yr+

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

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/89
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,889

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

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 94 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
80/83
Grantees still filing
53/83
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PACIFIC VISION FOUNDATION — $60,980 · HealthPACIFIC VISION FOUNDATIONSanta Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation — $17,000 · HealthSanta Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundatio…CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA — $6,500 · HealthCANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA+10 more — $6,900 · Health+10 moreSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $48,100 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTIONSANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC — $8,075 · Arts & CultureSANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL…NAPA VALLEY MUSEUM — $3,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more — $4,450 · Arts & Culture+7 moreTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $8,500 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UN…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA — $4,800 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFOR…GANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND — $4,175 · OtherGANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAN…CASA DEL HERRERO — $2,025 · OtherALL STARS HELPING KIDS INC — $2,000 · OtherPROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE DIOCESE OF CALI — $1,700 · OtherFOOD TANK THE THINK TANK FOR FOOD — $2,750 · OtherFOOD TANK THE THINK T…+41 more — $23,325 · Other+41 moreSANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION — $15,550 · PhilanthropySANTA BAR…BELLOSGUARDO FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · PhilanthropyBELLOSGUA…+2 more — $500 · PhilanthropyDALMATIAN DREAMS DBA DREAM FOUNDATION — $7,150 · Human ServicesEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION — $2,500 · Human ServicesSANTA YNEZ VALLEY PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE — $1,000 · Human ServicesMONTECITO RETIREMENT ASSOCIATION — $1,000 · Human ServicesSANTA BARBARA COUNTY FOOD ACTION NETWORK — $750 · Human ServicesWAYPOINT SERVICES — $500 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $500 · Human ServicesSF New Deal — $500 · Human ServicesNEWS — $500 · Human ServicesAPPLES TO ZUCCHINI COOKING SCHOOL — $2,750 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITY — $2,245 · EducationThe Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute — $2,000 · EducationCRANE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $1,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $1,500 · EducationSANDE Youth Project — $1,250 · EducationTHE FOUNDATION FOR SANTA BARBARA CITY COLLEGE — $1,250 · EducationSanta Barbara Education Foundation — $1,000 · Education+1 more — $250 · EducationJACQUES PEPIN FOUNDATION THE — $4,500 · Employment
Health$91,380Arts & Culture$63,625Other$49,275Philanthropy$21,050Human Services$14,400Education$13,745Employment$4,500

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 budgetPACIFIC VISION FOUNDATION — $60,980 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $48,100 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation — $17,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION — $15,550 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $8,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC — $8,075 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDALMATIAN DREAMS DBA DREAM FOUNDATION — $7,150 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA — $6,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBELLOSGUARDO FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJACQUES PEPIN FOUNDATION THE — $4,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetGANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND — $4,175 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNAPA VALLEY MUSEUM — $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFOOD TANK THE THINK TANK FOR FOOD — $2,750 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAPPLES TO ZUCCHINI COOKING SCHOOL — $2,750 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $2,245 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCASA DEL HERRERO — $2,025 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetALL STARS HELPING KIDS INC — $2,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetThe Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCRANE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSANDE Youth Project — $1,250 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetSOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS — $1,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS) — $1,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR SANTA BARBARA CITY COLLEGE — $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA LITERARY & PROLOGUE SOCIETY — $1,100 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSAVE NAPA VALLEY FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorth of MarketTenderloin Community Benefit Corporation — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKQED INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Barbara Education Foundation — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA YNEZ VALLEY PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE — $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMONTECITO RETIREMENT ASSOCIATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFILM INDEPENDENT — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOXI THE WOLF MUSEUM OF EXPLORATION INNOVATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Barbara Bucket Brigade — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDIGNITYMOVES — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTECITO TRAILS FOUNDATION — $850 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOUTWARD BOUND CALIFORNIA — $800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA COUNTY FOOD ACTION NETWORK — $750 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSANTA BARBARA FIREFIGHTERS ALLIANCE — $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Health Centers of the Central Coast Inc — $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION — $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR — $575 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAYPOINT SERVICES — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY TRUST — $500 over 1y, 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.

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.

Santa Barbara FoundationCA46.4× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Santa Barbara Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · The Kirby-Jones Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Brittingham Family Foundation · Www Foundation · G a Fowler Family Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · James S Bower Foundation · Towbes Foundation · California Community 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 Spivey Family Foundation Inc 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 · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 30%
  • Chesapeake Bay Trust100% of income from government
  • Cornwall Conservation Trust Inc30% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc30% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University12% of income from government
  • Mount Auburn Hospital5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
21report 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.

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How do I get to The Spivey Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Spivey Family Foundation Inc 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 94 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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