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The Swagelok Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
222
Grants FY2025still arriving
20
States reached
$201k
Largest
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$1.2MHealth$768kCommunity Improvement$541kArts & Culture$479kHuman Services$443kEmployment$401kFood & Nutrition$341kYouth Development$257kOther$0
02FY2025 · 222 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k189 grants · $408k
  • $10k–50k26 grants · $344k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $615k
$1,960
Median grant
20
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$201,000
CUYAHOGA COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY$100,000
CLEVELAND FOODBANK INC$81,467
MANUFACTURING WORKS$62,500
AMERICAN RED CROSS$60,000
GREATER CLEVELAND PARTNERSHIP$60,000
TEAM NEO$50,000
GREATER CLEVELAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$24,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$22,929
FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER CLEVELAND$20,027
CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF CLEVELAND$20,000
Individual grant recipient$18,420
CUYAHOGA COMM COLLEGE FOUNDATION$17,500
MIAMI UNIVERSITY$15,000
GREAT LAKES SCIENCE CENTER$13,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $476k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BAPS CHARITIES INC: $5k → 8%BAPS CHARITIES INC: $5k → 11%BAPS CHARITIES INC: $4k → 11%BAPS CHARITIES INC: $4k → 11%ZANES FOUNDATION: $6k → 13%ZANES FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%ADOPTION NETWORK CLEVELAND INC: $6k → 17%ADOPTION NETWORK CLEVELAND INC: $6k → 17%FAIRHILL PARTNERS: $5k → 17%A KID AGAIN INC: $5k → 13%A KID AGAIN INC: $5k → 13%A KID AGAIN INC: $5k → 13%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AKRON: $5k → 13%A KID AGAIN INC: $5k → 13%CLEVELAND FURNITURE BANK: $6k → 17%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AKRON: $5k → 13%NORTHEAST OHIO FOUNDATION: $11k → 17%NORTHEAST OHIO FOUNDATION: $7k → 17%ADOPTION NETWORK CLEVELAND: $6k → 17%CHILD CARE RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 17%NORTH COAST COMMUNITY HOMES: $5k → 17%NORTH COAST COMMUNITY HOMES: $5k → 17%NORTH COAST COMMUNITY HOMES: $5k → 17%SHOES AND CLOTHES FOR KIDS: $11k → 17%SHOES AND CLOTHES FOR KIDS: $6k → 17%GLOBAL CLEVELAND: $25k → 17%GLOBAL CLEVELAND: $25k → 17%GLOBAL CLEVELAND: $20k → 17%GLOBAL CLEVELAND: $20k → 17%GLOBAL CLEVELAND: $13k → 17%ZANES FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%ZANES FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%ZANES FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%ZANES FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%MAY DUGAN CENTER: $6k → 17%GATHERING PLACE: $13k → 17%GATHERING PLACE: $13k → 17%GATHERING PLACE: $8k → 17%GATHERING PLACE: $8k → 17%GATHERING PLACE: $13k → 17%GATHERING PLACE: $10k → 17%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $10k → 17%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $6k → 17%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $5k → 17%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $5k → 17%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $5k → 17%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $5k → 17%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $5k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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CA
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How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.2M · 292 repeat orgs$803k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

292 repeat relationships: 165 still active in FY2025, 127 since wound down; 54 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

292
205

Total granted

$5.2M
$496k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+8%

Still filing today

70%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $307k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthAnimalsArts & CultureInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CM
    CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
    4× · 2020–2023 · $200k · revenue +23%
  • MW
    MANUFACTURING WORKS
    6× · 2020–2025 · $173k · revenue +73%
  • MA
    MANUFACTURING ADVOCACY & GROWTH NETWORK INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $110k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • EC
    EAST CLEVELAND SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2022 · $75k
  • UH
    UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS RAINBOW BABIES AND CHILDREN
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • TO
    THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Greater Cleveland Volunteers

Greater cleveland volunteers enriches the community and indivuduals through volunteer service. volunteers age 18 and older are recruited and placed in the agency's programs or referred to local nonprofit or public organizations to help…

Philanthropy
2
Philanthropy Ohio

To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.

Philanthropy
3
Ohio Business Roundtable

To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.

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4
United Way of Central Ohio Inc

United way of central ohio is the local organization that harnesses the power of communities working together - people, nonprofits, businesses and government - to create a stronger, more equitable central ohio. see schedule o.we do this…

Philanthropy
5
Ohio United Way

To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.

Philanthropy
6
Ohio State Bar Association

The ohio state bar association (the "association") is an unincorporated voluntary non-profit organization. the association was formed to promote justice and advance the interests of the legal profession.

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7
Greater Columbus Chamber of Commerce

Advancing a thriving central ohio commmunity by serving as a catalyst for all businesses to grow and flourish. our mission pillars are connections, government relations, strategic business solutions and talent/workforce.

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8
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
9
Diabetes Partnership of Cleveland

Diabetes partnership of cleveland works to provide relevant and sustainable programming, education, resources and supplies to the community in northeast ohio affected by diabetes.

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10
Ohio Bankers League

Provide comprehensive services that benefit the financial institution industry in ohio.

Community Improvement
11
Ohio Life Sciences Foundation

The mission of ohio life sciences foundation is to accelerate bioscience discovery, innovation and commercialization of global value, driving economic growth, company attraction, improving workforce training and improved quality of life in…

Health
12
Ohio Life Sciences Association

Align the life sciences ecosystem in the state of ohio, building collaborative partnerships, and advocating for policies and funding that will help to accelerate life science priorities and drive sustainable economic growth.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Greater Cleveland; the most unlike its peers is Bainbridge Auburn Battle Bots. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

408 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 408 of the 559 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
56
Early backer (in before they grew)
400/408
Grantees still filing
254/408
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CUYAHOGA COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $400,000 · OtherCUYAHOGA COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARYIndividual grant recipient: $201,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMIAMI UNIVERSITY: $179,900 · OtherMANUFACTURING WORKS: $172,500 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS: $160,000 · Other+125 more: $2,518,453 · Other+125 moreGLOBAL CLEVELAND: $105,500 · Human ServicesTHE GATHERING PLACE: $65,736 · Human ServicesCORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC: $41,000 · Human ServicesZANES INC: $31,625 · Human ServicesBAPS CHARITIES INC: $22,670 · Human ServicesNORTHEAST OHIO FOUNDATION FOR PATRIOTISM: $21,500 · Human ServicesA KID AGAIN INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesCLEVELAND FURNITURE BANK: $18,075 · Human ServicesADOPTION NETWORK CLEVELAND: $17,400 · Human ServicesKOINONIA HOMES INC: $17,100 · Human ServicesSHOES AND CLOTHES FOR KIDS: $16,330 · Human ServicesNORTH COAST COMMUNITY HOMES INC: $15,000 · Human Services+8 more: $49,378 · Human ServicesCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART: $200,090 · Arts & CultureUSS CLEVELAND LEGACY FOUNDATION: $86,336 · Arts & CultureTHE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF CLEVELAND: $70,150 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND POPS ORCHESTRA: $21,950 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND RESTORATION SOCIETY INC: $14,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $5,000 · Arts & CultureCOLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC: $57,750 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATION: $44,010 · EducationURSULINE COLLEGE: $35,050 · EducationJohn Carroll University: $29,450 · EducationJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $22,536 · EducationCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $21,850 · EducationCUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationCLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $19,950 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO FOUNDATION: $16,525 · EducationThe Ohio University Foundation: $14,120 · Education+11 more: $91,755 · EducationGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC: $262,416 · Food & NutritionHUNGER NETWORK OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $32,250 · Food & NutritionFEEDING MEDINA COUNTY: $23,752 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $6,900 · Food & NutritionMANUFACTURING ADVOCACY & GROWTH NETWORK INC: $110,000 · Community ImprovementTeam NEO Foundation: $93,500 · Community ImprovementGreater Cleveland Partnership: $60,000 · Community ImprovementEngage Cleveland Inc: $40,775 · Community ImprovementTHE WELL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $18,650 · Community ImprovementAmerican Heart Association Inc: $75,908 · HealthTHE LITTLEST HEROES INC: $18,000 · HealthUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CLEVELAND INC: $15,250 · HealthCOMMUNITY ASSESSMENT & TREATMENT SERVICES INC: $15,000 · HealthREPLAY FOR KIDS: $13,100 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $12,432 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $11,828 · HealthPEEL DEM LAYERS BACK: $10,600 · HealthINMOTION: $7,935 · HealthCROSSROADS HEALTH: $7,075 · Health+4 more: $20,575 · Health
Other$3,631,853Human Services$441,314Arts & Culture$397,526Education$372,996Food & Nutrition$325,318Community Improvement$322,925Health$207,703

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC: $262,416 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART: $200,090 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMANUFACTURING WORKS: $172,500 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetMANUFACTURING ADVOCACY & GROWTH NETWORK INC: $110,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetGLOBAL CLEVELAND: $105,500 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $102,476 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTeam NEO Foundation: $93,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetUSS CLEVELAND LEGACY FOUNDATION: $86,336 over 5y, 9.4% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $75,908 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF CLEVELAND: $70,150 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetTHE GATHERING PLACE: $65,736 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $65,477 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetTOWARDS EMPLOYMENT INC: $65,150 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBUSINESS VOLUNTEERS UNLIMITED: $60,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetCOLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC: $57,750 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetVOCATIONAL GUIDANCE SERVICES: $48,250 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATION: $44,010 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION: $44,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC: $41,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetEngage Cleveland Inc: $40,775 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN: $36,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetURSULINE COLLEGE: $35,050 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED: $35,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $34,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHUNGER NETWORK OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $32,250 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetZANES INC: $31,625 over 6y, 9.6% of budgetFRONT STEPS HOUSING AND SERVICES INC: $30,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetWOMENSAFE INC: $29,975 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetJohn Carroll University: $29,450 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING MEDINA COUNTY: $23,752 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetBIKE CLEVELAND: $23,175 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetBAPS CHARITIES INC: $22,670 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $22,536 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetCLEVELAND POPS ORCHESTRA: $21,950 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $21,850 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEAST OHIO FOUNDATION FOR PATRIOTISM: $21,500 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH EAST OHIO: $21,150 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetA KID AGAIN INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $19,950 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WELL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $18,650 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCLEVELAND FURNITURE BANK: $18,075 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE LITTLEST HEROES INC: $18,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetADOPTION NETWORK CLEVELAND: $17,400 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetKOINONIA HOMES INC: $17,100 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO FOUNDATION: $16,525 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSHOES AND CLOTHES FOR KIDS: $16,330 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPROFESSIONAL FLAIR INC: $16,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds MANUFACTURING WORKS ↗
  • Who funds MANUFACTURING ADVOCACY & GROWTH NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL CLEVELAND ↗
  • Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
  • Who funds Team NEO Foundation ↗
  • Who funds USS CLEVELAND LEGACY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF CLEVELAND ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CLEVELAND ↗
  • Who funds THE GATHERING PLACE ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
  • Who funds TOWARDS EMPLOYMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds Greater Cleveland Partnership ↗
  • Who funds BUSINESS VOLUNTEERS UNLIMITED ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC ↗
  • Who funds VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds Engage Cleveland Inc ↗
  • Who funds ACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds URSULINE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED ↗
  • Who funds CLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Cleveland FoundationOH134.2× affinity128 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · The Lozick Family Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · Akron Community Foundation · Burton D Morgan Foundation Inc · The Sk Wellman Foundation · The Helen F & Louis Stolier Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Swagelok Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Swagelok Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 60%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • 2ND Act Org Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
56report 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, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 559 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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