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United Way for Greater Austin

UNITED WAY FOR GREATER AUSTIN brings our community together to break economic barriers and build opportunity for all.

$2.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
51
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$195k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$6.9MEducation$6.7MHealth$3.9MHousing & Shelter$2.6MCommunity Improvement$2.0MEmployment$1.7MYouth Development$1.0MCrime & Legal$797kOther$0
02FY2025 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k35 grants · $875k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.3M
$30,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ANY BABY CAN INC$195,000
AVANCE-AUSTIN INC$130,000
MAINSPRING SCHOOLS$115,000
FOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC$100,000
SAFE ALLIANCE$90,000
BOOKSPRING$80,000
SAINT LOUISE HOUSE$75,000
TODOS JUNTOS LEARNING CENTER$75,000
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CENTRAL TEXAS INC$75,000
JEREMIAH PROGRAM$70,000
OPEN DOOR PRESCHOOLS$70,000
AUSTIN ACHIEVE PUBLIC SCHOOLS$60,000
GO AUSTINVAMOS AUSTIN$60,000
AMERICAN YOUTHWORKS$60,000
PARTNERS IN PARENTING$45,000
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 (FY17–25, $2.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 4% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FAMILY INDEPENDENCE INITIATIVE: $90k → 10%COMBINED COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $20k → 12%FAMILY INDEPENDENCE INITIATIVE: $25k → 10%MANO AMIGA: $20k → 10%BASTROP COUNTY CARES: $53k → 12%LADDERS FOR LEADERS: $24k → 6%LADDERS FOR LEADERS: $24k → 6%FOSTER VILLAGE: $20k → 10%PROJECT NORMALIZATION INC DBA OPEN DOOR PRESCHOOLS: $110k → 10%PROJECT NORMALIZATION INC DBA OPEN DOOR PRESCHOOLS: $95k → 10%HUTTO RESOURCE CENTER: $85k → 6%PROJECT NORMALIZATION INC DBA OPEN DOOR PRESCHOOLS: $80k → 10%PROJECT NORMALIZATION INC DBA OPEN DOOR PRESCHOOLS: $80k → 10%HUTTO RESOURCE CENTER: $25k → 6%OPERATION LIBERTY HILL: $30k → 6%OPERATION LIBERTY HILL: $30k → 6%YMCA: $60k → 10%YMCA: $40k → 10%YMCA: $33k → 10%AGE OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $20k → 10%WILLIAMSON - BURNET COUNTY OPPORTUNITIES INC: $25k → 6%OPPORTUNITIES FOR WBC: $20k → 6%WILLIAMSON - BURNET COUNTY OPPORTUNITIES INC: $20k → 6%OPPORTUNITIES FOR WBC: $20k → 6%OPPORTUNITIES FOR WBC: $20k → 6%AUSTIN DIAPER BANK: $20k → 10%AUSTIN DIAPER BANK: $20k → 10%MELJ CENTER: $110k → 10%YOUTH AND FAMILY ALLIANCE DBA LIFEWORKS: $63k → 10%YOUTH AND FAMILY ALLIANCE DBA LIFEWORKS: $40k → 10%YOUTH AND FAMILY ALLIANCE DBA LIFEWORKS: $40k → 10%YOUTH AND FAMILY ALLIANCE DBA LIFEWORKS: $40k → 10%HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN: $30k → 10%OPEN DOOR PRESCHOOLS: $98k → 10%OPEN DOOR PRESCHOOLS: $98k → 10%OPEN DOOR PRESCHOOLS: $70k → 10%OPEN DOOR PRESCHOOLS: $70k → 10%OPEN DOOR PRESCHOOLS: $70k → 10%TRINITY CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $26k → 10%TRINITY CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $26k → 10%BLACK MAMAS ATX (UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION): $60k → 10%CAPITAL IDEA: $30k → 10%CAPITAL IDEA: $30k → 10%CAPITAL IDEA: $30k → 10%ENDING COMMUNITY HOMELESSNES COALITION (ECHO): $25k → 10%AUSTIN AREA URBAN LEAGUE: $176k → 10%AUSTIN AREA URBAN LEAGUE: $73k → 10%AUSTIN AREA URBAN LEAGUE INC: $25k → 10%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.
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$24M · 107 repeat orgs$4.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

107 repeat relationships: 51 still active in FY2025, 56 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

107
162

Total granted

$24M
$4.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+21%

Still filing today

86%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • AB
    ANY BABY CAN OF AUSTIN INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $3.0M · revenue +91%
  • CI
    COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CENTRAL TEXAS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +129%
  • FC
    FOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +99%

Funded once

  • SF
    SRV2THRV FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $170k
  • TW
    TOGETHER WE RISEgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $120k · revenue +71%
  • CF
    Center for Survivors of Torturegraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $110k · revenue +219%
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.

1
Leadership Austin

Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.

Youth Development
2
Raise Texas

RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…

Human Services
3
HousingWorks Austin

To provide research, education and advocacy related to affordable housing

Housing & Shelter
4
HomeAid Austin Inc

Engage in building procted to provide emergency shelters, transitional housing, and permanent housing while offering job skills training and support to help residents move toward self-sufficiency.

Employment
5
Atx Helps

ATX Helps was created to fill gaps in the spectrum of services available to people in Austin who are experiencing homelessness.

Human Services
6
Teen and Family Services Austin

Teen and Family Services Austin provides counseling and education on an individual as well as group basis to provide support to parents and teens who are coping with teen high risk behavior.

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7
TogetherAustin

To connect Central Texans to resources by reducing barriers expanding access and filling gaps in service.

Education
8
Austin Coming Together

To increase the collective impact of our member organization on improving education economic development outcomes within the Austin Community.

Education
9
Community Action Corporation of South Texas

To continuously improve the lives of South Texans by providing high quality health care, education, housing and economic opportunities to reduce poverty through services and partnerships.

Human Services
10
South Central Houston Action Council Inc

The organization provides medical services in the form of primary and preventive care to underserved and underinsured residents of harris county.

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11
Austin Affordable Housing Corporation

To ensure and preserve quality, affordable housing opportunities for low- to moderate-income families in austin as well as provide financial literacy and homeownership opportunities.

Housing & Shelter
12
Austin Justice Coalition

Austin Justice Coalition educates, organizes, and empowers communities in Austin to build racial equity and dismantle systems of oppression through advocacy, policy change, and community programs.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child Inc; the most unlike its peers is Back to Eden Fellow Program. 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

233 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 233 of the 270 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.

9
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
64
Early backer (in before they grew)
220/233
Grantees still filing
153/233
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ANY BABY CAN OF AUSTIN INC: $2,952,925 · OtherANY BABY CAN OF AUSTIN INCAVANCE-AUSTIN INC: $1,253,750 · OtherAVANCE-AUSTIN INCTHE SAFE ALLIANCE: $747,108 · OtherTHE SAFE ALLIANCEAustin Child Guidance Center: $625,000 · OtherVINCARE SERVICES OF AUSTIN FOUNDATION: $535,000 · OtherAMERICAN YOUTHWORKS: $515,500 · Other+115 more: $7,216,524 · Other+115 moreCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $1,246,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOO…MAINSPRING SCHOOLS INC: $1,122,250 · EducationMAINSPRING SCHOOLS I…BookSpring: $574,000 · EducationBookSpringTodos Juntos Learning Center: $547,500 · EducationTodos Juntos Learnin…AUSTIN ACHIEVE PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $200,000 · EducationCHILD INC: $166,000 · Education+18 more: $1,003,000 · Education+18 moreOPEN DOOR PRESCHOOL: $771,000 · Human ServicesOPEN DOOR P…Austin Area Urban League: $273,750 · Human ServicesAustin Area…YOUTH AND FAMILY ALLIANCE: $182,500 · Human ServicesYOUTH AND F…TRINITY CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $162,000 · Human ServicesTRINITY CHI…YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF AUSTIN: $132,500 · Human ServicesFII - NATIONAL: $115,000 · Human ServicesHUTTO RESOURCE CENTER: $110,000 · Human ServicesMinorities for Equality in Employment Education Liberty and Justice: $110,000 · Human ServicesWILLIAMSON-BURNET COUNTY OPPORTUNITIES INC: $105,000 · Human ServicesOPERATION LIBERTY HILL: $97,500 · Human Services+17 more: $708,087 · Human Services+17 moreFOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC: $1,230,758 · Housing & ShelterFOUNDATIO…JEREMIAH PROGRAM: $643,750 · Housing & ShelterJEREMIAH …LIFEWORKS AFFORDABLE HOUSING CORPORATION: $240,050 · Housing & ShelterLIFEWORKS…+2 more: $50,000 · Housing & ShelterMISSION CAPITAL: $1,350,267 · Public BenefitPARTNERS IN PARENTING: $160,000 · Public Benefit+1 more: $20,000 · Public BenefitWORKSOURCE - GREATER AUSTIN AREA DBA WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS - CAPITAL: $457,500 · EmploymentGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $353,872 · EmploymentSkillpoint Alliance: $90,000 · EmploymentUniversal Tech Movement: $75,000 · EmploymentVibrant Woman Mama Sana: $130,000 · HealthGIVING AUSTIN LABOR SUPPORT: $120,000 · HealthThe Georgetown Project: $80,000 · HealthSacred Heart Community Clinic: $72,500 · HealthNorthwest Austin Universal Health Clinic: $71,000 · HealthHEALTH COMMONS: $70,000 · HealthImpact Counseling Services Inc: $60,000 · HealthLONE STAR CIRCLE OF CARE: $55,000 · HealthCENTRAL TEXAS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS: $50,000 · HealthPEOPLE'S COMMUNITY CLINIC INC: $45,000 · HealthAUSTIN TRAVIS COUNTY MHMR CENTER DBA INTEGRAL CARE: $40,000 · Health+5 more: $101,000 · Health
Other$13,845,807Education$4,858,750Human Services$2,767,337Housing & Shelter$2,164,558Public Benefit$1,530,267Employment$976,372Health$894,500

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 budgetANY BABY CAN OF AUSTIN INC: $2,952,925 over 9y, 5.9% of budgetMISSION CAPITAL: $1,350,267 over 4y, 27% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $1,246,000 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetFOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC: $1,230,758 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetMAINSPRING SCHOOLS INC: $1,122,250 over 9y, 7.7% of budgetOPEN DOOR PRESCHOOL: $771,000 over 9y, 4.9% of budgetTHE SAFE ALLIANCE: $747,108 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetJEREMIAH PROGRAM: $643,750 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetAustin Child Guidance Center: $625,000 over 6y, 6.9% of budgetBookSpring: $574,000 over 9y, 6.1% of budgetTodos Juntos Learning Center: $547,500 over 9y, 16% of budgetVINCARE SERVICES OF AUSTIN FOUNDATION: $535,000 over 9y, 3.0% of budgetAMERICAN YOUTHWORKS: $515,500 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetWORKSOURCE - GREATER AUSTIN AREA DBA WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS - CAPITAL: $457,500 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $353,872 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetAUSTIN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $351,000 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetAustin Area Urban League: $273,750 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetLIFEWORKS AFFORDABLE HOUSING CORPORATION: $240,050 over 5y, 12% of budgetEl Buen Samaritano Episcopal Mission: $240,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetWILLIAMSON COUNTY CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $211,858 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetAUSTIN VOICES FOR EDUCATION & YOUTH: $205,000 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetGo AustinVamos Austin: $205,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetAUSTIN ACHIEVE PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $200,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH AND FAMILY ALLIANCE: $182,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $170,093 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHILD INC: $166,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTRINITY CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $162,000 over 9y, 6.5% of budgetPARTNERS IN PARENTING: $160,000 over 4y, 9.9% of budgetTri-Angel Unlimited Inc: $160,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetE3 ALLIANCE: $160,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetSAHELI: $155,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetPELOTONU INC: $142,500 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetHUSTON-TILLOTSON UNIVERSITY: $140,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF AUSTIN: $132,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetVibrant Woman Mama Sana: $130,000 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetTHE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESAN COUNCIL OF AUSTIN: $129,750 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetTOGETHER WE RISE: $120,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetAMERICA CAN DBA TEXANS CAN: $120,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGIVING AUSTIN LABOR SUPPORT: $120,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetFII - NATIONAL: $115,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCentral Texas Food Bank Inc: $113,304 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Survivors of Torture: $110,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetHUTTO RESOURCE CENTER: $110,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetJAIL TO JOBS: $110,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetMinorities for Equality in Employment Education Liberty and Justice: $110,000 over 1y, 78% of budgetWILLIAMSON-BURNET COUNTY OPPORTUNITIES INC: $105,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetOPERATION LIBERTY HILL: $97,500 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetSkillpoint Alliance: $90,000 over 3y, 1.2% 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 ANY BABY CAN OF AUSTIN INC ↗
  • Who funds MISSION CAPITAL ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CENTRAL TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds MAINSPRING SCHOOLS INC ↗
  • Who funds OPEN DOOR PRESCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE SAFE ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds JEREMIAH PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds Austin Child Guidance Center ↗
  • Who funds BookSpring ↗
  • Who funds Todos Juntos Learning Center ↗
  • Who funds VINCARE SERVICES OF AUSTIN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN YOUTHWORKS ↗
  • Who funds WORKSOURCE - GREATER AUSTIN AREA DBA WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS - CAPITAL ↗
  • Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF CENTRAL TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds AUSTIN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds Austin Area Urban League ↗
  • Who funds LIFEWORKS AFFORDABLE HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds El Buen Samaritano Episcopal Mission ↗
  • Who funds WILLIAMSON COUNTY CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds AUSTIN VOICES FOR EDUCATION & YOUTH ↗
  • Who funds Go AustinVamos Austin ↗
  • Who funds AUSTIN ACHIEVE PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH AND FAMILY ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SRV2THRV FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHILD INC ↗
  • Who funds TRINITY CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN PARENTING ↗
  • Who funds Tri-Angel Unlimited Inc ↗
  • Who funds E3 ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds SAHELI ↗
  • Who funds PELOTONU INC ↗
  • Who funds HUSTON-TILLOTSON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF AUSTIN ↗

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.

St David's FoundationTX239.9× affinity131 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St David's Foundation · Austin Community Foundation Inc · The Moody Foundation · Better Business Bureau · Shield-Ayres Foundation · Donald D Hammill Foundation · Topfer Family Foundation · Harry E and Eda L Montandon Charitable Tr · A Glimmer of Hope Foundation Austin · Carl C Anderson Sr and Marie Jo Anderson Charitable Foundation · United Way of Williamson County · The Webber Family Foundation

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 United Way for Greater Austin funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way for Greater Austin. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    88report 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 270 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 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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