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W F Whitman Family Foundation Inc

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.

$337k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 FY2017–2024.

Education$886kArts & Culture$761kEnvironment$251kHealth$181kScience & Tech$81kRecreation & Sports$41kYouth Development$26kAnimals$12kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $216k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$6.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY$100,000
OPERA HOUSE ARTS$45,000
WILLIAMS COLLEGE$35,250
COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY ASSOCIATION INC$25,000
BLUE HILL MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC$25,000
PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE$25,000
NORTHEAST HARBOR SAILING SCHOOL$20,000
MOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL$11,000
SCYC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC$10,000
FRIENDS OF ACADIA$10,000
PENNYS FLIGHT FOUNDATION INC$10,000
MOUNT DESERT ISLAND BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY$6,000
TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION$5,000
COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY$2,000
FRIENDS OF THE COLD SPRING HARBOR FISH HATCHERY IN$2,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 95% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY: $35k → 10%WILLIAMS COLLEGE: $75k → 12%COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY ASSOCIATION INC: $25k → 7%PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE: $26k → 9%ISLAND INSTITUTE: $40k → 11%OPERA HOUSE ARTS: $45k → 11%BLUE HILL MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC: $25k → 15%TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY: $25k → 10%WILLIAMS COLLEGE: $55k → 12%COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY: $25k → 7%PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE: $25k → 9%ISLAND INSTITUTE: $40k → 11%OPERA HOUSE ARTS: $20k → 11%TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY: $25k → 10%WILLIAMS COLLEGE: $50k → 12%PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE: $20k → 9%ISLAND INSTITUTE: $40k → 11%OPERA HOUSE ARTS: $20k → 11%WILLIAMS COLLEGE: $50k → 12%ISLAND INSTITUTE: $40k → 11%OPERA HOUSE ARTS: $20k → 11%WILLIAMS COLLEGE: $50k → 12%ISLAND INSTITUTE: $38k → 11%WILLIAMS COLLEGE: $50k → 12%GRACE CHURCH SCHOOL: $20k → 17%ISLAND INSTITUTE: $38k → 11%WILLIAMS COLLEGE: $40k → 12%WILLIAMS COLLEGE: $35k → 12%WILLIAMS COLLEGE: $35k → 12%WILLIAMS COLLEGE: $30k → 12%AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $100k → 17%WILLIAMS COLLEGE: $30k → 12%AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $100k → 17%WILLIAMS COLLEGE: $21k → 12%AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $75k → 17%WILLIAMS COLLEGE: $21k → 12%AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $75k → 17%WILLIAMS COLLEGE: $21k → 12%AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $50k → 17%AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $50k → 17%AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $50k → 17%AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $25k → 17%AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $25k → 17%NORTHEAST HARBOR SAILING SCHOOL: $20k → 11%NORTHEAST HARBOR SAILING SCHOOL: $20k → 11%BLUE HILL MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC: $25k → 11%BLUE HILL MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC: $25k → 11%BLUE HILL MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC: $25k → 11%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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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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.1M · 26 repeat orgs$111k to everyone else

26 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
17

Total granted

$2.1M
$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+50%

Still filing today

96%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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
EducationHealthArts & CultureScience & TechRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • Williams College
    8× · 2017–2024 · $563k · revenue +87%
  • OH
    OPERA HOUSE ARTS
    7× · 2017–2024 · $180k · revenue +93%
  • TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY
    5× · 2017–2024 · $101k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTYgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +511%
  • NY
    NEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF THE RUPTURED AND CRIPPLED MAINTAINING THEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +50%
  • CC
    CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $10k

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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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
2
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
3
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
4
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
5
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
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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
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Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
9
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
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New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
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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
12
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations and the most unlike its peers is Museum of the City of New York. 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 backsteadyYouth Sports ProgramsEnvironmental Conservation …Health Access Advocacy and …Cancer Support ServicesFood Banks and PantriesPublic Library OperationsOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Independent K-12 SchoolsCommunity 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 62 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%3%10–20yr16%15%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr16%55%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%1%10–20yr16%12%20–35yr13%15%35–55yr16%72%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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%0/44
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,521

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

43 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 43 of the 47 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)
42/43
Grantees still filing
31/43
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Williams College — $563,244 · EducationWilliams CollegeIsland Institute — $235,000 · EducationIsland InstituteTRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY — $100,500 · EducationTRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMYPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College — $71,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Middlebury CollegeTHE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION — $46,000 · Education+9 more — $108,041 · Education+9 moreAmerican Museum of Natural History — $550,000 · Arts & CultureAmerican Museum of Natural HistoryOPERA HOUSE ARTS — $180,000 · Arts & CultureOPERA HOUSE ARTS+2 more — $23,300 · Arts & CultureTHE BLUE HILL MEMORIAL HOSPITAL NORTHERN LIGHT BLUE HILL HOSPITAL — $100,000 · HealthMOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL — $19,000 · HealthPennys Flight Foundation Inc — $12,500 · HealthNEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF THE RUPTURED AND CRIPPLED MAINTAINING THE — $10,000 · HealthMartin Memorial Foundation Inc — $10,000 · HealthTHE JACKSON LABORATORY — $7,500 · Health+4 more — $12,000 · HealthCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY — $34,000 · Science & TechMount Desert Island Biological Laboratory — $22,000 · Science & TechCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY ASSOCIATION — $25,000 · OtherCLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION — $10,000 · OtherST JOHNS CHURCH — $9,000 · OtherOld Westbury Gardens Inc — $2,800 · OtherFriends of Acadia — $10,000 · OtherTHE NORTH SHORE LAND ALLIANCE INC — $6,150 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE COLD SPRING HARBOR FISH HATCHERY INCORPORATED — $11,541 · Other+6 more — $5,775 · OtherNORTHEAST HARBOR SAILING SCHOOL — $40,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more — $1,000 · Recreation & SportsBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY — $25,000 · Youth Development+1 more — $500 · Youth Development
Education$1,123,785Arts & Culture$753,300Health$171,000Science & Tech$56,000Other$80,266Recreation & Sports$41,000Youth Development$25,500

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 budgetWilliams College — $563,244 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History — $550,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetIsland Institute — $235,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetOPERA HOUSE ARTS — $180,000 over 7y, 5.7% of budgetTRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY — $100,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BLUE HILL MEMORIAL HOSPITAL NORTHERN LIGHT BLUE HILL HOSPITAL — $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College — $71,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION — $46,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEAST HARBOR SAILING SCHOOL — $40,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetGRACE CHURCH SCHOOL — $34,041 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY — $34,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSKIDMORE COLLEGE — $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGREEN VALE SCHOOL — $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMount Desert Island Biological Laboratory — $22,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSCYC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC — $21,300 over 5y, 33% of budgetMOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL — $19,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPennys Flight Foundation Inc — $12,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE COLD SPRING HARBOR FISH HATCHERY INCORPORATED — $11,541 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetNEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF THE RUPTURED AND CRIPPLED MAINTAINING THE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMartin Memorial Foundation Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Acadia — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JACKSON LABORATORY — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NORTH SHORE LAND ALLIANCE INC — $6,150 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJupiter Medical Center Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYale University — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOld Westbury Gardens Inc — $2,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST BERNARD'S SCHOOL INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE NEW YORK SOCIETY LIBRARY — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT DESERT NURSING ASSOC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetISLAND PANTRY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTONINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARY — $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGLEN COVE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB AT LINCOLN HOUSE INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISLAND HEALTH & WELLNESS FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAgape International Missions — $135 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA INC — $100 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.

Maine Community Found…The New York Communit…Ainslie FoundationThe Bessemer Giving F…Jewish Communal FundSusanna Porter & Jame…Colket Family Foundat…Florence V Burden Fou…Davis Family Foundati…National Philanthropi…Hugh and Patricia Oka…Roxiticus Foundation
Maine Community Foundation IncME22× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · Ainslie Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Susanna Porter & James Clark Giving Fund · Colket Family Foundation · Florence V Burden Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Hugh and Patricia Okane Foundation Co Hugh Okane · Roxiticus 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 W F Whitman 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Yale University — 12% of income from government
  • Jupiter Medical Center Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Martin County — 2% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
  • Wesleyan University — 1% of income from government
  • Williams College — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
11report 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

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to W F Whitman Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to W F Whitman 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 47 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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