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William F Harnisch 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.

$3.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
56
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$3.6MArts & Culture$3.5MEducation$988kCivil Rights$821kPhilanthropy$438kCommunity Improvement$345kInternational$255kReligion$105kOther$0
02FY2024 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k27 grants · $63k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $391k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $511k
  • $250k+2 grants · $2.0M
$10,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$5.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTRAL SUFFOLK HOSPITAL FOUNDATION AKA PECONIC BAY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATI$1,500,000
CENTRAL SUFFOLK HOSPITAL FOUNDATION AKA PECONIC BAY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATI$500,000
AFTERIMAGE PUBLIC MEDIA$150,000
HIGHER HEIGHTS LEADERSHIP FUND$100,000
SUNDANCE INSTITUTE$86,200
BARUCH COLLEGE FUND$75,000
HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION$50,000
SUBJECT MATTER INC$50,000
CRISIS TEXT LINE$35,000
FILM INDEPENDENT$25,000
CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY$25,000
FRIST ART MUSEUM$25,000
THE 19TH NEWS$25,000
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART$25,000
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY$25,000
02The need
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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 (FY17–24, $470k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 39% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HELLO NEIGHBOR: $36k → 11%THE DINNER PARTY LABS: $28k → 10%FRIENDSHIP HOUSE: $10k → 11%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $500 → 17%RESPECTABILITY: $100k → 8%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $500 → 17%RESPECTABILITY: $50k → 8%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $500 → 17%RESPECT ABILITY: $50k → 8%SOUTH FORK BAKERY FOR THE SPECIAL NEEDS CORP: $10k → 7%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $500 → 17%RESPECTABILITY: $50k → 8%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $50k → 17%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%POSSIBILITY LABS: $52k → 10%SHE'S THE FIRST: $3k → 17%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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IL
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MA
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OH
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NJ
CT
CA
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CO
MO
VA
MD
NM
TN
NC
DC
LA
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GA
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FL

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 6% of William F Harnisch 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.

William F Harnisch Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 5.1% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.6M · 78 repeat orgs$3.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

78 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

78
76

Total granted

$6.6M
$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+21%

Still filing today

71%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.2M 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
Arts & CultureHealthEducationHuman ServicesCivil RightsPhilanthropyOther

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

  • UF
    UTAH FILM CENTER
    5× · 2018–2023 · $642k · revenue +128%
  • HH
    Higher Heights Leadership Fund
    5× · 2019–2024 · $400k · revenue +117%
  • Sundance Institute
    6× · 2017–2024 · $386k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • TA
    THE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +68%
  • SCRIBE VIDEO CENTER INC
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -61%
  • PR
    PERRINE-CUTLER RIDGE ROTARY FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $100k

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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New York Foundation for the Arts Inc

Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and…

Arts & Culture
2
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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3
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
4
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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5
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
6
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
7
America's Newspapers

Providing research, education and practical information all aimed at optimizing newspapers' business operations, deepening their community engagement and enhancing the quality of their journalism.

Employment
8
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

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9
The Conversationalist
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The Paris Review Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…

Education
11
The Associated Press Foundation for Journalism Inc

The foundation's mission is to produce, support and promote high-quality journalism focused on underserved issue and focus areas in order to educate and inform the public and ensure widespread, ongoing public access to educational,…

Arts & Culture
12
Wikimedia Foundation Inc

The mission of the wikimedia foundation is to empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally. (see schedule…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Sapling Foundation. 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 FoundationsPolicy Research and AdvocacyHealth Access Advocacy and …Affordable Housing Developm…Pregnancy Support ServicesWomen & Girls Leadership De…Christian Missionary Organi…Food Banks and PantriesElementary Literacy TutoringLgbtq+ Community SupportLocal History MuseumsYouth Sports ProgramsIndependent K-12 SchoolsDevelopmental Disabilities …Environmental Conservation …Domestic Violence ServicesCommunity Arts CentersCancer Support ServicesCommunity College Foundatio…
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 28 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%3%<5yr14%9%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr19%31%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr16%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%1%<5yr14%5%5–10yr20%25%10–20yr19%19%20–35yr13%18%35–55yr16%33%55yr+

The field is 19% 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 — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%3/139
the rest of the field
10%
11,857/120,621

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

134 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. 134 of the 169 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)
129/134
Grantees still filing
87/134
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UTAH FILM CENTER — $642,000 · Arts & CultureUTAH FILM CENTERSundance Institute — $386,200 · Arts & CultureSundance InstituteWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC — $367,537 · Arts & CultureWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INCFILM INDEPENDENT — $200,000 · Arts & CultureFILM INDEPENDENTTHE 19TH NEWS — $175,000 · Arts & CultureTHE 19TH NEWSINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 · Arts & CultureAFTERIMAGE PUBLIC MEDIA — $150,000 · Arts & Culture+29 more — $954,729 · Arts & Culture+29 moreCentral Suffolk Hospital — $2,000,000 · HealthCentral Suffolk HospitalNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $200,000 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSI…CRISIS TEXT LINE INC — $155,000 · HealthCRISIS TEXT LINE INC+11 more — $99,200 · HealthPECONIC BAY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $705,187 · OtherPECONIC BAY MEDICAL CENTER F…NATIONAL MS SOCIETY — $279,006 · OtherNATIONAL MS SOCIETYNEW YORK WOMEN IN FILM & TELEVISION INC — $205,000 · OtherNEW YORK WOMEN IN FILM & TEL…ST MARY'S CHURCH — $105,000 · OtherSCRIBE VIDEO CENTER INC — $100,000 · OtherPERRINE-CUTLER RIDGE ROTARY FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · OtherAMERICAN IMPACT CAPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · OtherTHE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION — $100,000 · Other+74 more — $974,415 · Other+74 moreTHE BARUCH COLLEGE FUND — $640,000 · EducationTHE BARUCH …BARNARD COLLEGE — $125,000 · EducationBARNARD COL…Antenna — $60,000 · EducationAntennaRAVENSCROFT SCHOOL — $50,000 · EducationQUEENSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE FUND INC — $48,000 · EducationColumbia College Chicago — $45,000 · Education+8 more — $73,800 · Education+8 moreHigher Heights Leadership Fund — $400,000 · Civil RightsFUND FOR WOMEN'S EQUALITY INC — $110,000 · Civil Rights+5 more — $21,100 · Civil RightsDISABILITY BELONGS — $250,000 · Human ServicesHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC — $82,000 · Human ServicesPOSSIBILITY LABS — $52,000 · Human ServicesHELLO NEIGHBOR — $35,500 · Human ServicesTHE DINNER PARTY LABS CO NPOC SERVICES — $27,786 · Human Services+3 more — $23,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN DONORS NETWORK — $161,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC — $100,000 · PhilanthropyTHE SAPLING FOUNDATION — $100,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATION — $30,000 · Philanthropy+4 more — $27,000 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$3,025,466Health$2,454,200Other$2,668,608Education$1,041,800Civil Rights$531,100Human Services$470,286Philanthropy$418,000

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 budgetCentral Suffolk Hospital — $2,000,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUTAH FILM CENTER — $642,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetTHE BARUCH COLLEGE FUND — $640,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetHigher Heights Leadership Fund — $400,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetSundance Institute — $386,200 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC — $367,537 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetDISABILITY BELONGS — $250,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetNEW YORK WOMEN IN FILM & TELEVISION INC — $205,000 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFILM INDEPENDENT — $200,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHE 19TH NEWS — $175,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetWOMEN DONORS NETWORK — $161,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCRISIS TEXT LINE INC — $155,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetAFTERIMAGE PUBLIC MEDIA — $150,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE — $125,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFUND FOR WOMEN'S EQUALITY INC — $110,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetTHE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSCRIBE VIDEO CENTER INC — $100,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFilm Society of Austin Inc — $85,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC — $82,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetHaven Media Inc — $75,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetNATIONAL WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME INC — $75,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art — $71,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Free History Project Inc — $65,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetSUBJECT MATTER INC — $65,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetALLIANCE OF WOMEN DIRECTORS — $60,100 over 1y, 30% of budgetAntenna — $60,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetGLOBAL XPLORER — $52,915 over 1y, 36% of budgetPOSSIBILITY LABS — $52,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDKT INTERNATIONAL INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAUBIN PICTURES INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetVIDEO VERACITY INC — $50,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetRAVENSCROFT SCHOOL — $50,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetKARTEMQUIN EDUCATIONAL FILMS — $50,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History — $49,750 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetQUEENSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE FUND INC — $48,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetColumbia College Chicago — $45,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAustin City Art Fund — $40,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetHELLO NEIGHBOR — $35,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budget826 Valencia — $33,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $30,000 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.

Harnisch Family Found…The Ford FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…Chicken & Egg Films I…The San Francisco Fou…ImpactassetsincPerspective Media Ini…Rockefeller Philanthr…Jonathan Logan Family…Amalgamated Charitabl…Democracy Fund IncThe New York Communit…
Harnisch Family FoundationNY51.6× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Harnisch Family Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Chicken & Egg Films Inc · The San Francisco Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Perspective Media Initiatives Inc · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Jonathan Logan Family Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Democracy Fund Inc · The New York Community Trust

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 William F Harnisch 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 · 90%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • The Center for Independent Documentary Inc — 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
26report 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.

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How do I get to William F Harnisch Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to William F Harnisch 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 169 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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