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William Goldman Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$146k
Granted FY2025still arriving
58
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$28k
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.

Health$377kEducation$104kPhilanthropy$78kArts & Culture$67kHuman Services$60kAnimals$55kFood & Nutrition$39kHousing & Shelter$23kOther$0
02FY2025 · 58 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k55 grants · $83k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $63k
$1,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KORNBERG SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY AT TEMPLE UNIVERSITY$27,500
LEWIS KATZ SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT TEMPLE UNIVERSITY$22,500
JEWISH FEDERATION OF PHILADELPHIA$12,500
TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA DENTAL SCHOOL$9,000
TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PENN VET$7,000
WHYY$5,000
MAGEN DAVID ADOM$3,000
PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY$3,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$3,000
PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$2,500
PROJECT HOME$2,500
PHILABUNDANCE$2,500
POLITZ HEBREW ACADEMY$2,200
CARON TREATMENT SERVICES$1,500
SALVATION ARMY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA$1,500
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, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 65% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ELDERNET OF LOWER MERION & NARBERTH: $2k → 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS: $500 → 8%ELDERNET OF LOWER MERION & NARBERTH: $1k → 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS: $500 → 8%ELDERNET OF LOWER MERION & NARBERTH: $1k → 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS: $500 → 8%ELDERNET OF LOWER MERION & NARBERTH: $1k → 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS: $500 → 8%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%ELDERNET OF LOWER MERION & NARBERTH: $1k → 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%ELDERNET OF LOWER MERION & NARBERTH: $1k → 10%PROJECT HOME: $3k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $3k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $3k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $3k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $3k → 22%PHILADELPHIA FREEDOM VALLEY YMCA: $1k → 10%PHILADELPHIA FREEDOM VALLEY YMCA: $1k → 10%PROJECT HOME: $3k → 22%PHILADELPHIA FREEDOM VALLEY YMCA: $1k → 10%PHILADELPHIA FREEDOM VALLEY YMCA: $1k → 10%PHILADELPHIA FREEDOM VALLEY YMCA: $1k → 10%PHILADELPHIA FREEDOM VALLEY YMCA: $1k → 10%GOLDEN SLIPPER CENTER FOR SENIORS: $500 → 7%GOLDEN SLIPPER CENTER FOR SENIORS: $500 → 7%GOLDEN SLIPPER CENTER FOR SENIORS: $500 → 7%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $1k → 22%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $1k → 22%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $1k → 22%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $1k → 22%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $1k → 22%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $1k → 22%WOMEN'S MEDICAL FUND: $600 → 22%WOMEN'S MEDICAL FUND: $600 → 22%BROAD STREET MINISTRY: $500 → 22%BROAD STREET MINISTRY: $500 → 22%BROAD STREET MINISTRY: $500 → 22%BROAD STREET MINISTRY: $500 → 22%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

NH
MN
NY
OH
PA
CA
CO
NE
VA
KS
DC
TX
FL
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$844k · 76 repeat orgs$22k to everyone else

76 repeat relationships: 56 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

76
2

Total granted

$844k
$20k

Still filing today

58%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEducationInternationalFood & NutritionOther
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

  • PC
    PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE
    3× · 2020–2022 · $38k · revenue +25%
  • WHYY INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +36%
  • Philabundance
    6× · 2020–2025 · $20k · revenue +0%

Funded once

  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PERELMAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
  • BT
    BREAKTHROUGH T1D
    one grant, 2024 · $500
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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The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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2
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
3
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
4
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
5
Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation

Visit philadelphia is our name and our mission. as the region's official tourism marketing agency, we build greater philadelphia's image, drive visitation and boost the economy.

Community Improvement
6
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
7
Saint Joseph's University

As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…

Education
8
University of Maryland Physicians Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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9
University of Maryland Pediatric Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
10
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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11
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
University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. 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

46 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. 46 of the 80 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/46
Grantees still filing
34/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KORNBERG SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY AT TEMPLE UNIVERSITY: $111,000 · OtherKORNBERG SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY AT TEMPLE UNIVERSITYJEWISH FEDERATION OF PHILADELPHIA: $77,500 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF PHILADELPHIALEWIS KATZ SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT TEMPLE UNIVERSITY: $73,500 · OtherLEWIS KATZ SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT TEMPLE UNIVERSITYTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA DENTAL SCHOOL: $65,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA DENTAL SCHOOLTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA VETERINARY SCHOOL: $38,500 · OtherTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA VETERINARY SCHOOL+40 more: $232,950 · Other+40 morePHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE: $38,000 · EducationPHILADELPH…PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $9,500 · EducationPRAGER UNI…DONORSCHOOSEORG: $9,000 · EducationDONORSCHOO…GRATZ COLLEGE: $9,000 · EducationGRATZ COLL…AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $6,000 · EducationAMERICAN I…MIGHTY WRITERS: $5,000 · EducationMIGHTY WRI…ROSEMONT COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CHILD JESUS: $3,500 · EducationWHYY INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: $6,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER: $6,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE: $5,500 · Arts & CultureThe Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education: $5,500 · Arts & CultureWALNUT STREET THEATRE CORPORATION: $4,000 · Arts & CultureCURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $4,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF FLIGHT 93 NATIONAL MEMOR: $3,500 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $3,000 · Arts & CulturePROJECT HOME: $15,000 · Human ServicesELDERNET OF LOWER MERION AND NARBERTH: $6,500 · Human ServicesCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesGreater Philadelphia Young Men's Christian Association: $6,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesABORTION LIBERATION FUND OF PA: $4,400 · Human ServicesBROAD STREET MINISTRY: $3,500 · Human ServicesFREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $2,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,500 · Human ServicesNAMI MAIN LINE PA: $6,000 · HealthSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $5,600 · HealthWOAR PHILADELPHIA CENTER AGAINST SEXUAL VIOLENCE: $5,500 · HealthKELLY ANNE DOLAN MEMORIAL FUND: $4,000 · HealthINDEPENDENT MEDICAL ALLIANCE: $4,000 · HealthACCESSMATTERS: $3,000 · HealthMENORAH PARK FOUNDATION: $2,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $2,000 · HealthPhilabundance: $19,500 · Food & NutritionTHE PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $18,000 · Environment
Other$598,450Education$80,000Arts & Culture$67,500Human Services$50,900Health$32,100Food & Nutrition$19,500Environment$18,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE: $38,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWHYY INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPhilabundance: $19,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $18,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOME: $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPOLITZ HEBREW ACADEMY OF NORTHEAST PHILADELPHIA: $13,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH LEARNING VENTURE: $10,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $9,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGRATZ COLLEGE: $9,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetELDERNET OF LOWER MERION AND NARBERTH: $6,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI MAIN LINE PA: $6,000 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetGreater Philadelphia Young Men's Christian Association: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCARDIOVASCULAR INSTITUTE: $5,800 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $5,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE: $5,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWOAR PHILADELPHIA CENTER AGAINST SEXUAL VIOLENCE: $5,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education: $5,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC: $5,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMIGHTY WRITERS: $5,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetABORTION LIBERATION FUND OF PA: $4,400 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA: $4,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWALNUT STREET THEATRE CORPORATION: $4,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKELLY ANNE DOLAN MEMORIAL FUND: $4,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetINDEPENDENT MEDICAL ALLIANCE: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $4,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetROSEMONT COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CHILD JESUS: $3,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF FLIGHT 93 NATIONAL MEMOR: $3,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBROAD STREET MINISTRY: $3,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetACCESSMATTERS: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMENORAH PARK FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSociety of Teachers of Family Medicine: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTOGETHER RISING: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VETERANS GROUP INC: $2,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetGOLDEN SLIPPER CENTER FOR SENIORS INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMURPHYS GIVING MARKET INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE ↗
  • Who funds WHYY INC ↗
  • Who funds Philabundance ↗
  • Who funds THE PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT HOME ↗
  • Who funds POLITZ HEBREW ACADEMY OF NORTHEAST PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH LEARNING VENTURE ↗
  • Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
  • Who funds GRATZ COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
  • Who funds ELDERNET OF LOWER MERION AND NARBERTH ↗
  • Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
  • Who funds WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY ↗
  • Who funds NAMI MAIN LINE PA ↗
  • Who funds Greater Philadelphia Young Men's Christian Association ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
  • Who funds CARDIOVASCULAR INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
  • Who funds THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE ↗

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 Philadelphia FoundationPA16.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · Erlbaum Family Foundation · Independence Foundation · Connelly Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Equitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Network for Good

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 William Goldman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William Goldman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
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Find your warmest path to William Goldman Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 80 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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