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William T Grant Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$18M
Granted FY2024still arriving
159
Grants FY2024still arriving
25
States reached
$498k
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, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$50MHealth$6.9MSocial Science$6.0MYouth Development$5.6MScience & Tech$4.9MRecreation & Sports$2.0MHuman Services$2.0MEmployment$1.8MOther$0
02FY2024 · 159 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k50 grants · $1.2M
  • $50k–250k93 grants · $12M
  • $250k+14 grants · $4.9M
$79,025
Median grant
25
States reached
$420M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE URBAN INSTITUTE$497,580
SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY$429,750
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH$426,494
PHILANTHROPY NEW YORK$410,006
DREXEL UNIVERSITY$400,219
NATIONAL SUMMER LEARNING ASSOCIATION$360,000
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY$323,150
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY$309,912
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA$305,892
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO$299,266
EMORY UNIVERSITY$298,327
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY$283,819
WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY$267,763
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL$259,573
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL$232,013
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 (FY19–24, $782k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%YOUTH COLLABORATORY: $218k → 11%NATIONAL INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ASSOCIATION: $26k → 12%ALEX HOUSE PROJECT INC: $30k → 20%NATIONAL INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ASSOCIATION: $20k → 12%TIDES CENTER: $25k → 10%NATIONAL INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ASSOCIATION: $18k → 12%RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $25k → 20%THE LESBIAN AND GAY COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER: $25k → 17%THE ALEX HOUSE PROJECT: $20k → 20%THE ALEX HOUSE PROJECT: $10k → 20%MEXICAN COALITION FOR THE EMPOWERMENT OF YOUTH AND FAMILIES: $38k → 28%KINGSBRIDGE HEIGHTS COMMUNITY CENTER: $25k → 28%ARTHUR PROJECT INC: $30k → 17%THE ARTHUR PROJECT: $20k → 17%THE ARTHUR PROJECT: $10k → 17%DATA QUALITY CAMPAIGN: $50k → 14%CHILD WELFARE LEAGUE OF AMERICA: $48k → 14%FIRST FOCUS ON CHILDREN: $18k → 14%HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE: $25k → 17%CHILD WELFARE LEAGUE OF AMERICA: $20k → 14%FRESH YOUTH INITIATIVES: $25k → 17%CHILD WELFARE LEAGUE OF AMERICA: $5k → 14%NEW YORK STATE YOUTH LEADERSHIP COUNCIL INC: $25k → 17%YOUTH JUSTICE NETWORK INC: $25k → 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

NH
WA
ID
ND
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
NE
MO
KY
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MD
DE
AZ
NM
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
GA
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of William T Grant Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

William T Grant Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.9% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$74M · 124 repeat orgs$6.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

124 repeat relationships: 79 still active in FY2024, 45 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

124
83

Total granted

$74M
$3.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+13%

Still filing today

61%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureSocial ScienceRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • NY
    New York University
    6× · 2019–2024 · $3.6M · revenue +51%
  • UO
    University of Michigan
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +140% · 81% of their budget
  • RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    4× · 2019–2023 · $1.5M · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • Youth Collaboratory Incgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $218k · revenue +42%
  • RS
    RUSSELL SAGE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue -74%
  • TB
    THE BELL FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue -22%
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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Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
2
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
3
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
4
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
5
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
6
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
7
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
8
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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9
The New School

The new school's mission is to prepare our students to understand, contribute to, and succeed in a rapidly changing society, and thus make the world a better and more just place. (continued on schedule o)

Education
10
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
12
American Association of State Colleges and Universities

Aascu is a washington, d.c. based higher education association that represents the sector of over 500 regional public colleges, universities, and systems whose members share a learning and teaching centered culture, a commitment to…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Oliver Scholars Program Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ithrive Games Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

166 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. 166 of the 248 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)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
166/166
Grantees still filing
113/166
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE: $3,463,870 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINEUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY: $3,269,014 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEYREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $2,294,251 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $1,912,357 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN: $1,745,832 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $1,742,097 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $1,619,423 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TORONTO: $1,591,420 · Other+109 more: $29,652,937 · Other+109 moreNew York University: $3,637,112 · EducationNew York UniversityRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,528,256 · EducationCornell University: $1,495,427 · EducationTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $1,370,218 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $1,327,228 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $1,275,096 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $1,262,779 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITY: $1,260,825 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $1,136,408 · EducationUniversity of Chicago: $1,101,373 · EducationFLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $1,032,865 · EducationVanderbilt University: $1,025,348 · Education+42 more: $11,761,040 · Education+42 moreTHE URBAN INSTITUTE: $786,223 · Social ScienceNATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER: $649,998 · Social ScienceAMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH IN THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES: $576,262 · Social ScienceBEHAVIORAL IDEAS LAB INC: $326,708 · Social ScienceSCHOLARS STRATEGY NETWORK: $304,243 · Social ScienceAMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION: $101,990 · Social ScienceSociety for Research in Child Development Inc: $96,500 · Social Science+1 more: $50,000 · Social ScienceTHE FORUM FOR YOUTH INVESTMENT: $1,195,944 · PhilanthropyThe Pew Charitable Trusts: $765,614 · PhilanthropyUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $277,967 · PhilanthropyNew Hampshire Charitable Foundation: $165,000 · Philanthropy+4 more: $202,999 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $925,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF EDUCATION: $200,000 · Arts & CultureTEACHERS & WRITERS COLLABORATIVE INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NEW PRESS INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureOpening Act Inc: $50,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $43,614 · Arts & CultureNorthwestern University: $1,144,170 · Recreation & SportsI CHALLENGE MYSELF INC: $60,000 · Recreation & SportsSouth Bronx United Inc: $50,000 · Recreation & Sports+2 more: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsBROWN UNIVERSITY: $1,058,233 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY RESOURCE EXCHANGE INC: $203,340 · Community Improvement
Other$47,291,201Education$29,213,975Social Science$2,891,924Philanthropy$2,607,524Arts & Culture$1,318,614Recreation & Sports$1,304,170Community Improvement$1,261,573

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%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNew York University: $3,637,112 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $1,545,896 over 6y, 81% of budgetRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,528,256 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCornell University: $1,495,427 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $1,370,218 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $1,364,208 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $1,327,228 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $1,275,096 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $1,262,779 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $1,260,825 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FORUM FOR YOUTH INVESTMENT: $1,195,944 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $1,144,170 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $1,136,408 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $1,101,373 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $1,058,233 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $1,032,865 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetVanderbilt University: $1,025,348 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPHILANTHROPY NEW YORK INC: $991,777 over 5y, 11% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $942,993 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL SUMMER LEARNING ASSOCIATION INC: $926,184 over 4y, 9.2% of budgetNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $925,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $830,558 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMDRC: $799,727 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE URBAN INSTITUTE: $786,223 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $777,048 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $766,312 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $765,962 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Pew Charitable Trusts: $765,614 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER: $649,998 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $644,021 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $578,978 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH IN THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES: $576,262 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $563,999 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER INC: $550,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetINNOVATIVE POLICY LAB RESEARCH IMPROVING PEOPLES LIVES: $510,204 over 2y, 14% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $493,047 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUFFOLK UNIVERSITY: $474,511 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $443,910 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $433,335 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE: $429,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPUBLIC POLICY INSTITUTE OF CALIFORNIA: $420,778 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetITHRIVE GAMES FOUNDATION: $394,133 over 2y, 17% of budgetEDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE: $391,375 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $349,946 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $329,323 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBEHAVIORAL IDEAS LAB INC: $326,708 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSCHOLARS STRATEGY NETWORK: $304,243 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetBANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION: $299,999 over 2y, 0.2% 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 New York University ↗
  • Who funds University of Michigan ↗
  • Who funds RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE FORUM FOR YOUTH INVESTMENT ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
  • Who funds PHILANTHROPY NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL SUMMER LEARNING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
  • Who funds MDRC ↗
  • Who funds THE URBAN INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗

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.

Pinkerton FoundationNY67.5× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pinkerton Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Gates Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Carnegie Corporation of New York · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · The Spencer Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Youth Improving Non-Profits for Children · Brooklyn Community 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 William T Grant Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William T Grant Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals: 67% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • University of Delaware: 30% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • University of Central Florida Research Foundation Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
  • Educational Testing Service: 6% of income from government
  • American Academy of Arts & Sciences: 3% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
  • Suffolk University: 1% of income from government
  • National Indian Child Welfare Association: 0% of income from government
  • Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
41report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 248 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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