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Zygmunt and Audrey Wilf Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
37
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$9.6MArts & Culture$5.7MReligion$1.7MHuman Services$1.2MHealth$712kYouth Development$545kInternational$456kCivil Rights$310kOther$0
02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $241k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $490k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.8M
$12,600
Median grant
7
States reached
$37M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL$1,000,000
NATIONAL SEPTEMBER 11 MEMORIAL & MUSEUM$500,000
THE PUBLIC THEATER$300,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST$125,000
NJ LEEP$100,000
PINGRY SCHOOL$90,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT RUTH$75,000
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY$50,000
NATIONAL SEPTEMBER 11 MEMORIAL & MUSEUM$50,000
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY$30,000
PAPER MILL PLAYHOUSE$25,000
PER SCHOLAS INC$25,000
HIT THE BOOKS INC$20,000
NJ LEEP$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$20,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $456k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 59% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SUNRISE ASSOCIATION: $54k → 6%SUNRISE ASSOCIATION: $50k → 6%SUNRISE ASSOCIATION: $6k → 6%SUNRISE ASSOCIATION: $2k → 6%FRANCISCAN CHARITIES: $500 → 16%SUNRISE ASSOCIATION: $1k → 6%THE JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%FRANCISCAN CHARITIES: $500 → 16%FRANCISCAN CHARITIES: $500 → 16%OHEL CHILDREN'S HOME & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $36k → 20%ROOTS & WINGS FOUNDATION: $35k → 4%ROOTS & WINGS FOUNDATION - A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $6k → 4%ROOTS & WINGS FOUNDATION: $5k → 4%ROOTS & WINGS FOUNDATION: $5k → 4%ROOTS & WINGS FOUNDATION: $5k → 4%ROOTS & WINGS FOUNDATION: $5k → 4%ELIZABETH COALITION TO HOUSE THE HOMELESS: $5k → 10%GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES: $10k → 17%ROOTS & WINGS FOUNDATION: $5k → 4%GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES: $10k → 17%ROOTS & WINGS FOUNDATION: $1k → 4%GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES: $10k → 17%ROOTS & WINGS FOUNDATION: $1k → 4%GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES: $10k → 17%GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES: $10k → 17%ROOTS & WINGS FOUNDATION: $1k → 4%GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES: $5k → 17%ROOTS & WINGS FOUNDATION: $1k → 4%OUR PLACE IN NEW YORK: $1k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $25k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $25k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $25k → 17%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $10k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $20k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $20k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $20k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $20k → 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

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NY
MA
NV
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
MD
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$20M · 51 repeat orgs$850k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

51 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
57

Total granted

$20M
$837k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+22%

Still filing today

73%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureReligionYouth DevelopmentOther
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 LAW SCHOOL
    8× · 2017–2025 · $5.2M · revenue +63%
  • WA
    WALKER ART CENTER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $3.3M · revenue +87%
  • NY
    NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
    8× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • NI
    NYU INSTITUTE OF FINE ARTS
    one grant, 2023 · $105k
  • D
    DREAM
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
  • AD
    ATLAS DIY CORPORATION
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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
2
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
3
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
4
Manhattanville University

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

Education
5
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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6
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
7
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
8
The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association

For over 150 years, the 92nd street y, new york has been serving its communities and the larger world by bringing people together (continued on schedule o)and providing exceptional, groundbreaking programs in the performing and visual…

Religion
9
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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10
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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11
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Greater Metrowest Nj; the most unlike its peers is Springfield First Aid Squad 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

84 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. 84 of the 114 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)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
80/84
Grantees still filing
61/84
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL: $5,153,052 · EducationNEW YORK LAW SCHOOLNew York University: $1,268,200 · EducationNew York UniversityYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $800,000 · EducationYESHIVA UNIVERSITYNJ LEEP Inc: $615,000 · EducationNJ LEEP IncTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $310,500 · Education+6 more: $556,400 · Education+6 morePARK EAST SYNAGOGUE: $1,275,000 · OtherPARK EAST SYNAGOGUEPINGRY SCHOOL: $862,500 · OtherPINGRY SCHOOLJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST: $691,360 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWE…NATIONAL SEPTEMBER 11 MEMORIAL & MUSEUM: $660,000 · OtherNATIONAL SEPTEMBER 11 MEMORIAL &…MAKE THE ROAD NEW JERSEY: $435,000 · OtherMAKE THE ROAD NEW JERSEYALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $422,700 · OtherALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDIC…Individual grant recipient: $275,600 · OtherTemple Beth Ahm Yisrael: $251,072 · Other+53 more: $1,146,881 · Other+53 moreWALKER ART CENTER: $3,330,000 · Arts & CultureWALKER ART CENTERNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $1,398,980 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTI…+7 more: $202,750 · Arts & CultureSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $112,800 · Human ServicesMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $80,000 · Human ServicesHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $75,000 · Human ServicesROOTS & WINGS FOUNDATION: $70,000 · Human ServicesGOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES: $55,000 · Human ServicesOhel Childrens Home & Family Services Inc: $36,000 · Human ServicesBRIDGES OUTREACH INC: $25,000 · Human Services+5 more: $27,500 · Human ServicesAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT RUTH INC: $278,600 · InternationalHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL: $90,000 · InternationalISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $75,000 · International+1 more: $2,500 · InternationalIMAGINE A CENTER FOR COPING WITH LOSS: $95,000 · HealthCONNIE DWYER BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION: $46,250 · HealthREED FOUNDATION FOR AUTISM INC: $25,000 · HealthTHE MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $20,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $16,667 · HealthCHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION: $15,000 · HealthCURE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · HealthTHE RWJ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Health+5 more: $13,000 · HealthHORIZONS NEWARK INC: $92,500 · Youth DevelopmentHit the Books Inc: $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentMINDS MATTER NATIONAL INC: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentHow Our Lives Link Altogether Inc: $15,000 · Youth Development
Education$8,703,152Other$6,020,113Arts & Culture$4,931,730Human Services$481,300International$446,100Health$250,917Youth Development$177,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEW YORK LAW SCHOOL: $5,153,052 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetWALKER ART CENTER: $3,330,000 over 8y, 5.3% of budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $1,398,980 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetNew York University: $1,268,200 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $800,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNJ LEEP Inc: $615,000 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $310,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT RUTH INC: $278,600 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetGARDEN STATE EQUALITY EDUCATIONAL FUND: $250,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetPER SCHOLAS INC: $150,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFairleigh Dickinson University: $125,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $112,800 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetIMAGINE A CENTER FOR COPING WITH LOSS: $95,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetHORIZONS NEWARK INC: $92,500 over 6y, 10% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ: $90,018 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPaper Mill Playhouse: $90,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL: $90,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $75,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetROOTS & WINGS FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 7y, 4.2% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES: $55,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPG CHAMBERS SCHOOL: $52,200 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSALVATION AND SOCIAL JUSTICE A NJ N: $50,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCONNIE DWYER BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION: $46,250 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetGolda Och Academy: $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHit the Books Inc: $45,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetOhel Childrens Home & Family Services Inc: $36,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEOR INC: $35,400 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN THEATRE WING INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetREED FOUNDATION FOR AUTISM INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetVISUAL ARTS CENTER OF NEW JERSEY: $25,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBRIDGES OUTREACH INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMINDS MATTER NATIONAL INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetTHE DRUMTHWACKET FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetOPENDOR MEDIA INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $16,667 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHow Our Lives Link Altogether Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetCHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGE STREET PLAYHOUSEINC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH EDUCATION IN MEDIA INC DBA JBS JEWISH BROADCASTING SERVICE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE WHARTON INSTITUTE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJewish Heritage Programs: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $10,000 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 NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds WALKER ART CENTER ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
  • Who funds New York University ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds NJ LEEP Inc ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT RUTH INC ↗
  • Who funds GARDEN STATE EQUALITY EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
  • Who funds PER SCHOLAS INC ↗
  • Who funds Fairleigh Dickinson University ↗
  • Who funds SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds IMAGINE A CENTER FOR COPING WITH LOSS ↗
  • Who funds HORIZONS NEWARK INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ ↗
  • Who funds Paper Mill Playhouse ↗
  • Who funds HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
  • Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT ↗
  • Who funds ROOTS & WINGS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
  • Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds PG CHAMBERS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds ATLAS DIY CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds SALVATION AND SOCIAL JUSTICE A NJ N ↗
  • Who funds CONNIE DWYER BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJNJ33× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Investors Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Ej Grassmann Trust · Pseg Foundation Inc · Columbia Bank Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Summit Foundation · Union Foundation · George a Ohl Jr Trust

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 Zygmunt and Audrey Wilf Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Zygmunt and Audrey Wilf Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 200%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Salvation and Social Justice a Nj N: 52% of income from government
  • Christopher Reeve Foundation: 49% of income from government
  • Bridges Outreach Inc: 25% of income from government
  • Paper Mill Playhouse: 9% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Fairleigh Dickinson University: 2% of income from government
  • Golda Och Academy: 0% of income from government
  • New Jersey Performing Arts Center Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
20get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 Zygmunt and Audrey Wilf 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 114 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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