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Atl Fdn-W Peters Main at a glance

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Atl Fdn-W Peters Main

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$957k
Granted FY2024still arriving
171
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$1.2MHousing & Shelter$805kHuman Services$618kEducation$383kFood & Nutrition$368kReligion$363kYouth Development$244kCrime & Legal$179kOther$0
02FY2024 · 171 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k142 grants · $551k
  • $10k–50k28 grants · $327k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
$4,600
Median grant
6
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC$79,677
COVENANT HOUSE GEORGIA INC$19,500
SUNSHINE ON A RANNEY DAY INC$15,000
SOUTH FULTON SENIOR SERVICES INC$15,000
3KEYS INC$15,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GEORGIA INC$15,000
CARRIE STEELE PITTS HOME INC$15,000
CURE CHILDHOOD CANCER INC$15,000
ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC$14,500
CITY OF REFUGE INC$12,500
ZABAN PARADIES CENTER$10,000
LEAP YEAR INC$10,000
THE STUDY HALL INC$10,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF METRO ATLANT$10,000
ATLANTA VICTIM ASSISTANCE INC$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $848k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $8k → 11%SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $10k → 6%YOUTH VILLAGES: $15k → 17%YOUTH VILLAGES INC: $10k → 17%YOUTH VILLAGES INC: $10k → 17%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL GEORGIA: $15k → 14%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL GEORGIA: $10k → 14%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL GEORGIA IN: $8k → 14%THE SUMMIT COUNSELING CENTER INC: $8k → 13%NEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS INC: $8k → 14%INTOWN COLLABORATIVE MINISTRIES: $15k → 13%YWCA GREATER ATLANTA: $8k → 13%LATIN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION INC: $10k → 13%CARINGWORKS INC: $25k → 14%FRIENDS OF DISABLED ADULTS AND CHILDREN: $12k → 14%CHRIS 180 INC: $15k → 14%CHRIS 180 INC: $15k → 14%CHRIS 180 INC: $10k → 14%ODYSSEY FAMILY COUNSELING CENTER CORPORA: $20k → 13%SOUTH FULTON SENIOR SERVICES INC: $15k → 13%SOUTH FULTON SENIOR SERVICES INC: $15k → 13%SOUTH FULTON SENIOR SERVICES INC: $10k → 13%ATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION: $25k → 13%MEALS ON WHEELS ATLANTA INC: $20k → 13%ATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION: $20k → 13%MEALS ON WHEELS ATLANTA INC: $20k → 13%MEALS ON WHEELS ATLANTA INC: $10k → 13%ATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION: $10k → 13%NORTH FULTON COMMUNITY CHARITIES: $10k → 13%NORTH FULTON COMMUNITY CHARITIES: $10k → 13%CROSSROADS COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $15k → 13%MIDTOWN ASSISTANCE CENTER INC: $15k → 13%CROSSROADS COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $10k → 13%MIDTOWN ASSISTANCE CENTER INC: $10k → 13%MIDTOWN ASSISTANCE CENTER INC: $10k → 13%AUTOMOTIVE TRAINING CENTER PUBLIC BENEFI: $10k → 13%AUTOMOTIVE TRAINING CENTER PUBLIC BENEFI: $10k → 13%FURNITURE BANK OF METRO ATLANTA INC: $8k → 13%CARRIE STEELE PITTS HOME INC: $15k → 13%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF ATLANTA INC: $15k → 13%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF ATLANTA INC: $15k → 13%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF ATLANTA INC: $15k → 13%ATLANTA VICTIM ASSISTANCE INC: $10k → 13%CARRIE STEELE PITTS HOME INC: $15k → 13%BELOVED ATLANTA: $10k → 13%WESTSIDE FUTURE FUND: $10k → 13%HOUSE OF CHERITH INC: $10k → 13%BELOVED ATLANTA INC: $10k → 13%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

VT
WA
MN
IL
NY
PA
CT
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
AR
TN
SC
DC
MS
GA
TX
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.9M · 153 repeat orgs$791k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

153 repeat relationships: 116 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 55 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

153
90

Total granted

$3.9M
$537k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+12%

Still filing today

97%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $254k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureFood & 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

  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $158k · revenue +690%
  • AC
    ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $125k · revenue +50%
  • CO
    CITY OF REFUGE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $103k · revenue +151%

Funded once

  • AM
    ACTION MINISTRIES INC
    one grant, 2020 · $24k · revenue 0%
  • TI
    TECHBRIDGE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $23k · revenue +13%
  • OF
    ODYSSEY FAMILY COUNSELING CENTERINgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +27%
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
Atlanta Center for Self Sufficiency Inc

To empower financially vulnerable individuals in our community to become self-sufficient, sustainably employed, and economic contributors to society.

Employment
2
Justice Center of Atlanta Inc

Provides mediation services and mediation training for all manner of disputes, private and public, without the need for formal audication through the court system.

Crime & Legal
3
Leadership Atlanta Inc

It is the mission of leadership atlanta to build a better community for everyone in the atlanta region through education about the key issues facing the region and inspiring members and others to take on and exercise real leadership…

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4
Mom Community Inc

To provide low-cost transitional living and life skill programs to pregnant mothers and new moms between the ages of 18 and 24

Human Services
5
Elevate Atlanta Inc

Building long-term, life-changing relationships with urban youth, equipping them to thrive and contribute to their community.

Education
6
Atlanta Committee for Progress Inc

ACP is a group committed to identifying and providing leadership on selected issues important to driving the economic development of the city of Atlanta and for which the ACP's active involvement will make a major difference. The ACP has a…

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7
Enable of Georgia Inc

Supporting people with special needs to lead fulfilled lives.

Housing & Shelter
8
Georgia Community Support and Solutions Inc

InCommunity provides meaningful support to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities to live safe, healthy, and joyful lives in their communities.

—
9
Georgia Center for Opportunity Inc

Georgia Center for Opportunity GCO is an independent, non-partisan think tank dedicated to increasing opportunity and improving the quality of life for all Georgians.

Education
10
Georgia Court Appointed Special Advocates Inc

Georgia Court Appointed Special Advocates, Inc. (the Organization) is a nonprofit organization which strengthens and supports court-sanctioned, affiliate CASA programs that empower community volunteers who advocate for abused or neglected…

Civil Rights
11
Center for Civic Innovation Inc

The Center for Civic Innovation uses local data and research to strengthen civic engagement and scale community-driven solutions in order to ensure that local public policy reflects the needs and the voices of people in Atlanta.

Environment
12
Corporate Volunteer Council of Atlanta

Cvc of atlanta encourages corporate members to develop excellence in corporate volunteerism. develop programs and provide resources.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Johnson Stem Activity Center 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

268 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. 268 of the 298 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
38
Early backer (in before they grew)
261/268
Grantees still filing
157/268
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILDRENS HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC: $159,594 · OtherCHILDRENS HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INCCOVENANT HOUSE GEORGIA INC: $89,500 · Other+95 more: $1,524,240 · Other+95 moreCommunities in Schools of Atlanta Inc: $60,000 · Human ServicesCommunities in School…ATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION: $55,000 · Human ServicesATLANTA UNION MISSION…Meals on Wheels Atlanta Inc: $50,000 · Human ServicesMeals on Wheels Atlan…South Fulton Senior Services Inc: $47,500 · Human ServicesSouth Fulton Senior S…MIDTOWN ASSISTANCE CENTER INC: $42,500 · Human ServicesYOUTH VILLAGES INC: $42,100 · Human ServicesCHRIS 180 INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesCrossroads Community Ministries Inc: $40,000 · Human ServicesSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL GEORGIA INC: $32,500 · Human ServicesCaringWorks Inc: $32,100 · Human ServicesNORTH FULTON COMMUNITY CHARITIES INC: $32,100 · Human ServicesCARRIE STEELE-PITTS HOME INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesAUTOMOTIVE TRAINING CENTER CORPORATION: $29,000 · Human Services+21 more: $308,500 · Human Services+21 moreCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC: $157,637 · HealthCHILDREN'S HEALT…METRO ATLANTA RECOVERY RESIDENCES INC: $77,100 · HealthMETRO ATLANTA RE…VISITING NURSE HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $42,000 · HealthVISITING NURSE H…THE GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER INC: $37,000 · HealthTHE GOOD SAMARIT…Cure Childhood Cancer Inc: $35,000 · HealthCure Childhood C…GEORGE WEST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $32,000 · HealthSUNSHINE ON A RANNEY DAY INCORPORATED: $25,000 · HealthASCENSA HEALTH INC: $25,000 · HealthFOUNDATION OF WESLEY WOODS INC: $24,600 · HealthDDD FOUNDATION INC: $24,500 · Health+13 more: $149,400 · Health+13 moreNicholas House Inc: $62,100 · Housing & ShelterATLANTA CHILDREN'S SHELTER INCORPORATED: $50,000 · Housing & ShelterSTATUS HOME INC F/K/A JERUSALEM HOUSE INC: $49,600 · Housing & ShelterClifton Sanctuary Ministries Inc: $40,000 · Housing & ShelterZABAN PARADIES CENTER FOR HOMELESS COUPLES INC: $40,000 · Housing & ShelterATLANTA LAND TRUST INC: $24,500 · Housing & ShelterMERCY HOUSING SOUTHEAST: $17,600 · Housing & Shelter3KEYS INC: $15,000 · Housing & Shelter+3 more: $29,600 · Housing & ShelterATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $124,500 · Food & NutritionOPEN HAND ATLANTA INC: $52,100 · Food & NutritionSECOND HELPINGS ATLANTA INC: $27,100 · Food & NutritionFRIENDS OF REFUGEES INC: $25,000 · Food & NutritionLIFECYCLE BUILDING CENTER INC: $19,600 · Food & NutritionCONCRETE JUNGLE INC: $12,500 · Food & NutritionWHOLESOME WAVE GEORGIA INC: $10,000 · Food & Nutrition+2 more: $11,000 · Food & NutritionMOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $45,000 · EducationTHE LIONHEART LIFE CENTER INC: $27,600 · EducationODYSSEY INC: $22,100 · EducationWOMEN IN TECHNOLOGY INC: $20,000 · EducationAtlanta Youth Academies Inc: $20,000 · EducationOUT TEACH: $17,500 · EducationBREAKTHROUGH ATLANTA: $11,600 · Education21ST CENTURY LEADERS INC: $10,600 · EducationMeridian Education Resource Group Inc: $10,000 · EducationLEAP YEAR INC: $10,000 · EducationREACH FOR EXCELLENCE INC: $9,600 · EducationThe Hirsch Academy Inc: $9,600 · Education+10 more: $64,200 · EducationCITY OF REFUGE: $102,500 · ReligionBUCKHEAD CHRISTIAN MINISTRY INC: $80,000 · ReligionWellspring Living Inc: $37,100 · ReligionCOVENANT COMMUNITY INC: $23,600 · Religion
Other$1,773,334Human Services$841,300Health$629,237Housing & Shelter$328,400Food & Nutrition$281,800Education$277,800Religion$243,200

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%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC: $157,637 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $124,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCITY OF REFUGE: $102,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE GEORGIA INC: $89,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBUCKHEAD CHRISTIAN MINISTRY INC: $80,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetMETRO ATLANTA RECOVERY RESIDENCES INC: $77,100 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNicholas House Inc: $62,100 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetCommunities in Schools of Atlanta Inc: $60,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION: $55,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CENTER INC: $52,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetOPEN HAND ATLANTA INC: $52,100 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE STUDY HALL INC: $51,500 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetMeals on Wheels Atlanta Inc: $50,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetATLANTA CHILDREN'S SHELTER INCORPORATED: $50,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCAMP TWIN LAKES INC: $49,600 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSTATUS HOME INC F/K/A JERUSALEM HOUSE INC: $49,600 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetOUR HOUSE INC: $47,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSouth Fulton Senior Services Inc: $47,500 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetMOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMIDTOWN ASSISTANCE CENTER INC: $42,500 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetYOUTH VILLAGES INC: $42,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVISITING NURSE HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $42,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Atlanta Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetClifton Sanctuary Ministries Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetZABAN PARADIES CENTER FOR HOMELESS COUPLES INC: $40,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetCHRIS 180 INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCrossroads Community Ministries Inc: $40,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetPARTNERSHIP AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC: $39,600 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetWellspring Living Inc: $37,100 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER INC: $37,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCure Childhood Cancer Inc: $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP SUNSHINE INC: $35,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetANGEL FLIGHT SOARS INC: $34,600 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL GEORGIA INC: $32,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCaringWorks Inc: $32,100 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNORTH FULTON COMMUNITY CHARITIES INC: $32,100 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGE WEST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $32,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHORIZONS ATLANTA INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTRUANCY INTERVENTION PROJECT GEORGIA: $30,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetGEORGIA AGAPE INC: $30,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCARRIE STEELE-PITTS HOME INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetAgape Community Center: $29,600 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAUTOMOTIVE TRAINING CENTER CORPORATION: $29,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetTHE LIONHEART LIFE CENTER INC: $27,600 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTHE GRADY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $27,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HELPINGS ATLANTA INC: $27,100 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF REFUGEES INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSUNSHINE ON A RANNEY DAY INCORPORATED: $25,000 over 2y, 0.7% 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.

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.

Tr Uw Charles I BrananThe Imlay Foundation …Ryan Ida Alice Tuw Ma…Tw Marian W Ottley At…United Way of Greater…Tuw Thomas H PittsThe Community Foundat…AEC TrustThe Waterfall Foundat…Georgia Power Foundat…Tull Charitable Found…John H & Wilhelmina D…
Tr Uw Charles I BrananMO252.1× affinity133 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tr Uw Charles I Branan · The Imlay Foundation Inc · Ryan Ida Alice Tuw Main · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · Tuw Thomas H Pitts · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · AEC Trust · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc · John H & Wilhelmina D Harland Charitable 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 Atl Fdn-W Peters Main funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Atl Fdn-W Peters Main. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Enterprise Community Partners Inc: 22% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
79report 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
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 298 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home