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Avery Dennison 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.

$4.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
67
Grants FY2025still arriving
18
States reached
$1.2M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

International$17MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.3MPhilanthropy$886kCommunity Improvement$874kEducation$619kArts & Culture$556kHuman Services$470kCivil Rights$456kOther$0
02FY2025 · 67 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k46 grants · $514k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+4 grants · $2.8M
$10,000
Median grant
18
States reached
$26M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MYRIAD USA INC KING BAUDOUIN FNDTN UNITED STATES INC$1,207,000
GLOBAL IMPACT$1,000,000
IDEOORG$350,000
INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION$269,500
GLOBAL FUND FOR CHILDREN$200,000
BSR$150,000
WOMEN WIN FOUNDATION$130,000
GLOBALGIVING$127,035
CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION$125,853
UNITED WAY OF LAKE COUNTY$111,978
HOLA OHIO$110,000
TEXTILE EXCHANGE$100,000
GIVE2ASIA$79,900
PAINESVILLE CITY LOCAL SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$75,000
SURGE FOR WATER$75,000
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 (FY17–25, $705k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ROOM TO GROW: $3k → 16%PAJAMA PROGRAM INC: $3k → 17%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $25k → 16%REFUGEE CARE COLLECTIVE: $10k → 8%BACKPACK BEGINNINGS: $11k → 16%MIDWEST FOOD BANK: $3k → 6%THERE WITH CARE: $10k → 12%BABE OF WHITLEY COUNTY: $10k → 9%OPERATION COMBAT BIKESAVER: $7k → 15%HANNAH'S TREASURE CHEST: $3k → 14%ASHTABULA COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $3k → 17%IMPACT HUB TRUST: $88k → 9%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHICAGOLAND AND NW INDIANA: $3k → 7%MIDWEST FOOD BANK: $10k → 11%MEADOWLANDS AREA YMCA: $3k → 7%BALTIMORE OUTREACH SERVICES INC: $10k → 19%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $15k → 16%CLINTON COUNTY WOMENS CENTER INC: $10k → 13%BACKPACK BEGINNINGS: $7k → 16%MIDWEST FOOD BANK: $3k → 6%HOPE HOUSE MISSION: $7k → 12%BALTIMORE OUTREACH SERVICES INC: $10k → 19%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $10k → 16%BALTIMORE OUTREACH SERVICES INC: $10k → 19%CLINTON COUNTY WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $3k → 13%BALTIMORE OUTREACH SERVICES INC: $7k → 19%BACKPACK BEGINNINGS: $20k → 16%ONE STEP AT A TIME LAKE COUNTY: $10k → 9%BOGG MINISTRIES: $20k → 14%BACKPACK BEGINNINGS: $10k → 16%HANNAH'S TREASURE CHEST: $20k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORP: $10k → 9%BACKPACK BEGINNINGS: $10k → 16%SUB ZERO MISSION: $7k → 9%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $53k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $50k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $50k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $7k → 14%SUB ZERO MISSION: $10k → 9%CHAIR-ITY: $10k → 17%DEEPWOOD FOUNDATION: $12k → 9%DEEPWOOD FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%PLEXUS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $15k → 17%PLEXUS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%PLEXUS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $13k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%PROJECT ROPA: $10k → 14%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

AK
NH
WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
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CO
VA
MD
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AZ
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AR
TN
NC
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DC
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 38% of Avery Dennison Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Avery Dennison Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.4% 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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10M · 78 repeat orgs$3.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

78 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2025, 48 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

78
174

Total granted

$10M
$3.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+13%

Still filing today

77%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $650k 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
Human ServicesInternationalHealthEducationFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF
    3× · 2017–2022 · $683k · revenue +76%
  • AA
    ACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA
    2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +8%
  • US
    UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES
    3× · 2021–2023 · $160k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • IM
    INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS
    one grant, 2022 · $333k
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue -51%
  • AA
    AVINA AMERICAS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $200k · revenue -94%
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
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
2
International Center for Research On Women

The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.

International
3
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
4
Lifeworks Services Inc

Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.

Human Services
5
Child Welfare League of America

Child welfare league of america engages its network of public and private agencies and partners to advance policies, best practices, and collaborative strategies that result in better outcomes for vulnerable children, youth, and families.

Human Services
6
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
7
Intrahealth International Inc

Our mission is to improve the performance of health workers and strengthen the systems in which they work.

Health
8
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International
9
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
10
Nourishing Hope

Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.

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11
Global Cleveland

Global cleveland is dedicated to growing northeast ohio's economy by welcoming and connecting international people to opportunities and fostering a more inviting community for those seeking a place to call home.

Human Services
12
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is Hannahs Home. 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

198 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. 198 of the 292 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)
40
Early backer (in before they grew)
194/198
Grantees still filing
120/198
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Global Impact: $6,792,500 · InternationalGlobal ImpactINSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC: $1,678,424 · InternationalINSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INCMYRIAD USA INC: $889,875 · InternationalMYRIAD USA INCUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $683,000 · InternationalUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 · International+18 more: $2,489,830 · International+18 moreTHE RESOURCE FOUNDATION INC: $2,173,933 · OtherTHE RESOURCE FOUNDATION INCKING BAUDOUIN FNDTN UNITED STATES INC: $1,829,892 · OtherKING BAUDOUIN FNDTN UNITED STATES I…MYRIAD USA INC KING BAUDOUIN FNDTN UNITED STATES INC: $1,811,469 · OtherMYRIAD USA INC KING BAUDOUIN FNDTN …INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS (IMC): $333,000 · Other+120 more: $2,778,258 · Other+120 moreCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $2,785,954 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES AID F…UNITED WAY OF LAKE COUNTY INC: $753,419 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF L…UNITED WAY INC: $209,700 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY INC+3 more: $148,000 · PhilanthropyHOLA OHIO: $620,000 · Community ImprovementIDEOORG: $445,000 · Community Improvement+5 more: $55,000 · Community ImprovementUNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $159,500 · Human ServicesIMPACT HUB TRUST: $87,500 · Human ServicesBACKPACK BEGINNINGS: $61,000 · Human ServicesBALTIMORE OUTREACH SERVICES INC: $46,000 · Human ServicesPlexus Education Foundation Inc: $35,000 · Human ServicesDEEPWOOD FOUNDATION: $28,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $27,540 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesHANNAH'S TREASURE CHEST: $23,000 · Human ServicesTHE SUB ZERO MISSION: $23,000 · Human Services+13 more: $140,000 · Human ServicesGLOBAL FUND FOR CHILDREN: $450,000 · Arts & CultureDANCING DREAMS: $40,000 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND CONTEMPORARY CHINESE: $37,000 · Arts & CultureINNER-CITY ARTS: $20,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $17,000 · Arts & CultureROOM TO READ: $50,000 · EducationDIVERSITY CENTER OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $50,000 · EducationWESTLAKE CHINESE CULTURE ASSOCIATION: $47,000 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationHISPANIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $15,000 · EducationUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $15,000 · EducationEDWINS LEADERSHIP & RESTAURANT INSTITUTE: $13,000 · EducationLOCK HAVEN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationCLEVELAND KIDS' BOOK BANK: $10,000 · EducationAssociation of Corporate Citizenship Professionals: $10,000 · Education
International$13,033,629Other$8,926,552Philanthropy$3,897,073Community Improvement$1,120,000Human Services$680,540Arts & Culture$564,000Education$240,000

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 budgetGlobal Impact: $6,792,500 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $2,785,954 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetTHE RESOURCE FOUNDATION INC: $2,173,933 over 9y, 16% of budgetINSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC: $1,678,424 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC: $889,875 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF LAKE COUNTY INC: $753,419 over 4y, 18% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $683,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOLA OHIO: $620,000 over 4y, 31% of budgetUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGLOBAL FUND FOR CHILDREN: $450,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetIDEOORG: $445,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $422,430 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWomen Win Foundation Inc: $380,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY INC: $209,700 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAVINA AMERICAS INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA: $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetISLAMIC RELIEF USA: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIVE2ASIA: $169,400 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $159,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGlobal Forest Generation: $150,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetAsheville GreenWorks: $107,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAINFOREST ALLIANCE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUNAR FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $100,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUILDING MARKETS LTD: $100,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetPainesville Cty Local Sch Educational Fd: $88,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetIMPACT HUB TRUST: $87,500 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetLAKE-GEAUGA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $75,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetSurge for Water Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetBACKPACK BEGINNINGS: $61,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetCambodian Childrens Fund: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLEMONS OF LOVE INC: $50,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetROOM TO READ: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDIVERSITY CENTER OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $50,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetWESTLAKE CHINESE CULTURE ASSOCIATION: $47,000 over 5y, 27% of budgetBALTIMORE OUTREACH SERVICES INC: $46,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetDANCING DREAMS: $40,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetCLEVELAND CONTEMPORARY CHINESE: $37,000 over 4y, 9.1% of budgetPlexus Education Foundation Inc: $35,000 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetCOLORS PLUS: $30,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetOneSky: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDEEPWOOD FOUNDATION: $28,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $27,540 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $25,000 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.

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 Cleveland Foundat…The George Gund Found…The Swagelok Foundati…Jerome T Osborne and …Higley Fund of the Cl…Dominion Energy Chari…Firstenergy FoundationThe Cleveland Clinic …The Ahmanson Foundati…Jewish Federation of …The Cleveland Clinic …The Char and Chuck Fo…
The Cleveland FoundationOH38× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation · Jerome T Osborne and Georgeanne S Osborne Charitable Trust · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family 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 Avery Dennison Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Avery Dennison Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Oregon Food Bank: 21% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
56report 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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Avery Dennison Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Avery Dennison 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 292 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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The unnamed billions
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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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where grant money is based, and what stays home