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Blueprint North Carolina

The Organization is a partnership of public policy, advocacy and grassroots organizing nonprofits dedicated to achieving a better, fairer, healthier North Carolina through the development of an integrated communications and civic engagement strategy.

$731k
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Public Benefit$9.8MCivil Rights$2.6MCommunity Improvement$2.0MHuman Services$1.1MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.0MEnvironment$659kReligion$537kYouth Development$490kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k20 grants · $573k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $200k
$30,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NC A Philip Randolph Institute Inc$50,000
Mi Familia En Accion$50,000
Mi Familia En Accion$50,000
NC A Philip Randolph Institute Inc$50,000
Legacy Bridge NC$40,000
Tranzmission Inc$40,000
SEAC Village$40,000
Southern Vision Alliance$40,000
Richmond County Coalition for Justice and Black Empowerment$40,000
Peoples Solidarity Hub$40,000
Reparations Stakekholder Authority of Asheville$40,000
NC Black Alliance$30,000
Shackle Free Community Outreach Agency Inc$27,000
Shackle Free Community Outreach Agency Inc$27,000
Valores$25,000
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 (FY17–25, $2.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%Immigrant Legal Resource Center: $40k → 10%Latino Advocacy Coalition of Henderson County Inc: $22k → 12%Jones County Community Hope Inc: $35k → 17%Alphalife Enrichment Center Inc: $28k → 18%Casa Azul de Wilson: $35k → 20%Shackle Free Community Outreach Agency Inc: $112k → 20%Men and Women United for Youth and Families: $50k → 21%NC Field Inc: $30k → 21%Antonio Blow Ministries: $22k → 25%Latino Advocacy Coalition of Henderson County Inc: $21k → 12%Alpha Life Enrichment Center: $25k → 18%Casa Azul de Wilson: $25k → 20%Shackle Free Community Outreach Agency Inc: $27k → 20%Men and Women United for Youth and Families: $22k → 21%Latino Advocacy Coalition: $19k → 12%Alphalife Enrichment Center Inc: $20k → 18%Casa Azul de Wilson: $22k → 20%Shackle Free Community Outreach Agency Inc: $27k → 20%Men and Women United for Youth and Families: $22k → 21%Alphalife Enrichment Center Inc: $19k → 18%Shackle Free Community Outreach Agency Inc: $25k → 20%Men and Women United for Youth and Families: $20k → 21%National Coalition of Black Women Rising: $35k → 20%Shackle Free Community Outreach Agency Inc: $22k → 20%Men and Women United for Youth and Families: $20k → 21%National Coalition of Black Women Rising: $35k → 20%NC A Philip Randolph Institute Inc: $320k → 8%Tranzmission Inc: $40k → 12%NC A Philip Randolph Institute Inc: $290k → 8%SEAC Village: $40k → 10%Tranzmission Inc: $25k → 12%Southeast Asian Coalition: $25k → 10%Tranzmission Inc: $25k → 12%Southeast Asian Coalition: $25k → 10%Tranzmission Inc: $20k → 12%Southeast Asian Coalition: $20k → 10%Companeros Inmigrantes de last Montanas en Accion: $28k → 12%Southeastern Asian Coalition: $40k → 10%NC A Philip Randolph Institute Inc: $50k → 8%NC A Philip Randolph Institute Inc: $50k → 8%NARAL Pro-Choice NC Foundation: $40k → 11%Coalicion Latinoamericana (Latin America Coalition): $19k → 10%Morrisville Education and Community Service Enterprise LLC: $22k → 8%El Pueblo: $129k → 8%El Pueblo: $120k → 8%El Pueblo: $27k → 8%El Pueblo: $21k → 8%El Pueblo: $20k → 8%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

WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
CA
AZ
NC
SC
DC
GA
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$16M · 97 repeat orgs$4.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

97 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 81 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

97
156

Total granted

$16M
$4.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+20%

Still filing today

71%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $220k 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 ServicesCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentArts & CultureEducationOther
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

  • DN
    Democracy North Carolina
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +45%
  • SOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $832k · revenue ×25
  • UO
    UNIFOUR ONE INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $581k · revenue +519%

Funded once

  • SA
    SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC
    one grant, 2023 · $544k · revenue +8%
  • SS
    Sign Scientist
    one grant, 2021 · $360k
  • LN
    LEAD NC INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2018 · $225k · revenue -31%
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
North Carolina Empowerment Organization
Civil Rights
2
Democracy North Carolina

Democracy North Carolina's mission is to strengthen democratic structures, build power among disenfranchised communities, and inspire confidence in a transformed political process that works for all.

Civil Rights
3
Forward Justice Action Network

Forward Justice Action Network is a nonprofit with the purpose to engage in educational and advocacy activities to promote political and grassroots support for public policies that advance racial social and economic justice in North…

Human Services
4
Community Industry Value Interactionist League

NC CIVIL is a nonprofit community impact organization that develops grassroots approaches to structural disparities. Our mission is to increase resident involvement, improve organization of resources, and help institutions partner…

Youth Development
5
North Carolina Latino Power

The mission of NC Latino Power is to build and expand political and civic participation among Latino citizens of North Carolina through leadership training, voter education, and organizing within faith and community institutions.

Education
6
Nc Local Inc

Expands local news across North Carolina

Civil Rights
7
North Carolinians for Redistricting Reform

North Carolinians for Redistricting Reform (NC4RR) is a bipartisan nonprofit working to improve North Carolina's representative democracy through redistricting reform. NC4RR's objective is to help pass a state constitutional amendment in…

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8
North Carolina Community Action Association

To encourage, promote, and stimulate the community development of human resources, principally to eliminate poverty through the operation of community action programs.

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9
Progress North Carolina Action

Progress North Carolina Action conducts research, sponsors educational activities and events, and disseminates accurate and timely information to promote the general public's understanding of ways to maintain and improve North Carolina's…

Public Benefit
10
Center for Participatory Change

Igniting collective power. Transforming systems of oppression. Healing in community.

Community Improvement
11
Action Nc

Action nc is a community organization and citizen action group that organizes residents of low-wealth communities and constituencies - most of whom are people of color- to represent their own interests on issues of social and economic…

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12
North Carolina for the People

To educate the public on how to build a democracy where everyone participates, every vote is counted, voting rights are fully enforced, and everyone's voice is heard; to work toward a system where everyone has a say in decisions that…

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Carolina Justice Center; the most unlike its peers is Brace Community Outreach. 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

161 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. 161 of the 258 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.

12
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
53
Early backer (in before they grew)
156/161
Grantees still filing
99/161
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

A BETTER CHANCE A BETTER COMMUNITY: $648,850 · OtherA BETTER CHANCE A BETTER COMMUNITYSign Scientist: $359,609 · OtherDISABILITY RIGHTS NORTH CAROLINA: $338,000 · OtherCOLUMBUS COUNTY FORUM INC: $325,101 · Other+131 more: $7,572,747 · Other+131 moreDemocracy North Carolina: $2,056,375 · Civil RightsDemocracy North Caro…N C A PHILIP RANDOLPH INSTITUTE INC: $528,610 · Civil RightsN C A PHILIP RANDOLP…NORTH CAROLINA ASIAN AMERICANS TOGETHER: $222,860 · Civil RightsNORTH CAROLINA ASIAN…PODER NC ACTION: $158,672 · Civil RightsWOMEN ADVANCE: $127,500 · Civil Rights+11 more: $526,983 · Civil Rights+11 moreNORTH CAROLINA A PHILIP RANDOLPH EDUCATIONAL FUND: $781,000 · Human ServicesNORTH CAROLINA …EL PUEBLO INC: $429,234 · Human ServicesEL PUEBLO INCSHACKLE FREE COMMUNITY OUTREACH AGENCY INC: $225,500 · Human ServicesSHACKLE FREE CO…ALPHA LIFE ENRICHMENT CENTER INC: $205,826 · Human ServicesALPHA LIFE ENRI…MEN & WOMEN UNITED FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES INC: $194,550 · Human ServicesMEN & WOMEN UNI…SOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION: $173,500 · Human ServicesSOUTHEAST ASIAN…Casa Azul De Wilson: $111,500 · Human ServicesTRANZMISSION INC: $110,000 · Human Services+15 more: $607,393 · Human Services+15 moreUNIFOUR ONE INC: $581,320 · Community ImprovementFUERZA Y UNION MULTIPLE: $205,950 · Community ImprovementHISPANIC FEDERATION INC: $205,400 · Community ImprovementEL CENTRO HISPANO INC: $142,030 · Community ImprovementALLIANCE FOR A JUST SOCIETY: $100,000 · Community ImprovementPartners in Community Inc: $81,500 · Community ImprovementWAKEUP WAKE COUNTY INC: $64,250 · Community Improvement+4 more: $76,953 · Community ImprovementSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $544,114 · EnvironmentNORTH CAROLINA LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS FOUNDATION: $252,374 · EnvironmentGOODPOWER EDUCATION FUND INC: $248,788 · EnvironmentSol Nation Inc: $129,300 · EnvironmentNORTH CAROLINA CONSERVATION NETWORK: $83,000 · EnvironmentNORTH CAROLINA ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE NETWORK: $60,000 · Environment+3 more: $43,250 · EnvironmentSOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE: $831,953 · Public BenefitCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND: $341,000 · Public Benefit+2 more: $58,250 · Public BenefitASSOCIACION DE MEXICANOS EN CAROLINA DEL NORT: $360,325 · InternationalCHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC: $304,191 · International
Other$9,244,307Civil Rights$3,621,000Human Services$2,838,503Community Improvement$1,457,403Environment$1,360,826Public Benefit$1,231,203International$664,516

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 budgetDemocracy North Carolina: $2,056,375 over 9y, 20% of budgetSOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE: $831,953 over 9y, 9.2% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA A PHILIP RANDOLPH EDUCATIONAL FUND: $781,000 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetUNIFOUR ONE INC: $581,320 over 7y, 12% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $544,114 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEL PUEBLO INC: $429,234 over 6y, 9.4% of budgetASSOCIACION DE MEXICANOS EN CAROLINA DEL NORT: $360,325 over 6y, 23% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND: $341,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetDISABILITY RIGHTS NORTH CAROLINA: $338,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetCHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC: $304,191 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPENDER UNITED INC: $302,186 over 3y, 56% of budgetKinston Teens Inc: $289,110 over 5y, 60% of budgetEmancipate NC Inc: $276,500 over 4y, 19% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS FOUNDATION: $252,374 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetGOODPOWER EDUCATION FUND INC: $248,788 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetSHACKLE FREE COMMUNITY OUTREACH AGENCY INC: $225,500 over 4y, 19% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA ASIAN AMERICANS TOGETHER: $222,860 over 7y, 10% of budgetFUERZA Y UNION MULTIPLE: $205,950 over 2y, 93% of budgetALPHA LIFE ENRICHMENT CENTER INC: $205,826 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetHISPANIC FEDERATION INC: $205,400 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMEN & WOMEN UNITED FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES INC: $194,550 over 3y, 18% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA BLACK ALLIANCE INC: $192,550 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE: $179,800 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetSOUTHERN COALITION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: $174,500 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetSOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION: $173,500 over 6y, 8.1% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS: $170,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetACTION INSTITUTE NC: $161,536 over 5y, 7.6% of budgetInstitute for Southern Studies Inc: $160,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetPODER NC ACTION: $158,672 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetEL CENTRO HISPANO INC: $142,030 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetVALORES INC: $131,000 over 2y, 69% of budgetSol Nation Inc: $129,300 over 2y, 59% of budgetWOMEN ADVANCE: $127,500 over 3y, 69% of budgetCasa Azul De Wilson: $111,500 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetTRANZMISSION INC: $110,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF NORTH CAROLINA LEGAL FOUNDATION INC: $106,550 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetNC CONGRESS OF LATINO ORGANIZATIONS (NCCLO): $105,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetALLIANCE FOR A JUST SOCIETY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDUC FUND INC: $94,128 over 5y, 7.1% of budgetNorth Carolina Association of CED Inc: $92,800 over 3y, 27% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $92,060 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE ROCK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $91,750 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetWE ARE DOWN HOME: $85,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLatino Advocacy Coalition of Henderson County Inc: $84,197 over 3y, 18% of budgetNorth Carolina Aids Action Network: $83,430 over 4y, 7.5% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA CONSERVATION NETWORK: $83,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetPartners in Community Inc: $81,500 over 2y, 29% of budgetASHEVILLE CREATIVE ARTS INC: $81,000 over 2y, 9.7% 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.

  • Who funds Democracy North Carolina ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA A PHILIP RANDOLPH EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
  • Who funds UNIFOUR ONE INC ↗
  • Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
  • Who funds N C A PHILIP RANDOLPH INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds EL PUEBLO INC ↗
  • Who funds ASSOCIACION DE MEXICANOS EN CAROLINA DEL NORT ↗
  • Who funds COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds DISABILITY RIGHTS NORTH CAROLINA ↗
  • Who funds CHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds PENDER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds Kinston Teens Inc ↗
  • Who funds Emancipate NC Inc ↗
  • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GOODPOWER EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds SHACKLE FREE COMMUNITY OUTREACH AGENCY INC ↗
  • Who funds LEAD NC INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA ASIAN AMERICANS TOGETHER ↗
  • Who funds FUERZA Y UNION MULTIPLE ↗
  • Who funds ALPHA LIFE ENRICHMENT CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds HISPANIC FEDERATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MEN & WOMEN UNITED FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA BLACK ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMON CAUSE ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN COALITION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION ↗
  • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS ↗
  • Who funds ACTION INSTITUTE NC ↗
  • Who funds Institute for Southern Studies Inc ↗
  • Who funds PODER NC ACTION ↗
  • Who funds EL CENTRO HISPANO INC ↗
  • Who funds VALORES INC ↗

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.

Z Smith Reynolds Foun…Nc Counts CoalitionNEO Philanthropy IncTriangle Community Fo…Common Cause Educatio…Southern Coalition fo…NEO Philanthropy Acti…Southern Vision Allia…Imagine North Carolin…North Carolina Commun…Community Foundation …The Conservation Fund…
Z Smith Reynolds Foundation IncNC126.6× affinity70 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · Nc Counts Coalition · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Common Cause Education Fund · Southern Coalition for Social Justice · NEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc · Southern Vision Alliance · Imagine North Carolina First · North Carolina Community Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc · The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation

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 Blueprint North Carolina funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Blueprint North Carolina. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Campus Compact: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
21report 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 258 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 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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The regranting layer
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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