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Cannupa Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$202k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$897kEnvironment$887kFood & Nutrition$143kArts & Culture$133kReligion$126kHealth$87kHuman Services$85kCommunity Improvement$36kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $69k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $115k
$7,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC$65,000
EAT REAL CERTIFIED INC$50,000
BISCAYNE BAY WATERKEEPER INC$25,000
BAPTIST HEALTH SOUTH FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC$19,258
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$15,000
SIMPLY SMILES INC$10,000
PEQUOT LIBRARY ASSOCIATION$7,500
ETHICS IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP$5,000
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC$1,030
HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION$1,000
TATNALL SCHOOL INC$1,000
ENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT$1,000
SET SAIL FOUNDATION INC$1,000
MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$125
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $106k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $250 → 17%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $250 → 17%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%THE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC: $10k → 9%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%THE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC: $7k → 9%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $200 → 17%MIDNIGHT MISSION: $1k → 14%THE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC: $5k → 9%MIDNIGHT MISSION: $500 → 14%THE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC: $5k → 9%MIDNIGHT MISSION: $500 → 14%SIMPLY SMILES INC: $20k → 9%SIMPLY SMILES INC: $10k → 9%SIMPLY SMILES INC: $10k → 9%SIMPLY SMILES INC: $10k → 9%SIMPLY SMILES INC: $10k → 9%SIMPLY SMILES INC: $10k → 9%SIMPLY SMILES INC: $250 → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 29% of Cannupa Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Cannupa Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.6M · 32 repeat orgs$277k to everyone else

32 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
39

Total granted

$1.6M
$274k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+23%

Still filing today

91%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthEnvironmentHuman ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • CM
    Carnegie Mellon University
    7× · 2017–2023 · $500k · revenue +15%
  • AJ
    ADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $367k · revenue ×24
  • ER
    Eat Real Certified Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $133k · revenue +557%

Funded once

  • NC
    NATURE CONSERVANCY - CONNECTICUT CHAPTER
    one grant, 2017 · $200k
  • BENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +56%
  • RAZOM INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -65%

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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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
2
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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3
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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4
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
5
United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

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6
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
7
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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8
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
9
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
10
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
11
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
12
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brooklyn Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Global Jewish Assistance & Relief Network. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyLocal Food System Organizat…Independent K-12 SchoolsEnvironmental Conservation …Community FoundationsHealth Access Advocacy and …Youth Sports ProgramsJewish Community Organizati…Community Food PantriesPolicy Research and AdvocacyVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Affordable Housing Developm…Senior Support ServicesDevelopmental Disabilities …Immigrant Worker SupportCommunity Arts CentersLocal History MuseumsPublic Library Operations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr16%32%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr16%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%27%10–20yr16%29%20–35yr13%4%35–55yr16%39%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/68
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,497

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

67 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 67 of the 78 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
66/67
Grantees still filing
43/67
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $620,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYCarnegie Mellon University — $500,100 · OtherCarnegie Mellon UniversityNATURE CONSERVANCY - CONNECTICUT CHAPTER — $200,000 · OtherNATURE CONSERVANCY - CONNECTICUT CHAPTERSOUTHPORT CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH - UNITED CHURCH OF — $126,500 · OtherSOUTHPORT CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH - UNITED CHURCH OF+38 more — $127,973 · Other+38 moreADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC — $366,694 · EducationADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY I…PEQUOT LIBRARY ASSOCIATION — $117,522 · EducationPEQUOT LIBRARY ASSOCIA…+8 more — $8,750 · EducationEat Real Certified Inc — $132,500 · Public Benefit+1 more — $1,250 · Public BenefitSIMPLY SMILES INC — $70,586 · Human ServicesTHE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC — $27,000 · Human ServicesHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC — $6,450 · Human Services+1 more — $2,000 · Human ServicesBaptist Health South Florida Foundation Inc — $59,258 · HealthBENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Health+7 more — $6,150 · HealthBISCAYNE BAY WATERKEEPER INC — $52,500 · EnvironmentSASCO CREEK NEIGHBORS ENVIRONMENTAL TRUST INC — $10,000 · EnvironmentWHOLESOME WAVE INC — $7,500 · Environment+5 more — $4,485 · EnvironmentRAZOM INC — $10,000 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc — $10,000 · InternationalGLOBAL JEWISH ASSISTANCE & RELIEF NETWORK — $1,000 · International
Other$1,574,573Education$492,966Public Benefit$133,750Human Services$106,036Health$75,408Environment$74,485International$21,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $620,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University — $500,100 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC — $366,694 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetEat Real Certified Inc — $132,500 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetPEQUOT LIBRARY ASSOCIATION — $117,522 over 6y, 6.5% of budgetSIMPLY SMILES INC — $70,586 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetBaptist Health South Florida Foundation Inc — $59,258 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBISCAYNE BAY WATERKEEPER INC — $52,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC — $27,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE UNQUOWA SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC — $21,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAZOM INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSASCO CREEK NEIGHBORS ENVIRONMENTAL TRUST INC — $10,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEAR AND FAR ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFAIRFIELD HISTORICAL SOCIETY DBA FAIRFIELD MUSEUM — $7,900 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC — $7,634 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHOLESOME WAVE INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION HOPE OF FAIRFIELD INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFAIRFIELD THEATRE COMPANY INC — $6,800 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC — $6,450 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC — $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF SOUTHPORT PARK INC — $4,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetSet Sail Foundation Inc — $3,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetEMERGE INC — $3,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLOOP NOLA — $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTeam Paradise Sailing Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetAPPLIED BEHAVIORAL REHABILITATION INSTIT — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MIDNIGHT MISSION — $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $1,589 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCARDINAL SHEHAN CENTER INC — $1,325 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $1,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetADVOCATES FOR TRANS EQUALITY EDUCATION FUND — $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC — $1,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetASPETUCK LAND TRUST — $1,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $1,030 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TATNALL SCHOOL INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENS FARMS ACADEMY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIN OUR BACKYARDS INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUST FOOD — $1,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetGLOBAL JEWISH ASSISTANCE & RELIEF NETWORK — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINLAND LAKE YACHTING ASSOCIATIONIN — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANGRESS DBA LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Fairfield County's Co…The Emily Hall Tremai…Nessel Family Foundat…Kreitler Foundation I…Peoples United Commun…Newman's Own Foundati…David and Eunice Bige…The Inglesea Charitab…Smith Richardson Foun…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Southport Area FundQuidditch Foundation …
Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT34.3× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation Inc · Nessel Family Foundation Inc · Kreitler Foundation Inc Dba the Hobart and Sally Kreitler Foundinc · Peoples United Community Foundation · Newman's Own Foundation · David and Eunice Bigelow Foundation · The Inglesea Charitable Trust · Smith Richardson Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Southport Area Fund · Quidditch Foundation Inc Sheila J Clancy Trustee

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Cannupa Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • The Center for Family Justice Inc — 49% of income from government
  • Connecticut Institute for Refugees and Immigrants Inc — 37% of income from government
  • Applied Behavioral Rehabilitation Instit — 35% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Emerge Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Aspetuck Land Trust — 28% of income from government
  • Biscayne Bay Waterkeeper Inc — 19% of income from government
  • Operation Hope of Fairfield Inc — 15% of income from government
  • New Haven Ecology Project Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Cardinal Shehan Center Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation — 2% of income from government
  • Fairfield Historical Society Dba Fairfield Museum — 1% of income from government
  • Connecticut Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Fairfield Theatre Company Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Pequot Library Association — 0% of income from government
  • The Tatnall School Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
6report 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

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Cannupa Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Cannupa 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 78 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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State money flows
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