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Edwards Mother Earth 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.

$1.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
50
Grants FY2024still arriving
16
States reached
$425k
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 FY2020–2024.

Environment$4.8MFood & Nutrition$2.1MCommunity Improvement$207kHousing & Shelter$178kPublic Benefit$158kHuman Services$97kHealth$66kArts & Culture$58kOther$0
02FY2024 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k40 grants · $87k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $46k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.6M
$2,500
Median grant
16
States reached
$30M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
APPALACHIAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT$425,394
COOPERATIVE EXTENSION ASSOCIATION IN THE STATE OF$400,000
RODALE INSTITUTE$400,000
VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSIT$397,295
RODALE INSTITUTE$50,323
ECOTRUST$50,000
AGROFORESTRY NORTHWEST$50,000
SPRING OF EVOLUTION INC$24,000
WHITESWAN ENVIRONMENTAL WE$12,000
TILTH ALLIANCE$10,000
DUWAMISH TRIBAL SERVICES$6,000
COMMON POWER FUTURE$6,000
SEEED INC$5,000
BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC$5,000
ARTIST MENTORSHIP PROGRAM$5,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $79k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WOMENS AND CHILDRENS ALLIANCE INC: $4k → 8%TRAX EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC: $750 → 11%MISSION BLUE FOUNDATION INC: $500 → 12%WIDOWED PARENT RELIEF PROJECT: $2k → 12%WOODLAND ACTION CENTER: $5k → 13%HARK-ALS INC: $6k → 5%FREEDOM INC: $500 → 10%ARTIST MENTORSHIP PROGRAM: $5k → 12%EMBRACE WASHINGTON: $500 → 12%WOODLAND ACTION CENTER: $5k → 13%GATHER MAKE SHELTER: $1k → 12%KNOXVILLE FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER: $7k → 12%WOODLAND ACTION CENTER: $5k → 13%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $500 → 10%EMBRACE WASHINGTON: $500 → 12%WOODLAND ACTION CENTER: $3k → 13%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $500 → 10%GATHER MAKE SHELTER: $1k → 12%ZERO TO THREE - NATIONAL CENTER FOR INFANTS TODDLE: $500 → 14%FAMILY AND YOUTH INITIATIVE INC: $12k → 14%FAMILY AND YOUTH INITIATIVE INC: $9k → 14%FAMILY AND YOUTH INITIATIVE INC: $3k → 14%PEACE IN SCHOOLS: $4k → 12%PEACE IN SCHOOLS: $2k → 12%SEATTLE HOMELESS OUTREACH: $250 → 9%SEATTLE HOMELESS OUTREACH: $250 → 9%DESC HOBSON CLINIC QALICB: $1k → 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.

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Where the work is directed

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

About 19% of Edwards Mother Earth 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.

Edwards Mother Earth Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 19% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.2M · 66 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

66 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 39 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

66
93

Total granted

$6.2M
$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+12%

Still filing today

88%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $170k 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
EnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • AS
    APPALACHIAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +113%
  • CS
    COFAN SURVIVAL FUND INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $41k · revenue +97%
  • RF
    Re-evaluation Foundation
    4× · 2020–2023 · $29k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • I
    ICASTgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $390k · revenue +79%
  • WC
    WATTTIME CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +220%
  • LF
    LHAQ'TEMISH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue -68%

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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350PDX

Building a diverse grassroots movement to address the causes of climate disruption through justice-based solutions by inspiring, training and mobilizing people to act.

Environment
2
10000 Years Institute

10,000 Years Institute evaluates the ecological effects of human activities on natural environments, and promotes the maintenance and restoration of ecological integrity through the integration of reliable scientific information, sound…

Unclassified
3
Center for Sustainable Economy

Promoting economic sustainability

Environment
4
Fsc I&P

Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…

Philanthropy
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Amazon Watch Inc

To protect the rainforest and advance the rights of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. We partner with Indigenous communities in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability, and the preservation of the Amazon Basin's…

Environment
6
Taproot Earth

Taproot Earth works with communities to support strategies around the use of water, energy and land.

Environment
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The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
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Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment
9
Stewardship Partners

Stewardship Partners helps private landowners restore and preserve the natural landscapes of WA State. We collaborate with diverse interest groups to build bridges and find solutions that achieve mutual goals of environmental protection,…

Environment
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Whatcom Land Trust

The mission of the Whatcom Land Trust is to preserve and protect wildlife habitat, scenic, agricultural and open space lands in Whatcom County for future generations by securing interests in land and promoting land stewardship.

Environment
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Cascade Climate Inc

To accelerate progress in interventions that harness Earths natural systems to stabilize the climate.

Environment
12
Nw Energy Coalition

The NW Energy Coalition is an alliance of over 100 environmental, civic, and human service organizations, utilities, and businesses in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia, plus many individual members. The NW Energy…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Compass Family Services and the most unlike its peers is Regenitech Fund Corp. 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…Community College Foundatio…Christian Missionary Organi…Domestic Violence ServicesPregnancy Support ServicesAffordable Housing Construc…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Animal Rescue and ShelterPolicy Research and AdvocacyYouth Development ServicesSchool Parent OrganizationsCommunity FoundationsCommunity Food PantriesHealth Access Advocacy and …Cancer Support ServicesEquine Therapy ProgramsYouth Sports ProgramsUnited Way AffiliatesElementary Literacy TutoringCommunity FoundationsCommunity Arts CentersAffordable Housing Developm…Immigrant Worker SupportFood Banks and PantriesEnvironmental Conservation …
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 26 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr14%12%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr16%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%13%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr16%39%20–35yr13%17%35–55yr16%20%55yr+

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

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%3/167
the rest of the field
13%
240,393/1,819,398

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

157 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. 157 of the 180 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)
151/157
Grantees still filing
97/157
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSIT — $1,399,320 · OtherVIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERS…COOPERATIVE EXTENSION ASSOCIATION IN THE STATE OF N Y — $1,229,477 · OtherCOOPERATIVE EXTENSION ASSOCIATION IN THE STATE O…+115 more — $747,045 · Other+115 moreAPPALACHIAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT — $1,507,313 · Community ImprovementAPPALACHIAN SUSTAINABLE DEV…ICAST — $390,000 · Community ImprovementICAST+5 more — $22,313 · Community ImprovementEpic Institute — $799,357 · EnvironmentEpic InstituteUnited States Endowment for Forestry — $105,000 · EnvironmentUnited States End…WASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION EDUCATION FUND — $100,000 · EnvironmentWASHINGTON CONSER…Agroforestry Northwest — $50,000 · Environment+34 more — $186,230 · Environment+34 moreRodale Institute — $850,323 · Food & NutritionRodale Insti…+5 more — $16,300 · Food & NutritionWATTTIME CORPORATION — $250,000 · Science & Tech+3 more — $4,490 · Science & TechLHAQ'TEMISH FOUNDATION — $150,000 · Public BenefitGIV COMMUNITIES — $100,000 · Recreation & SportsLITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC WILSHIRE RIVERSIDE LITTLE LEAGUE — $7,500 · Recreation & SportsSail Sand Point — $6,000 · Recreation & Sports+4 more — $7,500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$3,375,842Community Improvement$1,919,626Environment$1,240,587Food & Nutrition$866,623Science & Tech$254,490Public Benefit$150,000Recreation & Sports$121,000

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 budgetAPPALACHIAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT — $1,507,313 over 4y, 14% of budgetRodale Institute — $850,323 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetEpic Institute — $799,357 over 3y, 77% of budgetICAST — $390,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetWATTTIME CORPORATION — $250,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetLHAQ'TEMISH FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetUnited States Endowment for Forestry — $105,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION EDUCATION FUND — $100,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetVerde Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetGIV COMMUNITIES — $100,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetEARTH ADVANTAGE — $90,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetECOTRUST — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOFAN SURVIVAL FUND INC — $40,875 over 5y, 8.4% of budgetSPRING OF EVOLUTION INC — $29,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetRe-evaluation Foundation — $28,500 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetSPARK NORTHWEST — $25,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTILTH ALLIANCE — $25,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDUWAMISH TRIBAL SERVICES DBA DUWAMISH TRIBAL SERVICES INC — $24,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY AND YOUTH INITIATIVE INC — $24,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR HUMAN MOVEMENT STUDIES INC — $18,500 over 4y, 21% of budgetWOODLAND ACTION CENTER — $18,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetBoise State University Foundation Inc — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Williams Project — $12,900 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetHISPANICS IN PHILANTHROPY — $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHITESWAN ENVIRONMENTAL WE — $12,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC — $11,625 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Inc — $9,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Bay — $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII ALLIANCE FOR PROGRESSIVE ACTION — $9,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMOUNT ST HELENS INSTITUTE — $7,805 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMON POWER FUTURE — $7,800 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC WILSHIRE RIVERSIDE LITTLE LEAGUE — $7,500 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetHOPELINK — $7,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION — $7,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAL POLY HUMBOLDT FOUNDATION — $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKNOXVILLE FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER — $7,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPIKE PLACE MARKET FOUNDATION — $7,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWILD PROJECTS — $7,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetOREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING — $6,650 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFilm Forever Northwest dba Hollywood Theatre — $6,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDuwamish River Cleanup Coalition - TAG — $6,200 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHARK-ALS INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSail Sand Point — $6,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetOccidental Arts and Ecology Center — $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEvergreen Mountain Bike Alliance — $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPEACE IN SCHOOLS — $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCITIZENS CLIMATE EDUCATION CORP — $5,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPOPULATION CONNECTION — $5,500 over 4y, 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.

Seattle FoundationThe Bullitt FoundationPatagoniaorgRsf Social Finance IncLucky Seven FoundationThe Satterberg Founda…Meyer Memorial TrustPuget Sound Energy Fo…The Schmidt Family Fo…Clif Family FoundationThe Nature ConservancyThe Oregon Community …
Seattle FoundationWA32.8× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · The Bullitt Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Lucky Seven Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Meyer Memorial Trust · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Clif Family Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · The Oregon Community Foundation

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 Edwards Mother Earth 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Ecotrust — 14% of income from government
  • Earth Advantage — 13% of income from government
  • Gather Make Shelter — 7% of income from government
  • Verde Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Artist Mentorship Program — 2% of income from government
  • Columbia Riverkeeper — 1% of income from government
  • Real Organic Project Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Oregon Public Broadcasting — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
46report 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 Edwards Mother Earth Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Edwards Mother Earth 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 180 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.

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More from the funding graph

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