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Fifth Third Chicagoland Foundation at a glance

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Fifth Third Chicagoland Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.5M
Granted FY2023
38
Grants FY2023
3
States reached
$522k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2023.

Education$2.5MCommunity Improvement$2.0MPhilanthropy$1.8MHousing & Shelter$1.6MYouth Development$1.2MReligion$1.0MPublic Benefit$1.0MHealth$797kOther$0
02FY2023 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k32 grants · $705k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $225k
  • $250k+1 grant · $522k
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CLARETIAN ASSOCIATES$522,000
WORLD BUSINESS CHICAGO$100,000
ALLIES FOR COMMUNITY BUSINESS$75,000
THE RESURRECTION PROJECT$50,000
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY$45,000
WOODSTOCK INSTITUTE$40,000
BICKERDIKE REDEVELOPMENT CORP$40,000
THE THRESHOLDS$40,000
DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY$40,000
HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN$35,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF CHICAGO$25,000
CHICAGO PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND$25,000
OAK PARK REGIONAL HOUSING CENTER$25,000
BIG SHOULDERS FUND$25,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CHICAGO$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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–23, $699k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%OPERATION WARM INC: $15k → 6%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPAK: $25k → 15%AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF RETIRED ASIANS: $3k → 7%WORKING CREDIT NFP: $40k → 14%YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $25k → 14%YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $25k → 14%YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $10k → 14%WORKING CREDIT NFP: $7k → 14%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION: $5k → 14%JUNIOR COUNCIL: $3k → 14%SOUTH CHICAGO PARENTS AND FRIENDS: $3k → 14%CENTER ON HALSTED: $10k → 14%CENTER ON HALSTED: $3k → 14%CENTER ON HALSTED: $3k → 14%HELPING HAND CENTER: $15k → 14%HELPING HAND CENTER: $15k → 14%HELPING HAND CENTER: $15k → 14%UHLICH CHILDREN'S ADVANTAGE NETWORK: $3k → 14%HELPING HAND CENTER: $10k → 14%PLYMOUTH PLACE: $5k → 14%FAMILY FOCUS: $25k → 14%FAMILY FOCUS: $15k → 14%FAMILY FOCUS: $5k → 14%SOUTH SUBURBAN PADS: $20k → 14%ASSOCIATION HOUSE OF CHICAGO: $20k → 14%SOUTH SUBURBAN PADS: $20k → 14%ASSOCIATION HOUSE OF CHICAGO: $10k → 14%ASSOCIATION HOUSE OF CHICAGO: $10k → 14%INSTITUTO DEL PROGRESSO LATINO: $20k → 14%INSTITUTO DEL PROGRESSO LATINO: $10k → 14%GADS HILL CENTER: $8k → 14%CAROLE ROBERTSON CENTER FOR LEARNING: $3k → 14%CHICAGO COMMONS: $40k → 14%CHICAGO COMMONS: $20k → 14%CHICAGO COMMONS: $20k → 14%CHICAGO CHILD CARE SOCIETY: $5k → 14%LIBENU: $10k → 14%LIBENU: $10k → 14%LITTLE CITY FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%NORTHWEST SIDE HOUSING CENTER: $25k → 14%NORTHWEST SIDE HOUSING CENTER: $10k → 14%NORTHWEST SIDE HOUSING CENTER: $10k → 14%ENVISION UNLIMITED: $25k → 14%ENVISION UNLIMITED: $25k → 14%ENVISION UNLIMITED: $5k → 14%ASPIRE: $25k → 14%ASPIRE: $15k → 14%ASPIRE OF ILLINOIS: $5k → 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.
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 105 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

105 repeat relationships: 35 still active in FY2023, 70 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

105
222

Total granted

$12M
$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+40%

Still filing today

82%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’20’21’22’23
EducationHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterArts & CultureHealthCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2022 · $1.0M · revenue +31%
  • YJ
    YOUTH JOB CENTER INC
    4× · 2018–2022 · $542k · revenue +28%
  • CI
    COMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORPORATION
    3× · 2018–2021 · $517k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • WT
    WINDOW TO THE WORLD
    one grant, 2021 · $215k
  • QC
    QUAD COMMUNITIES DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION NFPgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $70k · revenue +25%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
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
A Better Chicago

A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.

Human Services
2
Chicago United for Equity

Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.

Civil Rights
3
Kipp Chicago Schools

The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…

Education
4
Chicago Heightening Opportunity and Potential for

Providing academic support to children experiencing homelessness in Chicago and providing resources and services to families experiencing homelessness in Chicago.

Education
5
The University of Chicago Charter School Corporation

To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.

Education
6
Chicago Municipal Employee's Credit Union

To give members the ability to control their financial destiny by providing members with the means to satisfy their needs for financial services in a comfortable family-like environment. in doing so, the credit union strives to maintain…

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7
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology

The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.

Education
8
Center for Housing and Health

Chh honors every person's right to a home and health care, by bridging the housing and health care systems, to improve the lives of chicagoans experiencing homelessness.

Housing & Shelter
9
Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute

The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.

Social Science
10
Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce

The chicagoland chamber of commerce combines the power of people, with our legacy of leadership and business advocacy, to drive a dynamic economy. we focus on delivering value for our members, making chicagoland a world-class place to live…

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11
Thrive Chicago Nfp

Thrive chicago's mission is to prepare chicago's youth for a vibrant future by aligning efforts and outcomes from cradle to career.

Human Services
12
Tutoring Chicago

Tutoring chicago delivers the power of education through one-to-one tutoring.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids First Chicago for Education; the most unlike its peers is Camp Out for Kids. 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

232 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. 232 of the 333 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
64
Early backer (in before they grew)
222/232
Grantees still filing
189/232
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHICAGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,045,000 · OtherCHICAGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONCLARETIAN ASSOCIATES INC: $826,500 · OtherCLARETIAN ASSOCIATES INCYOUTH JOB CENTER INC: $541,545 · OtherYOUTH JOB CENTER INCWINDOW TO THE WORLD: $215,000 · OtherTHE THRESHOLDS: $205,000 · OtherCHICAGO URBAN LEAGUE: $340,000 · OtherCHICAGO URBAN LEAGUE+101 more: $2,825,314 · Other+101 moreNEWROOT LEARNING INSTITUTE F/K/A UMOJA STUDENT DEVELOPMENT CORP: $790,500 · EducationNEWROOT LEARNING INSTI…CHILDREN FIRST FUND THE CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $487,200 · EducationCHILDREN FIRST FUND TH…DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY: $305,000 · EducationDOMINICAN UNIVERSITYAdler University: $170,000 · EducationAdler UniversityONE MILLION DEGREES: $165,000 · EducationONE MILLION DEGREESLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $115,000 · EducationBig Shoulders Fund: $105,000 · EducationCHICAGO PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $95,000 · Education+20 more: $557,500 · Education+20 moreTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BARACK…HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC: $75,000 · Arts & CultureHOLOCAUST …CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER: $60,000 · Arts & CultureChicago Children's Museum: $57,500 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $158,500 · Arts & Culture+6 moreCOMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORPORATION: $517,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY …NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF CHICAGO INC: $245,000 · Housing & ShelterNEIGHBORHO…The Resurrection Project: $125,000 · Housing & ShelterThe Resurr…MERCY HOUSING LAKEFRONT: $61,000 · Housing & ShelterOAK PARK REGIONAL HOUSING CENTER INC: $60,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE NEIGHBOR PROJECT: $55,000 · Housing & ShelterREBUILDING TOGETHER METRO CHICAGO: $55,000 · Housing & Shelter+10 more: $208,500 · Housing & Shelter+10 moreALLIES FOR COMMUNITY BUSINESS INC: $476,250 · Community ImprovementALLIES FO…WORLD BUSINESS CHICAGO: $160,000 · Community ImprovementWORLD BUS…CHICAGO'S SUNSHINE ENTERPRISES INC: $95,000 · Community ImprovementCHICAGO'S…LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $75,000 · Community ImprovementLOCAL INI…QUAD COMMUNITIES DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION NFP: $70,000 · Community ImprovementQUAD COMM…THE CHICAGO COMMUNITY LOAN FUND: $57,500 · Community ImprovementEnlace Chicago: $52,254 · Community ImprovementMETROPOLITAN PLANNING COUNCIL: $50,000 · Community Improvement+5 more: $125,000 · Community Improvement+5 moreUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC: $552,000 · PhilanthropyCHICAGO UNITED: $55,000 · PhilanthropyMOOSE CHARITIES INC: $40,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $25,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $10,000 · PhilanthropyChicago Commons Association: $80,000 · Human ServicesYWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $60,000 · Human ServicesHELPING HAND CENTER: $55,000 · Human ServicesEnvision Unlimited: $55,000 · Human ServicesWorking Credit NFP: $47,254 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST SIDE HOUSING CENTER: $45,000 · Human ServicesASPIRE OF ILLINOIS: $45,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY FOCUS LEGACY: $45,000 · Human ServicesSOUTH SUBURBAN PADS: $42,500 · Human ServicesASSOCIATION HOUSE OF CHICAGO: $40,000 · Human ServicesINSTITUTE FOR LATINO PROGRESS: $30,000 · Human ServicesBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesLITTLE CITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Human Services+7 more: $72,700 · Human Services
Other$5,998,359Education$2,790,200Arts & Culture$1,351,000Housing & Shelter$1,326,500Community Improvement$1,161,004Philanthropy$682,000Human Services$667,454

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%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNEWROOT LEARNING INSTITUTE F/K/A UMOJA STUDENT DEVELOPMENT CORP: $790,500 over 3y, 16% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC: $552,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetYOUTH JOB CENTER INC: $541,545 over 4y, 14% of budgetCOMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORPORATION: $517,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetCHILDREN FIRST FUND THE CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $487,200 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetALLIES FOR COMMUNITY BUSINESS INC: $476,250 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetCHICAGO URBAN LEAGUE: $340,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetDOMINICAN UNIVERSITY: $305,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF CHICAGO INC: $245,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetTHE THRESHOLDS: $205,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAdler University: $170,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetONE MILLION DEGREES: $165,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetWORLD BUSINESS CHICAGO: $160,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetThe Resurrection Project: $125,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $125,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $120,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $115,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBig Shoulders Fund: $105,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CHICAGO: $100,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCHICAGO PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $95,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCHICAGO'S SUNSHINE ENTERPRISES INC: $95,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetLINK Unlimited Scholars: $90,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetWoodstock Institute: $80,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetChicago Commons Association: $80,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $75,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetQUAD COMMUNITIES DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION NFP: $70,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHoward Brown Health Center: $65,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY HOUSING LAKEFRONT: $61,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetYWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetProvidence St Mel School: $60,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetOAK PARK REGIONAL HOUSING CENTER INC: $60,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER: $60,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetChicago Children's Museum: $57,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CHICAGO COMMUNITY LOAN FUND: $57,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHELPING HAND CENTER: $55,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEIGHBOR PROJECT: $55,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetCHICAGO UNITED: $55,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER METRO CHICAGO: $55,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetTHE ACADEMY GROUP: $55,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetEnvision Unlimited: $55,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEnlace Chicago: $52,254 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN PLANNING COUNCIL: $50,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetSafer Foundation: $50,000 over 3y, 0.1% 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.

Polk Bros Foundation …United Way of Metropo…Robert R McCormick Fo…John D and Catherine …Circle of Service Fou…The Chicago Community…Arie and Ida Crown Me…The Coleman Foundatio…Lloyd a Fry FoundationDr Scholl FoundationForefrontGreater Green Bay Com…
Polk Bros Foundation IncIL118.9× affinity65 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Polk Bros Foundation Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Robert R McCormick Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · The Coleman Foundation Inc · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Dr Scholl Foundation · Forefront · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc

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 Fifth Third Chicagoland Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fifth Third Chicagoland Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
86report 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

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How do I get to Fifth Third Chicagoland Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Fifth Third Chicagoland 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 333 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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where grant money is based, and what stays home