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Fulton Forward Foundation at a glance

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Fulton Forward 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
6
States reached
$250k
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, FY2021 to 2024.

Community Improvement$2.0MHousing & Shelter$785kEducation$450kYouth Development$404kHuman Services$400kEmployment$305kPhilanthropy$75kCivil Rights$71kOther$0
02FY2024 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k42 grants · $1.0M
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $405k
  • $250k+2 grants · $500k
$25,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$7.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Baltimore Community Lending$250,000
The Enterprise Center$250,000
Lancaster City Alliance$120,000
Baltimore Community Foundation Key Bridge$75,000
Alvernia University OPake Insitutes Student Powered Business Incubator$60,000
PA CDFI Network$50,000
TEC CENTRO$50,000
LancasterHistory$50,000
Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship$31,250
Metropolitan Business League$30,000
Graduate Philadelphia$30,000
Cathedral Kitchen$30,000
HCC Foundation for Workforce Development Scholorships$30,000
Fauquier Habitat for Humanity$30,000
The Maggie Walker Community Land Trust$30,000
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 (FY23–24, $450k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 11% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Greater Philadelphia YMCA: $300k → 7%New Hill Development Corporation: $50k → 8%Bucks County Opportunity Council: $25k → 6%Cathedral Kitchen: $30k → 12%YESUSA Transformational Cities: $20k → 19%Good Neighbors Home Repair: $25k → 6%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

NY
MA
PA
NJ
VA
MD
DE
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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 9% of Fulton Forward Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 54% of the giving stays in PA; by stated purpose, 48%.

Fulton Forward Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 4.6% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

31%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 9 repeat orgs$3.2M to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 43 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
45

Total granted

$1.5M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+21%

Still filing today

67%
84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Housing & ShelterEducationCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther
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

  • LC
    LANCASTER CITY ALLIANCE
    4× · 2021–2024 · $466k · revenue +23%
  • AC
    African-American Chamber of Commerce of New Jersey
    3× · 2022–2024 · $60k · revenue +13%
  • YL
    YWCA LANCASTER
    2× · 2021–2022 · $40k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • GP
    Greater Philadelphia Young Men's Christian Association
    one grant, 2023 · $300k · revenue +10%
  • COMMUNITY LOAN FUND OF NEW JERSEY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue -24%
  • SC
    SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND HOUSING CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +188%
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
Philadelphia Works Inc

Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.

Employment
2
Habitat for Humanity of Chester County

Provide low income housing to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness. construct simple, decent, affordable housing for low income families. make building materials available to homeowners at a low price.

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3
Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation

The neighborhood reinvestment corporation (d.b.a neighborworks america) is a congressionally chartered public non-profit corporation that creates opportunities for people to live in affordable homes, improve their lives, and strengthen…

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4
Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation

Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.

Community Improvement
5
Baltimore Corps Inc

To cultivate career advancement opportunities for local talent, facilitate talent acquisition for local employers, increase access to capital for local entrepreneurs' social ventures, and foster cross-sector collaboration to address city…

Employment
6
Housing Alliance of Pennsylvania

The housing alliance of pennsyvlania ("hap") has played a leading role in many significant housing policy advances. hap is an influential community of housing consumers, advocates, producers, providers, policy makers and government…

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7
Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise

Mission: to create economically diverse neighborhoods filled with financially empowered citizens and housing for all.vision: all chattanoogans can afford a safe place in a strong neighborhood to call home. belief: we believe the future of…

Housing & Shelter
8
Pittsburgh Housing Development Corp

To initiate, plan, finance, develop and manage housing development in the City of Pittsburgh, and upon request, in other municipalities with particular, but not exclusive, emphasis on such development in low to moderate income census…

Housing & Shelter
9
Greater Philadelphia Community Alliance

Gpca's mission is to break the cycle of generational proverty by ensuring equitable distribution of the resources for vulnerable children, families, and communities. our vision is to be philadelphia's catalyst for community empowerment and…

Human Services
10
Housing Association and Development Corporation

To eliminate blighted housing conditions in the city of allentown's neighborhoods and to increase availability of housing opportunities for lower income residents by purchasing vacant, deteriorated residential properties and totally…

Housing & Shelter
11
Baltimore Neighborhoods Inc

To advocate fair housing and improving tenant/landlord relations.

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12
Urban League of Greater Philadelphia

The mission of the urban league is to empower disadvantaged, underresourced and marginalized communities to secure economic self-reliance, parity, power and civil rights.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Graduate Philadelphia; the most unlike its peers is Yesusa Transformational Cities. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

78 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 78 of the 97 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
77/78
Grantees still filing
40/78
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LANCASTER CITY ALLIANCE: $466,000 · Community ImprovementLANCASTER CITY ALLIANCETHE ENTERPRISE CENTER: $350,000 · Community ImprovementTHE ENTERPRISE CENTERBALTIMORE COMMUNITY LENDING INC: $250,000 · Community ImprovementBALTIMORE COMMUNITY LENDING INCPENNSYLVANIA CDFI NETWORK: $150,000 · Community ImprovementPENNSYLVANIA CDFI NETWORKCOMMUNITY LOAN FUND OF NEW JERSEY INC: $150,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY LOAN FUND OF NEW JERSEY INCAfrican-American Chamber of Commerce of New Jersey: $60,000 · Community Improvement+6 more: $175,000 · Community Improvement+6 morePA Chamber Foundation: $125,001 · OtherPA Chamber FoundationAlvernia University - OPake Insitutes Student Powered Business Incubator: $120,000 · OtherAlvernia University - OPake Insit…WEST END NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $75,000 · OtherWEST END NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INCJunior Achievement of Greater Washington: $75,000 · OtherJunior Achievement of Greater Was…Baltimore Community Foundation Key Bridge: $75,000 · OtherBaltimore Community Foundation Ke…HCC Foundation for Workforce Development Scholorships: $60,000 · OtherNATIONAL COALITION OF 100 BLACK WOMEN INC: $51,000 · Other+34 more: $805,000 · Other+34 moreSOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND HOUSING CORPORATION: $100,000 · Housing & ShelterSOUTHSIDE C…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY PHILADELPHIA INC: $50,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR…YORK HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $50,000 · Housing & ShelterYORK HABITA…SAINT JOSEPHS CARPENTER SOCIETY: $40,000 · Housing & ShelterSAINT JOSEP…FAUQUIER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterFAUQUIER HA…NEWFOUND RISEUP FUND: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterNEWFOUND RI…THE MAGGIE WALKER COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE MAGGIE …HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION MIDATLANTIC: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterINTERFAITH COMMUNITY HOUSING OF DELAWARE: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterGOOD WORKS INC: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterShelter House Inc: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING VIRGINIA CAMPAIGN INC: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterHabitat For Humanity of Bucks County Inc: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterHabitat for Humanity of Salem County Inc: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterGreater Philadelphia Young Men's Christian Association: $300,000 · Human ServicesGreater Ph…NEW HILL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $50,000 · Human ServicesNEW HILL D…THE CATHEDRAL SOUP KITCHEN INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesTHE CATHED…BUCKS COUNTY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesBUCKS COUN…GOOD NEIGHBORS INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesGOOD NEIGH…YESUSA TRANSFORMATIONAL CITIES: $20,000 · Human ServicesTEC CENTRO LTD: $50,000 · EducationTEC CENTR…Financial Wellness Institute Inc: $50,000 · EducationFinancial…HAGERSTOWN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · EducationHAGERSTOW…GRADUATE PHILADELPHIA: $30,000 · EducationGRADUATE …SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS EDUCATION INITIATIVE INC: $25,000 · EducationSUSTAINAB…DELAWARE FUTURES INC: $25,000 · EducationDELAWARE …UNITED VIRGINIA ENTERPRISE FOUNDATION United Virginia Education Fund Inc: $25,000 · EducationUNITED VI…FINANCIAL SCHOLARS INC: $25,000 · EducationFINANCIAL…MARYLAND BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE FOR EDUCATION INC: $25,000 · EducationMARYLAND …HOPEWORKS 'N CAMDEN INC: $25,000 · EducationHOPEWORKS…PHILADELPHIA ACADEMIES INC: $25,000 · EducationPHILADELP…COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationTHE MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · EducationCHESTER COUNTY FUTURES INC: $20,000 · EducationNETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP: $93,750 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BE ORG INC: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentDELAWARE COLLEGE SCHOLARS INC: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOATESVILLE YOUTH INITIATIVE: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentLUCY OUTREACH A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentFEDERATION OF NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentLANCASTERHISTORYORG: $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DA VINCI DISCOVERY CENTER OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureLANCASTER SCIENCE CENTER: $20,000 · Arts & CultureCAMDEN SHIPYARD MARITIME MUSEUM: $20,000 · Arts & Culture
Community Improvement$1,601,000Other$1,386,001Housing & Shelter$485,000Human Services$450,000Education$395,000Youth Development$238,750Arts & Culture$110,000

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 budgetLANCASTER CITY ALLIANCE: $466,000 over 4y, 9.3% of budgetTHE ENTERPRISE CENTER: $350,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetGreater Philadelphia Young Men's Christian Association: $300,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBALTIMORE COMMUNITY LENDING INC: $250,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA CDFI NETWORK: $150,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY LOAN FUND OF NEW JERSEY INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND HOUSING CORPORATION: $100,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetNETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP: $93,750 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWEST END NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $75,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAfrican-American Chamber of Commerce of New Jersey: $60,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetNATIONAL COALITION OF 100 BLACK WOMEN INC: $51,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetLANCASTERHISTORYORG: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY PHILADELPHIA INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetINNOVATION WORKS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetYORK HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $50,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetNEW HILL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $50,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetFinancial Wellness Institute Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetTHE BE ORG INC: $50,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetYWCA LANCASTER: $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSAINT JOSEPHS CARPENTER SOCIETY: $40,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE CATHEDRAL SOUP KITCHEN INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE METROPOLITAN BUSINESS LEAGUE: $30,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetFAUQUIER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $30,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNEWFOUND RISEUP FUND: $30,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetHAGERSTOWN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF NEW CASTLE COUNTY: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGRADUATE PHILADELPHIA: $30,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTHE MAGGIE WALKER COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF YORK COUNTY INC: $30,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY SUSQUEHANNA INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION MIDATLANTIC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSUSTAINABLE BUSINESS EDUCATION INITIATIVE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetDELAWARE COLLEGE SCHOLARS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetDELAWARE FUTURES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetUNITED VIRGINIA ENTERPRISE FOUNDATION United Virginia Education Fund Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 99% of budgetCOATESVILLE YOUTH INITIATIVE: $25,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetBUCKS COUNTY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLUCY OUTREACH A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetHousing Partnership of Chester County Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetLA PLAZA DELAWARE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetFINANCIAL SCHOLARS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetMARYLAND BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE FOR EDUCATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetGOOD NEIGHBORS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPHILADELPHIA VIP INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPER SCHOLAS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERFAITH COMMUNITY HOUSING OF DELAWARE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPIDC COMMUNITY CAPITAL: $25,000 over 1y, 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.

Td Charitable Foundat…Wsfs Cares FoundationThe Philadelphia Foun…Wells Fargo FoundationTruist Foundation IncConnelly FoundationOceanfirst FoundationW W Smith Charitable …United Way of Greater…The Gordon Charter Fo…Henry Dolfinger 2 Tru…Columbia Bank Foundat…
Td Charitable FoundationME49.8× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Td Charitable Foundation · Wsfs Cares Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Wells Fargo Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · Connelly Foundation · Oceanfirst Foundation · W W Smith Charitable Trust · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Gordon Charter Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Columbia Bank Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Fulton Forward Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fulton Forward Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • Bestwork Industries for the Blind Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Delaware Futures Inc: 78% of income from government
  • Community Education Building Corp: 64% of income from government
  • Homefree Usa Inc: 54% of income from government
  • West End Neighborhood House Inc: 36% of income from government
  • Baltimore Community Lending Inc: 28% of income from government
  • Habitat for Humanity of New Castle County: 21% of income from government
  • Financial Wellness Institute Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Delaware College Scholars Inc: 18% of income from government
  • The Morgan State University Foundation Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Community Loan Fund of New Jersey Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Compass Working Capital Inc: 1% of income from government
  • La Plaza Delaware Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
37report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
4rely 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 97 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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