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Howard P Colhoun Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Howard P Colhoun Family Foundation Inc

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.

$3.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
74
Grants FY2024still arriving
18
States reached
$553k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$9.3MEducation$2.6MCommunity Improvement$2.6MEnvironment$2.3MFood & Nutrition$1.7MHealth$1.3MYouth Development$902kInternational$671kOther$0
02FY2024 · 74 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k23 grants · $121k
  • $10k–50k34 grants · $628k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.6M
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.5M
$10,000
Median grant
18
States reached
$106M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VANGUARD CHARITABLE TRUST- WILLIWAW$553,000
VANGUARD CHARITABLE TRUST- JIGSAW FUND$500,000
NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL$420,000
NEW PROFIT INC$212,500
ACUMEN FUND NYC$200,000
MAINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$170,000
SHELBURNE FARMS (IN HONOR OF CHARLOTTE STETSON)$165,000
WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE$120,000
BRAVEN$100,000
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC$100,000
VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$90,000
MAINE FARMLAND TRUST$75,000
BRYN MAWR SCHOOL 2024 GRANT ENDOWMENT (COLHOUN FUND)$75,000
SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS BOULDER COUNTY$75,000
NEXT GEN PERSONAL FINANCE$71,000
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 (FY17–24, $596k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NEXT GEN PERSONAL FINANCE: $71k → 7%LEARNING ALLY: $50k → 11%KIEVE - WAVUS EDUCATION INC: $10k → 9%ROOM TO GROW: $10k → 17%LEARNING ALLY: $25k → 11%KIEVE - WAVUS EDUCATION INC: $10k → 9%ROOM TO GROW: $10k → 17%KIEVE - WAVUS EDUCATION INC: $10k → 9%KIEVE-WAVUS EDUCATION INC: $1k → 9%ROOM TO GROW: $50k → 16%ROOM TO GROW: $50k → 16%THE BRIGID ALLIANCE: $50k → 17%ROOTS AND WINGS INC: $35k → 11%ROOTS AND WINGS INC: $30k → 11%ROOTS AND WINGS INC: $30k → 11%ACORD INC: $5k → 10%ROOTS AND WINGS INC: $20k → 11%ACORD INC: $3k → 10%ROOTS AND WINGS INC: $15k → 11%ACORD INC: $3k → 10%ACORD INC: $2k → 10%THE PLUMMER HOME FOR BOYS: $20k → 10%THE PLUMMER HOME FOR BOYS: $20k → 10%THE PLUMMER HOME FOR BOYS: $20k → 10%THE PLUMMER HOME FOR BOYS: $10k → 10%THE PLUMMER HOME FOR BOYS: $10k → 10%THE PLUMMER HOME FOR BOYS: $10k → 10%THE PLUMMER HOME FOR BOYS: $7k → 10%WELLSPRING HOUSE: $3k → 10%WELLSPRING HOUSE: $3k → 10%WELLSPRING HOUSE: $3k → 10%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

ME
VT
NH
WA
IL
NY
MA
WY
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
TN
DC
TX
FL
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$20M · 115 repeat orgs$2.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

115 repeat relationships: 52 still active in FY2024, 63 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

115
54

Total granted

$20M
$2.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+25%

Still filing today

51%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $266k 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
EducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthInternationalOther
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

  • NO
    NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +8%
  • NP
    NEW PROFIT INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +96%
  • SV
    SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS BOULDER COUNTY INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $485k · revenue +11% · 25% of their budget

Funded once

  • VC
    VANGUARD CHARITABLE PUBLIC FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $500k
  • NK
    NO KID HUNGRY BY SHARE OUR STRENGHT
    one grant, 2020 · $185k
  • DIRECT RELIEF
    one grant, 2020 · $185k · revenue +20%
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
3
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
4
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
6
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
7
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
8
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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9
Fielding Graduate University

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.

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10
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
11
Grist Magazine Inc

Grist is an independent, non profit media organization dedicated to reporting on climate change.

Environment
12
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc; the most unlike its peers is Next Gen Personal Finance. 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

98 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. 98 of the 193 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)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
97/98
Grantees still filing
69/98
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VANGUARD CHARITABLE TRUST- WILLIWAW: $2,780,435 · OtherVANGUARD CHARITABLE TRUST- WILLIWAWVANGUARD CHARITABLE TRUST- JIGSAW FUND: $2,495,000 · OtherVANGUARD CHARITABLE TRUST- JIGSAW FUNDACUMEN FUND NYC: $1,420,000 · OtherACUMEN FUND NYCSHELBURNE FARMS (IN HONOR OF CHARLOTTE STETSON): $765,000 · Other+133 more: $7,922,561 · Other+133 moreNATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL: $2,007,500 · EnvironmentNATIONAL O…SHELBURNE FARMS: $130,000 · EnvironmentSHELBURNE …+9 more: $170,000 · Environment+9 moreMaine Community Foundation Inc: $690,000 · PhilanthropyMaine Comm…SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS BOULDER COUNTY INC: $485,000 · PhilanthropySOCIAL VEN…THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $420,000 · PhilanthropyTHE VERMON…DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $200,000 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVI…PUERTO RICO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropySOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL: $81,500 · Philanthropy+6 more: $156,000 · Philanthropy+6 moreNEW PROFIT INC: $1,561,000 · Community ImprovementGREENLIGHT FUND INC: $110,000 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $85,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $50,000 · Community ImprovementWHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH: $290,000 · HealthGREATER BALTIMORE MEDICAL CENTER INC: $285,000 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $185,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MARYLAND INC: $170,000 · HealthFAMILY PLANNING ASSOCIATION OF MAINE INC: $125,000 · Health+2 more: $60,000 · HealthNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: $146,000 · EducationFRIENDS SCHOOL INC: $140,000 · EducationTHE HILL SCHOOL: $75,000 · EducationThe Trustees of Princeton University: $62,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $60,000 · EducationTHE MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY: $35,000 · EducationUASPIRE INC: $30,000 · Education+8 more: $56,500 · EducationDIRECT RELIEF: $185,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $150,000 · InternationalPLAN INTERNATIONAL USA INC: $120,000 · InternationalWORLD LEARNING INC: $55,000 · InternationalHIAS INC: $50,000 · InternationalRefuSHE Inc: $50,000 · International
Other$15,382,996Environment$2,307,500Philanthropy$2,132,500Community Improvement$1,806,000Health$1,115,000Education$654,500International$610,000

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 budgetNATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL: $2,007,500 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetNEW PROFIT INC: $1,561,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetMaine Community Foundation Inc: $690,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetSOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS BOULDER COUNTY INC: $485,000 over 8y, 25% of budgetCAMP PASQUANEY: $459,000 over 8y, 8.6% of budgetTHE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $420,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetWHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH: $290,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER BALTIMORE MEDICAL CENTER INC: $285,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $271,561 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD TRUST FINANCIAL PARTNERS INC: $220,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetMaine Farmland Trust: $210,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetBRAVEN INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank: $195,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $185,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $185,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MARYLAND INC: $170,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER: $146,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: $146,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS SCHOOL INC: $140,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetRoots and Wings Inc: $130,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetSHELBURNE FARMS: $130,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetFAMILY PLANNING ASSOCIATION OF MAINE INC: $125,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC: $120,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetPLAN INTERNATIONAL USA INC: $120,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGREENLIGHT FUND INC: $110,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPUERTO RICO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE INC: $97,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetInvest In Girls Inc: $85,000 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $85,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL: $81,500 over 8y, 7.0% of budgetLearning Ally Inc: $75,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HILL SCHOOL: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEXT GEN PERSONAL FINANCE: $71,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $62,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $60,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSHORE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $60,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc: $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $59,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD LEARNING INC: $55,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHIAS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRefuSHE Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetBEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I: $50,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetGLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND: $44,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetDELRAY BEACH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $41,000 over 8y, 3.8% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

  • Who funds NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds NEW PROFIT INC ↗
  • Who funds Maine Community Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS BOULDER COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds CAMP PASQUANEY ↗
  • Who funds THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds GREATER BALTIMORE MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD TRUST FINANCIAL PARTNERS INC ↗
  • Who funds Maine Farmland Trust ↗
  • Who funds BRAVEN INC ↗
  • Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
  • Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MARYLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds Roots and Wings Inc ↗
  • Who funds SHELBURNE FARMS ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY PLANNING ASSOCIATION OF MAINE INC ↗
  • Who funds ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Maine Community Found…Boston Foundation IncElmina B Sewall Found…Quimby Family Foundat…John T Gorman Foundat…Onion FoundationEssex County Communit…The Charles T Bauer C…Buckingham School Fre…The Apple Lane Founda…Institution for Savin…T Rowe Price Program …
Maine Community Foundation IncME28.2× affinity14 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Quimby Family Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Onion Foundation · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · The Charles T Bauer Charitable Foundation · Buckingham School Frederick County Md · The Apple Lane Foundation Inc 14101830 · Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving 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 Howard P Colhoun Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Howard P Colhoun Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 150%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Land Preservation Trust Inc: 64% of income from government
  • Plummer Youth Promise Inc: 64% of income from government
  • World Learning Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • Acord Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Maryland Historical Society Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Wellspring House Inc: 9% of income from government
  • The Morgan State University Foundation Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research: 7% of income from government
  • Community Greening Corp: 5% of income from government
  • Learning Ally Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Shelburne Farms: 3% of income from government
  • Essex County Community Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Appalachian Mountain Club: 1% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
  • National Aquarium Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Uaspire Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of Maryland Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Gilchrist Hospice Care Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Greater Baltimore Medical Center Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • The Vermont Community Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
15get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely 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 193 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 regranting layer
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The endowment market
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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