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John and Judy Spoelhof Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

John and Judy Spoelhof Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
60
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$550k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$5.2MHuman Services$3.9MReligion$3.9MHealth$1.6MYouth Development$1.1MAnimals$857kHousing & Shelter$609kPhilanthropy$484kOther$0
02FY2025 · 60 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $59k
  • $10k–50k35 grants · $722k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $685k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.1M
$20,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$40M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RESTHAVEN CARE CENTER$550,000
CALVIN UNIVERSITY$250,000
GENEVA CAMP AND RETREAT CENTER$250,000
BENJAMIN'S HOPE$165,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE HOLLANDZEELAND$130,000
ENGEDI CHURCH$100,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB$80,000
RENEW THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER$60,000
COMMUNITY ACTION HOUSE$50,000
HOLLAND DEACONS CONFERENCE$50,000
LUKE SOCIETY$50,000
GATEWAY MISSION$45,000
WINNING AT HOME$40,000
MACKINAC CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY$30,000
FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL$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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $2.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $30k → 14%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $30k → 14%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $30k → 14%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $25k → 14%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $20k → 14%BENJAMIN'S HOPE: $170k → 8%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $20k → 14%BENJAMIN'S HOPE: $165k → 8%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $18k → 14%BENJAMIN'S HOPE: $165k → 8%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $16k → 14%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $15k → 14%BENJAMIN'S HOPE: $22k → 8%BENJAMIN'S HOPE: $20k → 8%RENEW THERAPEUTIC RIDING: $250k → 10%BENJAMIN'S HOPE: $20k → 8%RENEW THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $110k → 10%RENEW THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $100k → 10%JUBILEE MINISTRIES: $90k → 10%RENEW THERAPEUTIC RIDING: $78k → 10%RENEW THERAPEUTIC RIDING: $70k → 10%RENEW THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $60k → 10%COMPASSIONATE HEART MINISTRIES: $33k → 8%CRITTER BARN: $30k → 8%RENEW THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $50k → 10%CRITTER BARN: $29k → 8%COMPASSIONATE HEART MINISTRIES: $28k → 8%COMPASSIONATE HEART MINISTRIES: $27k → 8%CRITTER BARN: $25k → 8%CRITTER BARN: $25k → 8%COMPASSIONATE HEART MINISTRIES: $20k → 8%CRITTER BARN: $20k → 8%EVERGREEN COMMONS: $35k → 10%CRITTER BARN: $20k → 8%COMPASSIONATE HEART MINISTRIES: $16k → 8%EVERGREEN COMMONS: $30k → 10%WINGS OF MERCY: $15k → 8%WINGS OF MERCY: $15k → 8%WINGS OF MERCY: $15k → 8%COMPASSIONATE HEART MINISTRIES: $15k → 8%JUBILEE MINISTRIES: $25k → 10%ENCOMPASS KIDS: $25k → 10%JUBILEE MINISTRIES: $25k → 10%JUBILEE MINISTRIES: $25k → 10%EVERGREEN COMMONS: $20k → 10%ENCOMPASS KIDS: $20k → 10%ENCOMPASS KIDS: $18k → 10%GOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES: $16k → 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

IL
MI
SD
CO
AZ
KS
TN
NC
DC
OK
GA
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$19M · 93 repeat orgs$232k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

93 repeat relationships: 56 still active in FY2025, 37 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

93
28

Total granted

$19M
$230k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+2%

Still filing today

62%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthReligionInternationalCommunity 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

  • HC
    HOLLAND CHRISTIAN EDUCATION SOCIETY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $3.3M · revenue +85%
  • CU
    CALVIN UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +6%
  • GC
    GENEVA CAMP & RETREAT CENTER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +135%

Funded once

  • TT
    THAT THE WORLD MAY KNOW
    one grant, 2017 · $35k
  • HD
    HELEN DEVOS CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • CF
    COUNCIL FOR COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
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
Hospice of Holland Inc

The mission of hospice of holland is to provide the most compassionate and highest quality end-of-life care through physical, emotional, and spiritual support.

Human Services
2
Advent House Ministries Inc

To provide a ministry in the form of services to the poor and disadvantaged people of the lansing area.

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3
Christian Healthcare Ministries Inc

To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.

Religion
4
Evangel University

Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.

Education
5
Lutheran Homes of Michigan Foundation

Motivated by christ's love, we engage people as they experience and embrace their god-given potential.

Housing & Shelter
6
Beacon of Hope

Beacon of hope's mission is to be god's hand offering christ-centered, inclusive, accessible and professional mental health counseling.

Religion
7
Global Outreach Ministries

Global outreach ministries exists to bring transformation to the nations of latin america by training influential leaders, planting relevant churches, and mobilizing christ-followers to transform their communities.

Religion
8
Engage Hope Ministries

To glorify god by sharing the gospel and making disciples of jesus christ through partnerships with christian ministries in the countries we serve and through short-term mission trips that demonstrate the love of christ through…

International
9
247 Media Ministries

The mission of worship 24/7 is to ignite a passion for god through worship that results in a life of generosity, discipleship, evangelism, generosity and service.

Religion
10
Covenant Hospital Hobbs

As expressions of god's healing love, witnessed through the ministry of jesus, we are steadfast in serving all, especially those who are poor and vulnerable.

Health
11
Movement West Michigan

Uniting christian faith leaders to serve with humility and love for the flourishing of all in our community.

Religion
12
Michigan Christian Home

The michigan christian home dba beacon hill at eastgate, a not-for-profit corporation, provides housing and health services in a christian environment for older adults, thus enabling them to meet their ongoing physical, social and…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is 70 X 7 Life Recovery; the most unlike its peers is Museum of the Bible. 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

73 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. 73 of the 124 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)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
72/73
Grantees still filing
59/73
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOLLAND CHRISTIAN EDUCATION SOCIETY: $3,316,794 · OtherHOLLAND CHRISTIAN EDUCATION SOCIETYRESTHAVEN CARE CENTER: $1,275,000 · OtherRESTHAVEN CARE CENTERBOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $971,500 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBTHE LUKE SOCIETY INC: $533,500 · OtherHOLLAND DEACONS CONFERENCE: $470,000 · OtherENGEDI CHURCH: $417,000 · OtherWESTERN SEMINARY: $392,000 · Other+74 more: $3,915,950 · Other+74 moreRENEW THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $719,500 · Human ServicesRENEW THERAPEU…BENJAMIN'S HOPE: $584,500 · Human ServicesBENJAMIN'S HOP…FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $203,500 · Human ServicesFAMILY RESEARC…JUBILEE MINISTRIES INC: $195,000 · Human ServicesJUBILEE MINIST…CRITTER BARN: $179,000 · Human ServicesCRITTER BARNCOMPASSIONATE HEART MINISTRIES: $168,000 · Human ServicesCOMPASSIONATE …EVERGREEN COMMONS: $138,500 · Human ServicesEVERGREEN COMM…WINGS OF MERCY INC: $92,960 · Human ServicesENCOMPASSKIDS: $90,500 · Human ServicesGOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES: $86,000 · Human Services+3 more: $70,600 · Human ServicesCALVIN UNIVERSITY: $1,350,771 · EducationCALVIN UNI…CALVARY SCHOOLS OF HOLLAND: $105,000 · EducationCALVARY SC…Society for Christian Instruction Zeeland: $95,000 · EducationThe Moody Bible Institute of Chicago: $69,500 · Education+7 more: $199,500 · Education+7 moreGENEVA CAMP & RETREAT CENTER: $1,210,000 · ReligionGENEVA CA…CITY ON A HILL MINISTRIES: $149,000 · ReligionCITY ON A…Living on the Edge Ministries Inc: $140,000 · ReligionLiving on…MISSION PARTNERS INDIA INC: $80,000 · Religion+2 more: $11,500 · ReligionCOREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION WEST MICHIGAN: $575,000 · HealthHOLLAND FREE HEALTH CLINIC: $86,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $47,500 · HealthFaith Hospice: $42,500 · HealthMENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION OF WEST MICHIGAN: $30,000 · Health+4 more: $50,000 · HealthODC NETWORK: $737,000 · AnimalsTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE HOLLAND/ZEELAND AREA INC: $469,000 · PhilanthropyVAN ANDEL INSTITUTE: $155,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $11,500 · Philanthropy
Other$11,291,744Human Services$2,528,060Education$1,819,771Religion$1,590,500Health$831,000Animals$737,000Philanthropy$635,500

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 budgetHOLLAND CHRISTIAN EDUCATION SOCIETY: $3,316,794 over 9y, 6.5% of budgetCALVIN UNIVERSITY: $1,350,771 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetGENEVA CAMP & RETREAT CENTER: $1,210,000 over 9y, 4.5% of budgetODC NETWORK: $737,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetRENEW THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $719,500 over 8y, 23% of budgetBENJAMIN'S HOPE: $584,500 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetTHE LUKE SOCIETY INC: $533,500 over 9y, 3.2% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE HOLLAND/ZEELAND AREA INC: $469,000 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION HOUSE: $305,500 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $203,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetJUBILEE MINISTRIES INC: $195,000 over 9y, 12% of budgetCRITTER BARN: $179,000 over 9y, 4.8% of budgetHOMECOR: $172,500 over 9y, 47% of budgetPARTNERS WORLDWIDE: $170,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetCOMPASSIONATE HEART MINISTRIES: $168,000 over 9y, 4.4% of budgetAUDIO SCRIPTURE MINISTRIES: $160,000 over 9y, 2.2% of budgetVAN ANDEL INSTITUTE: $155,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCITY ON A HILL MINISTRIES: $149,000 over 9y, 2.8% of budgetLiving on the Edge Ministries Inc: $140,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetEVERGREEN COMMONS: $138,500 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetMACKINAC CENTER: $132,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetPET MI - HOLLAND DBA MOBILITY WORLDWIDE WEST MICHIGAN: $108,000 over 9y, 7.2% of budgetSociety for Christian Instruction Zeeland: $95,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetLAKESHORE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $95,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetWINGS OF MERCY INC: $92,960 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetENCOMPASSKIDS: $90,500 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetHOLLAND FREE HEALTH CLINIC: $86,000 over 9y, 3.9% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES: $86,000 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetHOLLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $86,000 over 9y, 2.8% of budgetMISSION PARTNERS INDIA INC: $80,000 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetThe Moody Bible Institute of Chicago: $69,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCAFE OF LIFE INC: $56,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetREADY FOR SCHOOL: $52,500 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $52,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKids Hope USA: $51,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $47,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFaith Hospice: $42,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP SUNSHINE: $35,500 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetDAVENPORT UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetALL BELONG: $32,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetNEW HORIZONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION OF WEST MICHIGAN: $30,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetCLINICA SAN LUCAS GRACIAS: $25,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetLAKESHORE NONPROFIT ALLIANCE: $24,500 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetMEDICAL MISSIONS OUTREACH INC: $24,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHUNGRY FOR CHRIST: $23,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budget70 X 7 LIFE RECOVERY: $22,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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 HOLLAND CHRISTIAN EDUCATION SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds CALVIN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds GENEVA CAMP & RETREAT CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ODC NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds RENEW THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BENJAMIN'S HOPE ↗
  • Who funds COREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION WEST MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds THE LUKE SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE HOLLAND/ZEELAND AREA INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds JUBILEE MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds CRITTER BARN ↗
  • Who funds HOMECOR ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS WORLDWIDE ↗
  • Who funds COMPASSIONATE HEART MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds AUDIO SCRIPTURE MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds VAN ANDEL INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds CITY ON A HILL MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds Living on the Edge Ministries Inc ↗
  • Who funds EVERGREEN COMMONS ↗
  • Who funds MACKINAC CENTER ↗
  • Who funds PET MI - HOLLAND DBA MOBILITY WORLDWIDE WEST MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds CALVARY SCHOOLS OF HOLLAND ↗
  • Who funds Society for Christian Instruction Zeeland ↗
  • Who funds LAKESHORE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
  • Who funds WINGS OF MERCY INC ↗
  • Who funds ENCOMPASSKIDS ↗

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.

The Community Foundat…Edgar and Elsa Prince…Grand Haven Area Comm…Stephen and Valerie S…Douglas & Sandra Deko…Jim and Ginger Jurrie…Craig and Wendy Spoel…Howard Miller Foundat…De Witt Families Cond…Larry and Karen Mulde…Dick and Betsy Devos …Barnabas Foundation
The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area IncMI95.9× affinity45 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · Edgar and Elsa Prince Foundation · Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · Stephen and Valerie Spoelhof Foundation · Douglas & Sandra Dekock Family Foun · Jim and Ginger Jurries Foundation · Craig and Wendy Spoelhof Foundation · Howard Miller Foundation · De Witt Families Conduit Foundation · Larry and Karen Mulder Foundation · Dick and Betsy Devos Family Foundation · Barnabas 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 John and Judy Spoelhof Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John and Judy Spoelhof Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • The United Way of Lee County Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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 John and Judy Spoelhof Foundation?

Find your warmest path to John and Judy Spoelhof 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 124 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 2025, released 2025. 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
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