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Macelree Family 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.

$415k
Granted FY2024still arriving
95
Grants FY2024still arriving
17
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Philanthropy$1.1MHealth$492kHuman Services$362kEducation$345kEnvironment$283kScience & Tech$280kRecreation & Sports$119kFood & Nutrition$107kOther$0
02FY2024 · 95 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k80 grants · $145k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $270k
$1,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$5.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILA FOUNDATION$30,000
ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILA$25,000
EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES - VENDOR$25,000
COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE INC$25,000
NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL OF MAINE$25,000
THE MORRIS ARBORETUM$25,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SE PA - VENDOR$20,000
WOMEN'S MEDICAL FUND$15,000
TRUSTEES OF THE UNIV OF PENNSYLVANIA$15,000
BIGELOW LABORATORY FOR OCEAN SCIENCES$15,000
THE FUND FOR WOMEN & GIRLS$10,000
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER OF CHESTER CTY$10,000
STROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER$10,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$10,000
CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK$10,000
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 (FY19–24, $154k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 41% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%HEALING WITH HORSES RANCH: $5k → 10%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%PROJECT HOME - VENDOR: $1k → 22%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%PROJECT HOME - VENDOR: $1k → 22%PROJECT HOME - VENDOR: $1k → 22%COVENANT HOUSE: $100 → 17%PROJECT HOME - VENDOR: $1k → 22%COVENANT HOUSE: $100 → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $100 → 17%PROJECT HOME - VENDOR: $1k → 22%COVENANT HOUSE: $100 → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $100 → 17%PROJECT HOME - VENDOR: $1k → 22%CHESTER COUNTY FUND FOR WOMEN & GIRLS-VEN: $10k → 6%THE FUND FOR WOMEN & GIRLS: $10k → 6%THE FUND FOR WOMEN & GIRLS: $10k → 6%THE FUND FOR WOMEN & GIRLS: $10k → 6%THE FUND FOR WOMEN & GIRLS: $10k → 6%CHESTER COUNTY FUND FOR WOMEN & GIRLS-VEN: $10k → 6%WOMENS WAY: $1k → 22%WOMENS WAY: $1k → 22%WOMENS WAY: $1k → 22%WOMENS WAY: $1k → 22%WOMENS WAY: $1k → 22%WOMENS WAY: $1k → 22%HOPEPHL: $1k → 22%WEST CHESTER AREA SENIOR CENTER: $5k → 6%WEST CHESTER AREA SENIOR CENTER: $5k → 6%WEST CHESTER AREA SENIOR CENTER: $5k → 6%WEST CHESTER AREA SENIOR CENTER: $5k → 6%WEST CHESTER AREA SENIOR CENTER: $5k → 6%WEST CHESTER AREA SENIOR CENTER: $5k → 6%WOMEN'S MEDICAL FUND: $15k → 22%ABORTION LIBERATION FUND PA: $15k → 22%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

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MN
WI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
RI
CA
NE
VA
MD
DE
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 96 repeat orgs$129k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

96 repeat relationships: 89 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

96
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Total granted

$2.1M
$83k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+31%

Still filing today

58%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentArts & CultureAnimalsOther
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

  • CV
    COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE
    5× · 2019–2024 · $160k · revenue +124%
  • BL
    Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
    6× · 2019–2024 · $100k · revenue +131%
  • SW
    STROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER
    6× · 2019–2024 · $61k · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • TA
    THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF DREXEL UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD
    one grant, 2019 · $20k
  • WM
    WOMEN'S MEDICAL FUND - VENDOR
    one grant, 2019 · $15k
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
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
2
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
3
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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4
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
5
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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6
Williams College

Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.

Education
7
Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment
8
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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9
Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…

Environment
10
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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11
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Seeing Eye Inc; the most unlike its peers is United States Equestrian Team Foundation Inc. 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

66 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. 66 of the 112 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
65/66
Grantees still filing
55/66
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES - VENDOR: $150,000 · OtherEPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES - VENDORCHOP FOUNDATION: $130,000 · OtherCHOP FOUNDATIONACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILA: $125,000 · OtherACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILAPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SE PA - VENDOR: $106,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SE PA - VENDORDOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER OF CHESTER CTY: $60,000 · OtherTHERAPEUTIC HORSEBACK RIDING INC: $55,000 · OtherCHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK - VENDOR: $50,000 · OtherMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $50,000 · Other+62 more: $618,156 · Other+62 moreFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $1,016,825 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE …TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $241,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF…BAGADUCE MUSIC LENDING LIBRARY: $33,250 · EducationBAGADUCE MU…THE CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL OF WESTON INC: $12,000 · EducationTHE BEAVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $12,000 · Education+10 more: $44,500 · Education+10 moreCOMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE: $160,000 · HealthWOMEN'S MEDICAL FUND INC: $45,000 · HealthTHE JACKSON LABORATORY: $30,000 · HealthPAOLI MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Health+4 more: $19,600 · HealthNatural Resources Council of Maine Inc: $145,000 · EnvironmentTHE PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $35,000 · EnvironmentNatural Lands Trust Inc: $30,000 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · Environment+3 more: $15,000 · EnvironmentBigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences: $100,000 · Science & TechSTROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER: $61,000 · Science & TechTHE FUND FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS: $60,000 · Human ServicesWEST CHESTER AREA SENIOR CENTER: $30,000 · Human ServicesABORTION LIBERATION FUND OF PA: $30,000 · Human ServicesHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesWOMENS WAY: $6,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT HOME: $6,000 · Human Services+4 more: $7,700 · Human Services
Other$1,344,156Community Improvement$1,016,825Education$342,750Health$269,600Environment$240,000Science & Tech$161,000Human Services$154,700

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 budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $1,016,825 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $241,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE: $160,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetNatural Resources Council of Maine Inc: $145,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetBigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences: $100,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSTROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER: $61,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE FUND FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS: $60,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetTHERAPEUTIC HORSEBACK RIDING INC: $55,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S MEDICAL FUND INC: $45,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetTHE PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $35,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBAGADUCE MUSIC LENDING LIBRARY: $33,250 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetWEST CHESTER AREA SENIOR CENTER: $30,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetABORTION LIBERATION FUND OF PA: $30,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA: $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES EQUESTRIAN TEAM FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNatural Lands Trust Inc: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JACKSON LABORATORY: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DEVON HORSE SHOW AND COUNTRY FAIR FOUNDATION: $21,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPAOLI MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCohasset Historical Society: $13,500 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetTHE CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL OF WESTON INC: $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BEAVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLifeFlight Foundation: $7,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWOMENS WAY: $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWEST PHILADELPHIA ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN: $6,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetPARK SCHOOL CORPORATION: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WINSOR SCHOOL: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JOHN BARTRAM ASSOCIATION: $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetChester County Historical Society: $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DRESSAGE FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTRI-STATE BIRD RESCUE AND RESEARCH INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INTERNATIONAL WALDENSTROM'S MACROGLOBULINEMIA FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWillistown Conservation Trust Inc: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEpiscopal Academy: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKSVILLE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY INC: $6,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetPROJECT HOME: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH SERVICE INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRADNOR HUNT FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE CHESTNUT HILL SCHOOL: $4,000 over 4y, 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 FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE ↗
  • Who funds Natural Resources Council of Maine Inc ↗
  • Who funds Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences ↗
  • Who funds STROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE FUND FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS ↗
  • Who funds THERAPEUTIC HORSEBACK RIDING INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S MEDICAL FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds BAGADUCE MUSIC LENDING LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds WEST CHESTER AREA SENIOR CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ABORTION LIBERATION FUND OF PA ↗
  • Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES EQUESTRIAN TEAM FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Natural Lands Trust Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE JACKSON LABORATORY ↗
  • Who funds THE DEVON HORSE SHOW AND COUNTRY FAIR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PAOLI MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Cohasset Historical Society ↗

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.

Chester County Commun…The Philadelphia Foun…Hamilton Family Found…The William Penn Foun…E Murdoch Family Foun…Quaker City FoundationUnited Way of Greater…Connelly FoundationThe Cigna Group Found…The Rjm FoundationSkilling Joseph Kenna…Ethel D Colket Founda…
Chester County Community FoundationPA25.6× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Chester County Community Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Hamilton Family Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · E Murdoch Family Foundation · Quaker City Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Connelly Foundation · The Cigna Group Foundation · The Rjm Foundation · Skilling Joseph Kennard Td · Ethel D Colket 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 Macelree Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Macelree Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Tri-State Bird Rescue and Research Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Macelree Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Macelree Family 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 112 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
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