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Macgillivray Family Foundation at a glance

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Macgillivray Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$191k
Granted FY2025still arriving
43
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$50k
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.

Arts & Culture$467kEnvironment$212kEducation$134kPhilanthropy$88kAnimals$78kYouth Development$76kHousing & Shelter$66kHealth$49kOther$0
02FY2025 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k39 grants · $110k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $31k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$2,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$58k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SHERMAN LIBRARY & GARDENS$50,000
FRIENDSHIP SHELTER$10,500
LAGUNA PLAYHOUSE$10,000
LAGUNA ART MUSEUM$10,000
THE ECOLOGY CENTER$9,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LAGUNA BEACH$7,500
PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER$6,000
COAST FILM FOUNDATION$5,500
CRYSTAL COVE CONSERVANCY$5,500
BELLOSGUARDO FOUNDATION$5,000
WHALE TRUST$5,000
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL$5,000
NEWPORT BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION$5,000
SURFING HERITAGE AND CULTURE CENTER$5,000
OCEANA$5,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Whale Trust: $10k → 9%WHALE TRUST: $7k → 9%OCEANA: $13k → 14%Oceana Inc: $11k → 14%Oceana Inc: $11k → 14%OCEANA: $9k → 14%SHERMAN LIBRARY & GARDENS: $50k → 10%NBPL FOUNDATIONBEYOND: $25k → 10%Newport Beach Public Library Foundation: $7k → 10%NEWPORT BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUND: $6k → 10%Newport Beach Public Library Foundation: $6k → 10%Oceana Inc: $10k → 10%OCEANA: $8k → 10%OCEANA: $6k → 10%Planed Parenthood: $8k → 10%Planned Parenthood: $9k → 10%THE ECOLOGY CENTER: $9k → 10%Laguna Playhouse: $61k → 10%LAGUNA PLAYHOUSE: $45k → 10%Laguna Playhouse: $30k → 10%Laguna Art Museum: $28k → 10%LAGUNA PLAYHOUSE: $20k → 10%LAGUNA PLAYHOUSE: $20k → 10%LAGUNA PLAYHOUSE: $20k → 10%Laguna Art Museum: $19k → 10%LAGUNA PLAYHOUSE: $15k → 10%LAGUNA ART MUSEUM: $15k → 10%LAGUNA ART MUSEUM: $13k → 10%Laguna Art Museum: $13k → 10%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LAGUNA BEACH: $12k → 10%Boys & Girls Club of Laguna Beach: $12k → 10%SCHOOLPOWER LB EDUC FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%LAGUNA BEACH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%LAGUNA ART MUSEUM: $10k → 10%LAGUNA ART MUSEUM: $10k → 10%LAGUNA PLAYHOUSE: $10k → 10%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LAGUNA BEACH: $10k → 10%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LAGUNA BEACH: $10k → 10%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LAGUNA BEACH: $8k → 10%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LAGUNA BEACH: $7k → 10%PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL INSTITUTE: $7k → 10%Pacific Marine Mammal Center: $7k → 10%PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER: $6k → 10%Pacific Marine Mammal Center: $6k → 10%Boys & Girls Club of Laguna Beach: $6k → 10%Discovery Cube: $10k → 10%Discovery Cube: $10k → 10%Discovery Cube: $10k → 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

NY
CA
NE
VA
MD
DC
HI
MS
AL
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 57 repeat orgs$128k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +55% for those funded once.

57 repeat relationships: 41 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
23

Total granted

$1.1M
$73k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+55%

Still filing today

68%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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
EnvironmentArts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentAnimalsCrime & LegalOther
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

  • LA
    LAGUNA ART MUSEUM
    9× · 2017–2025 · $112k · revenue +46%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LAGUNA BEACH
    9× · 2017–2025 · $75k · revenue +55%
  • FS
    FRIENDSHIP SHELTER INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $66k · revenue +215%

Funded once

  • NF
    NBPL FOUNDATIONBEYOND
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
  • SL
    SCHOOLPOWER LB EDUC FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • PP
    Planned Parenthood
    one grant, 2019 · $9k
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
The Ocean Foundation

As the only community foundation for the ocean, The Ocean Foundation's 501(c)(3) mission is to improve global ocean health, climate resilience, and the blue economy. We create partnerships to connect people in the communities in which we…

Environment
2
Santa Lucia Conservancy

To protect and steward in perpetuity the unique natural, cultural, and asthetic resources of the preserve and serve as a model of ecologically sustainable development to committees outside the preserve.

Environment
3
California Ocean Science Trust

California ocean science trust (ost) is a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating progress towards a healthy and productive ocean future for california. created by state legislation, ost bridges the gap between cutting-edge…

Environment
4
The Coral Reef and Marine Science Foundation Inc C/O James Bildner
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5
Ocean Alliance Project

Protecting and promoting the marine biodiversity of Hawai'i through coral restoration, ecological monitoring, regenerative tourism, and cultural integration

Science & Tech
6
Festival of Arts of Laguna Beach

To promote, produce, and sponsor events and activities that encourage the appreciation, study and performance of the arts.

Arts & Culture
7
Save Oceanside Sand

Save Oceanside Sand is a group of local activists dedicated to restoring and preserving the beaches of Oceanside, California. Working with local, regional, state, and federal authorities, our mission is to protect this vital resource by…

Education
8
Los Angeles Conservancy

The los angeles conservancy is a nonprofit membership organization that works through education and advocacy to recognize, preserve, and revitalize the historic architectural and cultural resources of los angeles county.

Arts & Culture
9
Nature Collective

Nature collective's mission is to drive a passion for nature for all. we think inclusively and diversely when serving those devoid of nature those who remember nature and want to connect back to it and those who have an affinity with…

Environment
10
Environmental Defense Center

The organization protects and enhances the local environment through education, advocacy and legal action.

Crime & Legal
11
California Coastkeeper dba California Coastkeeper Alliance

California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.

Environment
12
California Surf Museum

The California Surf Museum serves as an international repository and resource center on the lifestyle sport of surfing through capturing,preserving and chronicling its art, culture and heritage for the education and enjoyment of current…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Laguna Playhouse; the most unlike its peers is Global Glow. 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

52 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. 52 of the 85 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)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/52
Grantees still filing
42/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE LAGUNA PLAYHOUSE: $225,500 · Arts & CultureTHE LAGUNA PLAYHOUSELAGUNA ART MUSEUM: $111,801 · Arts & CultureLAGUNA ART MUSEUMDISCOVERY SCIENCE CENTER OF ORANGE COUNTY: $30,000 · Arts & CultureDISCOVERY SCIENCE CENTER OF ORANGE CO…Coast Film Foundation: $16,500 · Arts & CultureLAGUNA DANCE FESTIVAL: $15,500 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $36,600 · Arts & Culture+7 moreSHERMAN LIBRARY & GARDENS: $50,000 · OtherSHERMAN LIBRARY & GARDENSDISCOVERY CUBE ORANGE COUNTY: $26,500 · OtherDISCOVERY CUBE ORANGE COUNTYNBPL FOUNDATIONBEYOND: $25,000 · OtherNBPL FOUNDATIONBEYONDPACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL INSTITUTE: $19,000 · OtherLAGUNA BEACH SENIORS INC: $16,100 · OtherArms of Love: $14,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE SEA LIONS INC DBA PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER: $29,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE SEA LIONS INC DBA P…WHALE TRUST: $30,000 · OtherWHALE TRUSTCRYSTAL COVE CONSERVANCY: $29,500 · OtherCRYSTAL COVE CONSERVANCYLAGUNA BEACH COMMUNITY CLINIC: $21,600 · OtherLAGUNA BEACH COMMUNITY CLINIC+39 more: $142,250 · Other+39 moreOCEANA INC: $72,000 · EnvironmentOCEANA INCECOLOGY CENTER: $41,700 · EnvironmentECOLOGY CENTERLAGUNA CANYON FOUNDATION: $26,250 · EnvironmentLAGUNA CANYON FO…NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $25,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCE…THE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $7,100 · Environment+8 more: $22,750 · Environment+8 moreNEWPORT BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $48,500 · EducationTHE MY HERO PROJECT INC: $17,250 · EducationLAGUNA BEACH HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $12,000 · Education+2 more: $2,400 · EducationBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LAGUNA BEACH: $74,900 · Youth Development+1 more: $350 · Youth DevelopmentORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · PhilanthropyLaguna Beach Community Foundation: $13,000 · PhilanthropyBELLOSGUARDO FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyFRIENDSHIP SHELTER INC: $65,500 · Housing & Shelter
Arts & Culture$435,901Other$402,950Environment$194,800Education$80,150Youth Development$75,250Philanthropy$68,000Housing & Shelter$65,500

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 LAGUNA PLAYHOUSE: $225,500 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetLAGUNA ART MUSEUM: $111,801 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LAGUNA BEACH: $74,900 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetOCEANA INC: $72,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDSHIP SHELTER INC: $65,500 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEWPORT BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $48,500 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetECOLOGY CENTER: $41,700 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetWHALE TRUST: $30,000 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetDISCOVERY SCIENCE CENTER OF ORANGE COUNTY: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCRYSTAL COVE CONSERVANCY: $29,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE SEA LIONS INC DBA PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER: $29,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetLAGUNA CANYON FOUNDATION: $26,250 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $25,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLAGUNA BEACH COMMUNITY CLINIC: $21,600 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MY HERO PROJECT INC: $17,250 over 7y, 5.9% of budgetCoast Film Foundation: $16,500 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetLAGUNA BEACH SENIORS INC: $16,100 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetLAGUNA DANCE FESTIVAL: $15,500 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetLaguna Beach Community Foundation: $13,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetNO SQUARE THEATRE: $12,500 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetLAGUNA BEACH HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetPHILHARMONIC SOCIETY OF ORANGE COUNTY: $8,350 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $7,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLANNA FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetLAGUNA FOOD PANTRY: $7,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSURFING HERITAGE AND CULTURE CENTER: $7,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBELLOSGUARDO FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGET INSPIRED: $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetHuman Options Inc: $4,050 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Collaborative Courts Foundation: $3,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetMISSION PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $3,200 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLAGUNA PLEIN AIR PAINTERS ASSOCIATION: $3,050 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAGUNA OCEAN FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC CORPORATION: $2,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetArms of Love International: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOrange County Coastkeeper: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHERMAN FOUNDATION: $1,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARTS ORANGE COUNTY: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLAGUNA COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN: $1,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWYLAND FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetORANGE COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART: $1,000 over 1y, 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 THE LAGUNA PLAYHOUSE ↗
  • Who funds LAGUNA ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LAGUNA BEACH ↗
  • Who funds OCEANA INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDSHIP SHELTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NEWPORT BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ECOLOGY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds WHALE TRUST ↗
  • Who funds DISCOVERY SCIENCE CENTER OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds CRYSTAL COVE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE SEA LIONS INC DBA PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds LAGUNA CANYON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds LAGUNA BEACH COMMUNITY CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds THE MY HERO PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds Coast Film Foundation ↗
  • Who funds LAGUNA BEACH SENIORS INC ↗
  • Who funds LAGUNA DANCE FESTIVAL ↗
  • Who funds Laguna Beach Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds NO SQUARE THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds LAGUNA BEACH HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds THE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds LANNA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LAGUNA FOOD PANTRY ↗
  • Who funds SURFING HERITAGE AND CULTURE CENTER ↗

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.

Orange County Communi…Laguna Beach Communit…The Hanauer Family Fo…The William Jeff and …Roberta Freeman Cox C…Ueberroth Family Foun…Samueli FoundationJ Stanley & Mary W Jo…The William Gillespie…The Hexberg Family Fo…The Bassman Family Ch…O L Halsell Foundation
Orange County Community FoundationCA57.5× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · Laguna Beach Community Foundation · The Hanauer Family Foundation · The William Jeff and Jennifer Gross Family Foundation · Roberta Freeman Cox Charitable Foundation · Ueberroth Family Foundation · Samueli Foundation · J Stanley & Mary W Johnson Family Foundation · The William Gillespie Foundation · The Hexberg Family Foundation · The Bassman Family Charitable Trust · O L Halsell 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 Macgillivray Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Macgillivray Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 88%
  • National Marine Sanctuary Foundation: 88% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 Macgillivray Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Macgillivray 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 85 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
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