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Moccasin Lake Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$6.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
117
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$750k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Education$16MEnvironment$9.2MHousing & Shelter$5.9MInternational$5.6MHuman Services$4.8MAnimals$4.7MHealth$3.2MPhilanthropy$1.9MOther$0
02FY2025 · 117 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k43 grants · $174k
  • $10k–50k51 grants · $923k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+11 grants · $4.7M
$14,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$110M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BISHOP BLANCHET HIGH SCHOOL$750,000
ACADEMY FOR PRECISION LEARNING INC$650,000
THOUSAND CURRENTS$500,000
WHITE CENTER EMERGENCY FOOD ASSOCIATION$500,000
CRISTO REY SEATTLE HIGH SCHOOL$500,000
NORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECT$500,000
PACIFIC WEST RAIL FOUNDATION$250,000
SOUTHEAST ALASKA CONSERVATION COUNCIL INC-SEACC$250,000
CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION$250,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION$250,000
CHILDREN OF THE SETTING SUN PRODUCTIONS$250,000
PUGET SOUND RESTORATION FUND$164,000
HOOD CANAL SLMON ENHANCEMENT GROUP$150,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$150,000
AMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC$110,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $5.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 69% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AL OTRO LADO INC: $20k → 11%SHARED HOPE INTERNATIONAL: $505k → 9%WATER DROP: $13k → 14%WASHINGTON KIDS IN TRANSITION: $10k → 9%STEP BY STEP FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER: $10k → 9%NORTH SNOHOMISH COUNTY OUTREACH: $10k → 9%WASHINGTON KIDS IN TRANSITION: $10k → 9%MONROE GOSPEL WOMENS MISSION: $10k → 9%METHOW VALLEY FAMILY HOME CENTER ASSOCIATION: $25k → 17%METHOW VALLEY FAMILY HOME CENTER ASSOCIATION: $25k → 17%METHOW VALLEY FAMILY HOME CENTER ASSOCIATION: $25k → 17%OVERLAKE SERVICE LEAGUE DBA BELLEVUE LIFESPRING: $10k → 9%FISH OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA INC: $500k → 11%SOUTHWEST YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $68k → 9%FISH OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA INC: $400k → 11%FISH OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA INC: $400k → 11%METHOW VALLEY RIDING UNLIMITED: $15k → 17%YOUTHCARE: $100k → 9%FISH OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA INC: $100k → 11%VINE MAPLE PLACE: $15k → 9%ROOM ONE: $1.0M → 17%ROOM ONE: $700k → 17%ROOM ONE: $205k → 17%ROOM ONE: $60k → 17%THE COVE: $35k → 17%ROOM ONE: $25k → 17%ROOM ONE: $25k → 17%ROOM ONE: $25k → 17%METHOW AT HOME: $10k → 17%BUSINESSES ENDING SLAVERY AND TRAFFICKING: $10k → 9%EILEEN & CALLIES PLACE: $20k → 9%PIONEER HUMAN SERVICES: $30k → 9%PIONEER HUMAN SERVICES: $25k → 9%BYRD BARR PLACE: $30k → 9%BYRD BARR PLACE: $30k → 9%YWCA OF SEATTLE-KING COUNTY- SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $11k → 9%MARYS PLACE SEATTLE: $53k → 9%WESTSIDE BABY: $15k → 9%WESTSIDE BABY: $14k → 9%CHILD CARE RESOURCES: $50k → 9%MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $50k → 9%YOUTHCARE: $100k → 9%YOUTHCARE: $50k → 9%ELIZABETH HOME: $20k → 9%FACING HOMELESSNESS: $15k → 9%FULL LIFE CARE: $15k → 9%ELIZABETH HOME: $15k → 9%FAMILY LAW CASA OF KING COUNTY: $15k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$52M · 193 repeat orgs$8.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.

193 repeat relationships — 54 still active in FY2025, 139 since wound down; 58 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

193
175

Total granted

$52M
$5.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+5%

Still filing today

92%
93%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.5M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureEnvironmentHealthAnimalsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • SU
    SEATTLE UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2020–2025 · $5.1M · revenue +40%
  • TS
    THE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $3.8M · revenue +35%
  • CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2025 · $3.5M · revenue +94%

Funded once

  • TM
    TISCH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS RESEARCH CENTER OF NY
    one grant, 2022 · $500k
  • TM
    TISCH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS RESEARCH CENTER OF NEW YORK INC
    one grant, 2021 · $450k · revenue -25%
  • IF
    Impactful Fundgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $300k · revenue +25% · 48% of their budget

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Earthcorps

To cultivate leaders and community partnerships to advance environmental justice.

International
2
Fsc I&P

Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…

Philanthropy
3
Re Sources

RE Sources mobilizes people of Northwest Washington to build just and thriving communities and to protect the land, water, and climate on which we all depend.

Environment
4
Seattle Architectural Foundation

The Seattle Architecture Foundation connects people to the architecture, design, and history of Seattle. We believe the more you engage with design, the more you feel connected to your changing city. As a volunteer driven organization, we…

Arts & Culture
5
Center for Environmental Law & Policy

The Center for Environmental Law & Policy is a statewide organization whose mission is to protect, preserve and restore Washington's waters through education, advocacy, policy reform, and public interest litigation.

Environment
6
United Way of Snohomish County

United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.

Philanthropy
7
Siff

Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.

Youth Development
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Futurewise

Futurewise works throughout Washington state to encourage healthy, equitable and opportunity-rich communities, and to protect our most valuable farmlands, forests and water resources through wise land use policies and practices.

Environment
9
Great Peninsula Conservancy

Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.

Environment
10
Sustainable Path Foundation

Sustainable Path Foundation promotes sustainability and health in the Puget Sound region through collaborative approaches informed by scientific understanding and systems thinking.

Social Science
11
Disability Rights Washington

Disability rights washington's mission is to advance the dignity, equality, and self determination of people with disabilities. we work to pursue justice on matters related to human and legal rights.

Human Services
12
Cowiche Canyon Conservancy

Protecting our shrub-steppe and connecting people to this vanishing landscape.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cares of Washington and the most unlike its peers is The National World War Ii Museum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr18%30%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr14%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%3%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr18%28%20–35yr13%31%35–55yr14%18%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1.0%4/413
the rest of the field
13%
4,673/35,420

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 404 of the 430 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
80
Early backer (in before they grew)
399/404
Grantees still filing
258/404
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SEATTLE UNIVERSITY — $5,115,000 · OtherSEATTLE UNIVERSITYLOW INCOME HOUSING INSTITUTE — $1,223,000 · OtherWHITE CENTER EMERGENCY FOOD ASSOCIATION WHITE CENTER FOOD BANK — $1,070,000 · OtherSEATTLE FOUNDATION — $1,222,117 · Other+96 more — $15,558,000 · Other+96 moreCristo Rey Jesuit Seattle High School — $1,500,000 · EducationCristo Rey Jesuit …SEATTLE NATIVITY SCHOOL — $1,500,000 · EducationSEATTLE NATIVITY S…HERITAGE UNIVERSITY — $1,225,000 · EducationHERITAGE UNIVERSIT…LAKESIDE SCHOOL — $1,012,500 · EducationLAKESIDE SCHOOLTrustees of Hamilton College — $1,000,000 · EducationTrustees of Hamilt…ACADEMY FOR PRECISION LEARNING — $650,000 · EducationACADEMY FOR PRECIS…BOOKS TO PRISONERS — $576,000 · EducationBOOKS TO PRISONERSEPIPHANY SCHOOL — $380,000 · Education+27 more — $2,189,000 · Education+27 moreCONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION — $3,455,000 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION I…WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $1,255,000 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE…EARTHJUSTICE — $733,000 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICESoutheast Alaska Conservation Council Inc-SEACC — $550,000 · EnvironmentSoutheast Alas…SANIBEL-CAPTIVA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION — $300,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $268,500 · Environment+13 more — $1,212,500 · Environment+13 moreRoom One — $2,042,500 · Human ServicesRoom OneSHARED HOPE INTERNATIONAL — $1,523,000 · Human ServicesSHARED HOPE…FISH OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA INC — $1,401,000 · Human ServicesFISH OF SAN…YOUTHCARE — $253,500 · Human Services+13 more — $686,000 · Human Services+13 moreTHE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY — $3,825,000 · AnimalsProgressive Animal Welfare Society aka PAWS — $506,000 · Animals+9 more — $487,500 · AnimalsSave The Children Federation Inc — $1,490,000 · InternationalTHOUSAND CURRENTS — $1,000,000 · InternationalPATH — $770,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $250,000 · InternationalTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $220,000 · International+5 more — $318,800 · InternationalMETHOW HOUSING TRUST — $3,100,000 · Housing & ShelterPLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES — $526,000 · Housing & Shelter+6 more — $340,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$24,188,117Education$10,032,500Environment$7,774,000Human Services$5,906,000Animals$4,818,500International$4,048,800Housing & Shelter$3,966,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSEATTLE UNIVERSITY — $5,115,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetTHE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY — $3,825,000 over 4y, 6.1% of budgetCONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION — $3,455,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetMETHOW HOUSING TRUST — $3,100,000 over 3y, 64% of budgetRoom One — $2,042,500 over 6y, 65% of budgetSHARED HOPE INTERNATIONAL — $1,523,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetCristo Rey Jesuit Seattle High School — $1,500,000 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetSEATTLE NATIVITY SCHOOL — $1,500,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $1,490,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFISH OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA INC — $1,401,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $1,255,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHERITAGE UNIVERSITY — $1,225,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetLOW INCOME HOUSING INSTITUTE — $1,223,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetSEATTLE FOUNDATION — $1,222,117 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetWHITE CENTER EMERGENCY FOOD ASSOCIATION WHITE CENTER FOOD BANK — $1,070,000 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetLAKESIDE SCHOOL — $1,012,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetTrustees of Hamilton College — $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHOUSAND CURRENTS — $1,000,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetPATH — $770,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF SEATTLE WATERFRONT — $750,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE — $733,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTWISPWORKS FOUNDATION — $695,000 over 4y, 32% of budgetNORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECT — $606,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMETHOW CONSERVANCY — $599,500 over 4y, 7.6% of budgetFARESTART — $592,400 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetBOOKS TO PRISONERS — $576,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetSeattle Children's Foundation — $555,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSoutheast Alaska Conservation Council Inc-SEACC — $550,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetRURAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE — $530,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetPLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES — $526,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetMETHOW VALLEY HOME HEALTH AGENCY — $525,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION — $513,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetProgressive Animal Welfare Society aka PAWS — $506,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetTISCH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS RESEARCH CENTER OF NEW YORK INC — $450,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetEPIPHANY SCHOOL — $380,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetMethow Valley Education Foundation — $375,000 over 4y, 75% of budgetPACIFIC SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION — $325,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetLittle Star School Montessori — $320,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetNW Childrens Foundation — $300,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetSANIBEL-CAPTIVA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION — $300,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES — $300,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetImpactful Fund — $300,000 over 1y, 48% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NCW — $276,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBARRIER ISLAND GROUP FOR THE ARTS — $270,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $268,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTHCARE — $253,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Norcliffe Foundat…Puget Sound Energy Fo…Lucky Seven FoundationSeattle FoundationMedina FoundationUnited Way of King Co…Garneau Nicon Family …Credit Unions in the …Grousemont FoundationLiberty Mutual Founda…Fales Foundation TrustEmployees Community F…
The Norcliffe FoundationWA221.8× affinity163 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Norcliffe Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Medina Foundation · United Way of King County · Garneau Nicon Family Foundation · Credit Unions in the State of Washington · Grousemont Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Fales Foundation Trust · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Moccasin Lake Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Wild Salmon Center — 49% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Medical Teams International — 14% of income from government
  • Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation — 4% of income from government
  • The United Way of Lee County Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
79report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Moccasin Lake Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Moccasin Lake 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 430 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 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