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Monster Energy Cares

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.

$777k
Granted FY2024still arriving
109
Grants FY2024still arriving
30
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0175% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.

Health$560kInternational$475kYouth Development$413kHousing & Shelter$314kPublic Safety & Disaster$215kEducation$192kHuman Services$141kAnimals$133kCommunity Improvement$113kOther$1.2M
02FY2024 · 109 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k96 grants · $98k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $113k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $566k
$550
Median grant
30
States reached
$181k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
High Five Nonprofit Foundation$150,000
Dawsons Peak$150,000
The UCI Irvine Foundation$113,342
15 and the Mahomies Foundation$100,000
Good Causes Inc$53,000
National Multiple Sclerosis Society$25,000
American Friends of Natal Inc$20,000
United Way of Greater Kansas City$15,000
Soroptimist International of Corona$12,500
Womens Voices Now Inc$10,000
The 43 Institute$10,000
Betheseda Teaching Ministry$10,000
Petersville Community Non Profit Corp$10,000
National Multiple Sclerosis Society$6,170
Riverside County Deputy Sheriff Relief Foundation$6,000
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 (FY20–24, $133k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Stepping Stones Agencies: $250 → 14%Minuteman Senior Services: $100 → 8%Boys Town: $50 → 12%Casa for the Cross Timbers Area Inc: $500 → 13%Hernando-Pasco Hospice Inc: $500 → 13%Society of St Vincent de Paul Archdiocesan Counci: $500 → 21%Camp Southern Ground Inc: $100 → 6%Active Heroes: $355 → 15%Hope Center: $750 → 14%Russ Martin Show Listeners Foundation Inc: $500 → 14%Hernando-Pasco Hospice Inc: $500 → 13%Chadtough Defeat Dipg Foundation: $100 → 14%Project Fire Buddies: $750 → 14%Miracle League of Las Vegas: $500 → 13%Robert Irvine Foundation: $100k → 13%Wounded Warrior Project: $200 → 14%National Runaway Switchboard: $50 → 14%One Simple Wish: $27 → 11%Hope Center: $500 → 14%Robert Irvine Foundation: $25k → 13%Wounded Warrior Project: $100 → 14%Methodist Childrens Home Society: $100 → 21%American Red Cross: $100 → 11%Covenant House: $500 → 17%100 Black Men of North Metro Atlanta Inc: $100 → 13%Warrior for Children: $209 → 14%Project Giveback Community Service Organization: $100 → 14%American Red Cross: $250 → 14%World Food Program USA: $200 → 14%Laura's House: $263 → 10%American Red Cross: $50 → 14%Laura's House: $50 → 10%Camp Kesem: $100 → 14%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

AK
NH
WA
ID
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
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OR
NV
WY
IA
IN
OH
PA
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CA
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CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
AZ
NM
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AR
TN
NC
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DC
HI
OK
GA
TX
FL

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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.8M · 115 repeat orgs$840k to everyone else

115 repeat relationships — 57 still active in FY2024, 58 since wound down; 48 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

115
221

Total granted

$2.8M
$763k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+18%

Still filing today

77%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthAnimalsEducationHuman ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyOther

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

  • HIGH FIVES NONPROFIT FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $375k · revenue +55%
  • TR
    TEAM RUBICON INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $203k · revenue +18%
  • CU
    CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2021–2023 · $141k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
    one grant, 2023 · $322k · revenue -33%
  • DIRECT RELIEF
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +20%
  • UO
    USO OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON-BALTIMORE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $73k · revenue -68%

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
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation

The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…

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2
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
3
Shield of Faith Missions

Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.

Religion
4
Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research

The foundation for sarcoidosis research (fsr) is the leading international organization dedicated to finding a cure for sarcoidosis and improving care for sarcoidosis patients through research, education, and support. since its…

Philanthropy
5
American Kennel Club Canine Health Foundation

The mission of the akc canine health foundation, inc. is to fund, advance, and communicate canine health research and science through knowledge and discovery.

Animals
6
Animal Cancer Foundation

Animal cancer foundation is dedicated to finding new treatments and eventual cures for cancer by funding research in and increasing public awareness of comparative oncology, the study of naturally occurring, similar cancers in people and…

Health
7
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
8
Prostate Cancer Foundation

The prostate cancer foundation (pcf) funds the world's most promising research on the biology and treatment of prostate cancer, accelerating those discoveries into therapies and strategies designed to improve the quality of life and…

Philanthropy
9
United Animal Nations Dba Redrover

To bring animals out of crisis and strengthen the bond between people and animals through emergency sheltering, disaster relief services, financial assistance and education. redrover accomplishes its mission by engaging volunteers and…

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10
Santa Barbara Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…

Animals
11
National Foundation for Cancer Research

To support cancer research and public education relating to prevention, earlier diagnosis, better treatments and ultimately, a cure for cancer.

Health
12
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is Icon Baseball Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyJewish Community Organizati…Military Veterans SupportVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Cancer Support ServicesHealth Access Advocacy and …United Way AffiliatesChristian Missionary Organi…Environmental Conservation …Affordable Housing Construc…Youth Sports ProgramsIndependent K-12 SchoolsCommunity College Foundatio…Christian Youth CampsChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Senior Support ServicesYouth Development ServicesImmigrant Worker SupportDevelopmental Disabilities …Community Food PantriesPregnancy Support ServicesPublic Library OperationsEquine Therapy ProgramsLgbtq+ Community SupportFood Banks and PantriesLocal Food System Organizat…Community Arts CentersDomestic Violence ServicesAnimal Rescue and ShelterSchool Parent OrganizationsOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Community Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%5%<5yr15%9%5–10yr20%24%10–20yr17%22%20–35yr11%18%35–55yr13%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%1%<5yr15%23%5–10yr20%31%10–20yr17%9%20–35yr11%17%35–55yr13%19%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.6%2/339
the rest of the field
14%
26,002/186,639

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

298 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 298 of the 393 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)
41
Early backer (in before they grew)
290/298
Grantees still filing
181/298
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

The UCI Irvine Foundation — $448,667 · OtherThe UCI Irvine FoundationTHANKS USA — $75,000 · OtherUSO OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON-BALTIMORE INC — $73,000 · OtherROBERT IRVINE FOUNDATION INC — $125,000 · OtherROBERT IRVINE FOUNDATION INCAMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION — $116,750 · OtherAMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATIONGOOD CAUSES INC — $103,000 · OtherGOOD CAUSES INCSOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL OF CORONA — $62,500 · Other+132 more — $518,459 · Other+132 moreHIGH FIVES NONPROFIT FOUNDATION — $375,000 · HealthHIGH FIVES NONPRO…NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $83,746 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE…ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION — $25,000 · HealthTHE STATION FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Health+18 more — $46,081 · Health+18 moreFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $322,100 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE…DIRECT RELIEF — $100,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INC — $22,750 · InternationalWomens Voices Now Inc — $20,000 · International+5 more — $8,010 · International15 AND THE MAHOMIES FOUNDATION — $400,000 · Youth Development15 AND THE M…+4 more — $13,200 · Youth DevelopmentDawson's Peak — $226,300 · Housing & ShelterDawson's …OPERATION FINALLY HOME — $55,000 · Housing & ShelterOPERATION…Orange County Rescue Mission Inc — $30,650 · Housing & ShelterOrange Co…+1 more — $2,100 · Housing & ShelterTEAM RUBICON INC — $202,509 · Public Safety & DisasterRIVERSIDE COUNTY DEPUTY SHERIFF RELIEF FOUNDATION — $10,500 · Public Safety & Disaster+2 more — $1,625 · Public Safety & DisasterCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY — $140,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION — $26,200 · Education+15 more — $22,812 · Education
Other$1,522,376Health$554,827International$472,860Youth Development$413,200Housing & Shelter$314,050Public Safety & Disaster$214,634Education$189,512

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 budget15 AND THE MAHOMIES FOUNDATION — $400,000 over 4y, 8.9% of budgetHIGH FIVES NONPROFIT FOUNDATION — $375,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $322,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDawson's Peak — $226,300 over 4y, 83% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC — $202,509 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY — $140,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROBERT IRVINE FOUNDATION INC — $125,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetAMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION — $116,750 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetGOOD CAUSES INC — $103,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $83,746 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUSO OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON-BALTIMORE INC — $73,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL OF CORONA — $62,500 over 5y, 30% of budgetOPERATION FINALLY HOME — $55,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERSIDE MEALS ON WHEELS INC — $35,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetOrange County Rescue Mission Inc — $30,650 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION — $26,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STATION FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INC — $22,750 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCORONA-NORCO SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC — $20,050 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetWomens Voices Now Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetCALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVets On Track Foundation — $17,500 over 5y, 7.5% of budgetCorona Police Community Partnership Inc — $15,500 over 1y, 27% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Kansas City Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCORONA ROTARY FOUNDATION INC — $12,500 over 1y, 26% of budgetARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC — $12,044 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERSIDE COUNTY DEPUTY SHERIFF RELIEF FOUNDATION — $10,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetPETERSVILLE COMMUNITY NON-PROFIT CORPORATION — $10,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetBOARDING FOR BREAST CANCER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budget43 Institute — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION OF THE OLD GUARD INC — $10,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetMotor Racing Outreach Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLIVING LANDS & WATERS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLAGUNA BEACH POLICE AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY — $5,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWIDE OPEN THE BRODY HILLS FOUNDATIO — $5,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetTHE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS) — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROAD 2 RECOVERY FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDENNY HAMLIN FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetWags and Walks — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEHIND THE BLUE — $5,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetLEVEL UP SONGWRITING CAMPS CORP — $5,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetNMDP FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMIGOS DE LOS NINOS — $5,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetDEFY VENTURES INC — $5,000 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.

Edwards Lifesciences …Inland Empire Communi…Sempra FoundationAssurant FoundationCarmax FoundationJewish Community Foun…Matthew Hill Foundati…Linda I Smith Foundat…Thornton S Jr and Kat…BISSELL Pet FoundationPedigree FoundationArgyros Family Founda…
Edwards Lifesciences FoundationCA24× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · Inland Empire Community Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Assurant Foundation · Carmax Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Orange County · Matthew Hill Foundation Inc · Linda I Smith Foundation · Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide Foundation · BISSELL Pet Foundation · Pedigree Foundation · Argyros Family Foundation

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 Monster Energy Cares 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 · 90%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Bend-Redmond Habitat for Humanity — 17% of income from government
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Global Empowerment Mission Inc — 0% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 Monster Energy Cares?

Find your warmest path to Monster Energy Cares 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 393 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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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 camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines