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Nexstar Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Nexstar Charitable 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.

$369k
Granted FY2024still arriving
58
Grants FY2024still arriving
24
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$372kFood & Nutrition$369kHealth$238kPhilanthropy$218kEducation$151kYouth Development$140kPublic Safety & Disaster$94kArts & Culture$65kOther$0
02FY2024 · 58 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k44 grants · $198k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $171k
$5,000
Median grant
24
States reached
$7.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS$25,000
EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC$25,000
CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY OF EASTERN NC INC$10,800
UNITED WAY OF SIOUXLAND$10,000
THE KNOWLEDGE HOUSE FELLOWSHIP INC$10,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$10,000
AMERICAN LEGION MOUNTAINEER BOYS STATE INC$10,000
SALVATION ARMY OF HIGH POINT$10,000
COMMUNITY PARTNERS$10,000
FACIAL PAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC$10,000
DRUM MAJOR INSTITUTE INC$10,000
ALS IN THE HEARTLAND INC$10,000
NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY$10,000
ARMED SERVICES YMCAOF THE USA$10,000
MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF EAST TENNESSEE INC$7,500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $235k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 79% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $20k → 9%COMFORT HOUSE INC DBA ABRAHAM HOUSE: $5k → 16%RISING SONS RANCH FOR BOYS: $3k → 16%HIGH POINT VILLAGE: $5k → 17%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF ALBUQUERQUE INC: $5k → 14%JOSEPHS CENTER: $10k → 11%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $10k → 12%PROJECT LIFESAVER: $15k → 9%LINK OF HAMPTON ROADS INC: $10k → 17%HELP AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE INC: $3k → 20%RESCUE MISSION OF ROANOKE: $5k → 20%CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT: $25k → 26%HARRISBERG POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE: $5k → 12%SENIOR CITIZENS SERVICES OF NORTH TEXAS INC: $10k → 16%VETERAN CARRIERS TRUCKING FOR A CAUSE: $3k → 16%IDA BARBOUR EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $11k → 20%RESCUE MISSION OF ROANOKE: $5k → 20%CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $5k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $25k → 14%RESCUE MISSION OF ROANOKE: $5k → 20%JBS LUNCH LITERACY OUTREACH CENTER: $5k → 17%HELPING HEROES INC: $3k → 15%RESCUE MISSION OF ROANOKE INC: $5k → 20%CALL TO FREEDOM: $5k → 9%MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND: $10k → 14%MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP: $6k → 16%MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND: $10k → 14%NORTH TEXAS VETRANS RELIEF FUND INC: $3k → 16%MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND: $5k → 14%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
WI
MI
NY
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
AL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 97% of Nexstar Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 5% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 0%.

Nexstar Charitable Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

47%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$864k · 32 repeat orgs$986k to everyone else

32 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
117

Total granted

$864k
$790k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+13%

Still filing today

84%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $196k 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
Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentEducationOther
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

  • Feeding America
    4× · 2020–2023 · $200k · revenue +40%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    3× · 2022–2024 · $55k · revenue +23%
  • PA
    PROJECT ANGEL FOOD
    3× · 2020–2024 · $38k · revenue +106%

Funded once

  • FI
    FEEDING ILLINOISgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +287%
  • NA
    NATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICANgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +445%
  • CA
    CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +34%
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.

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The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition
2
Great Plains Food Bank

End hunger together.

Food & Nutrition
3
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition
4
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
5
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…

Philanthropy
6
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
7
Heart of Florida United Way Inc

The mission of heart of florida united way is to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of our communities. this is accomplished by standing up for the health, education, and financial stability of every person in central florida.

Philanthropy
8
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
9
Tulsa Area United Way

The tulsa area united way unites people and resources to improve lives and strengthen our communities.

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10
United Way of the Csra Inc

United way of the csra mobilizes the caring power of our community to make lasting change on the issues that matter most in our region. we want to ensure that children, young adults, and families have the tools and resources they need to…

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11
Brazos Valley Food Bank Inc

Cultivate an environment where our community can grow, contribute and thrive together. a more resilient brazos valley where nutritious food and opportunity are attainable for all.

Food & Nutrition
12
Harvesters - the Community Food Network

Harvesters mobilizes the power of our community to create equitable access to nutritious food and address the root causes and impact of hunger.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of the Coastal Empire; the most unlike its peers is Jbs Lunch and Literacy Outreach Center for Kids. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

136 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. 136 of the 189 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
133/136
Grantees still filing
79/136
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PHILADELPHIA UNION FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Other+104 more: $746,840 · Other+104 moreEMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC: $74,500 · Human ServicesEMERGENCY ASSISTAN…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $55,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National …MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND: $25,000 · Human ServicesMOTION PICTURE AND…CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesCHRISTIAN APPALACH…THE RESCUE MISSION OF ROANOKE INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE RESCUE MISSION…PROJECT LIFESAVER INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesIDA BARBOUR EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $11,000 · Human Services+16 more: $83,500 · Human Services+16 moreFeeding America: $200,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding AmericaFEEDING ILLINOIS: $25,000 · Food & NutritionFEEDING ILLINOI…THE SOUPER BOWL OF CARING INC: $10,000 · Food & Nutrition+5 more: $25,000 · Food & Nutrition+5 morePROJECT ANGEL FOOD: $37,500 · HealthPROJECT ANG…NATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN: $25,000 · HealthNATIONAL AF…CENTER FOR DISABILITY SERVICESINC: $15,000 · HealthCENTER FOR …WHEELING HEALTH RIGHT INC: $15,000 · HealthWHEELING HE…MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF EAST TENNESSEE INC: $14,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH…FACIAL PAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 · HealthFACIAL PAIN…NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $10,000 · HealthALS IN THE HEARTLAND INC: $10,000 · HealthHartford Hospital: $7,500 · Health+13 more: $55,000 · Health+13 moreUnited Way of South Hampton Roads: $30,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Wa…UNITED WAY OF GREATER HIGH POINT INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WA…SIOUX FALLS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · PhilanthropySIOUX FAL…UNITED WAY OF BROOME COUNTY INC: $15,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WA…UNITED WAY OF SIOUXLAND INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WA…T HOWARD FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyT HOWARD …YOUNGSTOWN FDN GENERAL: $10,000 · PhilanthropyYOUNGSTOW…WABASH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyWABASH VA…HANDS TO HANDS COMMUNITY FUND: $10,000 · PhilanthropyHANDS TO …+7 more: $35,400 · Philanthropy+7 moreWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · EducationUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $22,500 · EducationANNIE L DAWSON FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationCMS FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationSOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationTHE LUZERNE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Education+1 more: $2,500 · EducationPolice Athletic League Of Philadelphia: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ACADIANA INC: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF OTTAWA COUNTY: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MEMPHIS: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER LA CROSS: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHAPARRAL BAPTIST ASSEMBLY INC: $2,500 · Youth Development
Other$776,840Human Services$309,000Food & Nutrition$260,000Health$201,500Philanthropy$165,400Education$125,000Youth Development$72,500

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 budgetFeeding America: $200,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC: $74,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $55,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL FOOD: $37,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPHILADELPHIA UNION FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetUnited Way of South Hampton Roads: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFEEDING ILLINOIS: $25,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetPolice Athletic League Of Philadelphia: $25,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN: $25,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetMOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $22,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES DAYTON: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER HIGH POINT INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE RESCUE MISSION OF ROANOKE INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDallas Bar Association Community Service Fund: $15,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJASPER COUNTY CASA: $15,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetPROJECT LIFESAVER INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCMS FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ACADIANA INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCENTER FOR DISABILITY SERVICESINC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIOUX FALLS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHEELING HEALTH RIGHT INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BROOME COUNTY INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF EAST TENNESSEE INC: $14,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFACIAL PAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetIDA BARBOUR EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $11,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SIOUXLAND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALS IN THE HEARTLAND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetNATIONAL HISPANIC CULTURAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF OTTAWA COUNTY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MEMPHIS: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetT HOWARD FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Knowledge House Fellowship Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSENIOR CITIZEN SERVICES OF NORTH TEXAS INC DBA THE KITCHEN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATIONIOWA CHAPTER: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLINK OF HAMPTON ROADS INCORPORATED: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYOUNGSTOWN FDN GENERAL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHonor Flight Northeast Indiana Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJOSEPH CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Kansas City Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCRADLE OF LIBERTY COUNCIL 525 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

AT&T FoundationJames N McCoy Foundat…United Way WorldwideWichita Falls Area Co…Enterprise Holdings F…Bnsf Railway Foundati…Inspire Brands Founda…American Electric Pow…The Priddy FoundationSouth Dakota Communit…Townebank FoundationMissouri River Histor…
AT&T FoundationTX17.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: AT&T Foundation · James N McCoy Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Wichita Falls Area Community Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Inspire Brands Foundation Inc · American Electric Power Foundation · The Priddy Foundation · South Dakota Community Foundation · Townebank Foundation · Missouri River Historical Development Inc

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 Nexstar Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nexstar Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Hartford Hospital: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
49report 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
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 Nexstar Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Nexstar Charitable 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 189 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
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