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Ralph & Marsha Guggenheim Family Foundation at a glance

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Ralph & Marsha Guggenheim Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$158k
Granted FY2025still arriving
133
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% 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$433kReligion$400kHealth$168kCivil Rights$123kEducation$122kHuman Services$66kFood & Nutrition$62kPhilanthropy$49kOther$0
02FY2025 · 133 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k131 grants · $103k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $55k
$500
Median grant
14
States reached
$216k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Jewish Film Institute$40,000
Congregation Emanu El$15,019
Hair To Stay$5,000
Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep$5,000
Fine Arts Museums of SF$4,000
Jewish Community Relations Council$3,000
SF Museum Of Modern Art$3,000
Anti-Defamation League$3,000
Carnegie Mellon University$2,350
Planned Parenthood$2,100
KQED$2,000
San Francisco Food Bank$2,000
NARAL$2,000
Jewish Family and Children's Servic$2,000
One Israel Fund$1,800
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Project HOME: $250 → 22%American Foundation for the Blind: $540 → 7%American Foundation for the Blind: $360 → 7%American Foundation for the Blind: $360 → 7%Whistlestop: $360 → 8%SF New Deal: $1k → 10%Classical Tahoe: $500 → 10%The Innocence Project: $2k → 17%Children's Council of San Francisco: $360 → 10%The Innocence Project: $1k → 17%The Innocence Project: $1k → 17%The Innocence Project: $1k → 17%The Innocence Project: $1k → 17%The Innocence Project: $720 → 17%The Innocence Project: $540 → 17%YMCA of San Francisco: $500 → 10%The Innocence Project: $250 → 17%Jewish Community Center San Francis: $4k → 10%Jewish Community Center San Francis: $4k → 10%Jewish Community Center San Francis: $3k → 10%Jewish Community Center San Francis: $3k → 10%Jewish Community Center San Francis: $3k → 10%Jewish Community Center San Francis: $2k → 10%Jewish Community Center San Francis: $2k → 10%Institute on Aging NFG: $1k → 10%Jewish Community Center San Francis: $1k → 10%Jewish Community Center San Francis: $1k → 10%San Francisco Village: $500 → 10%San Francisco Village: $500 → 10%San Francisco Village: $500 → 10%San Francisco Village: $500 → 10%San Francisco Village: $360 → 10%San Francisco Village: $360 → 10%San Francisco Village: $360 → 10%Institute on Aging NFG: $360 → 10%San Francisco Village: $360 → 10%San Francisco Village: $360 → 10%Institute on Aging NFG: $360 → 10%The Tides Center: $1k → 10%The Tides Center: $1k → 10%The Tides Center: $500 → 10%Larkin Street Youth Services: $2k → 10%Larkin Street Youth Services: $1k → 10%Larkin Street Youth Services: $1k → 10%Larkin Street Youth Services: $1k → 10%Larkin Street Youth Services: $1k → 10%Larkin Street Youth Services: $500 → 10%Larkin Street Youth Services: $360 → 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

IL
NY
MA
OR
NV
SD
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC
HI
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 237 repeat orgs$52k to everyone else

237 repeat relationships: 111 still active in FY2025, 126 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

237
105

Total granted

$1.6M
$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+36%

Still filing today

54%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsOther
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

  • H
    HAIRTOSTAY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $75k · revenue +191%
  • CM
    Carnegie Mellon University
    9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +15%
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
    9× · 2017–2025 · $43k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • BM
    Brandeis Marin
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
  • A
    ABRA
    one grant, 2022 · $2k
  • UB
    UCSF Buck Breast Cancer Center
    one grant, 2019 · $2k
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
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
2
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
3
The Bar Association of San Francisco

The bar association of san francisco champions equal access to justice and promotes humanity, excellence, and diversity in the legal profession. we provide legal services to disadvantaged and underserved individuals in san francisco. we…

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4
Sandler Foundation

The foundation operates exclusively for charitable, educational or religious purposes by conducting or supporting activities for the benefit of, or to carry out the purposes of the jewish community federation of san francisco, the…

Philanthropy
5
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
6
Sf Partnership

SF Partnership is an organization comprised of SF's leading employers dedicated to supporting an equitable, resilient, and vibrant economy shared by all people working and living in San Francisco. Through education, advocacy, and research,…

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7
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
8
San Francisco Friends School

At san francisco friends school, students learn in a community grounded in the quaker values of reflection, integrity, peaceful problem-solving and stewardship. our teachers challenge students with a dynamic curriculum that inspires…

Education
9
San Francisco Jewish Community Publications Inc

(continued from page 1) nationally and internationally. Further, J seeks to enrich the cultural, religious and social life of the community through its articles, interviews and features.

Education
10
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
11
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
12
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma; the most unlike its peers is Beyond Differences. 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

213 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. 213 of the 373 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)
34
Early backer (in before they grew)
206/213
Grantees still filing
143/213
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONGREGATION EMANU-EL: $302,904 · OtherCONGREGATION EMANU-ELCarnegie Mellon University: $45,450 · Other+137 more: $651,133 · Other+137 moreJewish Film Institute: $174,964 · Arts & CultureJewish Film InstituteSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $43,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF M…SAN FRANCISCO JAZZ ORGANIZATION: $42,747 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO JAZZ ORGANI…THE CONTEMPORARY JEWISH MUSEUM: $39,067 · Arts & CultureTHE CONTEMPORARY JEWISH M…KQED INC: $13,500 · Arts & Culture+15 more: $52,171 · Arts & Culture+15 moreHAIRTOSTAY: $75,040 · HealthHomeless Prenatal Program Inc: $16,500 · HealthGREENLIGHT CLINIC: $3,950 · Health+5 more: $12,400 · HealthJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO: $22,160 · Human ServicesTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $8,078 · Human ServicesLarkin Street Youth Services: $6,910 · Human ServicesSAN FRANCISCO VILLAGE: $3,800 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTER: $2,500 · Human ServicesINSTITUTE ON AGING: $1,760 · Human Services+1 more: $1,260 · Human ServicesBRANDEIS SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO: $10,918 · EducationSAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL: $6,040 · EducationTIKVA CORP: $4,976 · EducationSAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $4,240 · EducationPRESIDIO HILL SCHOOL: $3,680 · EducationAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KIDUM INC: $3,238 · EducationWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $2,840 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $2,680 · EducationEmory University: $2,470 · EducationCOLLEGE TRACK: $1,720 · EducationIGNITE: $1,680 · Education+1 more: $1,500 · EducationHIAS INC: $10,736 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $4,152 · InternationalHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL: $4,000 · InternationalONE ISRAEL FUND LTD: $3,600 · InternationalSURGICAL EYE EXPEDITIONS INTERNATIONAL INC: $2,220 · InternationalAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $2,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF REICHMAN UNIVERSITY INC: $1,800 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $1,440 · InternationalTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $1,250 · InternationalJEWISH INSTITUTE FOR NATIONAL SECURITY OF AMERICA: $1,220 · InternationalJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA: $11,850 · PhilanthropyTAHOE TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $9,075 · PhilanthropyTIPPING POINT COMMUNITY: $3,000 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,250 · Philanthropy
Other$999,487Arts & Culture$365,449Health$107,890Human Services$46,468Education$45,982International$32,418Philanthropy$26,175

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetJewish Film Institute: $174,964 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetHAIRTOSTAY: $75,040 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University: $45,450 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $43,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO JAZZ ORGANIZATION: $42,747 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CONTEMPORARY JEWISH MUSEUM: $39,067 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF SAN FRANCISCO MARIN & PENINSULA: $29,200 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO: $22,160 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUPSTART BAY AREA: $22,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $20,488 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBIMBAM: $20,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetHomeless Prenatal Program Inc: $16,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $15,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetKQED INC: $13,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $12,160 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA: $11,850 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBRANDEIS SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO: $10,918 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHIAS INC: $10,736 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: $9,956 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTAHOE TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $9,075 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetASIAN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: $8,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $8,078 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Petey Greene Program Inc: $7,473 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLAKE TAHOE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $7,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLarkin Street Youth Services: $6,910 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL: $6,040 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $6,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNPR FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHillel at Davis and Sacramento: $5,540 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetBERKELEY HILLEL: $5,540 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNevada Museum of Art: $5,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTIKVA CORP: $4,976 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGLIDE FOUNDATION: $4,940 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO HILLEL: $4,820 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO PARKS ALLIANCE: $4,600 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetROCKETDOGRESCUE: $4,560 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $4,240 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $4,220 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $4,152 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWONDER DOG RESCUE: $4,050 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMUTTVILLE: $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $4,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG COMMUNITY DEVELOPERS INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBeyond Differences: $4,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

  • Who funds Jewish Film Institute ↗
  • Who funds HAIRTOSTAY ↗
  • Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO JAZZ ORGANIZATION ↗
  • Who funds THE CONTEMPORARY JEWISH MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF SAN FRANCISCO MARIN & PENINSULA ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
  • Who funds UPSTART BAY AREA ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds BIMBAM ↗
  • Who funds Homeless Prenatal Program Inc ↗
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds KQED INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA ↗
  • Who funds BRANDEIS SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
  • Who funds HIAS INC ↗
  • Who funds HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
  • Who funds TAHOE TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ASIAN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
  • Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds The Petey Greene Program Inc ↗
  • Who funds LAKE TAHOE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
  • Who funds Larkin Street Youth Services ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL ↗

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.

Jewish Community Fede…The San Francisco Fou…Koret FoundationMarin Community Found…Lisa & Douglas Goldma…The Shimon Ben Joseph…McNabb FoundationJohn Pritzker Family …Silicon Valley Commun…The Jewish Community …The Yelp FoundationSwig Foundation
Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & SonomaCA74.5× affinity48 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The San Francisco Foundation · Koret Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Lisa & Douglas Goldman Fund · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · McNabb Foundation · John Pritzker Family Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Jewish Community Foundation · The Yelp Foundation · Swig 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 Ralph & Marsha Guggenheim Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ralph & Marsha Guggenheim Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • The Petey Greene Program Inc: 29% of income from government
  • The Center for Independent Documentary Inc: 6% of income from government
  • The Griffin Museum of Photography Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Bakehouse Art Complex Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • Keshet Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
46report 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.

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 373 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
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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