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Robert & Joan Blackman Family Foundation at a glance

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Robert & Joan Blackman Family 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.

$800k
Granted FY2024still arriving
72
Grants FY2024still arriving
19
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$1.7MInternational$1.2MEducation$711kHuman Services$490kArts & Culture$396kFood & Nutrition$295kPublic Safety & Disaster$210kCommunity Improvement$137kOther$0
02FY2024 · 72 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k29 grants · $145k
  • $10k–50k43 grants · $655k
$10,000
Median grant
19
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GRIEFHAVEN$30,100
CARTER CENTER$30,000
MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKIN$30,000
CALIFORNIA HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER$30,000
RACE TO ERASE MS$30,000
COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF EFFORT$30,000
TRUSTEES OF TUFTS UNIVERSITY$25,000
CURE ADDICTION NOW$20,000
DIDI HIRSCH MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE$20,000
JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATI$20,000
LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC$20,000
LOS ANGELES FOOD BANK$20,000
DIRECT RELIEF$20,000
HOPE FOR UKRAINE$15,000
ALSAC ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HO$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $440k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%VISTA DEL MAR: $10k → 14%VISTA DEL MAR: $10k → 14%VISTA DEL MAR: $10k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $20k → 14%VISTA DEL MAR: $10k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%VISTA DEL MAR: $10k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%MARYVALE: $10k → 14%MARYVALE: $10k → 14%MARYVALE: $5k → 14%MARYVALE: $5k → 14%MARYVALE: $5k → 14%MARYVALE: $5k → 14%MARYVALE: $5k → 14%MARYVALE: $5k → 14%FOOD ON FOOT: $5k → 14%FOOD ON FOOT: $5k → 14%FOOD ON FOOT: $5k → 14%GRIEFHAVEN: $30k → 14%GRIEFHAVEN: $25k → 14%GRIEFHAVEN: $10k → 14%GRIEFHAVEN: $10k → 14%GRIEFHAVEN: $5k → 14%GRIEFHAVEN: $5k → 14%MIDNIGHT MISSION: $10k → 14%MIDNIGHT MISSION: $10k → 14%MEALS ON WHEELS WEST: $30k → 14%MIDNIGHT MISSION: $10k → 14%MEALS ON WHEELS WEST: $20k → 14%MIDNIGHT MISSION: $10k → 14%MEALS ON WHEELS WEST: $20k → 14%MIDNIGHT MISSION: $10k → 14%MEALS ON WHEELS WEST: $15k → 14%MIDNIGHT MISSION: $5k → 14%MEALS ON WHEELS WEST: $15k → 14%MIDNIGHT MISSION: $5k → 14%LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $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

WA
IL
WI
NY
MA
IA
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
VA
MD
KS
TN
DC
GA
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.7M · 73 repeat orgs$140k to everyone else

73 repeat relationships: 63 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

73
5

Total granted

$5.7M
$60k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+71%

Still filing today

63%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthInternationalHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • TC
    THE CARTER CENTER INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $360k · revenue +38%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $250k · revenue +98%
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $180k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue +231%
  • PC
    PATIENT CARE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • GI
    GOODWILL INDUSTRIES
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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
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
2
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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3
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric Aids Foundation

The elizabeth glaser pediatric aids foundation (egpaf) is a proven leader in the fight against pediatric hiv/aids and has reached over 33 million pregnant women with services to prevent transmission of hiv to their babies. to date, egpaf…

Health
4
Gavi Alliance

To save lives and protect people's health by increasing equitable and sustainable use of vaccines.

International
5
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
6
MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech
7
Clinton Health Access Initiative Inc

For over 20 years, chai's mission has been to save lives and improve health outcomes in low-and middle-income countries around the world. we do this by enabling the government and private sector to strengthen and sustain quality health…

International
8
Altamed Health Services Corporation

To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.

Health
9
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
10
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
11
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
12
The Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation

The jonsson cancer center foundation is the single most important vehicle for raising private funds for cancer research at ucla and plays a key role in advancing cancer treatments and care. please see schedule o for additional information.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope for Ukraine Inc; the most unlike its peers is Shark Fund. 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

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

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 57 of the 87 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/57
Grantees still filing
37/57
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $481,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF TUFTS UNIVERSITYRACE TO ERASE MS: $240,000 · OtherRACE TO ERASE MSCALIFORNIA HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $140,000 · OtherCITY OF HOPE: $137,000 · OtherALSAC ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HO: $125,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES FOOD BANK: $120,000 · OtherOAKWOOD FRIENDS SCHOOL INC: $95,000 · Other+38 more: $1,410,000 · Other+38 moreTHE CARTER CENTER INC: $360,000 · InternationalTHE CARTER CENTER IN…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $250,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTI…UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $135,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND F…OXFAM-AMERICA INC: $95,000 · InternationalOXFAM-AMERICA INCPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 · InternationalHOPE FOR UKRAINE INC: $40,000 · InternationalSEVA FOUNDATION: $40,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEF: $40,000 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc: $35,000 · InternationalTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $175,000 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J …Ronald McDonald House Global: $85,000 · HealthRonald McDonal…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $85,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DI…AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $80,000 · HealthAMYOTROPHIC LA…THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $65,000 · HealthTHE SHRINERS' …CURE ADDICTION NOW CAN: $60,000 · HealthCURE ADDICTION…Children's Hospital Los Angeles: $60,000 · HealthChildren's Hos…THE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $56,500 · HealthTHE MULTIPLE M…ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · Health+5 more: $65,500 · Health+5 moreMEALS ON WHEELS WEST: $100,000 · Human ServicesThe Erika Whitmore Godwin Foundation: $85,100 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $65,000 · Human ServicesTHE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $60,000 · Human ServicesMARYVALE: $50,000 · Human ServicesVISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $50,000 · Human Services+3 more: $40,000 · Human ServicesLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION: $180,000 · Arts & CultureCENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES: $100,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FRED ROGERS COMPANY: $70,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION INC: $35,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF EFFORT: $130,000 · Public Safety & DisasterTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $120,000 · Public Safety & DisasterGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyOne World Childrens Fund: $95,000 · Philanthropy
Other$2,748,000International$1,040,000Health$762,000Human Services$450,100Arts & Culture$395,000Public Safety & Disaster$250,000Philanthropy$195,000

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 budgetTHE CARTER CENTER INC: $360,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $250,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetRACE TO ERASE MS: $240,000 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION: $180,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $175,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $135,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF EFFORT: $130,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $120,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS WEST: $100,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES: $100,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetOne World Childrens Fund: $95,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $95,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Erika Whitmore Godwin Foundation: $85,100 over 6y, 8.8% of budgetRonald McDonald House Global: $85,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $85,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $80,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LOS ANGELES DODGERS FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE MISSION CONTINUES: $70,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FRED ROGERS COMPANY: $70,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $65,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $65,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Blind Childrens Center Inc: $65,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetA PLACE CALLED HOME: $60,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCURE ADDICTION NOW CAN: $60,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $60,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNAMI GREATER MILWAUKEE INC: $60,000 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetAFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS: $60,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $56,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMARYVALE: $50,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetVISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFARM AID INC: $50,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC: $40,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE FOR UKRAINE INC: $40,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetSEVA FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION INC: $35,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHarmony Project: $30,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBABY2BABY: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetONELEGACY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCLAREMATRIX: $15,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD ON FOOT: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

  • Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds RACE TO ERASE MS ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
  • Who funds CORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF EFFORT ↗
  • Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS WEST ↗
  • Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES ↗
  • Who funds One World Childrens Fund ↗
  • Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds The Erika Whitmore Godwin Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Ronald McDonald House Global ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN ↗
  • Who funds THE LOS ANGELES DODGERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE MISSION CONTINUES ↗
  • Who funds THE FRED ROGERS COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds The Blind Childrens Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds A PLACE CALLED HOME ↗
  • Who funds CURE ADDICTION NOW CAN ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
  • Who funds THE MIDNIGHT MISSION ↗
  • Who funds NAMI GREATER MILWAUKEE INC ↗
  • Who funds AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS ↗

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.

California Community …Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Rose Hills Founda…QueensCareThe Green FoundationCedars-Sinai Medical …The Ahmanson Foundati…Liberty Hill Foundati…Weingart FoundationThe Ayco Charitable F…Sempra FoundationMorgan Stanley Global…
California Community FoundationCA21.6× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Rose Hills Foundation · QueensCare · The Green Foundation · Cedars-Sinai Medical Center · The Ahmanson Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Robert & Joan Blackman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert & Joan Blackman Family 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 6%
  • Farm Aid Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
18report 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 87 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 regranting layer
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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