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Robert & Toni Bader Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

Robert & Toni Bader Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$341k
Granted FY2024still arriving
41
Grants FY2024still arriving
17
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.

Arts & Culture$895kEducation$363kFood & Nutrition$284kInternational$241kHuman Services$207kEnvironment$151kEmployment$122kYouth Development$104kOther$0
02FY2024 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k22 grants · $92k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $249k
$8,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$8.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE EDISON INSTITUTE DBA THE HENRY FORD$30,000
FLYING KITES$23,900
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF THE CINCINNATI AREA$22,000
REVOLUTION WORKSHOP$15,000
MAKERS HUB$15,000
HOOPS4KIDS INC$12,200
NORTHBAY EDUCATION INC$11,000
CAYUGA MUSEUM OF HISTORY & ART INC$10,000
THE LUNCHBOX FUND$10,000
MAZON A JEWISH RESPONSE TO HUNGER$10,000
INDIANAPOLIS OPERA$10,000
FRIENDS OF THE FOREST PRESERVES$10,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREATER MEMPHIS REGION INC$10,000
PROTECT THE ADIRONDACKS INC$10,000
INTREPID MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC DBA INTREPID SEA-AIR-SPACE MUSEUM$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $267k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 76% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TUCSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $4k → 15%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $4k → 7%CAROLS KITCHEN INC: $9k → 11%LA PLAZA DE ENCUENTRO GATHERING PLACE: $10k → 14%CHILDREN FIRST DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $665 → 8%HOPE SOUTHERN INDIANA INC: $10k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $10k → 22%SHE'S THE FIRST: $5k → 17%EMMAS TORCH LTD: $10k → 20%LA PLAZA DE ENCUENTRO GATHERING PLACE: $10k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $10k → 22%LA PLAZA DE ENCUENTRO GATHERING PLACE: $4k → 14%TANZANIAN CHILDREN'S FUND: $25k → 8%IMMIGRANT HOME ENGLISH LEARNING PROGRAM: $8k → 21%TANZANIAN CHILDREN'S FUND: $24k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF THE CINCINNATI AREA: $22k → 16%URBAN SCHOOL FOOD ALLIANCE: $10k → 17%ST JOSEPH INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF - INDIANAPOLIS: $4k → 16%WESTMINSTER NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC: $10k → 16%DOROT: $10k → 17%DOROT INC: $8k → 17%DOROT: $4k → 17%DOROT INC: $2k → 17%HOT BREAD KITCHEN LTD: $15k → 17%HOT BREAD KITCHEN: $15k → 17%INDIANA YOUTH GROUP INC: $6k → 16%INDIANA BLIND CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $11k → 16%HOT BREAD KITCHEN LTD: $8k → 17%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

ME
WA
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
TN
NC
SC
DC
MS
AL
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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 41% of Robert & Toni Bader Charitable Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 18% of the giving stays in IN; by stated purpose, 10%.

Robert & Toni Bader Charitable Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 11% directed abroad (not shown)
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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 55 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

55 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 44 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

55
110

Total granted

$1.6M
$845k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+33%

Still filing today

91%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $222k 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
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentFood & NutritionHealthOther
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

  • TE
    THE EDISON INSTITUTE INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $150k · revenue +19%
  • FK
    FLYING KITES INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $138k · revenue +40%
  • TC
    The Children's Museum of Indianapolis Inc
    6× · 2017–2024 · $102k · revenue +96%

Funded once

  • IS
    INDIANAPOLIS SHAKESPEARE COMPANY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $57k · revenue +17%
  • HF
    HENRY FORD MUSEUM
    one grant, 2017 · $35k
  • PC
    Plant Chicago NFPgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue +255%
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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Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
2
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
3
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
4
Children's Museum of Oak Park

To spark curiosity and creativity in all young children through positive, play-based learning experiences.

Arts & Culture
5
San Diego Jewish Academy

San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.

Education
6
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
7
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

—
8
Lincoln Children's Museum

The lincoln children's museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play.

Arts & Culture
9
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
10
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
11
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
12
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eugene Mission Inc; the most unlike its peers is Makers Hub. 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

168 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. 168 of the 199 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)
46
Early backer (in before they grew)
165/168
Grantees still filing
127/168
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE EDISON INSTITUTE INC: $150,000 · Arts & CultureTHE EDISON INSTITUTE INCThe Children's Museum of Indianapolis Inc: $101,800 · Arts & CultureThe Children's Museum of Indianapo…INDIANAPOLIS SHAKESPEARE COMPANY INC: $56,500 · Arts & CultureINDIANAPOLIS SHAKESPEARE COMPANY I…ART21 INC: $45,000 · Arts & CultureART21 INCCongo Square Theatre Company: $45,000 · Arts & CultureCongo Square Theatre CompanyTHE MUSEUM OF FOOD AND DRINK: $33,334 · Arts & CultureKIDS DANCE OUTREACH INC: $33,000 · Arts & CultureSAN DIEGO AIR & SPACE MUSEUM INC: $32,266 · Arts & CultureINTREPID MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · Arts & Culture+31 more: $313,329 · Arts & Culture+31 moreThe Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute: $85,000 · EducationThe Edible Schooly…UBUNTU PATHWAYS INC: $65,000 · EducationUBUNTU PATHWAYS IN…Simon Youth Foundation Inc: $56,000 · EducationSimon Youth Founda…READING PARTNERS: $32,500 · EducationREADING PARTNERSFRIENDS OF ISRAEL SCI-TECH SCHOOLS INC: $25,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF ISRAEL …ACADEMY FOR GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL: $25,000 · EducationACADEMY FOR GLOBAL…LITERACY INC: $17,500 · EducationMIGHTY WRITERS: $17,500 · Education+19 more: $114,250 · Education+19 moreHENRY FORD MUSEUM: $35,000 · OtherTHE OPEN DOOR CAPE ANN FOOD PANTRY INC: $26,158 · OtherTHE DOE FUND INC: $30,000 · OtherMAKERS HUB: $25,000 · OtherDOWNEAST INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED MARINE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION INC: $24,000 · OtherEAST VALLEY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $24,000 · Other+83 more: $553,753 · Other+83 moreTHE TANZANIAN CHILDRENS FUND INC: $48,800 · Human ServicesTHE TANZANI…HOT BREAD KITCHEN LTD: $37,500 · Human ServicesHOT BREAD K…DOROT INC: $23,733 · Human ServicesDOROT INCJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $23,600 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMI…LA PLAZA DE ENCUENTRO GATHERING PLACE: $23,500 · Human ServicesLA PLAZA DE…Jewish Family Service of the Cincinnati Area: $22,000 · Human ServicesJewish Fami…INDIANA BLIND CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $11,030 · Human ServicesWESTMINSTER NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC: $10,100 · Human ServicesTHE LUNCHBOX FUND: $10,000 · Human ServicesEMMA'S TORCH LTD: $10,000 · Human ServicesURBAN SCHOOL FOOD ALLIANCE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesHOPE SOUTHERN INDIANA INC: $10,000 · Human Services+8 more: $40,465 · Human Services+8 moreFLYING KITES INC: $138,422 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $40,000 · InternationalISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · International+1 more: $4,000 · InternationalLA COCINA VA: $34,540 · Food & NutritionPlant Chicago NFP: $30,000 · Food & NutritionEASTERN MARKET CORPORATION: $25,000 · Food & NutritionJEWISH RELIEF AGENCY INC: $18,100 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC: $11,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI: $10,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HELPINGS INC: $7,500 · Food & NutritionFundamental Needs Inc: $5,000 · Food & NutritionPROTECT THE ADIRONDACKS INC: $22,000 · EnvironmentKEEP INDIANAPOLIS BEAUTIFUL INC: $20,000 · EnvironmentBig Sur Land Trust: $15,000 · EnvironmentThe Ocean Foundation: $14,000 · EnvironmentNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN: $10,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE FOREST PRESERVES: $10,000 · EnvironmentRARITAN HEADWATERS ASSOCIATION: $8,094 · EnvironmentSHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK TRUST: $6,000 · EnvironmentGET INSPIRED: $5,500 · EnvironmentMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $5,000 · Environment+1 more: $3,600 · Environment
Arts & Culture$840,229Education$437,750Other$717,911Human Services$280,728International$192,422Food & Nutrition$141,140Environment$119,194

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 budgetTHE EDISON INSTITUTE INC: $150,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFLYING KITES INC: $138,422 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetThe Children's Museum of Indianapolis Inc: $101,800 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute: $85,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetUBUNTU PATHWAYS INC: $65,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetINDIANAPOLIS SHAKESPEARE COMPANY INC: $56,500 over 1y, 10% of budgetSimon Youth Foundation Inc: $56,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTHE TANZANIAN CHILDRENS FUND INC: $48,800 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetART21 INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCongo Square Theatre Company: $45,000 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOT BREAD KITCHEN LTD: $37,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLA COCINA VA: $34,540 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF FOOD AND DRINK: $33,334 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetKIDS DANCE OUTREACH INC: $33,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetREADING PARTNERS: $32,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSAN DIEGO AIR & SPACE MUSEUM INC: $32,266 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPlant Chicago NFP: $30,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetINTREPID MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DOE FUND INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OPEN DOOR CAPE ANN FOOD PANTRY INC: $26,158 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF ISRAEL SCI-TECH SCHOOLS INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetThe Greater Cincinnati Television Educational Foundation: $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetINDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMAKERS HUB: $25,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetEASTERN MARKET CORPORATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetACADEMY FOR GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF PHOENIX: $24,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDOWNEAST INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED MARINE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION INC: $24,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetEAST VALLEY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $24,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetDOROT INC: $23,733 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $23,600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLA PLAZA DE ENCUENTRO GATHERING PLACE: $23,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetPROTECT THE ADIRONDACKS INC: $22,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetHOPE PARTNERSHIP INC D/B/A COMMUNITY HOPE CENTER INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetKEEP INDIANAPOLIS BEAUTIFUL INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLONG ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $19,200 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH RELIEF AGENCY INC: $18,100 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetLITERACY INC: $17,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMIGHTY WRITERS: $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEUGENE MISSION INC: $15,632 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM ST LOUIS: $15,600 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CONTEMPORARY JEWISH MUSEUM: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY OF LOUISVILLE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIndianapolis Opera Company: $15,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLIFELABKIDS FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetREVOLUTION WORKSHOP: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Nicholas H Noyes Jr M…Allen Whitehill Clowe…Central Indiana Commu…The Indianapolis Foun…Lilly Endowment IncThe Brave Heart Found…Dorsey Foundation IncArts Council of India…Christel DeHaan Famil…Hoover Family Foundat…United Way of Central…Hamilton County Commu…
Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial FoundationIN34× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · The Brave Heart Foundation Inc · Dorsey Foundation Inc · Arts Council of Indianapolis Inc · Christel DeHaan Family Foundation Inc · Hoover Family Foundation · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Hamilton County Community Foundation 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 & Toni Bader Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert & Toni Bader Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Raritan Headwaters Association: 94% of income from government
  • Northbay Education Inc: 28% of income from government
  • Union City Music Project Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Artists for Humanity Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
  • South Florida Pbs Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
68report 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 199 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