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Snap 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.

$5.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
61
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Philanthropy$20MArts & Culture$9.1MEducation$3.1MYouth Development$3.1MCommunity Improvement$2.5MHuman Services$1.1MEmployment$542kHousing & Shelter$400kOther$0
02FY2024 · 61 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $160k
  • $50k–250k52 grants · $4.8M
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.0M
$100,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$140M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS$250,000
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS$250,000
INNER-CITY ARTS$250,000
HEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC$250,000
P S ARTS$150,000
LA PLAZA DE CULTURA Y ARTES$150,000
GHETTO FILM SCHOOL LA INC$150,000
CENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES$150,000
ETM-LA INC$150,000
LATINO THEATER COMPANY$150,000
ARTS FOR L A$125,000
ARTS FOR HEALING AND JUSTICE NETWORK$125,000
YOUNG STORYTELLERS FOUNDATION$100,000
ARMORY CENTER FOR THE ARTS$100,000
GET LIT WORDS IGNITE INC$100,000
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, $1.7M) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PARTNERS FOR CHILDREN SOUTH LA: $100k → 14%DREAM HAUS INC: $25k → 14%DREAM HAUS INC: $15k → 14%KOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $100k → 14%KOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $75k → 14%HOMEBOY ART ACADEMY INC: $100k → 14%HOMEBOY ART ACADEMY INC: $100k → 14%MANIFESTWORKS: $100k → 14%LOST ANGELS CHILDRENS PROJECT INC: $50k → 14%MANIFESTWORKS: $100k → 14%LOST ANGELS CHILDRENS PROJECT INC: $25k → 14%BLACK OWNED AND OPERATED COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC: $175k → 14%JOURNEY HOUSE INC: $100k → 14%JOURNEY HOUSE INC: $100k → 14%REDISCOVER CENTER INC: $125k → 14%JOURNEY HOUSE INC: $100k → 14%REDISCOVER CENTER INC: $110k → 14%JOURNEY HOUSE INC: $100 → 14%REDISCOVER CENTER INC: $75k → 14%EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%A SENSE OF HOME: $7k → 14%SAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH: $50k → 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.

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.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 7% of Snap Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Snap Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$15M · 48 repeat orgs$7.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

48 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
51

Total granted

$15M
$5.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+13%

Still filing today

92%
96%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther

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

  • HO
    HEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC
    2× · 2021–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +51%
  • SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +301%
  • DC
    DESTINATION CRENSHAW
    4× · 2020–2024 · $650k · revenue +83%

Funded once

  • SP
    STREET POETS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $1.2M · revenue +21% · 75% of their budget
  • RN
    RESTORE NEIGHBORHOODS LA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +456%
  • AG
    ACTOR'S GANG INC
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +20%

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
Los Angeles Performance Practice

As creative producers, we are devoted to the production and presentation of groundbreaking experiences in contemporary performance that use innovative approaches to collaboration, technology, and social engagement. As a service…

Arts & Culture
2
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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3
Youth in Arts

Youth in Arts builds visual and performing arts skills through innovative and in-depth programs that foster confidence, compassion and resilience in students of all abilities. We develop capacity among educators and teaching artists,…

Arts & Culture
4
Los Angeles Academy of Arts and Enterprise

To prepare students for leadership in the arts and business; where creativity, academic knowledge and financial literacy are essential for success. we are providing an education that integrates the four lenses of learning: academics, arts,…

Education
5
Art Share Los Angeles

Promoting culturals arts in los angeles including education, gallery exhibits, artist living and work spaces theater, art and community festivals, artistic development and community outreach.

Arts & Culture
6
Angels Gate Cultural Center Inc

To provide space for artists to work and to engage community through arts education, exhibitions of contemporary art, and cultural events.

Arts & Culture
7
Movimiento De Arte Y Cultura Latino Americana De San Jose Incorporated

MACLA/Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana is an inclusive contemporary arts space grounded in the Chicano/Latino experience that incubates new visual, literary and performance art in order to engage people in civic dialogue and…

Arts & Culture
8
The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Society Inc

The orchestra pursues its mission, "to enrich and connect our community through intimate and transformative musical experiences which exemplify and foster artistic excellence, education and innovation," through the blend of traditional…

Arts & Culture
9
La Blueprint
Science & Tech
10
Contra-Tiempo

Contra-tiempo is a bold, multilingual los angeles-based activist dance theater company creating physically intense and politically astute performance work that moves audience to imagine what is possible. We create a new physical, visual…

Arts & Culture
11
Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles

Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles (Carla) is a Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization and publishing platform that is dedicated to providing inclusive perspectives on contemporary art. Publishing in both print and online, Carla is an…

Arts & Culture
12
Los Angeles International Dance Festival
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arts for La and the most unlike its peers is Barcid Foundation. 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 backsteadyFamily Philanthropic Founda…Industry Trade AssociationsFaith-Based Community Servi…Public Interest Advocacy an…Youth Sports ProgramsChild Protection & Support …Early Childhood Education C…Charter and Alternative Sch…Youth Mentorship & Support …Performing Arts Organizatio…Affordable Senior Housing &…Homeless & At-Risk Support …
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 20 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%2%<5yr16%17%5–10yr20%30%10–20yr17%33%20–35yr10%14%35–55yr12%4%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%1%<5yr16%8%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr17%22%20–35yr10%57%35–55yr12%1%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.8%1/120
the rest of the field
16%
7,866/49,696

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.

05the grantee network

116 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. 116 of the 121 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
114/116
Grantees still filing
73/116
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $19,105,358 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS — $1,050,000 · Philanthropy+4 more — $350,000 · PhilanthropyDESTINATION CRENSHAW — $650,000 · Arts & CultureDESTINATION CRENSHAWFRACTURED ATLAS INC — $625,000 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED ATLAS INCINNER-CITY ARTS — $500,000 · Arts & CultureINNER-CITY ARTSSELF HELP GRAPHICS & ART INC — $475,000 · Arts & CultureSELF HELP GRAPHICS &…LATINO THEATER COMPANY — $350,000 · Arts & CultureThe Alliance For Media Arts Culture Inc — $280,000 · Arts & CultureArts for LA — $275,000 · Arts & CultureACTOR'S GANG INC — $250,000 · Arts & CultureARTS FOR HEALING AND JUSTICE NETWORK — $250,000 · Arts & Culture+32 more — $3,606,968 · Arts & Culture+32 moreSTREET POETS INC — $1,200,000 · EducationSTREET PO…PARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS — $500,000 · EducationPARTNERSH…READY TO SUCCEED — $370,250 · EducationREADY TO …COOP Careers Inc — $250,000 · EducationCOOP Care…826LA — $200,000 · Education826LAARTS MEDIA AND ENTERTAINMENT INSTITUTE INC — $150,000 · Education+13 more — $880,000 · Education+13 moreLOS ANGELES COUNTY REGISTRAR-RECORDERCOUNTY CLERK — $405,000 · OtherLOS ANGEL…GHETTO FILM SCHOOL LA INC — $350,000 · OtherGHETTO FI…A PLACE CALLED HOME — $250,000 · OtherA PLACE C…KCRW FOUNDATION INC — $225,000 · OtherKCRW FOUN…PF Bresee Foundation — $200,000 · OtherPF Bresee…ETM-LA INC — $150,000 · OtherPS ARTS — $150,000 · OtherRESTORE NEIGHBORHOODS LA INC — $250,000 · OtherRESTORE N…JAIL GUITAR DOORS — $150,000 · Other+19 more — $1,263,083 · Other+19 moreMISSION ASSET FUND — $1,554,181 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $371,600 · Community ImprovementLA PLAZA DE CULTURA Y ARTES — $150,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY COALITION FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT — $125,000 · Community Improvement+1 more — $75,000 · Community ImprovementHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC — $1,250,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG STORYTELLERS — $200,000 · Youth DevelopmentDIY GIRLS — $200,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INC OF GREATER LOS ANGELES — $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentURBAN TXT TEENS EXPLORING TECHNOLOGY — $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentBetter Youth Inc — $75,000 · Youth Development+4 more — $165,000 · Youth DevelopmentREDISCOVER CENTER INC — $310,000 · Human ServicesJOURNEY HOUSE INC — $300,100 · Human ServicesMANIFESTWORKS — $200,000 · Human ServicesHOMEBOY ART ACADEMY INC — $200,000 · Human ServicesBLACK OWNED AND OPERATED COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC — $175,000 · Human ServicesKOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER — $175,000 · Human ServicesPARTNERS FOR CHILDREN SOUTH LA — $100,000 · Human ServicesLost Angels Childrens Project Inc — $75,000 · Human Services+4 more — $147,000 · Human Services
Philanthropy$20,505,358Arts & Culture$7,261,968Education$3,550,250Other$3,393,083Community Improvement$2,275,781Youth Development$2,140,000Human Services$1,682,100

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 budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $19,105,358 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetMISSION ASSET FUND — $1,554,181 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC — $1,250,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetSTREET POETS INC — $1,200,000 over 1y, 75% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS — $1,050,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetDESTINATION CRENSHAW — $650,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC — $625,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetINNER-CITY ARTS — $500,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS — $500,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetSELF HELP GRAPHICS & ART INC — $475,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $371,600 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetREADY TO SUCCEED — $370,250 over 3y, 11% of budgetLATINO THEATER COMPANY — $350,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetREDISCOVER CENTER INC — $310,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetJOURNEY HOUSE INC — $300,100 over 4y, 16% of budgetThe Alliance For Media Arts Culture Inc — $280,000 over 2y, 36% of budgetArts for LA — $275,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetCOOP Careers Inc — $250,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetACTOR'S GANG INC — $250,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetARTS FOR HEALING AND JUSTICE NETWORK — $250,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetA PLACE CALLED HOME — $250,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetVENICE ARTS — $235,000 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetGET LIT - WORDS IGNITE INC — $225,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetKCRW FOUNDATION INC — $225,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMANIFESTWORKS — $200,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetARMORY CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $200,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetTHE H E ART PROJECT dba ARTWORXLA — $200,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetHOMEBOY ART ACADEMY INC — $200,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetYOUNG STORYTELLERS — $200,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetTIA CHUCHA'S CENTRO CULTURAL INC — $200,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetDIY GIRLS — $200,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetBARCID FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetPF Bresee Foundation — $200,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budget826LA — $200,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetBLACK OWNED AND OPERATED COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC — $175,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetKOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER — $175,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetA Noise Within — $150,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetLA PLAZA DE CULTURA Y ARTES — $150,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetCENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES — $150,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetETM-LA INC — $150,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budget24th Street Theatre Company — $150,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetJAIL GUITAR DOORS — $150,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetARTS MEDIA AND ENTERTAINMENT INSTITUTE INC — $150,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetGIRLS INC OF GREATER LOS ANGELES — $150,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetFUTURE ROOTS INC — $150,000 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetPS ARTS — $150,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetARRAY ALLIANCE INC — $150,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMUSIC WILL INC — $150,000 over 3y, 0.9% 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.

California Community …The Ralph M Parsons F…The Annenberg Foundat…Weingart FoundationThe Ahmanson Foundati…Elbridge Stuart Found…Perenchio FoundationThe J Paul Getty TrustThe Rose Hills Founda…Liberty Hill Foundati…Ccf Community Initiat…The Green Foundation
California Community FoundationCA91.1× affinity81 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Elbridge Stuart Foundation Dba Stuart Foundation · Perenchio Foundation · The J Paul Getty Trust · The Rose Hills Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · Ccf Community Initiatives Fund · The Green 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 Snap Foundation 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 · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Girls Make Beats Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
48report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 Snap Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Snap 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 121 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.

Source object · view filing

More from the funding graph

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