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Southern Vision Alliance

See schedule oSOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE (sva) is a justice-centered, values-based grassroots intermediary organized to provide incubation, infrastructure, capacity building, coaching, and technical assistance to frontline organizing projects, leadership programs, and collaborations led by directly impacted communities in the u.s.

$1.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
36
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$29k
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 FY2017–2024.

Civil Rights$456kHuman Services$349kHealth$301kArts & Culture$291kCommunity Improvement$151kEducation$140kPublic Benefit$89kCrime & Legal$85kOther$0
02FY2024 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 36 grants below total $329,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,616,546 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,287,046 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k21 grants · $123k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $207k
$8,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ORANGE COUNTY TRANSLATINAS$28,500
HIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER$20,000
DUBOIS INSTITUTE FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP$20,000
GRIMALKIN RECORDS INC$16,000
SOUTHEASTERN IMMIGRANT RIGHTS NETWORK$15,000
OPERATION RESTORATION$11,000
SOUTHERN FRIED QUEER PRIDE$11,000
ARCO IRIS EARTH CARE PROJECT$11,000
AFRO EROTIC BODY$11,000
CAPITAL TEA INC$11,000
BLACK LGBTQ LIBERATION INC$11,000
PARAGON COOPERATIVE FOR LITERACY INFORMED CONSENT KWLEDGE & SUSTAINABILI$11,000
THE BOTTOM$10,000
ABUNDANT LIFE AME CHURCH$10,000
LATI COMMISSION ON AIDS$10,000
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, $358k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%ITSOKTOBE YOUUU: $6k → 14%BLACK BUTTERFLY COLLECTIVE: $6k → 18%COMMUNITY ORGANIZING FOR RACIAL EQU: $23k → 9%NARRATIVE ARTS: $6k → 12%ULECAN: $10k → 14%CASA AZUL DE WILSON: $10k → 20%NC FIELD: $18k → 21%TRANS WOMEN OF COLOR HEALING PROJEC: $6k → 8%POWER SAFE PLACE RESOURCE CENTER OF: $6k → 10%THE CARE COLLECTIVE OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA: $8k → 22%TECHMOJA DANCE AND THEATRE: $6k → 12%Chocolate Soul Revival: $6k → 11%SOUTHEASTERN IMMIGRANT RIGHTS NETWORK: $15k → 13%TRANZMISSION: $122k → 12%Southeast Asian Coalition: $6k → 10%LGBTQ CENTER OF DURHAM: $25k → 11%TRANZMISSION: $44k → 12%Tranzmission: $11k → 12%MA HNAKIHU INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE PRES: $20k → 12%TRANZMISSION: $8k → 12%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.

Which US states your grants reach

MI
NY
PA
CA
MO
VA
MD
NM
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

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.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$975k · 28 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

28 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
69

Total granted

$975k
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+8%

Still filing today

64%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $168k 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
Human ServicesArts & CultureCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementHealthEducationOther

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

  • TI
    TRANZMISSION INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $185k · revenue +239% · 88% of their budget
  • CM
    CAROLINA MIGRANT NETWORK INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $46k · revenue +831% · 26% of their budget
  • FY
    FUERZA Y UNION MULTIPLE
    2× · 2020–2023 · $29k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • PN
    PODER NC ACTIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $98k · revenue +35%
  • AC
    ASHEVILLE CREATIVE ARTS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $92k · revenue -50%
  • EL CENTRO HISPANO INC
    one grant, 2023 · $72k · revenue +2%

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
Carribean Equality Project Inc

The Caribbean Equality Project is an NYC-based community organization that empowers, advocates for, and represents Afro and Indo-Caribbean LGBTQ+ immigrants in New York City.

Human Services
2
Southerners On New Ground Inc

Southerners on New Ground, Inc. (SONG) is a home for LGBTQ liberation across all lines of race, class, abilities, age, culture, gender, and sexuality in the South. SONG builds, sustains, and connects a southern regional base of LBGTQ…

Civil Rights
3
Atlanta Black Pride Inc

To educate, celebrate, promote self-empowerment and ensure that the social and cultural needs of LGBTQ+ individuals and families are met throughout the Atlanta Metropolitan area.

Civil Rights
4
North Carolina Empowerment Organization
Civil Rights
5
Black Phoenix Organizing Collective

We prioritize the needs of Black people through two programs: Disability Justice and Reproductive Justice. We believe that supporting mental healthcare, holding and creating space for vulnerability is a piece of how we free ourselves as…

Food & Nutrition
6
Lgbt Center Intercultural Collective Inc

Colectivo Intercultural TRANSgrediendo is a social organization, which works on the empowerment of human rights, access and comprehensive health care of TransGNB people, strengthening the social and cultural expression of diverse gender…

Civil Rights
7
3 Kings Project

3 Kings Project is at the forefront of driving positive representation and visibility in minority communities, with a mission to eradicate health inequities impacting Black and Brown LGBTQ populations.

Civil Rights
8
Southern Black Policy & Advocacy Network

The mission of the Southern Black Policy and Advocacy Network is to improve health outcomes and to reduce social and economic disparities impacting Black communities living in the U.S. South.

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9
Unity Coalition Coalicion Unida Inc

UNITY COALITION|COALICION UNIDA is the organization for the Hispanic, Indigenous & Of Color LGBT+ communities, advancing Equality & Fairness, through the Arts, Education, and Awareness, since 2002.

Civil Rights
10
Equality Hi

Equality HI's Mission envisions a thriving and empowering culture that proactively engages in creating an inclusive and diverse queer community through aloha, leadership, resources, services and education.

Human Services
11
Transgender Advocates Knowledgeable Empowering

Working together as a community to empower Trans People of Color by meeting needs and increasing accessibility

Human Services
12
Womens March Inc

Women's March is committed to dismantling systems of oppression through nonviolent resistance and building inclusive structures guided by self-determination, dignity and respect.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is We Are Family and the most unlike its peers is Grimalkin Records Inc. 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 backsteadyImmigrant Worker SupportCommunity Arts CentersLocal Food System Organizat…Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Environmental Conservation …Food Banks and PantriesDevelopmental Disabilities …Domestic Violence ServicesYouth Mentoring ProgramsLgbtq+ Community SupportPolicy Research and AdvocacyWomen & Girls Leadership De…
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 6 years old; the field is 12. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%37%<5yr16%23%5–10yr20%21%10–20yr14%12%20–35yr12%5%35–55yr12%3%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%41%<5yr16%15%5–10yr20%25%10–20yr14%15%20–35yr12%2%35–55yr12%3%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 37% of your grantees by number, and just 41% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%4/118
the rest of the field
15%
7,956/53,062

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.

04the grantee network

89 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. 89 of the 119 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
86/89
Grantees still filing
50/89
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DANGERS OF THE MIND — $265,900 · OtherDANGERS OF THE MINDORANGE COUNTY TRANSLATINAS — $39,500 · OtherBountiful Cities Project — $33,875 · OtherSOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE — $48,350 · Other+56 more — $544,730 · Other+56 moreTRANZMISSION INC — $185,204 · Human ServicesTRANZMISSION INCThe LGBTQ Center of Durham Inc — $25,000 · Human ServicesThe LGBTQ Center of …Community Organizing for Racial Equity CORE — $23,444 · Human ServicesCommunity Organizing…Colaborativa La Milpa — $20,000 · Human ServicesNC Field Inc — $17,500 · Human ServicesNARRATIVE ARTS — $16,500 · Human ServicesOPERATION RESTORATION — $16,500 · Human ServicesSOUTHEAST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS NETWORK INC — $15,000 · Human Services+10 more — $66,500 · Human Services+10 moreASHEVILLE CREATIVE ARTS INC — $91,625 · Arts & CultureASHEVILLE CREAT…PIECE BY PIECE — $39,600 · Arts & CulturePIECE BY PIECEVALORES INC — $23,875 · Arts & CultureVALORES INCGRIMALKIN RECORDS INC — $21,500 · Arts & CultureGRIMALKIN RECOR…WATAUGA COUNTY IMMIGRANT JUSTICE COALITION — $21,500 · Arts & CultureWATAUGA COUNTY …Marian Cheek Jackson Center — $20,000 · Arts & CultureMarian Cheek Ja…ENLACE LATINO NC INC — $17,500 · Arts & CultureENLACE LATINO N…REFLECT COLLECTIVE — $11,000 · Arts & CultureThe Bottom — $10,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more — $32,723 · Arts & Culture+6 morePODER NC ACTION — $98,473 · Civil RightsPODER NC ACT…NORTH CAROLINA VOTER PROJECT — $33,460 · Civil RightsNORTH CAROLI…WE ARE FAMILY — $17,500 · Civil RightsWE ARE FAMIL…Southern Fried Queer Pride Inc — $16,500 · Civil RightsSouthern Fri…Black LGBTQ Liberation Inc — $16,500 · Civil RightsBlack LGBTQ …UPSTATE LGBT CHAMBER FUND — $13,500 · Civil RightsUPSTATE LGBT…YOUTH OUTRIGHT WNC INC — $11,000 · Civil RightsCampaign For Southern Equality — $10,000 · Civil Rights+4 more — $22,000 · Civil Rights+4 moreEL CENTRO HISPANO INC — $71,625 · Community ImprovementFUERZA Y UNION MULTIPLE — $28,500 · Community ImprovementPROGRESS NORTH CAROLINA — $26,593 · Community ImprovementCenter for Participatory Change — $22,000 · Community ImprovementMERRICK MOORE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP MERRICK MOORE COMMUNITY CLUB — $7,000 · Community Improvement+2 more — $11,000 · Community ImprovementBLUEPRINT NORTH CAROLINA — $57,000 · EducationDUBOIS INSTITUTE FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP — $20,000 · EducationNEW NORTH CAROLINA PROJECT — $15,000 · EducationDURHAM PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $6,770 · EducationCAROLINA MIGRANT NETWORK INC — $45,870 · Crime & LegalJAIL PROJECT OF TEXAS — $8,000 · Crime & LegalSOUTHERN COALITION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE — $7,884 · Crime & Legal
Other$932,355Human Services$385,648Arts & Culture$289,323Civil Rights$238,933Community Improvement$166,718Education$98,770Crime & Legal$61,754

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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTRANZMISSION INC — $185,204 over 4y, 88% of budgetPODER NC ACTION — $98,473 over 1y, 11% of budgetASHEVILLE CREATIVE ARTS INC — $91,625 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetEL CENTRO HISPANO INC — $71,625 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetBLUEPRINT NORTH CAROLINA — $57,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE — $48,350 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCAROLINA MIGRANT NETWORK INC — $45,870 over 2y, 26% of budgetPIECE BY PIECE — $39,600 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetBountiful Cities Project — $33,875 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA VOTER PROJECT — $33,460 over 1y, 14% of budgetFUERZA Y UNION MULTIPLE — $28,500 over 2y, 10% of budgetWESTERN NORTH CAROLINA WORKERS CENTER — $28,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetUE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FUND — $25,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetThe LGBTQ Center of Durham Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCommunity Organizing for Racial Equity CORE — $23,444 over 1y, 16% of budgetCenter for Participatory Change — $22,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetGRIMALKIN RECORDS INC — $21,500 over 2y, 26% of budgetHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMarian Cheek Jackson Center — $20,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetColaborativa La Milpa — $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDUBOIS INSTITUTE FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP — $20,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetASSOCIACION DE MEXICANOS EN CAROLINA DEL NORT — $20,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetNC Field Inc — $17,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetENLACE LATINO NC INC — $17,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetWE ARE FAMILY — $17,500 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetSouthern Fried Queer Pride Inc — $16,500 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetCAPITAL TEA INC — $16,500 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetBlack LGBTQ Liberation Inc — $16,500 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetNARRATIVE ARTS — $16,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetOPERATION RESTORATION — $16,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Beloved Community Center of Greensboro Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSOUTHEAST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS NETWORK INC — $15,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetNEW NORTH CAROLINA PROJECT — $15,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetUPSTATE LGBT CHAMBER FUND — $13,500 over 2y, 10% of budgetCAPE FEAR RIVER ASSEMBLY INC — $11,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetYOUTH OUTRIGHT WNC INC — $11,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetMARSHAS TEA ROOM INC — $11,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetGame Changing Men Inc — $11,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetREFLECT COLLECTIVE — $11,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetPROJECT SOUTH INC — $10,331 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCasa Azul De Wilson — $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetBLACK BELT JUSTICE CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetThe Bottom — $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetLATINO COMMISSION ON AIDS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCampaign For Southern Equality — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe Care Collective of Southwest Vi rginia — $8,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetJAIL PROJECT OF TEXAS — $8,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetDURHAM PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $6,770 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Borealis PhilanthropyNEO Philanthropy IncBlueprint North Carol…Amalgamated Charitabl…Tides FoundationZ Smith Reynolds Foun…Hispanic Federation I…Proteus Fund IncCommunity Foundation …Groundswell FundMs Foundation for Wom…Laughing Gull Foundat…
Borealis PhilanthropyMN52.1× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Borealis Philanthropy · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Blueprint North Carolina · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · Hispanic Federation Inc · Proteus Fund Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc · Groundswell Fund · Ms Foundation for Women Inc · Laughing Gull 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 Southern Vision Alliance 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 · 70%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 79%
  • Disability Rights Florida Inc — 79% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
15report 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

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 Southern Vision Alliance?

Find your warmest path to Southern Vision Alliance 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 119 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 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
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