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Tc Energy 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.

$1.3M
Granted FY2023
7
Grants FY2023
3
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.

Public Safety & Disaster$4.3MEducation$3.1MArts & Culture$2.4MEnvironment$1.8MRecreation & Sports$1.6MCommunity Improvement$1.4MHealth$1.4MFood & Nutrition$1.2MOther$0
02FY2023 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $41k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $700k
  • $250k+2 grants · $550k
$200,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON$300,000
COMP-U-DOPT INC$250,000
GREATER HOUSTON PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION$200,000
NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION$200,000
GREATER HOUSTON PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION$200,000
PROGRESSIVE AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION$100,000
PRAIRIE VIEW A&M FOUNDATION$41,423
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 (FY20–22, $620k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 64% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PLUMBERS AND STEAMFITTERS LOCAL 598 BIKES FOR TIKES CHARITY: $5k → 11%NORTH CENTRAL OHIO LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $10k → 15%THE HEALING HOUSE INC: $13k → 18%SPOKANE VALLEY PARTNERS: $5k → 12%SPOKANE VALLEY PARTNERS: $5k → 12%CHILD BRIDGE INC: $5k → 18%DELIVERANCE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC: $5k → 22%NONPAREIL INSTITUTE: $15k → 5%GARFIELD COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY COUNCIL INC: $5k → 16%AMERICAN HOME FINDING ASSOCIATION: $10k → 16%NESTLINGS: $10k → 8%WAVE PROJECT: $5k → 10%OPERATION BBQ RELIEF: $25k → 8%VITENDO 4 AFRICA: $5k → 11%FAITH BRIDGE: $10k → 17%THE MINISTRY CENTER INC: $5k → 17%YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSN OF ST JOSEPH: $50k → 18%VETERANS OUTREACH OF WISCONSIN: $15k → 10%MARINETTE COUNTY ELDERLY SERVICES: $5k → 12%CASA OF CENTRAL OREGON: $5k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS - CASCADES REGION: $10k → 12%DRESS FOR SUCCESS MEMPHIS: $20k → 17%DOORS OF HOPE TRANSITION MINISTRIES: $8k → 18%WILD HORSE BUTTE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $5k → 31%EASTER SEALS VERMONT INC: $5k → 9%JEFF DAVIS COMMUNITIES AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE: $8k → 19%CHILD BRIDGE INC: $5k → 18%CRITTER BARN: $10k → 8%LITTLE HANDS INC: $5k → 14%YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $10k → 18%GREATER GREEN BAY YMCA INC: $10k → 10%NORTHWOODS WOMEN INC DBANEW DAY ADVOCACY CENTER: $7k → 14%SAVING GRACE IMAGINE LIFE WITHOUT VIOLENCE: $5k → 10%DRESS FOR SUCCESS NORTHERN NEW JERSEY-10 COUNTIES INC: $20k → 4%PETER-PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $30k → 9%WILD HORSE BUTTE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $5k → 31%EASTER SEALS NEW HAMPSHIRE INC: $10k → 7%CRITTER BARN: $10k → 8%EAST TEXAS HUMAN NEEDS NETWORK: $15k → 12%EMERGENCY AID CENTER INC: $6k → 25%EAST TEXAS CRISIS CENTER INC: $15k → 12%EAST TEXAS CRISIS CENTER INC: $14k → 12%WASHINGTON CITY MISSION INC: $15k → 12%EAST TEXAS CRISIS CENTER: $8k → 12%WASHINGTON CITY MISSION INC: $10k → 12%DRESS FOR SUCCESS HOUSTON: $30k → 16%DRESS FOR SUCCESS HOUSTON: $10k → 16%COMMUNITY FAMILY CENTERS-CENTROS FAMILIARES DE LA COMUNIDAD: $20k → 16%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

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CA
NE
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DC
OK
LA
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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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 305 repeat orgs$9.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

305 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2023, 301 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

305
1105

Total granted

$12M
$9.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+13%

Still filing today

56%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Public Safety & DisasterHuman ServicesEnvironmentEducationFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • GH
    Greater Houston Partnership Foundation
    3× · 2021–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +57%
  • CI
    COMP-U-DOPT INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $680k · revenue +286%
  • PV
    PRAIRIE VIEW A&M FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2023 · $141k · revenue +224%

Funded once

  • LC
    LEWIS & CLARK COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2020 · $125k
  • FD
    FEDERAL DAM VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
    one grant, 2021 · $55k
  • WC
    WALSH COUNT SHERIFF'S OFFICE
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
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
Wilderness Volunteer Fire Department Inc

WVFD provides fire suppression and rescue services to the communities of Nicholas County, WV and surrounding areas.

Public Safety & Disaster
2
Weaverland Valley Fire Department

Fire prevention and protection

Public Safety & Disaster
3
Lewisburg Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Fire protection for the City of Lewisburg, WV and surrounding areas

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4
Kountze Volunteer Fire Department

Provide Fire Protection and Emergency Services

Public Safety & Disaster
5
Nokesville Volunteer Fire Department

Fire and rescue services

Public Safety & Disaster
6
Devils Lake Rural Fire Dept Inc

Fire Department

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7
Garretson Volunteer Fire Department

The Garretson Volunteer Fire Department serves the City of Garretson and surrounding communities in Eastern South Dakota. The Department is made up completely of volunteer fireman and is responsible for roughly 100 square miles within its…

Public Safety & Disaster
8
Van Dyne Volunteer Fire Department

Provide fire protection and first responder services to the towns of black wolf and friendship, wisconsin

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9
Flemington Volunteer Fire Department Inc

To provide volunteer fire fighting services in the flemington, wv region.

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10
Millers Creek Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Volunteer fire department

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11
Waterfront Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Volunteer fire department

Public Safety & Disaster
12
Cherry Mountain Volunteer Fire

Fire and emergency services

Public Safety & Disaster
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minuteman Disaster Response Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Smith-Barbieri Progressive Fund a Charitable Foundation. 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

598 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. 598 of the 1,423 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)
158
Early backer (in before they grew)
576/598
Grantees still filing
389/598
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FOND DU LAC BAND OF LAKE SUPERIOR CHIPPEWA: $2,090,000 · OtherFOND DU LAC BAND OF LAKE SUPERIOR CHIPPEWALEECH LAKE BAND OF OJIBWE: $2,025,000 · OtherLEECH LAKE BAND OF OJIBWEUNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON: $485,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON+132 more: $4,133,031 · Other+132 moreCOMP-U-DOPT INC: $680,000 · EducationCOMP-U-DOPT…PRAIRIE VIEW A&M FOUNDATION: $141,423 · EducationPRAIRIE VIE…WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 · EducationWEST VIRGIN…+15 more: $418,492 · Education+15 moreGreater Houston Partnership Foundation: $1,000,000 · Community ImprovementGreater H…+5 more: $108,500 · Community Improvement+5 moreCoastal Prairie Conservancy: $60,000 · EnvironmentCOALITION TO RESTORE COASTAL LOUISIANA: $60,000 · EnvironmentCONSUMER ENERGY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $55,000 · EnvironmentNevada Outdoor School: $50,000 · EnvironmentSEEDS: $50,000 · EnvironmentLIVING LANDS & WATERS: $45,000 · EnvironmentHOUSTON WILDERNESS INC: $40,000 · EnvironmentTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $35,000 · EnvironmentWILDLANDS CONSERVANCY INC: $35,000 · EnvironmentCOAL RIVER GROUP INC: $35,000 · EnvironmentRESTORING LANDS INC: $25,000 · EnvironmentLANDMARK CONSERVANCY INC: $25,000 · EnvironmentGREEN UMBRELLA: $24,000 · EnvironmentINLAND NORTHWEST LAND TRUST: $23,000 · EnvironmentTruckee River Watershed Council: $21,013 · Environment+2 more: $40,000 · EnvironmentYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ST JOSEPH: $60,000 · Human ServicesDRESS FOR SUCCESS HOUSTON: $40,000 · Human ServicesEAST TEXAS CRISIS CENTER INC: $36,500 · Human ServicesWASHINGTON CITY MISSION: $31,200 · Human ServicesPETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesOPERATION BBQ RELIEF: $25,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY FAMILY CENTERS INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesDRESS FOR SUCCESS MEMPHIS: $20,000 · Human ServicesExchange Club - Carl Perkins Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse Inc: $20,000 · Human ServicesDRESS FOR SUCCESS NORTHERN NJ-10 COUNTIES INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesCRITTER BARN: $20,000 · Human ServicesSHENANDOAH VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: $35,000 · Public Safety & DisasterNEW BETHLEHEM FIREMENS COMPANY NO 1: $33,000 · Public Safety & DisasterMissions on Wheels Inc: $31,000 · Public Safety & DisasterTHE FIRE FIGHTERS FOUNDATION OF HOUSTON: $25,000 · Public Safety & DisasterKENOVA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT: $23,000 · Public Safety & DisasterPINES FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $22,700 · Public Safety & DisasterTHE GANDY COMMUNITY CLUB AND VOLUNTEER FIRE HALL I: $20,125 · Public Safety & DisasterMOSELEYVILLE FIRE DEPARTMENT: $20,000 · Public Safety & DisasterSt John Volunteer Fire Dept Inc: $20,000 · Public Safety & DisasterMINUTEMAN DISASTER RESPONSE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Public Safety & DisasterNew Martinsville Volunteer Fire Dept: $20,000 · Public Safety & DisasterNATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION: $200,000 · Recreation & SportsWOODLANDS CONSERVANCY: $39,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$8,733,031Education$1,319,915Community Improvement$1,108,500Environment$623,013Human Services$322,700Public Safety & Disaster$269,825Recreation & Sports$239,000

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%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGreater Houston Partnership Foundation: $1,000,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetCOMP-U-DOPT INC: $680,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetNATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPRAIRIE VIEW A&M FOUNDATION: $141,423 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $135,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROGRESSIVE AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetTEXAS WILDLIFE REHABILITATION COALITION INC: $81,320 over 3y, 12% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Excellence in Education: $70,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCoastal Prairie Conservancy: $60,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ST JOSEPH: $60,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS RIVER CITIES INC: $60,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetCOALITION TO RESTORE COASTAL LOUISIANA: $60,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCONSUMER ENERGY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetANGELS OF ACTION INC: $54,200 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNevada Outdoor School: $50,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetSEEDS: $50,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetSMART NORTH: $49,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetHope For The Warriors: $45,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLIVING LANDS & WATERS: $45,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNESTQUEST HOUSTON INC: $45,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetMSRW Mackinaw Straits Raptor watch: $41,905 over 3y, 16% of budgetNOONDAY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $41,344 over 3y, 40% of budgetBismarck State College Foundation: $40,142 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetThe Women's Resource of Greater Houston: $40,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetClendenin Volunteer Fire Department: $40,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetMEMORIAL ES PARENTAL TEACHER ORGANI ZATION: $40,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS HOUSTON: $40,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetHOUSTON WILDERNESS INC: $40,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetWOODLANDS CONSERVANCY: $39,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWharncliffe Volunteer Fire Department: $38,000 over 2y, 55% of budgetTHE TURTLE SURVIVAL ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $37,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetEAST TEXAS CRISIS CENTER INC: $36,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWILDLANDS CONSERVANCY INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTexas A&M Foundation: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHENANDOAH VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: $35,000 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetMIDLAND AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLACKAWANNA COLLEGE: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHEAST WISCONSIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $34,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetNEW BETHLEHEM FIREMENS COMPANY NO 1: $33,000 over 3y, 8.2% of budgetWASHINGTON CITY MISSION: $31,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMissions on Wheels Inc: $31,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetPETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS COLUMBUS: $30,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetFLINT-GRESHAM VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $30,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetTrees For Houston: $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

The Avista FoundationAlbert & Ethel Herzst…Encova Foundation of …Centerpoint Energy Fo…The Greater Kanawha V…Marathon Petroleum Fo…Harry S & Isabel C Ca…Nisource Charitable F…Peoples Bank Foundati…Feeding AmericaWisconsin Public Serv…German American Found…
The Avista FoundationWA27.7× affinity23 shared granteesties to 2 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Avista Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Encova Foundation of West Virginia · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation · Marathon Petroleum Foundation Inc · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Peoples Bank Foundation · Feeding America · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation · German American 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 Tc Energy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tc Energy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • George Miksch Sutton Avian Research Center Inc: 68% of income from government
  • Smart Reading: 3% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Ridge and Valley Conservancy Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
65report 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.
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How do I get to Tc Energy Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Tc Energy 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 1423 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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where grant money is based, and what stays home