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The Clayman Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$450k
Granted FY2025still arriving
72
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$128k
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, FY2019 to 2024.

Health$1.7MEducation$410kArts & Culture$278kHuman Services$203kReligion$72kRecreation & Sports$46kCrime & Legal$44kYouth Development$41kOther$0
02FY2025 · 72 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k64 grants · $163k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $90k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $198k
$2,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OC-87 INC$127,500
PHILADELPHIA MUSIC ALLIANCE$70,000
AIM ACADEMY$25,000
RECOVERY DIARIES$16,100
Individual grant recipient$15,000
COGWELL$14,000
AACR FOUNDATION$10,000
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$10,000
THE GRAYSON SCHOOL$9,817
Individual grant recipient$8,000
Individual grant recipient$7,000
CAMP RONALD MCDONALD FOR GOOD TIMES$7,000
SUPPORT CENTER FOR CHILD ADVOCATES$5,000
WEITZMAN NATL MUSEUM AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY$5,000
ASSOC FOR ADULTS WITH DEV DISABILITIES$5,000
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 (FY19–25, $201k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 41% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%SPROUT: $3k → 17%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $500 → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $500 → 14%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $18k → 6%BETHANNA: $1k → 22%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 6%PROJECT HOME: $5k → 22%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 6%PROJECT HOME: $5k → 22%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 6%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 6%PROJECT HOME: $5k → 22%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $7k → 6%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $5k → 7%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $5k → 6%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $5k → 7%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $4k → 7%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $4k → 6%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $4k → 7%GREATER PHILADELPHIA VETERANS NETWORK: $5k → 10%PROJECT HOME: $5k → 22%BETHANNA: $1k → 6%PROJECT HOME: $5k → 22%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $2k → 7%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $2k → 7%PROJECT HOME: $3k → 22%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $1k → 7%MAIN LINE DEPUTY DOG: $100 → 6%LUBAVITCH HOUSE AT PENN: $13k → 22%LUBAVITCH HOUSE AT PENN: $13k → 22%LUBAVITCH HOUSE AT PENN: $13k → 22%BROAD STREET MINISTRY: $5k → 22%BROAD STREET MINISTRY: $2k → 22%THE FAMILIES BEHIND THE BADGE: $15k → 7%FAMILIES BEHIND THE BADGE CHILDRENS FUN: $2k → 7%FAMILIES BEHIND THE BADGE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $3k → 22%FAMILIES BEHIND THE BADGE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $1k → 22%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

NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
DE
KS
TN
NC
DC
AL
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.0M · 92 repeat orgs$311k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

92 repeat relationships: 50 still active in FY2025, 42 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

92
89

Total granted

$3.0M
$244k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+19%

Still filing today

62%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • PM
    PHILADELPHIA MUSIC ALLIANCE DBA PMA MUSIC FUND
    7× · 2019–2025 · $231k · revenue +833% · 94% of their budget
  • LM
    LANKENAU MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
    4× · 2019–2022 · $173k · revenue +66%
  • AI
    ACADEMY IN MANAYUNK
    7× · 2019–2025 · $103k · revenue +112%

Funded once

  • LH
    LUBAVITCH HOUSE AT PENNCOGWELL
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • TC
    THE CAMPHILL SCHOOL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +38%
  • SN
    SOUNDMIND NETWORK INC
    one grant, 2024 · $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
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
2
The Lieber Institute Inc

The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…

Health
3
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
4
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.

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5
Camp Ramah in the Poconos

Creating life-long jewish connections one happy camper at a time.

Recreation & Sports
6
Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life At the Penn State University

To enrich the lives of jewish and undergraduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world. penn state hillel's student leaders, professionals, and lay leaders are dedicated to creating a pluralistic, welcoming, and…

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7
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
8
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
9
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

—
10
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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11
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
12
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Main Line School Night Association; the most unlike its peers is Oc 87 Inc. 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

104 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. 104 of the 203 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
103/104
Grantees still filing
75/104
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OC 87 INC: $1,092,500 · HealthOC 87 INCLANKENAU MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $172,850 · HealthLANKENAU MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIONCOGWELL INC: $53,000 · Health+17 more: $142,869 · Health+17 moreJOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $150,000 · OtherJOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITYGALLERY 35 LLC: $40,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE PHILADELPHIA REGION: $34,000 · OtherAACR FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Other+125 more: $612,062 · Other+125 moreACADEMY IN MANAYUNK: $102,833 · EducationACADEMY IN MA…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $70,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS…CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND PHILADELPHIA: $45,500 · EducationCHILDREN'S SC…THE SCHOOL MINDFULNESS PROJECT: $45,000 · EducationTHE SCHOOL MI…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $35,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF T…MIGHTY WRITERS: $19,000 · EducationNEUMANN UNIVERSITY: $16,850 · Education+15 more: $81,427 · Education+15 morePHILADELPHIA MUSIC ALLIANCE DBA PMA MUSIC FUND: $230,500 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHI…MUSICOPIA INC: $19,000 · Arts & CultureMUSICOPIA I…WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: $16,500 · Arts & CultureART SPHERE INC: $15,500 · Arts & CultureROCK TO THE FUTURE INC: $13,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $11,800 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $44,150 · Arts & Culture+7 moreISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $74,000 · Human ServicesLUBAVITCH HOUSE AT PENN INC: $37,900 · Human ServicesPROJECT HOME: $27,500 · Human ServicesJEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $22,200 · Human ServicesFAMILIES BEHIND THE BADGE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $20,700 · Human ServicesBROAD STREET MINISTRY: $7,000 · Human Services+6 more: $12,600 · Human ServicesSupport Center for Child Advocates: $47,500 · Crime & LegalISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $16,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $8,600 · InternationalONE FAMILY FUND: $8,500 · International
Health$1,461,219Other$866,062Education$415,610Arts & Culture$350,450Human Services$201,900Crime & Legal$47,500International$33,100

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 budgetOC 87 INC: $1,092,500 over 7y, 66% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MUSIC ALLIANCE DBA PMA MUSIC FUND: $230,500 over 7y, 94% of budgetLANKENAU MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $172,850 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetACADEMY IN MANAYUNK: $102,833 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $74,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $70,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOGWELL INC: $53,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetSupport Center for Child Advocates: $47,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetMain Line Hospitals Inc: $45,569 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND PHILADELPHIA: $45,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SCHOOL MINDFULNESS PROJECT: $45,000 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetLUBAVITCH HOUSE AT PENN INC: $37,900 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE PHILADELPHIA REGION: $34,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT HOME: $27,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $22,200 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILIES BEHIND THE BADGE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $20,700 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetMONTGOMERY COUNTY EMERGENCY SERVICE INC: $20,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMUSICOPIA INC: $19,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetMIGHTY WRITERS: $19,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE REFLECT ORGANIZATION: $17,500 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetGuy M Stewart Cancer Fund Inc: $17,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetNEUMANN UNIVERSITY: $16,850 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: $16,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $16,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetINTEGRATE FOR GOOD INC: $16,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetART SPHERE INC: $15,500 over 4y, 7.8% of budgetIMMACULATA UNIVERSITY: $13,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBELOVED COMMUNITY INCUBATOR INC: $13,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetROCK TO THE FUTURE INC: $13,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetREADING ALLOWED: $12,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE GRAYSON SCHOOL: $11,817 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $11,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $11,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Chevra Inc: $11,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Emek Lone Soldiers Inc: $11,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetIMPACT CHARITY SERVICES INC: $10,500 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetTHE BARNES FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CAMPHILL SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $8,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetONE FAMILY FUND: $8,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN LIVING ORGAN DONOR FUND: $8,000 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetNEW LONDON COUNSELING CENTER: $7,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBROAD STREET MINISTRY: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJAZZ PHILADELPHIA: $7,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEVS HUMAN SERVICES: $6,000 over 4y, 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 OC 87 INC ↗
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA MUSIC ALLIANCE DBA PMA MUSIC FUND ↗
  • Who funds LANKENAU MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ACADEMY IN MANAYUNK ↗
  • Who funds ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds COGWELL INC ↗
  • Who funds Support Center for Child Advocates ↗
  • Who funds Main Line Hospitals Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds THE SCHOOL MINDFULNESS PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds LUBAVITCH HOUSE AT PENN INC ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE PHILADELPHIA REGION ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT HOME ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY ↗
  • Who funds FAMILIES BEHIND THE BADGE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MONTGOMERY COUNTY EMERGENCY SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds MUSICOPIA INC ↗
  • Who funds MIGHTY WRITERS ↗
  • Who funds THE REFLECT ORGANIZATION ↗
  • Who funds Guy M Stewart Cancer Fund Inc ↗
  • Who funds NEUMANN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY ↗
  • Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds INTEGRATE FOR GOOD INC ↗
  • Who funds ART SPHERE INC ↗

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.

The Philadelphia Foun…Connelly FoundationThe William Penn Foun…Erlbaum Family Founda…United Way of Greater…Wsfs Cares FoundationHenry Dolfinger 2 Tru…Jewish Federation of …The Cigna Group Found…Daniel M Tabas Family…Business Leadership O…The Maguire Foundation
The Philadelphia FoundationPA31× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · Connelly Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Erlbaum Family Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Wsfs Cares Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia · The Cigna Group Foundation · Daniel M Tabas Family Foundation · Business Leadership Organized for Catholic Schools · The Maguire 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 The Clayman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Clayman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Delaware Inc: 33% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Clayman Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Clayman 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 203 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The endowment market
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home