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Gary Philanthropy

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.

$8.5M
Granted FY2023
200
Grants FY2023
15
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Education$4.4MHuman Services$3.6MCommunity Improvement$3.2MPhilanthropy$2.2MHousing & Shelter$1.9MHealth$1.7MYouth Development$1.6MPublic Benefit$1.3MOther$0
02FY2023 · 200 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 200 grants below total $6,450,361 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $8,513,776 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,063,415 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 · FY2023

  • Under $10k98 grants · $130k
  • $10k–50k38 grants · $806k
  • $50k–250k62 grants · $5.0M
  • $250k+2 grants · $550k
$10,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$191M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Elevation Community Land Trust$300,000
Colorado Children's Campaign$250,000
RTL Foundation$200,000
Colorado Department of Early Childhood$132,000
Colorado Youth for a Change$128,000
Spring Institute for Intercultural Learning$126,000
Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation$125,000
New Era Colorado Foundation$125,000
Metropolitan State University of Denver Foundation$112,500
New Legacy Charter School$100,000
Colorado Children's Campaign$100,000
Cradle to Career Success$100,000
Trailhead Institute - Colorado Equitable Economic Mobility Initiative$100,000
Denver Health Foundation$100,000
FaithBridge$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 (FY20–21, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Sky's the Limit Fund: $10k → 8%Lamar Unidos: $2k → 19%Climb Wyoming: $1k → 10%Tennyson Center for Children at Colorado Christian Home: $200k → 12%Foster Source: $10k → 10%Tennyson Center for Children at Colorado Christian Home: $500 → 12%Early Childhood Council Leadership Alliance: $3k → 7%Weecycle: $50 → 8%The Family Tree: $50 → 7%Freedom Service Dogs Inc: $200 → 8%PCs for People: $252k → 12%Benefits in Action: $3k → 7%Freedom Service Dogs Inc: $40 → 8%Mi Casa Resource Center: $5k → 12%Denver Indian Center Inc: $5k → 12%Denver Rescue Mission: $1k → 12%Jewish Family Service of Colorado Inc: $95k → 12%Denver Rescue Mission: $1k → 12%Denver Rescue Mission: $1k → 12%Jewish Family Service of Colorado: $1k → 12%Denver Rescue Mission: $1k → 12%Denver Rescue Mission: $622 → 12%Denver Rescue Mission: $350 → 12%Raise The Future: $500 → 12%Raise The Future: $500 → 12%Raise The Future: $500 → 12%Activate Work Inc: $75k → 12%Early Milestones Colorado: $185k → 12%Early Milestones Colorado: $185k → 12%Early Milestones Colorado: $125k → 12%Early Milestones Colorado: $50k → 12%Colorado News Collaborative: $5k → 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

ME
MT
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
PA
CA
UT
CO
VA
AZ
KS
TN
NC
DC
LA

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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$12M · 71 repeat orgs$9.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.

71 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2023, 31 since wound down; 106 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

71
133

Total granted

$12M
$5.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+40%

Still filing today

85%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’23
EducationHuman ServicesAnimalsCommunity ImprovementHealthArts & CultureOther

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

  • EC
    ELEVATION COMMUNITY LAND TRUST
    2× · 2021–2023 · $1.3M · revenue +90%
  • II
    INVEST IN KIDS
    2× · 2020–2021 · $911k · revenue +47%
  • LR
    LA RAZA SERVICES INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $554k · revenue +252%

Funded once

  • UL
    URBAN LAND CONSERVANCY
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue -24%
  • TC
    Tennyson Center for Children
    one grant, 2020 · $425k
  • DP
    Denver Public Safety Youth Programs
    one grant, 2021 · $295k

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
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
2
Aia Colorado

AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…

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3
Colorado Legal Services

To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.

Crime & Legal
4
Colorado Nonprofit Association

Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.

Community Improvement
5
Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights

Colorado organization for latina opportunity and reproductive rights (color) is a community-rooted nonprofit organization that works to enable latinx individuals and their families lead safe, healthy, self-determined lives.

Health
6
Colorado Campaign for Inclusive Excellence

The mission of the center for legal inclusiveness (cli) is to advance diversity in the legal profession by actively educating and supporting private and public sector legal organizations in their individual campaigns to create cultures of…

Civil Rights
7
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
8
Colorado Chamber of Commerce Fka Co Assn of Commerce & Industry

The colorado chamber of commerce mission is to enhance the business climate of the state of colorado by promoting a positive legislative and regulatory environment and providing programs and services for its members, economic education,…

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9
Colorado Digital Health

Prime health advances health justice, equity, access quality and cost through innovation, collaboration, and community building.

Health
10
Colorado Council On Economic Education

Our mission is to empower colorado students to achieve a lifetime of economic understanding and financial freedom. how will we achieve this mission? by providing economic and personal financial education to students through training…

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11
Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce

The denver metro chamber of commerce is the architect of tomorrow, igniting change and driving progress to build dynamic economies and communities. we champion innovation, forge powerful partnerships, and relentlessly advocate for our…

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12
Colorado Coalition for the Homeless

The mission of the colorado coalition for the homeless is to work collaboratively toward the prevention of homelessness and the creation of lasting solutions for families, children, and individuals who are experiencing or at-risk of…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is Broken Shovels Farm and Sanctuary School. 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 backsteadyCommunity College Foundatio…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Policy Research and AdvocacyDevelopmental Disabilities …Food Banks and PantriesCommunity FoundationsCancer Support ServicesPregnancy Support ServicesLgbtq+ Community SupportYouth Development ServicesYouth Mentoring ProgramsAnimal Rescue and ShelterLocal Food System Organizat…Independent K-12 SchoolsCommunity Arts CentersJewish Community Organizati…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Elementary Literacy TutoringImmigrant Worker SupportAddiction Recovery ServicesHealth Access Advocacy and …United Way AffiliatesCommunity FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …
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 26 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%3%<5yr15%14%5–10yr21%20%10–20yr17%28%20–35yr12%24%35–55yr13%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%2%<5yr15%22%5–10yr21%16%10–20yr17%26%20–35yr12%23%35–55yr13%12%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.4%1/253
the rest of the field
13%
4,366/33,164

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

241 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. 241 of the 320 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)
56
Early backer (in before they grew)
237/241
Grantees still filing
161/241
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COLORADO CHILDREN'S CAMPAIGN — $990,000 · OtherCOLORADO CHILDREN'S CAMPAIGNLA RAZA SERVICES INC — $553,500 · OtherLA RAZA SERVICES INCTennyson Center for Children — $425,150 · OtherTHE BELL POLICY CENTER — $556,500 · OtherTHE BELL POLICY CENTER+105 more — $7,329,832 · Other+105 moreCOMMUNITY COLLEGE OF DENVER FDN — $497,700 · EducationCOMMUNITY COLLE…UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $210,433 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF C…RTL Foundation — $200,000 · EducationRTL FoundationPARENT POSSIBLE — $158,065 · EducationGREAT EDUCATION COLORADO — $156,000 · EducationColorado Succeeds — $150,000 · EducationMETROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER FOUNDATION INC — $135,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF DENVER — $120,094 · Education50CAN INC — $100,000 · EducationFaithBridge — $100,000 · EducationCOLORADO URBAN LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION — $100,000 · EducationNew Legacy Charter School — $100,000 · Education+24 more — $944,750 · Education+24 moreMILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC — $975,344 · PhilanthropyMILE HIGH UN…Rose Community Foundation — $825,000 · PhilanthropyRose Communi…FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE — $255,000 · PhilanthropyFOUNDATION F…COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION — $125,000 · PhilanthropyTHE DENVER FOUNDATION — $100,000 · Philanthropy+7 more — $120,400 · PhilanthropyURBAN LAND CONSERVANCY — $1,000,000 · Community ImprovementURBAN LAND …COLORADO FISCAL INSTITUTE — $365,050 · Community ImprovementCOLORADO FI…Center for African American Health — $287,000 · Community ImprovementCenter for …SMALL BUSINESS MAJORITY FOUNDATION INC — $105,000 · Community ImprovementBUILDING A BETTER COLORADO — $100,000 · Community ImprovementCROSSPURPOSE — $95,000 · Community ImprovementTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $75,500 · Community Improvement+8 more — $209,954 · Community Improvement+8 moreELEVATION COMMUNITY LAND TRUST — $1,301,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY INVESTMENT ALLIANCE — $145,000 · Housing & ShelterBROTHERS REDEVELOPMENT INC — $106,106 · Housing & ShelterHOPE COMMUNITIES INC — $100,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more — $5,000 · Housing & ShelterINVEST IN KIDS — $911,250 · Youth DevelopmentREACH OUT AND READ COLORADO — $220,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOLORADO YOUTH FOR A CHANGE — $208,000 · Youth DevelopmentIlluminate Colorado — $100,150 · Youth Development+4 more — $61,750 · Youth DevelopmentEARLY MILESTONES COLORADO — $545,000 · Human ServicesPCS FOR PEOPLE — $252,000 · Human ServicesTENNYSON CENTER FOR CHILDREN AT COLORADO CHRISTIAN HOME — $200,500 · Human ServicesACTIVATE WORK INC — $160,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC — $96,085 · Human ServicesJEFFCO PROSPERITY PARTNERS — $90,000 · Human Services+9 more — $108,095 · Human Services
Other$9,854,982Education$2,972,042Philanthropy$2,400,744Community Improvement$2,237,504Housing & Shelter$1,657,106Youth Development$1,501,150Human Services$1,451,680

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetELEVATION COMMUNITY LAND TRUST — $1,301,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetURBAN LAND CONSERVANCY — $1,000,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetCOLORADO CHILDREN'S CAMPAIGN — $990,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetMILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC — $975,344 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetINVEST IN KIDS — $911,250 over 2y, 14% of budgetRose Community Foundation — $825,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetTHE BELL POLICY CENTER — $556,500 over 3y, 19% of budgetLA RAZA SERVICES INC — $553,500 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetEARLY MILESTONES COLORADO — $545,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetCOMMUNITY COLLEGE OF DENVER FDN — $497,700 over 2y, 13% of budgetCOLORADO FISCAL INSTITUTE — $365,050 over 3y, 12% of budgetDENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION — $297,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetSPRING INSTITUTE FOR INTERCULTURAL LEARNING — $291,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FIRM — $290,000 over 3y, 28% of budgetCenter for African American Health — $287,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetNew Era Colorado Foundation — $275,000 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE — $255,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC — $250,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetREACH OUT AND READ COLORADO — $220,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetAURORA COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC — $219,828 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation — $213,834 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $210,433 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO YOUTH FOR A CHANGE — $208,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTENNYSON CENTER FOR CHILDREN AT COLORADO CHRISTIAN HOME — $200,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetRTL Foundation — $200,000 over 1y, 59% of budgetCouncil for a Strong America — $186,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCOLORADO CROSS DISABILITY COALITION — $165,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetACTIVATE WORK INC — $160,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetPARENT POSSIBLE — $158,065 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetGREAT EDUCATION COLORADO — $156,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetColorado Succeeds — $150,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC — $146,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY INVESTMENT ALLIANCE — $145,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetColorado Latino Leadership Advocacy & Research Organization — $138,000 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetMETROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER FOUNDATION INC — $135,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetENERGY OUTREACH COLORADO — $133,333 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetINTERFAITH ALLIANCE OF COLORADO — $133,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetCOLORADO STATEWIDE PARENT COALITION — $130,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetColorado Youth Congress — $125,350 over 1y, 26% of budgetCOLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION — $125,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER — $120,094 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBROTHERS REDEVELOPMENT INC — $106,106 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSMALL BUSINESS MAJORITY FOUNDATION INC — $105,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetIlluminate Colorado — $100,150 over 1y, 4.0% of budget50CAN INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBUILDING A BETTER COLORADO — $100,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetFaithBridge — $100,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetCOLORADO URBAN LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 2y, 9.9% 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.

Rose Community Founda…The Colorado Health F…The Denver FoundationColorado Gives Founda…Caring for Colorado F…Gates Family Foundati…Temple Hoyne Buell Fo…Boettcher FoundationMile High United Way …The Women's Foundatio…Caring for Denver Fou…The Anschutz Foundati…
Rose Community FoundationCO160.7× affinity107 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rose Community Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Caring for Colorado Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · Boettcher Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · The Women's Foundation of Colorado Inc · Caring for Denver Foundation · The Anschutz 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 Gary Philanthropy 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 · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
56report 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

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.

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 320 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $5.6M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

Source object · view filing

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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
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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