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The Smidt Foundation at a glance

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The Smidt 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.

$21M
Granted FY2024still arriving
145
Grants FY2024still arriving
32
States reached
$3.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$29MPhilanthropy$25MEducation$22MHousing & Shelter$7.6MCivil Rights$7.0MArts & Culture$6.0MPublic Safety & Disaster$5.3MHuman Services$5.0MOther$0
02FY2024 · 145 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k19 grants · $125k
  • $10k–50k69 grants · $1.6M
  • $50k–250k42 grants · $4.8M
  • $250k+15 grants · $15M
$35,000
Median grant
32
States reached
$270M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER$3,000,000
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$2,030,000
HOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA$2,030,000
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC$1,740,000
UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC$1,000,000
BIG PICTURE COMPANY INC$975,000
VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM$800,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES$520,000
ISRAEL POLICY FORUM INC$515,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOS ANGELES HARBOR$479,990
PORT OF LOS ANGELES HIGH SCHOOL$405,972
JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LOS ANGELES$350,000
DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER$270,000
PORTLAND ART MUSEUM$250,000
AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS$250,000
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 (FY17–24, $8.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CARE FOR SPECIAL NEEDS CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC: $50k → 20%National Coalition for Homeless Veterans: $100k → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $270k → 14%YMCA OF SOUTHEAST VENTURA COUNTY: $50k → 10%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $260k → 14%YMCA SOUTHEAST VENTURA COUNTY: $25k → 10%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $70k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $255k → 14%YMCA SOUTHEAST VENTURA COUNTY: $25k → 10%NATIONAL COALITION FOR HOMELESS VETERANS: $105k → 14%American National Red Cross: $250k → 14%NATIONAL COALITION FOR HOMELESS VETERANS: $105k → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $60k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $250k → 14%NATIONAL COALITION FOR HOMELESS VETERANS: $100k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $250k → 14%NATIONAL COALITION FOR HOMELESS VETERANS: $100k → 14%NATIONAL COALITION FOR HOMELESS VETERANS: $100k → 14%National Coalition for Homeless Veterans: $100k → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $25k → 14%INNERCITY STRUGGLE: $150k → 14%INNERCITY STRUGGLE: $150k → 14%INNERCITY STRUGGLE: $145k → 14%INNERCITY STRUGGLE: $135k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $250k → 14%LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $170k → 14%American National Red Cross: $250k → 14%LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $150k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES: $520k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES: $520k → 14%LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $110k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES: $510k → 14%Los Angeles Police Foundation: $100k → 14%LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%Los Angeles Police Foundation: $50k → 14%LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $40k → 14%LOST ANGELS CHILDRENS PROJECT INC: $25k → 14%InnerCity Struggle: $210k → 14%INNERCITY STRUGGLE: $135k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $250k → 14%UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE: $310k → 14%UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE: $300k → 14%UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE: $300k → 14%United States Veterans Initiative: $100k → 14%United States Veteran's Initiative: $100k → 14%UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE: $100k → 14%UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE: $100k → 14%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

AK
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IL
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OR
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IN
OH
PA
NJ
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RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
AZ
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
LA
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AL
GA
TX
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$86M · 144 repeat orgs$11M to everyone else

144 repeat relationships: 75 still active in FY2024, 69 since wound down; 66 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

144
275

Total granted

$86M
$9.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+39%

Still filing today

61%
24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.4M 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
EducationHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureCrime & LegalOther
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

  • CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $26M · revenue +63%
  • LF
    LA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $5.8M · revenue +100%
  • AL
    ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $5.7M · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • TM
    THE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LA
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue -51%
  • VENICE FAMILY CLINIC
    one grant, 2023 · $220k · revenue +8%
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
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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2
League of California Community Foundations

The league of california community foundations promotes and strengthens community foundations in california. through collaboration and shared learning among member foundations and building partnerships with private and public entities, we…

Philanthropy
3
California Dental Association Foundation

The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.

Science & Tech
4
California Dental Association

The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.

Community Improvement
5
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
6
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
7
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce

Chamber's mission: design and advance opportunities and solutions for a thriving regional economy that are inclusive and globally competitive. 1) advocacy - be a bold advocate for business as a driver of a strong economy that enables…

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8
University of La Verne

The university of la verne offers a distinctive and relevant educational experience to a diverse population of traditional-age, adult, and graduate learners, preparing them for successful careers and a commitment to lifelong learning…

Education
9
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
10
Communities in Schools of Los Angeles Inc

To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. we work with public school systems, establishing relationship with superintendents, principals, educators, and community partners to…

Youth Development
11
The California Channel

To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…

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12
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Japanese American National Museum. 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

188 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. 188 of the 498 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)
33
Early backer (in before they grew)
183/188
Grantees still filing
137/188
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $26,060,000 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER+11 more: $2,414,000 · Health+11 moreVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $16,850,000 · PhilanthropyVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWM…UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $2,050,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDER…CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,909,600 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUND…PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $1,740,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS…JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA: $1,350,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY INC: $925,000 · Philanthropy+10 more: $2,231,690 · Philanthropy+10 moreLA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION: $5,800,000 · OtherLA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATIONBIG PICTURE LEARNING COMPANY INC: $1,607,675 · OtherBIG PICTURE LEARNING COMPANY …THE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LA: $1,000,000 · OtherPUBLIC COUNSEL: $1,020,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LOS ANGELES HARBOR: $1,335,327 · OtherFOOD FORWARD INC: $1,070,000 · Other+127 more: $18,136,905 · Other+127 moreTHE BIG PICTURE COMPANY: $3,740,700 · EducationTHE BIG PI…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $2,000,000 · EducationTRUSTEES O…PORT OF LOS ANGELES HIGH SCHOOL: $1,586,407 · EducationPORT OF LO…PARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS: $635,000 · EducationPARTNERSHI…Career Technical Education Foundation Sonoma County: $575,000 · EducationCareer Tec…ALLIANCE COLLEGE-READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $515,000 · Education+10 more: $1,307,610 · Education+10 moreAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,015,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES: $1,550,000 · Human ServicesUNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE: $1,310,000 · Human ServicesINNERCITY STRUGGLE: $939,000 · Human ServicesLOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $730,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL COALITION FOR HOMELESS VETERANS: $710,000 · Human ServicesDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $425,000 · Human Services+4 more: $260,000 · Human ServicesANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $5,725,000 · Civil RightsNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $635,000 · Civil Rights+5 more: $607,000 · Civil RightsHOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA: $4,105,400 · Arts & CulturePORTLAND ART MUSEUM: $1,600,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $480,000 · Arts & Culture
Health$28,474,000Philanthropy$27,056,290Other$29,969,907Education$10,359,717Human Services$7,939,000Civil Rights$6,967,000Arts & Culture$6,185,400

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%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $26,060,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $16,850,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION: $5,800,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $5,725,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetHOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA: $4,105,400 over 3y, 17% of budgetTHE BIG PICTURE COMPANY: $3,740,700 over 4y, 12% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $2,050,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,015,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $2,000,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,909,600 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $1,740,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPORTLAND ART MUSEUM: $1,600,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetPORT OF LOS ANGELES HIGH SCHOOL: $1,586,407 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES: $1,550,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA: $1,350,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LOS ANGELES HARBOR: $1,335,327 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetUNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE: $1,310,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetFOOD FORWARD INC: $1,070,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetPUBLIC COUNSEL: $1,020,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetINNERCITY STRUGGLE: $939,000 over 8y, 5.0% of budgetUNITED WAY INC: $925,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetMARTIN LUTHER KING JR COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $740,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetLOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $730,000 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetLOS ANGELES URBAN LEAGUE: $729,000 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetNATIONAL COALITION FOR HOMELESS VETERANS: $710,000 over 7y, 11% of budgetLOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE - BLACK UNITED FUND INC: $695,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY COALITION FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT: $695,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $637,720 over 8y, 4.6% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $635,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS: $635,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetISRAEL POLICY FORUM INC: $630,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetAIR SUPPORT ANGELS FOUNDATIONA CALIF NONPROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION: $601,260 over 2y, 91% of budgetALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT INC: $579,674 over 5y, 11% of budgetCareer Technical Education Foundation Sonoma County: $575,000 over 5y, 29% of budgetALLIANCE FOR COLLEGE-READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $560,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetALLIANCE COLLEGE-READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $515,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $505,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNEW AMERICA FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $445,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $425,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetTHE MISSION CONTINUES: $400,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetCOACHING CORPS: $400,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetEASTERN CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $400,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $355,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetSKILLSUSA FOUNDATION INC: $330,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetDa Vinci Schools Fund: $306,254 over 2y, 14% of budgetTHE RAPE FOUNDATION: $267,500 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Ralph M Parsons F…Weingart FoundationCalifornia Community …The Eli and Edythe Br…The Annenberg Foundat…Jewish Community Foun…Cedars-Sinai Medical …The California Wellne…Round It Up America I…The James Irvine Foun…Johnny Carson Foundat…Kaiser Foundation Hos…
The Ralph M Parsons FoundationCA50.7× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Weingart Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Cedars-Sinai Medical Center · The California Wellness Foundation · Round It Up America Inc · The James Irvine Foundation · Johnny Carson Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals

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 Smidt Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Smidt Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Adventist Development & Relief Agency International: 35% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Maryland Center for Construction Education and Innovation: 29% of income from government
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation: 2% of income from government
  • Babcock Neighborhood School Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Portland Art Museum: 1% of income from government
  • The National Center for Construction Edu and Research Ltd: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
57report 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.

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 498 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
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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