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The Vaughn Foundation CO Huntington National Bank at a glance

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The Vaughn Foundation CO Huntington National Bank

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.

$488k
Granted FY2025still arriving
57
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.2MHealth$663kEducation$433kHuman Services$415kReligion$246kFood & Nutrition$157kRecreation & Sports$97kCrime & Legal$96kOther$0
02FY2025 · 57 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k31 grants · $150k
  • $10k–50k26 grants · $338k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$6.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
St Luke's United Methodist$35,000
Orange Show Foundation$23,000
Christian Community Service Center$20,000
Houston Food Bank$20,000
Museum of Fine Arts$15,000
Nora's Home$15,000
Ronald McDonald House Houston$15,000
The Forge for Families Inc$15,000
Foundation for Hope Village$10,000
Spaulding For Children$10,000
Tunnel to Towers$10,000
Child Advocates Inc$10,000
Chinquapin Preparatory School$10,000
Interfaith Ministries$10,000
Stages$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $363k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Patriot Paws Service Dogs: $5k → 5%GODS GARAGE INC: $5k → 9%Hospice Austin: $5k → 10%Shepherd's Watch Foundation: $13k → 14%Patriot Paws Service Dogs: $5k → 5%God's Garage: $3k → 9%Shepherd's Watch Foundation: $10k → 14%Patriot Paws Service Dogs: $3k → 5%God's Garage: $3k → 9%Shepherd's Watch Foundation: $10k → 14%Foundation for Hope Village: $10k → 14%Foundation for Hope Village: $5k → 14%The Foundation for Hope Village: $5k → 14%Foundation for Hope Village: $5k → 14%Christian Community Service Center: $20k → 16%Christian Community Service Center: $15k → 16%Christian Community Service Center: $10k → 16%Christian Community Service Center: $10k → 16%CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER INC: $5k → 16%CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER INC: $5k → 16%CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER INC: $5k → 16%CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER INC: $5k → 16%Christian Community Service Center: $5k → 16%Covenant House: $10k → 16%Covenant House: $10k → 16%Covenant House: $5k → 16%Covenant House: $5k → 16%Arms Wide Adoption Services: $10k → 16%Spaulding For Children: $10k → 16%Arms Wide Adoption Services: $5k → 16%Arms Wide Adoption Services: $5k → 16%Spectrum Fusion: $10k → 16%Spectrum Fusion: $10k → 16%Spectrum Fusion: $10k → 16%Target Hunger: $10k → 16%TARGET HUNGER: $5k → 16%Target Hunger: $5k → 16%Target Hunger: $5k → 16%Prison Enterpreneurship Program: $10k → 16%Prison Enterpreneurship Program: $10k → 16%Prison Enterpreneurship Program: $5k → 16%Prison Enterpreneurship Program: $5k → 16%Furniture Bank: $5k → 16%Furniture Bank: $5k → 16%FURNITURE BANK: $5k → 16%Houston Furniture Bank: $5k → 16%Furniture Bank: $5k → 16%Wounded Warrior Project: $5k → 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

WA
IL
NY
NJ
KY
VA
TN
NC
AL
TX
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.5M · 94 repeat orgs$213k to everyone else

94 repeat relationships: 53 still active in FY2025, 41 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

94
36

Total granted

$3.5M
$193k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+32%

Still filing today

63%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEducationCrime & LegalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • TM
    THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON
    4× · 2017–2020 · $129k · revenue +96%
  • TC
    Texas Children's Hospital
    9× · 2017–2025 · $100k · revenue +105%
  • The Houston Food Bank
    8× · 2017–2025 · $92k · revenue +107%

Funded once

  • UO
    University of Texas
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
  • CM
    Chambers Music Houston TX
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
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
Houston Botanic Garden

To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.

Environment
2
Houston Museum of Natural Science

The mission of the Houston Museum of Natural Science shall be to preserve and advance the general knowledge of natural science; to enhance in individuals the knowledge of and delight in natural science and related subjects; and to maintain…

Arts & Culture
3
Breakthrough Houston

The mission of Breakthrough Houston (BTH) is to work with highly motivated students to achieve post-secondary success and empower aspiring leaders to become the next generation of educational advocates.

Education
4
Houston Local Information Initiative Inc

The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.

Arts & Culture
5
Rebuilding Together Houston

Rebuilding Together Houston is the only organization in Houston and Harris County providing free home repairs to hundreds of families each year. We employ licensed contractors to restore homes to safe, livable conditions, extending each…

Housing & Shelter
6
The Women's Resource of Greater Houston

See Schedule OThe Women's Resource of Greater Houston helps women and girls make choices toward becoming independent, productive, and financially stable. We fulfill our mission by recruiting volunteer instructors to deliver our programs in…

Philanthropy
7
Harris County Medical Society

Our mission is to be the leading advocate for our member physicians, their patients and our community, in promoting the highest standards of ethical medical practice, access to quality medical care, medical education, research, and…

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8
Houston's Amazing Place Inc

Amazing Place empowers families facing the challenges of dementia and Alzheimer's and advances brain health for all. The Organization serves adults with mild cognitive impairment and mild to moderate dementia, caregiving families and…

Human Services
9
Houston Christian Foundation dba National Christian Foundation Houston

As the Houston affiliate of the National Christian Foundation (NCF), our mission is to serve and encourage givers to grow as faithful stewards who give wisely to further the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

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10
The Heritage Society

The Heritage Society (THS) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1954 whose mission is to tell the stories of the diverse history of Houston and Texas through collections, exhibits, the arts, educational programs, film, video, and other…

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11
Central Houston Inc

See schedule ocentral houston champions a thriving downtown by connecting influential leaders through initiatives that advance the future of business and community for all.

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12
Glasstire

Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Houston Ballet Foundation; the most unlike its peers is HeartStone Pictures. 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

78 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. 78 of the 134 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
78/78
Grantees still filing
51/78
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

St Luke's United Methodist: $150,000 · OtherSt Luke's United MethodistThe Houston Food Bank: $91,500 · OtherThe Houston Food BankMuseum of Fine Arts: $85,000 · OtherDA CAMERA OF HOUSTON: $75,000 · OtherUniversity Texas Medical Branch: $65,000 · OtherNick Finnegan Counseling Center: $60,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH: $60,000 · Other+72 more: $1,106,000 · Other+72 moreTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON: $129,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUST…Houston Ballet Foundation: $90,000 · Arts & CultureHouston Ballet FoundationThe Orange Show Foundation: $88,000 · Arts & CultureThe Orange Show FoundationHouston Grand Opera Association Inc: $85,000 · Arts & CultureHouston Grand Opera Associati…Houston Symphony Society: $85,000 · Arts & CultureHouston Symphony SocietyHOUSTON INTERNATIONAL DANCE COALITION: $80,000 · Arts & CultureHOUSTON INTERNATIONAL DANCE C…MUSIC IN CONTEXT: $75,000 · Arts & CultureMUSIC IN CONTEXTMenil Foundation Inc: $60,000 · Arts & CultureMenil Foundation IncPERFORMING ARTS HOUSTON: $60,000 · Arts & CulturePERFORMING ARTS HOUSTONALLEY THEATRE: $55,000 · Arts & CultureALLEY THEATREBo's Place: $41,000 · Arts & CultureCHAMBER MUSIC HOUSTON INC: $40,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $65,000 · Arts & Culture+3 moreChristian Community Service Center Inc: $80,000 · Human ServicesChristian C…Shepherds Watch Foundation: $32,500 · Human ServicesShepherds W…THE FOUNDATION FOR HOPE VILLAGE: $32,500 · Human ServicesTHE FOUNDAT…COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $32,500 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HO…PRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesPRISON ENTR…Spectrum Fusion: $30,000 · Human ServicesSpectrum Fu…SPAULDING FOR CHILDREN: $30,000 · Human ServicesSPAULDING F…THE FURNITURE BANK: $27,500 · Human ServicesTHE FURNITU…Target Hunger Inc: $25,000 · Human ServicesTarget Hung…PATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS: $17,500 · Human ServicesGods Garage Inc: $15,000 · Human Services+3 more: $15,000 · Human ServicesRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES GREATER HOUSTON INC: $105,000 · HealthRONALD MC…Texas Children's Hospital: $100,000 · HealthTexas Chi…Nora's Gift Foundation Inc: $45,000 · HealthNora's Gi…SKY HIGH FOR KIDS INC: $15,000 · HealthThe Broach Foundation For Brain Cancer Research: $15,000 · Health+6 more: $22,500 · Health+6 moreYELLOWSTONE ACADEMY INC DBA YELLOWSTONE SCHOOLS: $45,000 · EducationTHE CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH: $38,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationThe Brookwood Community Inc: $20,000 · EducationBEYOND BATTEN DISEASE FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HOUSTON INC: $10,000 · EducationJoy Development School: $7,000 · EducationCHILD ADVOCATES INC: $70,000 · Crime & LegalTHE FORGE FOR FAMILIES: $42,500 · Crime & LegalChildren's Assessment Center Foundation: $14,500 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $4,000 · Crime & LegalHouston Parks Board: $42,000 · PhilanthropyHRS TRUE HOPE INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyBARBARA BUSH HOUSTON LITERACY FOUNDATION: $2,500 · PhilanthropyThe Periwinkle Foundation: $2,500 · Philanthropy
Other$1,692,500Arts & Culture$953,000Human Services$367,500Health$302,500Education$165,000Crime & Legal$131,000Philanthropy$52,000

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 budgetTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON: $129,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES GREATER HOUSTON INC: $105,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital: $100,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $91,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Ballet Foundation: $90,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Orange Show Foundation: $88,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetHouston Grand Opera Association Inc: $85,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHouston Symphony Society: $85,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetChristian Community Service Center Inc: $80,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetHOUSTON INTERNATIONAL DANCE COALITION: $80,000 over 5y, 7.0% of budgetMUSIC IN CONTEXT: $75,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetCHILD ADVOCATES INC: $70,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetMenil Foundation Inc: $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPERFORMING ARTS HOUSTON: $60,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetALLEY THEATRE: $55,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetYELLOWSTONE ACADEMY INC DBA YELLOWSTONE SCHOOLS: $45,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetNora's Gift Foundation Inc: $45,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE FORGE FOR FAMILIES: $42,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetHouston Parks Board: $42,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBo's Place: $41,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS MINISTRY INC: $40,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCHAMBER MUSIC HOUSTON INC: $40,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH: $38,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCHINQUAPIN PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $35,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetShepherds Watch Foundation: $32,500 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR HOPE VILLAGE: $32,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $32,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM INC: $30,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMain Street Theater Houston: $30,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSpectrum Fusion: $30,000 over 3y, 8.2% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC: $30,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSPAULDING FOR CHILDREN: $30,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE FURNITURE BANK: $27,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetStages: $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTarget Hunger Inc: $25,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSIRE INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMERCY GATE MINISTRIES: $22,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetGalveston Bay Foundation Inc: $22,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGLENWOOD CEMETERY INC: $22,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTrees For Houston: $20,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCHO-YEH CAMP AND CONFERENCE CENTER INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Brookwood Community Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $17,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS: $17,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSKY HIGH FOR KIDS INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBEYOND BATTEN DISEASE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGods Garage Inc: $15,000 over 5y, 0.6% 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 THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON ↗
  • Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES GREATER HOUSTON INC ↗
  • Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
  • Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds Houston Ballet Foundation ↗
  • Who funds The Orange Show Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Houston Grand Opera Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds Houston Symphony Society ↗
  • Who funds Christian Community Service Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds HOUSTON INTERNATIONAL DANCE COALITION ↗
  • Who funds MUSIC IN CONTEXT ↗
  • Who funds CHILD ADVOCATES INC ↗
  • Who funds Menil Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds PERFORMING ARTS HOUSTON ↗
  • Who funds ALLEY THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds YELLOWSTONE ACADEMY INC DBA YELLOWSTONE SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds Nora's Gift Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE FORGE FOR FAMILIES ↗
  • Who funds Houston Parks Board ↗
  • Who funds Bo's Place ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS MINISTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds CHAMBER MUSIC HOUSTON INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH ↗
  • Who funds CHINQUAPIN PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Shepherds Watch Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR HOPE VILLAGE ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds PRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM 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.

Greater Houston Commu…Strake FoundationThe Brown Foundation …Albert & Ethel Herzst…Shell USA Company Fou…The Elkins FoundationVivian L Smith Founda…Houston Endowment IncSterling-Turner Found…The William Stamps Fa…The Powell FoundationThe Junior League of …
Greater Houston Community FoundationTX51.9× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Strake Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · Vivian L Smith Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · Sterling-Turner Foundation · The William Stamps Farish Fund · The Powell Foundation · The Junior League of Houston Inc

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 Vaughn Foundation CO Huntington National Bank funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Vaughn Foundation CO Huntington National Bank. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
21report 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 134 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 unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
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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