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Turner Family 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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$502k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0191% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Housing & Shelter$867kPhilanthropy$801kRecreation & Sports$260kHuman Services$247kYouth Development$202kHealth$135kFood & Nutrition$113kEducation$78kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k9 grants · $730k
  • $250k+1 grant · $502k
$75,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DONOR AVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC$501,759
USGA FOUNDATION$150,000
GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY$130,000
AEON$100,000
COOKIE CART$75,000
Individual grant recipient$75,000
HOPE COMMUNITY$50,000
CT FOODSHARE$50,000
RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE$50,000
TC HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$50,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $338k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SOJOURNER PROJECT: $3k → 11%ELPIS ENTERPRISES: $8k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%OUR PIECE OF THE PIE: $8k → 11%KNOX COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION: $20k → 11%SOJOURNER PROJECT: $3k → 11%ELPIS ENTERPRISES: $7k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%OUR PIECE OF THE PIE: $6k → 11%KNOX COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION: $8k → 11%ELPIS ENTERPRISES: $7k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%OUR PIECE OF THE PIE: $6k → 11%KNOX COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION: $8k → 11%ELPIS ENTERPRISES: $7k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $8k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%OUR PIECE OF THE PIE: $5k → 11%KNOX COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION: $8k → 11%ELPIS ENTERPRISES: $5k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $6k → 16%KNOX COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION: $8k → 11%ELPIS ENTERPRISES: $5k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $6k → 16%KNOX COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION: $8k → 11%ELPIS ENTERPRISES: $5k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $5k → 16%KNOX COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION: $5k → 11%COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $5k → 16%COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $5k → 16%HANDS ON HARTFORD: $10k → 11%HANDS ON HARTFORD: $10k → 11%HANDS ON HARTFORD: $5k → 11%HANDS ON HARTFORD: $5k → 11%HANDS ON HARTFORD: $5k → 11%THE CENTER FOR PURSUIT: $8k → 16%HANDS ON HARTFORD: $5k → 11%BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $8k → 11%BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $8k → 11%BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $8k → 11%KIDS MEALS: $10k → 16%BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $8k → 11%KIDS MEALS: $5k → 16%THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $8k → 11%BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $5k → 11%THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $5k → 11%BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $5k → 11%YOUTHLINK: $5k → 11%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
MN
NY
IA
NJ
CT
CA
AZ
TN
DC
HI
TX
FL

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.2M · 50 repeat orgs$377k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.

50 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 44 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
20

Total granted

$2.2M
$177k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+3%

Still filing today

64%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k 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
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentEducationHealthInternationalOther

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

  • HC
    HOPE COMMUNITY INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $237k · revenue +41%
  • A
    AEON
    6× · 2019–2025 · $190k · revenue +193%
  • TL
    THE LPGA FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2024 · $88k · revenue +93%

Funded once

  • GT
    GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -4%
  • BS
    Breck Schoolgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +36%

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
Touchstone Mental Health

Touchstone mental health provides innovative, person-centered services that foster hope, health and well-being. we envision a world where all people whose lives are affected by mental illness will flourish with effective treatment, quality…

Human Services
2
Homeward Bound Inc

Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.

Human Services
3
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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4
Lifeworks Services Inc

Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.

Human Services
5
Hired

Hired's mission is to nurture purpose and advance economic opportunity for all through individualized employment and career services. as a workforce development agency, hired provides direct employment counseling, career training, and…

Employment
6
Women's Foundation of Minnesota

Women's Foundation of Minnesota is a statewide community foundation investing in ending systemic inequities and driving innovation for gender and racial justice. WFM applies an Intersectional Equity Framework inclusive of gender, race,…

Philanthropy
7
Housinglink

Connecting people to affordable rental homes, increasing choice and access for all.

Housing & Shelter
8
Covenant House

In 34 cities across five countries, covenant house builds bridges to hope for young people facing homelessness and survivors of human trafficking. we meet their immediate needs for food, clothing, protection, and medical and mental health…

Human Services
9
Central Minnesota Jobs and Training Services Inc

Strengthen central mn communities through leadership in workforce excellence.

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10
Minnesota Housing Partnership

Minnesota housing partnership (mhp) expands housing and community development opportunity by leading collaborative work to promote systems change and grow develoopment capacity.

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11
Habitat for Humanity of Minnesota Inc

Habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, community, and hope. through advocacy, collaboration, and leadership, hfh-mn advances the work of minnesota's habitat for humanity affiliates to create and preserve affordable…

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12
Neighborhood Housing Services of Duluth One Roof Lending

To provide financing that will help people of lower income find, purchase, and fix their homes, for both single family homes as well as rental housing situations.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Twin Cities United Way and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%2%<5yr15%2%5–10yr20%5%10–20yr18%36%20–35yr11%29%35–55yr11%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%4%<5yr15%1%5–10yr20%3%10–20yr18%50%20–35yr11%30%35–55yr11%12%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/47
the rest of the field
16%
6,207/38,908

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

47 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. 47 of the 76 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/47
Grantees still filing
35/47
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $125,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTC HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $110,000 · OtherTC HABITAT FOR HUMANITYIndividual grant recipient — $55,000 · OtherCT FOODSHARE — $50,000 · OtherGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY — $50,000 · OtherLOAVES AND FISHES — $41,000 · OtherHAVEN HOUSING — $41,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $40,000 · OtherBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $55,000 · Other+37 more — $546,750 · Other+37 moreDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $501,759 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE …GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY — $145,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITE…RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND — $50,000 · PhilanthropyRAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE …+1 more — $10,000 · PhilanthropyHOPE COMMUNITY INC — $237,000 · Housing & ShelterHOPE COMMUNITY INCAEON — $190,000 · Housing & ShelterAEONALLIANCE HOUSING INC — $40,000 · Housing & ShelterALLIANCE HOUSING I…PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INC — $34,000 · Housing & ShelterPEOPLE SERVING PEO…+1 more — $15,000 · Housing & ShelterHomeworthy — $62,500 · Human ServicesHomeworthyTHE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH — $52,500 · Human ServicesTHE BRIDGE F…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $50,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Nat…Elpis Enterprises — $43,500 · Human ServicesElpis Enterp…HANDS ON HARTFORD INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesHANDS ON HAR…COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS — $34,500 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOU…OUR PIECE OF THE PIE INC — $24,500 · Human ServicesOUR PIECE OF…KIDS' MEALS INC — $21,500 · Human ServicesKIDS' MEALS …+3 more — $18,500 · Human ServicesThe Cookie Cart — $122,500 · Youth DevelopmentAVENUES FOR YOUTH — $39,500 · Youth DevelopmentURBAN BOATBUILDERS INC — $15,000 · Youth Development+1 more — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentUSGA FOUNDATION — $150,000 · Recreation & SportsBloom Fitness Corporation — $22,500 · Recreation & SportsTHE LPGA FOUNDATION — $87,500 · EducationThe Monarch School Monarch Institute for Neurological Diff — $35,000 · EducationCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC — $25,000 · EducationBreck School — $10,000 · Education
Other$1,113,750Philanthropy$706,759Housing & Shelter$516,000Human Services$347,500Youth Development$182,000Recreation & Sports$172,500Education$157,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $501,759 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE COMMUNITY INC — $237,000 over 7y, 6.1% of budgetAEON — $190,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY — $145,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Cookie Cart — $122,500 over 8y, 4.9% of budgetTHE LPGA FOUNDATION — $87,500 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetHomeworthy — $62,500 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $55,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH — $52,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetElpis Enterprises — $43,500 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetHAVEN HOUSING — $41,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetHANDS ON HARTFORD INC — $40,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetALLIANCE HOUSING INC — $40,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetAVENUES FOR YOUTH — $39,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE — $37,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetThe Monarch School Monarch Institute for Neurological Diff — $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE TEXAS — $34,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INC — $34,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BRIDGE FAMILY CENTER INC — $32,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetWorld Savvy — $30,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetWashburn Center for Children — $27,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAGATE HOUSING & SERVICES INC — $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC — $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOUR PIECE OF THE PIE INC — $24,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBloom Fitness Corporation — $22,500 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetKIDS' MEALS INC — $21,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSE OF CHARITY — $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetURBAN BOATBUILDERS INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetRS EDEN — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEREMIAH PROGRAM — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBridging Inc — $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBreck School — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR PURSUIT — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSojourner Project Inc — $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHENNEPIN HISTORY MUSEUM — $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetYOUTHLINK — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPITALITY HOUSE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM RESCUE ANGELS — $5,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetURBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE COMMUNITY INC ↗
  • Who funds AEON ↗
  • Who funds USGA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ↗
  • Who funds The Cookie Cart ↗
  • Who funds THE LPGA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Homeworthy ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
  • Who funds THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND ↗
  • Who funds Elpis Enterprises ↗
  • Who funds HAVEN HOUSING ↗
  • Who funds HANDS ON HARTFORD INC ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE HOUSING INC ↗
  • Who funds AVENUES FOR YOUTH ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds The Monarch School Monarch Institute for Neurological Diff ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BRIDGE FAMILY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds World Savvy ↗
  • Who funds Washburn Center for Children ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds AGATE HOUSING & SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC ↗
  • Who funds COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds OUR PIECE OF THE PIE INC ↗
  • Who funds Bloom Fitness Corporation ↗

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.

Otto Bremer TrustThe Minneapolis Found…The Richard M Schulze…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Target FoundationMightycause Charitabl…The Nash FoundationThe K FoundationXcel Energy FoundationPohlad Family Foundat…The Blackbaud Giving …Patrick and Aimee But…
Otto Bremer TrustMN31.7× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Otto Bremer Trust · The Minneapolis Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Target Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Nash Foundation · The K Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Patrick and Aimee Butler Family

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 Turner Family Foundation 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 · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • The Bridge Family Center Inc — 61% of income from government
  • Our Piece of the Pie Inc — 21% of income from government
  • Hands On Hartford Inc — 20% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
15report 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

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Turner Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Turner Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 76 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 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 camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines