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UNFI 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.

$213k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Food & Nutrition$5.4MEnvironment$845kCommunity Improvement$526kHuman Services$397kEmployment$120kHousing & Shelter$104kHealth$100kEducation$93kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $195k
$10,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Zero Foodprint$35,000
Aspiring Texas Latinos Achieving Succeeding Together DBA La Tiendita$10,000
Hilltown Community Development Corporation$10,000
Common Ground Collective$10,000
Food Forward$10,000
Reaching Beyond the Walls RVA$10,000
Sustainable Food Center$10,000
Nourish Colorado$10,000
Anoka County Brotherhood Council Inc (ACBC Food Shelf)$10,000
United Indians of All Tribes Foundation$10,000
Venture Cafe Foundation$10,000
McAuley Ministries$10,000
The Food Group Minnesota Inc$10,000
The Food Trust$10,000
Paul's Pantry Inc$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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $633k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 56% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JANNUS INC: $15k → 8%CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT: $13k → 9%OLIVEWOOD GARDENS AND LEARNING CENTER: $10k → 11%CAROLS KITCHEN INC: $10k → 11%HEALING FOR THE SOUL MINISTRIES INC: $5k → 20%FILLING IN THE BLANKS INC: $15k → 9%Good Neighbors Inc: $10k → 14%IN HER SHOES INC: $10k → 10%WHITE COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC: $10k → 12%HIGH PLAINS HELPING HANDS INC: $15k → 9%MOUNT CARMEL HEALTH WELLNESS AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $11k → 18%Realize Impact: $101k → 10%Reaching Beyond the Walls RVA: $10k → 7%JANNUS INC: $15k → 8%MERRICK COMMUNITY SERVICES: $20k → 14%CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT: $13k → 9%TIDES CENTER: $10k → 10%FILLING IN THE BLANKS INC: $15k → 9%HIGH PLAINS HELPING HANDS INC: $11k → 9%MOUNT CARMEL HEALTH WELLNESS AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 18%Propeller: $25k → 23%CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT: $13k → 9%MATTHEW 25: $20k → 9%OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA INC: $50k → 11%MATTHEW 25: $15k → 9%OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA INC: $40k → 11%MATTHEW 25: $10k → 9%OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA INC: $30k → 11%OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA INC: $25k → 11%GROWING GARDENS: $15k → 12%Crossroads Rhode Island: $5k → 14%GROWING GARDENS: $11k → 12%SO ALL MAY EAT INC: $15k → 12%AFRICAN ALLIANCE OF RHODE ISLAND: $13k → 14%GOOD IN THE HOOD: $10k → 11%AFRICAN ALLIANCE OF RHODE ISLAND: $10k → 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

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VT
NH
WA
ID
MT
MN
IL
WI
NY
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OR
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
NM
NC
DC
HI
OK
LA
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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.6M · 120 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +69% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

120 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 114 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

120
135

Total granted

$5.6M
$2.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+69%
+24%

Still filing today

90%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $128k 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
Food & NutritionEnvironmentHuman ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
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

  • SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST
    6× · 2019–2024 · $215k · revenue +32%
  • OA
    OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA
    4× · 2019–2023 · $145k · revenue +309%
  • FOODCORPS INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $140k · revenue +72%

Funded once

  • Realize Impact
    one grant, 2024 · $101k · revenue 0%
  • N
    NMSDC
    one grant, 2024 · $80k
  • MF
    MOVE FOR HUNGER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +190%
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
Food Action

Our mission is to educate, organize and advocate for food and farming systems to become economically prosperous, ecologically sound and socially equitable.

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2
Nashville Food Project Inc

The nashville food project brings people together to grow, cook, and share nourishing food, with the goals of cultivating community and alleviating hunger in our city.

Food & Nutrition
3
Sustainable Growers
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4
Common Good City Farm

Common Good City Farm is an urban farm in Washington, DC, where community members source fresh food, see sustainable urban agriculture in action, and learn healthy skills. Our mission is to sustain and support a more equitable community…

Food & Nutrition
5
Foodwise Community

Foodwise grows thriving communities through the power and joy of local food. We envision a world that nourishes all people, local economies, and the living earth.

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6
Sprout City Farms

Sprout city farms collaborates with communities to pursue food justice by cultivating innovative, restorative, and educational farms. sprout city farms envisions a thriving and equitable food system supported by a network of farms and…

Food & Nutrition
7
Chicago's Green City Market Program

Green city market is securing the future of food by deepening support for sustainable farmers, educating our community, and expanding access to locally-grown food.

Food & Nutrition
8
The Food Alliance

Food alliance works at the juncture of science, business and values to define and promote sustainability in agriculture and the food industry, and to ensure safe and fair working conditions, humane treatment of animals, and careful…

Arts & Culture
9
Fair Food Network Inc

Fair food network is organized to grow community health, wealth, and resilience through food, to increase access to affordable healthy food, help local food economies thrive and build resilience in local food and agriculture systems.

Food & Nutrition
10
Local Food Solutions

We work to expand access to local food for more people in the community through the purchase, aggregation, storage, marketing and delivery of fresh, safe, local food in partnership with local growers.

Food & Nutrition
11
Seed Peace

To grow the local food supply by supporting farmers, preparing food plants for climate change and increasing health giving food availability for people in need

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12
Ag & Food Lab

To provide equitably resource producers and other food organizations focused on food security opportunities programs and services aimed at effective stewardship of resilient food ecosystems and related charitable programs and services…

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope & Main; the most unlike its peers is All Relations United. 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

227 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. 227 of the 271 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
90
Early backer (in before they grew)
223/227
Grantees still filing
160/227
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FOODCORPS INC: $140,000 · Food & NutritionFOODCORPS INCTHE URBAN FOOD INITIATIVE INC: $120,000 · Food & NutritionCCOF FOUNDATION: $105,000 · Food & NutritionMAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS ASSOCIATION: $100,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND CHANCE FOODS INC: $90,000 · Food & Nutrition+59 more: $1,980,876 · Food & Nutrition+59 moreOregon Tilth Inc: $105,000 · OtherORGANIC SEED ALLIANCE: $94,500 · OtherNMSDC: $80,000 · OtherFoodWhat Incorporated: $134,500 · OtherFoodWhat Incorporated+63 more: $1,808,193 · Other+63 moreDENVER URBAN GARDENS: $126,000 · EnvironmentDENVER URBAN GAR…THE ORGANIC CENTER INC: $84,147 · EnvironmentTHE ORGANIC CENT…ECO-JUSTICE CENTER INC: $61,025 · EnvironmentECO-JUSTICE CENT…Guidestone: $55,500 · EnvironmentHARLEM GROWN INC: $55,000 · EnvironmentCLIMATE COLLABORATIVE: $50,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF ZENGER FARM: $47,500 · EnvironmentGEORGIA ORGANICS INC: $40,500 · EnvironmentKANSAS CITY COMMUNITY GARDENS INC: $40,000 · EnvironmentFAMILYFARMED DBA GOOD FOOD CATALYST: $40,000 · EnvironmentPesticide Action Network North America: $37,500 · EnvironmentINDIAN CREEK NATURE CENTER: $36,000 · Environment+20 more: $377,950 · Environment+20 moreOPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $145,000 · Human ServicesOPEN ARMS …Realize Impact: $100,500 · Human ServicesRealize Im…THE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT: $67,500 · Human ServicesTHE CERES …SACRAMENTO LOAVES & FISHES: $51,250 · Human ServicesSACRAMENTO…HOMELESS GARDEN PROJECT: $47,500 · Human ServicesHOMELESS G…MATTHEW 25: $45,000 · Human ServicesMATTHEW 25FILLING IN THE BLANKS INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesJANNUS INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesGrowing Gardens: $26,250 · Human ServicesFRESH START CENTER INC: $25,500 · Human ServicesSOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS OF NEW ORLEANS: $25,000 · Human Services+7 more: $118,500 · Human Services+7 moreMandela Partners Prev Mandela Marketplace Inc: $118,750 · Community ImprovementHOPE & MAIN: $77,000 · Community ImprovementALCHEMIST CDC: $40,000 · Community ImprovementTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC: $32,500 · Community ImprovementPROJECT ANGEL HEART: $27,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $10,000 · Community ImprovementGARDENEERS: $55,000 · EducationOrganic Growers School Inc: $40,500 · EducationCHEF ANN FOUNDATION: $40,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA FARMLINK: $32,500 · EducationLife Lab Science Program: $30,000 · EducationFood For Thought Denver: $20,500 · EducationTHE COMPASS SCHOOL: $20,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $18,596 · EducationYOUTH FARM PROJECT INC: $10,000 · EducationSOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $215,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $15,000 · PhilanthropyTRELLIS FOR TOMORROW: $15,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF THE DUTCHESS-ORANGE REGION INC: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Food & Nutrition$2,535,876Other$2,222,193Environment$1,051,122Human Services$712,000Community Improvement$305,250Education$267,096Philanthropy$255,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $215,000 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetOPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $145,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetFOODCORPS INC: $140,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetFoodWhat Incorporated: $134,500 over 7y, 3.8% of budgetDENVER URBAN GARDENS: $126,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetTHE URBAN FOOD INITIATIVE INC: $120,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetMandela Partners Prev Mandela Marketplace Inc: $118,750 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetCCOF FOUNDATION: $105,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetOregon Tilth Inc: $105,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetRealize Impact: $100,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS ASSOCIATION: $100,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetORGANIC SEED ALLIANCE: $94,500 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetSECOND CHANCE FOODS INC: $90,000 over 4y, 7.9% of budgetTHE ORGANIC CENTER INC: $84,147 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetForage Inc: $80,500 over 5y, 7.5% of budgetAGRICULTURE AND LAND BASED TRAINING ASSOCIATION: $80,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetANGELIC ORGANICS LEARNING CENTER INC: $80,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetHOPE & MAIN: $77,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetMeans Database Inc: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLA COCINA VA: $75,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetTHE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT: $67,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetPIE RANCH: $65,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetECO-JUSTICE CENTER INC: $61,025 over 4y, 7.6% of budgetRecipe for Success Foundation: $60,500 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetCOOKING WITH KIDS INC: $60,500 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetZERO FOODPRINT: $60,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGuidestone: $55,500 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetFARM FRESH RHODE ISLAND INC: $55,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE GOOD ACRE: $55,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetHARLEM GROWN INC: $55,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetGARDENEERS: $55,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetJust Roots Inc: $55,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budget18 Reasons: $51,250 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetSACRAMENTO LOAVES & FISHES: $51,250 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMOVE FOR HUNGER INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CORNUCOPIA PROJECT INC: $50,000 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetPILOT LIGHT: $50,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetREFED INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDRUID CITY GARDEN PROJECT: $50,000 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetSLP SEEDS: $50,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetCLIMATE COLLABORATIVE: $50,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetHMONG AMERICAN FARMERS ASSOCIATION: $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetNATIONAL MINORITY SUPPLIER DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSUSTAINABLE FOOD CENTER: $50,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetHOMELESS GARDEN PROJECT: $47,500 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF ZENGER FARM: $47,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetORGANIC FARMING RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $46,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetMATTHEW 25: $45,000 over 3y, 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 SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds FOODCORPS INC ↗
  • Who funds FoodWhat Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds DENVER URBAN GARDENS ↗
  • Who funds THE URBAN FOOD INITIATIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds Mandela Partners Prev Mandela Marketplace Inc ↗
  • Who funds CCOF FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Oregon Tilth Inc ↗
  • Who funds Realize Impact ↗
  • Who funds MAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds ORGANIC SEED ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds SECOND CHANCE FOODS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ORGANIC CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Forage Inc ↗
  • Who funds AGRICULTURE AND LAND BASED TRAINING ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds ANGELIC ORGANICS LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE & MAIN ↗
  • Who funds Means Database Inc ↗
  • Who funds LA COCINA VA ↗
  • Who funds THE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds PIE RANCH ↗
  • Who funds ECO-JUSTICE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Recipe for Success Foundation ↗
  • Who funds COOKING WITH KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds ZERO FOODPRINT ↗
  • Who funds Guidestone ↗
  • Who funds FARM FRESH RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds THE GOOD ACRE ↗
  • Who funds HARLEM GROWN INC ↗
  • Who funds GARDENEERS ↗
  • Who funds Just Roots Inc ↗
  • Who funds 18 Reasons ↗
  • Who funds SACRAMENTO LOAVES & FISHES ↗
  • Who funds MOVE FOR HUNGER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CORNUCOPIA PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds PILOT LIGHT ↗

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.

Clif Family FoundationPatagoniaorgFarm Aid IncGreater Cedar Rapids …Rsf Social Finance IncCommunity Foundation …Blooming Prairie Fdn …The Schmidt Family Fo…Foundation for Sustai…Fair Food Network IncNewman's Own Foundati…The Sprouts Healthy C…
Clif Family FoundationCA93.7× affinity59 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Clif Family Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Farm Aid Inc · Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Community Foundation for San Benito County · Blooming Prairie Fdn Inc Investment Agy · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Foundation for Sustainability and Innovation · Fair Food Network Inc · Newman's Own Foundation · The Sprouts Healthy Communities Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization UNFI Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from UNFI Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • Oregon Tilth Inc: 34% of income from government
  • Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont: 31% of income from government
  • Friends of Zenger Farm: 28% of income from government
  • Foodcorps Inc: 21% of income from government
  • Just Roots Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Regional Environmental Council Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Growing Gardens: 6% of income from government
  • Gaining Ground Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
86report 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 271 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 camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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