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Valley Queen Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Valley Queen Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$556k
Granted FY2025still arriving
79
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$108k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Public Benefit$1.4MPhilanthropy$1.3MEducation$1.1MYouth Development$541kHealth$282kFood & Nutrition$253kHuman Services$172kCrime & Legal$120kOther$0
02FY2025 · 79 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k63 grants · $97k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $210k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
$1,500
Median grant
9
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CITY OF MILBANK$107,750
MILBANK SCHOOL DISTRICT$88,550
MILBANK HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION FOUNDATION$53,348
BUILDING OUR FAMILIES$30,250
ABBEY OF THE HILLS INN AND RETREAT CENTER$28,100
SOUTH DAKOTA AGRICULTURAL AND RURAL LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION$20,000
LAKE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION$20,000
SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTH DAKOTA INC$15,205
LEADERSHIP SOUTH DAKOTA$15,100
MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTH DAKOTA$15,000
FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES$13,500
JOY RANCH OF SOUTH DAKOTA$11,500
SAINT LAWRENCE PARISH OF GRANT COUNTY$10,700
SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$10,540
COMMUNITY TRANSIT OF WATERTOWN SISSETON 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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $137k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICA'S MIGHTY WARRIORS: $498 → 11%DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%BUILDING OUR FAMILIES: $20k → 5%INTER-LAKES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 10%JOY RANCH OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $12k → 11%LIFEQUEST: $3k → 14%AMERICA'S MIGHTY WARRIORS: $321 → 11%PRAIRIE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $100 → 11%JOY RANCH OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $4k → 11%LIFEQUEST: $2k → 14%AMERICAS MIGHTY WARRIORS: $321 → 11%JOY RANCH OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $3k → 11%AMERICA'S MIGHTY WARRIORS: $321 → 11%BUILDING OUR FAMILIES: $3k → 5%JOY RANCH OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $2k → 11%AMERICA'S MIGHTY WARRIORS: $321 → 11%GLACIAL LAKES MULTICULTURAL CENTER INC: $10k → 11%GLACIAL LAKES MULTICULTURAL CENTER INC: $10k → 11%GLACIAL LAKES MULTICULTURAL CENTER INC: $10k → 11%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTH DAKOTA INC: $9k → 9%BUILDING OUR FAMILIES: $30k → 11%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $2k → 9%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $2k → 9%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $1k → 9%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $550 → 9%BACKYARD BULLDOGS CHILD CARE: $6k → 11%BACKYARD BULLDOGS CHILD CARE: $3k → 11%BACKYARD BULLDOGS CHILD CARE: $2k → 11%BACKYARD BULLDOGS CHILD CARE: $1k → 11%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
ID
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
NY
SD
IA
CA
UT
NE
MO
MD
AZ
TN
NC
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.1M · 108 repeat orgs$304k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

108 repeat relationships: 54 still active in FY2025, 54 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

108
69

Total granted

$4.1M
$231k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+11%

Still filing today

54%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesFood & NutritionArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • MH
    MILBANK HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $326k · revenue +466%
  • MF
    MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTH DAKOTA & MONTANA
    8× · 2018–2025 · $100k · revenue +36%
  • LS
    LEADERSHIP SOUTH DAKOTA
    8× · 2018–2025 · $88k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • NS
    NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER
    one grant, 2018 · $105k
  • SA
    SD AGRICULTURAL & RURAL LEADERSHIP
    one grant, 2019 · $15k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $12k
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
North Dakota Natural Resources Trust
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2
South Dakota Association of Rural Water Systems

Rural water development in south dakota

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3
South Dakota State University Alumni Association

Foster loyalty and fellowship among South Dakota State University Alumni, Faculty, Students and Former Students.

Education
4
North Dakota University System Foundation

The function of the north dakota university system foundation is to support, enrich, advance and improve higher education in the state of north dakota, and to assist its students, faculty and staff.

Philanthropy
5
Sd Association of Healthcare Organizations

Advancing healthy communities through a unified voice across the health care continuum.

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6
South Dakota State Medical Association

The south dakota state medical association is devoted to promoting the art and science of medicine; protecting and improving the health of the public; and providing leadership and advocacy in the filed of quality healthcare.

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7
Credit Union Association of the Dakotas

The association works to promote member credit unions as being safe and sound institutions for insured deposits, responsible lending, and the best place for consumers to receive financial services.

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8
Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

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9
South Dakota Retailers Association

Representing the interest of retail businesses who sell retail products and services throughout the state of south dakota.

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10
South Dakota Biotechnology Association

A south dakota alliance dedicated to the development of biotechnology industries through expansion of bio-based research, investment, education, advocacy, funding, education, infrastructure development, and promotion.

Community Improvement
11
North Dakota State University Foundation

Building enduring relationships that maximize advocacy and philanthropy to support North Dakota State University.

Education
12
Southeastern North Dakota Community Action Agency

Southeastern north dakota community action agency (sendcaa) was formed in 1965 to provide a range of services and activities in a six county area designed to alleviate poverty and give low-income people the opportunity to improve their…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of South Dakota & Montana; the most unlike its peers is The Greater Sd Eduction and Research Foundation Inc. 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

104 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 104 of the 204 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)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
102/104
Grantees still filing
64/104
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

City of Milbank: $1,225,047 · OtherCity of MilbankMilbank Community Foundation: $1,101,600 · OtherMilbank Community FoundationGRANT COUNTY 4-H: $527,012 · OtherGRANT COUNTY 4-HMILBANK SCHOOL DISTRICT: $420,742 · OtherMILBANK SCHOOL DISTRICTMILBANK HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $326,207 · OtherMILBANK HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC+149 more: $1,216,164 · Other+149 moreLEADERSHIP SOUTH DAKOTA: $87,808 · EducationBULLDOG BOOSTER CLUB: $74,674 · EducationLAKE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $68,600 · EducationSOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $63,665 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - RIVER FALLS FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Education+7 more: $11,487 · EducationBUILDING OUR FAMILIES: $53,450 · Human ServicesGLACIAL LAKES MULTICULTURAL CENTER INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesJOY RANCH OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $19,000 · Human ServicesRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTH DAKOTA INC: $13,565 · Human ServicesBACKYARD BULLDOGS CHILD CARE: $12,000 · Human Services+6 more: $9,382 · Human ServicesSPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTH DAKOTA INC: $69,955 · Recreation & SportsMilbank Ball Diamond Association: $2,450 · Recreation & Sports+2 more: $600 · Recreation & SportsCENTRAL PLAINS DAIRY FOUNDATION: $40,000 · Food & NutritionSOUTH DAKOTA AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Food & NutritionSTOP FOODBORNE ILLNESS INC: $2,500 · Food & Nutrition+2 more: $1,545 · Food & NutritionIt Only Takes A Spark: $32,300 · HealthAvera at Home: $8,500 · HealthAvera McKennan: $7,100 · HealthMCCROSSAN BOYS RANCH: $5,000 · Health+8 more: $5,425 · HealthSOUTH DAKOTA AGRICULTURE AND RURAL LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $36,000 · Public BenefitCommunity Transit of Watertown Sisseton Inc: $21,500 · Public Benefit
Other$4,816,772Education$331,234Human Services$137,397Recreation & Sports$73,005Food & Nutrition$64,045Health$58,325Public Benefit$57,500

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 budgetMilbank Community Foundation: $1,101,600 over 6y, 49% of budgetMILBANK HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $326,207 over 8y, 18% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTH DAKOTA & MONTANA: $100,200 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetLEADERSHIP SOUTH DAKOTA: $87,808 over 8y, 4.4% of budgetBULLDOG BOOSTER CLUB: $74,674 over 5y, 25% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTH DAKOTA INC: $69,955 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetLAKE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $68,600 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetSOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $63,665 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBUILDING OUR FAMILIES: $53,450 over 3y, 18% of budgetCENTRAL PLAINS DAIRY FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetSOUTH DAKOTA AGRICULTURE AND RURAL LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $36,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetIt Only Takes A Spark: $32,300 over 8y, 3.4% of budgetGLACIAL LAKES MULTICULTURAL CENTER INC: $30,000 over 3y, 41% of budgetTHE ABBEY OF THE HILLS INN AND RETREAT CENTER: $28,100 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - RIVER FALLS FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCHRISTIAN SERVICE COUNCIL OF GRANT COUNTY: $24,848 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetCommunity Transit of Watertown Sisseton Inc: $21,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTH DAKOTA AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetJOY RANCH OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $19,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetORPHAN GRAIN TRAIN INC: $17,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $16,450 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetEAST-CENTRAL COURT APPOINTED SPECIA: $15,295 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetSOUTH DAKOTA HUMANITIES COUNCIL: $15,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTH DAKOTA INC: $13,565 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $13,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBACKYARD BULLDOGS CHILD CARE: $12,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetBEACON CENTER: $9,920 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetNAMI SOUTH DAKOTA: $9,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTHE FATTED CALF: $9,500 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetCORONA FIRE DEPARTMENT: $8,900 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetAvera at Home: $8,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHERANS OUTDOORS IN SOUTH DAKOTA INC: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAvera McKennan: $7,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWILMOT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $6,700 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetNorth Dakota Delta Upsilon Education Foundation Inc: $6,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetFriends of South Dakota Public Broadcasting: $5,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMCCROSSAN BOYS RANCH: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH DAKOTA FFA FOUNDATION INC: $4,200 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetLIFEQUEST INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $3,646 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWATERTOWN AREA SWIM CLUB: $3,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE GREATER SD EDUCTION AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetNATIONAL DAIRY SHRINE: $3,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetSTOP FOODBORNE ILLNESS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMilbank Ball Diamond Association: $2,450 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetMAIN STREET INDUSTRIES & TRAINING: $1,900 over 3y, 0.2% 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 Milbank Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds MILBANK HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTH DAKOTA & MONTANA ↗
  • Who funds LEADERSHIP SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
  • Who funds BULLDOG BOOSTER CLUB ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTH DAKOTA INC ↗
  • Who funds LAKE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BUILDING OUR FAMILIES ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL PLAINS DAIRY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH DAKOTA AGRICULTURE AND RURAL LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds It Only Takes A Spark ↗
  • Who funds GLACIAL LAKES MULTICULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ABBEY OF THE HILLS INN AND RETREAT CENTER ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - RIVER FALLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN SERVICE COUNCIL OF GRANT COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds Community Transit of Watertown Sisseton Inc ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH DAKOTA AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds JOY RANCH OF SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
  • Who funds ORPHAN GRAIN TRAIN INC ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
  • Who funds EAST-CENTRAL COURT APPOINTED SPECIA ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH DAKOTA HUMANITIES COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTH DAKOTA 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.

South Dakota Communit…Sioux Falls Area Comm…Midcontinent Foundati…First Interstate Banc…Sanford Group ReturnAvera HealthThe Mike Cindy and Ky…Larson FoundationWatertown Area Commun…Sheldon F Reese Found…The Graco FoundationWatertown Area United…
South Dakota Community FoundationSD66.5× affinity35 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: South Dakota Community Foundation · Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc · Midcontinent Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Sanford Group Return · Avera Health · The Mike Cindy and Kylie Huether Family Foundation · Larson Foundation · Watertown Area Community Foundation · Sheldon F Reese Foundation · The Graco Foundation · Watertown Area United Way 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 Valley Queen Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Valley Queen Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Valley Queen Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Valley Queen Charitable 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 204 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
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