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Wiseheart Foundation Inc

Wiseheart foundation was formed to connect philanthropic christian donors with an avenue to enhance the tax advantages of a charitable foundation, while growing and empowering the donor's ability to support god honoring ministries and other not-for-profit organizations in a way to maximize the greatest impact.

$11M
Granted FY2023
4
Grants FY2023
3
States reached
$10M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2023.

Philanthropy$11MEducation$5.6MReligion$4.2MHuman Services$821kHealth$479kInternational$474kYouth Development$198kHousing & Shelter$197kOther$0
02FY2023 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
  • $250k+1 grant · $10M
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$282k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION$10,481,131
FOR OTHERS FOUNDATION-ANGEL ARMIES INC DBA FOR OTHERS COLLE$25,000
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH CORINTH$20,000
BEAUTIFUL FEATS MINISTRIES$14,728
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 (FY17–23, $782k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHILDHELP: $10k → 11%WOUNDED WARRRIOR PROJECT: $20k → 14%HELPING HAND MINISTRIES: $5k → 17%CARING FOR KIDS: $13k → 13%THE BADDOUR CENTER INC: $33k → 19%PALMER HOME: $167k → 19%WOUNDED WARRRIOR PROJECT: $6k → 14%CARING FOR KIDS: $8k → 13%BADDOUR CENTER: $33k → 19%PALMER HOME: $8k → 19%WOUNDED WARRIER PROJECT: $6k → 14%BADDOUR CENTER: $29k → 19%WOUNDED WARRRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 14%FAMILY ACTION COUNCIL: $8k → 4%FOR OTHERS FOUNDATION-ANGEL ARMIES INC DBA FOR OTHERS COLLE: $25k → 13%FOR OTHERS FOUNDATION-ANGEL ARMIES INC DBA FOR OTHERS COLLE: $10k → 13%TIN MAN MINISTRIES: $6k → 14%SALAMA URBAN MINISTRIES: $18k → 14%SALAMA URBAN MINISTRIES: $13k → 14%SALAMA URBAN MINISTRIES: $13k → 14%SALAMA URBAN MINISTRIES: $5k → 14%NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTER INC: $15k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTER INC: $15k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTER INC: $12k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTER: $10k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTER INC: $8k → 17%CALVARY RESCUE MISSION: $37k → 17%CALVARY RESCUE MISSION: $12k → 17%CALVARY RESCUE MISSION: $12k → 17%CALVARY RESCUE MISSION: $10k → 17%CALVARY RESCUE MISSION: $6k → 17%ASHA'S REFUGE: $72k → 17%ASHA'S REFUGE: $50k → 17%ASHA'S REFUGE: $39k → 17%ASHA'S REFUGE: $12k → 17%ASHA'S REFUGE: $9k → 17%MY CUP OF TEA INC: $25k → 17%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

IL
MI
NY
IN
OH
PA
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
MS
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$18M · 80 repeat orgs$5.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

80 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2023, 77 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

80
80

Total granted

$18M
$5.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+7%

Still filing today

70%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23
EducationHuman ServicesReligionHealthYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther
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

  • NC
    NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $11M · revenue ×103
  • TM
    THIRD MILLENNIUM MINISTRIES INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $745k · revenue +1%
  • CF
    CHAMPIONS FOR LITERACY
    6× · 2017–2022 · $464k · revenue ×18

Funded once

  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE
    one grant, 2019 · $3.5M
  • HC
    HOPE CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $501k
  • DO
    DIOCESE OF MARA-UKEREWE AFRICA
    one grant, 2019 · $245k
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
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
2
Mission Mississippi

To encourage and demonstrate grace in the body of christ across racial lines, so that communities throughout mississippi can see practical evidence of the gospel message.

Civil Rights
3
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

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4
Union University

Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.

Education
5
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
6
Blue Letter Bible

The specific purpose of this corporation is to present a biblical, christian ministry of the gospel, hope, encouragement and strength to as many people as possible. the intent of those who will conduct this corporation's work is to present…

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7
Bibleproject

Bibleproject's mission is to help people experience the bible as a unified story that leads to jesus. this is achieved by creating biblical videos to be regularly released on a newly-created youtube channel. (continued on schedule o.)each…

Religion
8
Jewish Voice Ministries Intl

To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…

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9
Evangel University

Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.

Education
10
Time of Grace Ministry

Time of grace is for people who want more growth and less struggle in their spiritual walk. we share the truth of god's word simply and clearly through television, print, and digital media that people view millions of times each month. we…

Religion
11
Biglife International Inc

Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.

Recreation & Sports
12
International Commission Inc

Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memphis Leadership Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Impact Foundation. 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

124 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. 124 of the 167 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)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
119/124
Grantees still filing
81/124
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC: $10,663,744 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INCThe New Horizons Foundation Inc: $400,002 · Philanthropy+6 more: $130,284 · PhilanthropyTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE: $3,500,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEEHOPE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $904,765 · OtherHOPE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHHOPE CHURCH: $501,023 · OtherHOPE CHURCH+81 more: $2,685,322 · Other+81 moreCHAMPIONS FOR LITERACY: $463,843 · EducationCHAMPIONS…MADONNA LEARNING CENTER INCORPORATED: $300,250 · EducationMADONNA L…UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION: $254,000 · EducationUNIVERSIT…SOUTHEAST MISSOURI UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $194,408 · EducationSOUTHEAST…ARISE2READ INC: $185,000 · EducationARISE2REA…ARIZONA PRIVATE EDUCATION SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $150,000 · EducationARIZONA P…THREE RIVERS ENDOWMENT TRUST: $111,905 · EducationTHREE RIV…THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC: $101,000 · EducationFRENCH CAMP ACADEMY: $92,000 · Education+13 more: $126,461 · Education+13 moreTHIRD MILLENNIUM MINISTRIES INC: $745,000 · ReligionRONNIE TULLOS EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION: $139,500 · ReligionWISEHEART FOUNDATION INC: $81,306 · ReligionCROSSLINK MEMPHIS INC: $72,770 · ReligionLiquid Legacy: $62,895 · ReligionHope Force International: $54,000 · ReligionSu Casa Family Ministries: $50,000 · Religion+13 more: $227,784 · ReligionAshas Refuge: $181,669 · Human ServicesPALMER HOME FOR CHILDREN: $174,725 · Human ServicesThe Forsaken Children Inc: $135,000 · Human ServicesTHE BADDOUR CENTER INC: $95,000 · Human ServicesCALVARY RESCUE MISSION: $77,000 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTERS INC: $59,000 · Human ServicesSTREETS MINISTRIES INC: $54,100 · Human ServicesOrphanos Foundation: $50,000 · Human ServicesSALAMA URBAN MINISTRIES INC: $49,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $37,000 · Human Services+9 more: $151,500 · Human ServicesCHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC: $104,000 · HealthLife Choices of Memphis Inc: $96,850 · HealthFREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION: $75,000 · HealthTEEN CHALLENGE OF THE MID-SOUTH INC: $42,000 · HealthBETHESDA WORKSHOPS: $33,400 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $15,000 · Health+4 more: $36,000 · HealthTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $128,500 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $28,000 · Public BenefitBEACON CENTER OF TENNESSEE: $10,000 · Public BenefitTHE CENTER FOR FAITHWALK LEADERSHIP: $10,000 · Public Benefit
Philanthropy$11,194,030Other$7,591,110Education$1,978,867Religion$1,433,255Human Services$1,063,994Health$402,250Public Benefit$176,500

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 budgetTHIRD MILLENNIUM MINISTRIES INC: $745,000 over 2y, 9.9% of budgetCHAMPIONS FOR LITERACY: $463,843 over 6y, 19% of budgetThe New Horizons Foundation Inc: $400,002 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMADONNA LEARNING CENTER INCORPORATED: $300,250 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION: $254,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTHEAST MISSOURI UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $194,408 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetARISE2READ INC: $185,000 over 5y, 20% of budgetAshas Refuge: $181,669 over 6y, 40% of budgetPALMER HOME FOR CHILDREN: $174,725 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetARIZONA PRIVATE EDUCATION SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $150,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetRONNIE TULLOS EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION: $139,500 over 6y, 8.9% of budgetThe Forsaken Children Inc: $135,000 over 6y, 17% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $128,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHREE RIVERS ENDOWMENT TRUST: $111,905 over 4y, 11% of budgetCHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC: $104,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC: $101,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLife Choices of Memphis Inc: $96,850 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetTHE BADDOUR CENTER INC: $95,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFRENCH CAMP ACADEMY: $92,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetWISEHEART FOUNDATION INC: $81,306 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCALVARY RESCUE MISSION: $77,000 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetMID-SOUTH FOOD BANK: $77,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION: $75,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCROSSLINK MEMPHIS INC: $72,770 over 5y, 8.4% of budgetIsaac Bruce Foundation: $70,000 over 3y, 33% of budgetROOM IN THE INN - MEMPHIS: $63,911 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetLiquid Legacy: $62,895 over 2y, 19% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTERS INC: $59,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC: $55,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSTREETS MINISTRIES INC: $54,100 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetHope Force International: $54,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetOrphanos Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSu Casa Family Ministries: $50,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetImpact Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSALAMA URBAN MINISTRIES INC: $49,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $47,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC: $46,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $46,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $44,750 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTEEN CHALLENGE OF THE MID-SOUTH INC: $42,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $37,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEMPHIS UNION MISSON: $35,300 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFOR OTHERS COLLECTIVE INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBETHESDA WORKSHOPS: $33,400 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetORPHEUM THEATRE GROUP: $32,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMEMPHIS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $31,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSEEDS MINISTRIES INC: $31,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetNATIONS OF COACHES INC: $31,000 over 2y, 0.9% 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 NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THIRD MILLENNIUM MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds CHAMPIONS FOR LITERACY ↗
  • Who funds The New Horizons Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds MADONNA LEARNING CENTER INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHEAST MISSOURI UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ARISE2READ INC ↗
  • Who funds Ashas Refuge ↗
  • Who funds PALMER HOME FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds ARIZONA PRIVATE EDUCATION SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds RONNIE TULLOS EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds The Forsaken Children Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THREE RIVERS ENDOWMENT TRUST ↗
  • Who funds CHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Life Choices of Memphis Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE BADDOUR CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds FRENCH CAMP ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds WISEHEART FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CALVARY RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds MID-SOUTH FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION ↗
  • Who funds CROSSLINK MEMPHIS INC ↗
  • Who funds BILL WINSTON MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds Isaac Bruce Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ROOM IN THE INN - MEMPHIS ↗
  • Who funds Liquid Legacy ↗

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.

Christian Community F…Community Foundation …The Grace Foundation …The Kemmons Wilson Fa…Crews Family Foundati…Thomas Garrott Founda…Second Presbyterian C…Thomas W Briggs Found…United Way of the Mid…Jr Hyde III Family Fo…The Urban Child Insti…Jewish Foundation of …
Christian Community Foundation of MemphisTN100.1× affinity59 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · The Grace Foundation of Memphis Inc · The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation · Crews Family Foundation · Thomas Garrott Foundation · Second Presbyterian Church Foundation Inc · Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc · United Way of the Mid South · Jr Hyde III Family Foundation · The Urban Child Institute · Jewish Foundation of Memphis

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Stetson University Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get 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
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Wiseheart Foundation Inc 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 167 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
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