Funding by state · Flows
How grant money flows between states
Every arc is grant money crossing a state line, from the funder's state to the recipient's. Width is the dollars, color is the source region. Select a state to trace where its money goes. Money that crosses a state line mostly leaves its census region too. The full figures for all fifty states are in the table below the map.
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Select a state to trace its grant money: where it goes. Hover, tap or tab to a tile. Arc width is the dollars; color is the source region. Every figure is also in the table below.
Every state, ranked by net flow
The same figures as the map above. Net flow is what arrives minus what leaves, so a positive number is a state that draws in more grant money than its own funders send out.
| State | Region | Net flow | Granted | Leaves state | Stays in state | Sends most to | Receives most from |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | Northeast | +$3.5B | $9.3B | $3.0B | 67% | New York $503M | New York $1.5B |
| Washington, D.C. | South | +$3.2B | $9.8B | $7.2B | 26% | California $775M | New York $2.4B |
| Virginia | South | +$1.4B | $5.6B | $2.5B | 56% | Washington, D.C. $334M | Washington, D.C. $470M |
| Wisconsin | Midwest | +$1.3B | $3.7B | $1.0B | 73% | Minnesota $87M | Illinois $1.2B |
| Colorado | West | +$1.2B | $4.3B | $1.2B | 72% | California $232M | New York $437M |
| Ohio | Midwest | +$694M | $6.6B | $1.4B | 78% | California $203M | New York $315M |
| Louisiana | South | +$693M | $989M | $222M | 78% | Texas $64M | Washington, D.C. $230M |
| North Carolina | South | +$690M | $5.9B | $1.8B | 70% | New York $228M | New York $344M |
| Tennessee | South | +$644M | $2.0B | $791M | 61% | Virginia $80M | New York $190M |
| Oregon | West | +$592M | $2.7B | $556M | 79% | Washington $138M | Washington $191M |
| Georgia | South | +$566M | $6.6B | $2.3B | 65% | New York $207M | New York $411M |
| South Carolina | South | +$483M | $1.3B | $204M | 84% | Georgia $30M | North Carolina $136M |
| Kentucky | South | +$475M | $2.1B | $376M | 82% | Ohio $34M | New York $80M |
| New Mexico | West | +$466M | $545M | $169M | 69% | New York $33M | Texas $84M |
| Alabama | South | +$457M | $1.4B | $193M | 86% | Tennessee $32M | Washington, D.C. $97M |
| Rhode Island | Northeast | +$414M | $451M | $211M | 53% | New York $40M | New York $105M |
| Mississippi | South | +$398M | $603M | $52M | 91% | Virginia $8M | Washington, D.C. $91M |
| Hawaii | West | +$380M | $591M | $63M | 89% | California $29M | California $173M |
| Iowa | Midwest | +$379M | $1.6B | $210M | 87% | Illinois $30M | Illinois $171M |
| Vermont | Northeast | +$378M | $293M | $67M | 77% | New York $11M | New York $97M |
| Montana | West | +$335M | $512M | $161M | 69% | California $28M | New York $59M |
| Maine | Northeast | +$321M | $760M | $212M | 72% | Massachusetts $56M | Massachusetts $105M |
| Arizona | West | +$292M | $3.1B | $1.0B | 66% | California $237M | New York $213M |
| Utah | West | +$251M | $2.4B | $438M | 82% | California $96M | Illinois $137M |
| Michigan | Midwest | +$239M | $6.5B | $1.9B | 71% | New York $317M | Illinois $487M |
| Oklahoma | South | +$225M | $2.4B | $428M | 82% | New York $90M | Texas $156M |
| West Virginia | South | +$197M | $462M | $45M | 90% | Ohio $8M | Pennsylvania $36M |
| Connecticut | Northeast | +$194M | $4.9B | $1.4B | 71% | New York $418M | New York $408M |
| Alaska | West | +$190M | $434M | $43M | 90% | Washington $16M | Washington, D.C. $44M |
| Idaho | West | +$131M | $558M | $114M | 80% | California $25M | Illinois $29M |
| New Hampshire | Northeast | +$119M | $498M | $285M | 43% | Massachusetts $82M | Massachusetts $81M |
| Nevada | West | +$96M | $1.1B | $503M | 55% | California $185M | Virginia $216M |
| North Dakota | Midwest | +$90M | $366M | $66M | 82% | Minnesota $21M | Minnesota $31M |
| South Dakota | Midwest | +$81M | $664M | $207M | 69% | Minnesota $37M | Minnesota $77M |
| Missouri | Midwest | +$37M | $4.5B | $1.7B | 62% | California $199M | Kansas $399M |
| Wyoming | West | $-63M | $558M | $261M | 53% | Connecticut $64M | Washington, D.C. $23M |
| Pennsylvania | Northeast | $-65M | $9.8B | $3.0B | 70% | New York $394M | New York $512M |
| California | West | $-233M | $28.3B | $10.9B | 62% | New York $2.6B | New York $2.6B |
| Maryland | South | $-369M | $5.5B | $3.6B | 35% | Washington, D.C. $458M | New York $877M |
| Kansas | Midwest | $-401M | $2.3B | $1.0B | 55% | Missouri $399M | Missouri $154M |
| Florida | South | $-436M | $15.1B | $4.2B | 72% | New York $776M | Texas $486M |
| Nebraska | Midwest | $-441M | $3.4B | $944M | 72% | Washington, D.C. $259M | Illinois $130M |
| Minnesota | Midwest | $-477M | $5.8B | $2.0B | 64% | Florida $280M | New York $242M |
| Arkansas | South | $-871M | $2.6B | $1.5B | 42% | New York $280M | Texas $302M |
| Texas | South | $-1.0B | $16.9B | $4.9B | 71% | California $512M | New York $545M |
| Indiana | Midwest | $-1.2B | $6.6B | $2.6B | 60% | Washington, D.C. $267M | Illinois $375M |
| New Jersey | Northeast | $-1.9B | $13.7B | $3.7B | 73% | New York $934M | New York $546M |
| Delaware | South | $-2.2B | $3.1B | $2.7B | 14% | New York $492M | Illinois $81M |
| New York | Northeast | $-2.5B | $30.2B | $15.4B | 49% | California $2.6B | California $2.6B |
| Illinois | Midwest | $-4.2B | $14.1B | $7.8B | 45% | Wisconsin $1.2B | New York $618M |
| Washington | West | $-4.8B | $10.3B | $6.7B | 35% | New York $1.5B | California $341M |
What the map shows
- MA is the biggest net importer of grant money, drawing $3.5B more than it sends out.
- WA is the biggest net exporter, sending $4.8B more out than it takes in.
- The single largest cross-state tie is $2.6B from NY to CA.
- DE keeps the least at home: only 14% of its grant dollars stay in state.
- Only 31% of inter-state grant money stays within the source's own region; most crosses the country.
More from the funding graph
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
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines
A flow counts grant dollars from a funder based in one state to a recipient based in another, read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023. Grants only: payments into and out of donor-advised fund sponsors, transfers to related organizations, regrants through intermediaries and grants to individuals are left out. A recipient is placed by the address on the grant, or its own filing. States are placed in a tile grid that reads as the US map, not to geographic scale. Regions are the four US census regions. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.