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Which funders should we apply to now?
Read as a recommender, the money graph makes Coefficient Giving the #1 structural fit for an AoC-shaped org — Survival & Flourishing Fund and NSF follow, and only 12 of the 25 funders with tracked money edges carry enough tracked signal to rank at all.
Fit is scored on tracked money only — a funder with a quiet portfolio scores low on data, not on interest. Zero fit means unranked, not unfit.
Who funds our rivals?
8 tracked checkbooks have already funded a flagged rival — $98.65M of it verified — while 13 funders back agent-security or evals work with no rival tie on record.
The join sees tracked positions only — absence means untracked, not unconflicted. Undisclosed stakes are exactly what this can miss.
Who can introduce us to a funder?
Coefficient Giving — the #1 shortlist funder — is one handshake from Apollo Research; the nearest mapped doorkeeper, Nick Fitz at Juniper Ventures, sits 2 handshakes out.
Every hop is a sourced edge, but recall is partial — the warmest real-world intro may be unmapped. Mapped routes are upper bounds.
Which funders are within reach?
Random walks from AoC's three entry grantees find mapped paths to just 16 of the 62 tracked funders — the walk lands on Juniper Ventures first, one handshake out.
Reach means mapped-path reach — funders with quiet portfolios leave no path to find. The other 46 aren't out of reach; they're off the record.
Who gatekeeps the money?
12 named people hold the doors to $159.8M a year of verified field money — and among doors with a name on them, only NSF's 4 program officers hold one that both pays and bridges money territories.
Doorkeeping is computed on named staff at 39 of 62 funders — the biggest tracked checkbook has no named holder on the map yet. Bridges inflate where edges are missing.
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