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A provider of capital as for the support of a charitable or nonprofit organization.

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  • Yesterday, we noted that anti-tax activist Tim Eyman had yet to get a check from his main funder, retired financial adviser Mark Dunmire.
  • The intelligence report, in which the United Arab Emirates was identified as a funder and
  • Koch is best known as the funder of global warming-denying think tanks and the right-wing echo chamber that regurgitates their claims.
  • But you are not a "funder", you are a shareholder with just a small voice among the other shareholders.
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