Kendo MVC Grid Filtering - Filters that consider multiple fields - kendo-grid

Question

I have a MVC Kendo grid where one column is a client template that actually uses multiple fields. By default the built in filtering is only applied to the field the column is bound to. How do I override that so it considers both fields. Ie, when I search for "Contains" "De" a column that displays "Detroit, MI" should return.
Here's what I have so far:
MVC View
#(Html.Kendo().Grid<ViewModel>()
.DataSource(dataSource => dataSource
.Custom()
.Transport(t =>
{
t.Read(r => r.Action("StatusGridRead", "DeviceStatus"));
})
.Schema(schema => schema
.Data("Result.Data")
.Total("Result.Total")
.Errors("Result.Errors")
.Model(m =>
{
m.Id(f => f.Id);
m.Field(f => f.StateOrProvince);
m.Field(f => f.City);
...
})
)
)
.Columns(columns =>
{
columns.Bound(c => c.StateOrProvince).Title("City & State").ClientTemplate("#=City#, #=StateOrProvince#");
...
})
.Events(e=>
{
e.Filter("statusGridFilter");
})
.Sortable()
.Filterable(f =>
{
f.Extra(false);
f.Operators(o => o.ForString(s =>
{
s.Clear();
s.Contains("Contains");
s.IsEqualTo("Is Equal To");
s.StartsWith("Starts With");
s.EndsWith("Ends With");
s.DoesNotContain("Does Not Contain");
s.IsNotEqualTo("Is Not Equal To");
}));
})
)
Javascript
function statusGridFilter(e) {
if (e.field == "StateOrProvince") {
//What do I do here?
}
}
I understand if I made a column for city and one for state that would resolve this issue, however I actually have a similar scenario (client template with many string fields displayed) where that won't work and am just picking this as the easiest example. Other than making 1 column for 1 field, I'm open to any other ideas that may solve filtering for this scenario.