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Barr-Campbell Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$1.7M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.

Education$2.1MPhilanthropy$100kArts & Culture$100kHealth$15kEnvironment$13kRecreation & Sports$10kFood & Nutrition$8kHousing & Shelter$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.7M
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION$1,740,478
MAUI ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER$75,000
PARK THEATER TRUST$25,000
TROY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$10,000
FRIENDS OF THE TRUCKEE LIBRARY INC$5,000
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 6% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PARK THEATER TRUST: $25k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $1.7M → 10%SAN FRANCISCO FRIENDS SCHOOL: $5k → 10%SIERRA BUTTES TRAIL STEWARDSHIP: $3k → 13%ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%MAUI ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER: $75k → 9%FIRST BOOK: $5k → 14%TROY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 27%URBAN ROOTS GARDEN CLASSROOMS: $3k → 10%MT DIABLO INTERPRETIVE ASSOC: $10k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $319k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $3k → 10%WESTERN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES: $10k → 14%SIERRA COMMUNITY HOUSE: $5k → 10%GOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY: $3k → 10%THE TREVOR PROJECT INC: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
2
Uc Riverside Foundation

To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.

Education
3
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
4
The Trust for Public Land

The trust for public land creates parks and protects land for people, ensuring healthy, livable communities for generations to come. in the past year, we helped communities to plan for parks and conservation, fund parks and conservation,…

Environment
5
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
6
Truckee Trails Foundation Inc

The Truckee Trails Foundation (TTF) is working towards a system of trails and bikeways in and around Truckee, California that will connect people and places, reduce our community's dependence on automobiles, and improve our physical,…

Environment
7
Friends of the Urban Forest

Friends of the urban forest connects people with nature and each other by planting and caring for san francisco's trees and gardens.

Environment
8
University of California Irvine Foundation

The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…

Education
9
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
10
Kqed Inc

See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…

Arts & Culture
11
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
12
Uc Press Foundation

The university of california press foundation (incorporated in 1981) is dedicated to raising philanthropic support and community visibility to ensure the long-term sustainability of uc press.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Francisco Friends School and the most unlike its peers is San Francisco Food Bank. 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

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 19 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
10/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION — $2,059,802 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION+5 more — $27,500 · EducationENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION — $100,000 · PhilanthropyMAUI ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER — $75,000 · Arts & CultureThe Park Theater Trust — $25,000 · Arts & CultureWESTERN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES — $10,000 · OtherACHIEVE TAHOE — $7,500 · OtherSIERRA COMMUNITY HOUSE — $5,000 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK — $2,500 · OtherGOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY — $2,500 · OtherSIERRA BUTTES TRAIL STEWARDSHIP — $2,500 · OtherCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $2,500 · OtherMT DIABLO INTERPRETIVE ASSOCIATION — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsTAHOE FOOD HUB — $5,000 · Food & NutritionTREVOR PROJECT INC — $5,000 · Civil Rights
Education$2,087,302Philanthropy$100,000Arts & Culture$100,000Other$32,500Recreation & Sports$10,000Food & Nutrition$5,000Civil Rights$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION — $2,059,802 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAUI ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER — $75,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Park Theater Trust — $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTROY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWESTERN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMT DIABLO INTERPRETIVE ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetACHIEVE TAHOE — $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FRIENDS SCHOOL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTAHOE FOOD HUB — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFIRST BOOK — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA BUTTES TRAIL STEWARDSHIP — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetURBAN ROOTS GARDEN CLASSROOMS — $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA10× affinity7 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Barr-Campbell Family Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Barr-Campbell Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Barr-Campbell Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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