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Bruce Barclay Cameron Foundation Inc

Support local community arts and historical preservation as well as education

$1.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$600k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through 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 FY2020–2024.

Arts & Culture$4.2MEnvironment$3.1MEducation$2.1MFood & Nutrition$920kHousing & Shelter$720kMembership Benefit$600kHealth$317kReligion$200kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $70k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $640k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$60M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Cameron Art Museum$600,000
NC Marine & Estuary Foundation Inc$486,000
GLOW NC (Beacon Education)$150,000
Cape Fear Academy$100,000
Eden Village of Wilmington$100,000
Hill School of Wilmington$100,000
Grandfather Mountain Stewartship Foundation$90,000
University of NC at Wilmington$50,000
Salvation Army$50,000
Hunger & Health Coalition$10,000
Autism Society of NC$10,000
First Tee Greater Wilmington$10,000
Duck's Unlimited$10,000
Western Youth Network Inc$10,000
NWTF$10,000
02The need
03

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:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $182k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Western Youth Network Inc: $10k → 21%Western Youth Network Inc: $10k → 21%Lower Cape Fear Hospice: $110k → 12%Lower Cape Fear Hospice: $52k → 12%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 edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$12M · 23 repeat orgs$447k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
11

Total granted

$12M
$427k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+60%

Still filing today

83%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesFood & NutritionPublic BenefitOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • LW
    LOUISE WELLS CAMERON ART MUSEUM
    5× · 2020–2024 · $4.1M · revenue +44% · 47% of their budget
  • NC
    NORTH CAROLINA MARINE AND ESTUARY FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +27% · 99% of their budget
  • BE
    BEACON EDUCATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • CI
    COLLECTIVE IMPACT IN NEW HANOVER COUNTYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +222%
  • GS
    Good Shepherd Ministries of Wilmington Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +30%
  • Elon Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +34%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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
Historic Wilmington Foundation Inc

The mission of Historic Wilmington Foundation is to protect and preserve the irreplaceable historic resources of Wilmington and the Lower Cape Fear Region.

Arts & Culture
2
Wnc Health Network Inc

WNC Health Network, Inc supports people and organizations to improve community health and wellbeing across Western North Carolina.

Health
3
NourishNC Inc

NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community

Food & Nutrition
4
Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc

The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.

Human Services
5
Cape Fear River Watch

To protect and improve the water quality of the Cape Fear River Basin for all people through education, advocacy, and action.

Environment
6
North Carolina Cattlemen's Association Inc

To promote, educate, market and defend the beef industry.

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7
Carolina Charter Academy

Operation of a public charter school.

Education
8
North Carolina Beach Inlet and Waterway Association Inc

The organization is working on behalf of North Carolina's coast, and those who love it, by seeking to encourage government action and funding, educate and advocate for effective Federal and State policy, and facilitate environmentally…

Environment
9
Wilmington School of the Arts

Wilmington School of the Arts is a tuition-free, public charter school located in New Hanover County, North Carolina. Its mission is to inspire students to pursue excellence in academics and the arts by awakening and nuturing the creative…

Education
10
CleanAIRE Nc

To advocate for the health of all North Carolinians by pursuing equitable and collaborative solutions that address climate change and air pollution.

Environment
11
Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence Found ation
Health
12
Communities in Schools of Cape Fear Inc

To surround at risk students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Autism Society of North Carolina Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rsv Kids Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr15%13%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%17%20–35yr14%33%35–55yr13%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr15%27%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr16%6%20–35yr14%11%35–55yr13%43%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/36
the rest of the field
13%
2,928/22,384

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 36 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/32
Grantees still filing
29/32
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LOUISE WELLS CAMERON ART MUSEUM — $4,075,000 · Arts & CultureLOUISE WELLS CAMERON ART MUSEUM+3 more — $130,000 · Arts & CultureNORTH CAROLINA MARINE AND ESTUARY FOUNDATION INC — $2,751,000 · EnvironmentNORTH CAROLINA MARINE AND ES…GRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN STEWARDSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $370,000 · EnvironmentGRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN STEWARD…+2 more — $40,000 · EnvironmentBEACON EDUCATION INC — $1,025,000 · EducationBEACON EDUCATIO…Cape Fear Academy — $400,000 · EducationCape Fear Acade…The Hill School of Wilmington Inc — $130,000 · EducationThe Hill School…Elon University — $99,940 · EducationElon University+1 more — $10,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF OAKDALE CEMETERY INC — $600,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF OAKD…THE SALVATION ARMY — $360,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION A…University of North Carolina at Wilmington - College of Health & Human Serv — $250,000 · OtherUniversity of N…RSV Kids Inc — $80,000 · OtherThe Carousel Center Inc — $85,000 · OtherCOLLECTIVE IMPACT IN NEW HANOVER COUNTY — $100,000 · OtherCOLLECTIVE IMPA…+10 more — $227,500 · Other+10 moreFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC — $900,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more — $10,000 · Food & NutritionEden Village of Wilmington — $400,000 · Housing & ShelterGood Shepherd Ministries of Wilmington Inc — $100,000 · Housing & ShelterYoung Men's Christian Association of Southeastern North Carolina Inc — $200,000 · Human ServicesLower Cape Fear Hospice Incorporated dba Lower Cape Fear LifeCare — $162,293 · Human ServicesThe Western Youth Network Inc — $20,000 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$4,205,000Environment$3,161,000Education$1,664,940Other$1,702,500Food & Nutrition$910,000Housing & Shelter$500,000Human Services$382,293

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLOUISE WELLS CAMERON ART MUSEUM — $4,075,000 over 5y, 47% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA MARINE AND ESTUARY FOUNDATION INC — $2,751,000 over 5y, 99% of budgetBEACON EDUCATION INC — $1,025,000 over 5y, 8.4% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC — $900,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCape Fear Academy — $400,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetEden Village of Wilmington — $400,000 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetGRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN STEWARDSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $370,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Southeastern North Carolina Inc — $200,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetLower Cape Fear Hospice Incorporated dba Lower Cape Fear LifeCare — $162,293 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Hill School of Wilmington Inc — $130,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetCOLLECTIVE IMPACT IN NEW HANOVER COUNTY — $100,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetGood Shepherd Ministries of Wilmington Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetElon University — $99,940 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Carousel Center Inc — $85,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetRSV Kids Inc — $80,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetFriends of the Battleship North Carolina Inc — $75,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetCENTER FOR CHRISTIAN THOUGHT INC — $50,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetWILMINGTON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $45,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Wilmington Youth Initiative Inc — $40,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetNATIONAL WILD TURKEY FEDERATION INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Western Youth Network Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetHelping a HeroOrg — $17,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE HUNGER AND HEALTH COALITION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPUNGO CHRISTIAN ACADEMY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S CANCER PARTNERS OF THE CAROLINAS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Public Radio DBA WHQR — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL SPORTSMEN'S FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

New Hanover Community…North Carolina Commun…Dan Cameron Family Fo…Duke Energy FoundationThe Eshelman Foundati…The True North Founda…The Landfall Foundati…The Winston-Salem Fou…The Cannon Foundation…Truist Foundation IncFoundation for the Ca…Dhs Charitable Trust …
New Hanover Community Endowment IncNC34.6× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Hanover Community Endowment Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Dan Cameron Family Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · The Eshelman Foundation · The True North Foundation Co Amy Brown North · The Landfall Foundation Inc · The Winston-Salem Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Truist Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Dhs Charitable Trust Uad May 21 1965

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 Bruce Barclay Cameron 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%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Bruce Barclay Cameron Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Bruce Barclay Cameron 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 36 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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