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Bruised Camel Charitable Foundationinc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$123k
Granted FY2024still arriving
48
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$17k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Religion$218kEnvironment$35kEducation$31kInternational$26kHuman Services$15kYouth Development$12kRecreation & Sports$10kHealth$7kOther$0
02FY2024 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k44 grants · $73k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $51k
$1,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$814k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TELEMACHUS FOUNDATION$17,000
LOST TREE CHAPEL$12,500
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE$11,000
DONOR FUND CHRISTIAN MINISTRY ALLIANCE$10,000
KIDS ACROSS AMERICA$7,500
STANWICH CHURCH$7,500
TRINITY CHURCH$7,500
INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION$3,000
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND$3,000
ROCKY MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE$3,000
350ORG$3,000
LOST TREE FOUNDATION$2,500
SIERRA CLUB$2,000
CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS$2,000
CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 79% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BLUE WATER SURRENDER: $200 → 13%TENNESSEE KIDS BELONG: $1k → 4%WIRED HUMAN: $1k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%GREENWICH CENTER FOR HOPE & RENEWAL: $500 → 9%GREENWICH CENTER FOR HOPE & RENEWAL: $500 → 9%THE BRIGID ALLIANCE: $5k → 17%GREENWICH CENTER FOR HOPE & RENEWAL: $500 → 9%THE BRIGID ALLIANCE: $2k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
WA
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
AR
TN
NC
DC
LA
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$287k · 38 repeat orgs$103k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

38 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
69

Total granted

$287k
$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+16%

Still filing today

61%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
EducationEnvironmentReligionHuman ServicesInternationalHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TF
    TELEMACHUS FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $41k · revenue +206%
  • IJ
    INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION
    3× · 2020–2024 · $16k · revenue +48%
  • TB
    THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $7k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
  • EN
    ELEVATE NEW YORK INC
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -68%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $6k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
3
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
4
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
6
Fielding Graduate University

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.

—
7
The Rand Corporation

Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Public Benefit
8
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
9
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
10
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
11
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
12
Cdp North America Inc

Cdp north america, inc. 's ("cdp-na") vision for the future is a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term. we focus investors and companies on taking urgent action to build a truly sustainable economy by measuring…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Federation for Children Growth Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is Tennessee Kids Belong Inc. 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

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 79 of the 130 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
78/79
Grantees still filing
48/79
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRINITY CHURCH: $72,500 · OtherTRINITY CHURCHLOST TREE CHAPEL INC: $22,650 · OtherLOST TREE CHAPEL INCPACIFIC POINT CHURCH: $20,000 · OtherPACIFIC POINT CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSTANWICH CHURCH: $12,500 · OtherLOST TREE FOUNDATION: $11,000 · OtherDONOR FUND CHRISTIAN MINISTRY ALLIANCE: $10,000 · Other+75 more: $91,787 · Other+75 moreTELEMACHUS FOUNDATION INC: $41,000 · ReligionTELEMACHUS FOUNDATI…KIDS ACROSS AMERICA: $15,380 · ReligionKIDS ACROSS AMERICAEDGE MENTORING INC: $8,000 · ReligionEDGE MENTORING INCJERICHO MINISTRIES INC: $4,000 · ReligionJERICHO MINISTRIES …+5 more: $1,500 · ReligionTrustees of Dartmouth College: $11,577 · EducationGROTON SCHOOL: $2,000 · EducationMILTON ACADEMY: $1,000 · EducationVILLA ACADEMY: $1,000 · EducationHER JUSTICE INC: $1,000 · EducationMission High Foundation: $750 · EducationROUNDHILL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $750 · Education+6 more: $2,000 · Education350ORG: $5,500 · EnvironmentCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC: $4,500 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $4,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE ACTION FUND: $1,000 · EnvironmentCITY GARDENS CLUB OF NEW YORK CITY: $845 · EnvironmentTHE GREENWICH LAND TRUST INC: $810 · EnvironmentTHE GREENWICH TREE CONSERVANCY INC: $700 · Environment+5 more: $850 · EnvironmentINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $16,000 · International+4 more: $1,600 · InternationalTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $6,500 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,500 · Human ServicesGREENWICH CENTER FOR HOPE AND RENEWAL INC: $1,500 · Human ServicesWIRED HUMAN: $1,000 · Human ServicesTENNESSEE KIDS BELONG INC: $1,000 · Human Services+1 more: $200 · Human ServicesELEVATE NEW YORK INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentGLOBAL UNITES INC: $1,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $250 · Youth Development
Other$255,437Religion$69,880Education$20,077Environment$18,205International$17,600Human Services$11,700Youth Development$11,250

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTELEMACHUS FOUNDATION INC: $41,000 over 4y, 7.9% of budgetINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS ACROSS AMERICA: $15,380 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $11,577 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEDGE MENTORING INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $6,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budget350ORG: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJERICHO MINISTRIES INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCHRISTIAN CAMPS & CONFERENCE INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVOICES FOR A SAFER TENNESSEE: $2,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES: $2,437 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetClimate Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDAYSTAR COUNSELING MINISTRIES INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGROTON SCHOOL: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLAY FOR PINK INC: $1,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH CENTER FOR HOPE AND RENEWAL INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAVON THEATRE FILM CENTER INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBE THE BRIDGE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWIRED HUMAN: $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE ACTION FUND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMILTON ACADEMY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVILLA ACADEMY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana's Angels Research Trust: $1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGLOBAL UNITES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTOGETHER WE RISE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH RIDING & TRAILS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTENNESSEE KIDS BELONG INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHER JUSTICE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY GARDENS CLUB OF NEW YORK CITY: $845 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE GREENWICH LAND TRUST INC: $810 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMission High Foundation: $750 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetROUNDHILL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $750 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE GREENWICH TREE CONSERVANCY INC: $700 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAPPLIED BEHAVIORAL REHABILITATION INSTIT: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAdopt-A-Family of the Palm Beaches Inc: $620 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREENWICH INC: $550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCollege Golf Fellowship: $550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT ALIVE: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GREENWICH LIBRARY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMFED USA FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Fairfield County's Co…Servant FoundationThe Wolfe Family Char…Bill and Crissy Hasla…Royce Family Fund IncThe Ayco Charitable F…Christian Community F…The Reveas FoundationThe Resource Foundati…The Goergen Foundatio…Malkin Fund IncGs Donor Advised Phil…
Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT18.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · The Wolfe Family Charitable Foundation · Bill and Crissy Haslam Foundation · Royce Family Fund Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · The Reveas Foundation · The Resource Foundation Inc · The Goergen Foundation Inc · Malkin Fund Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bruised Camel Charitable Foundationinc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bruised Camel Charitable Foundationinc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 190%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • Applied Behavioral Rehabilitation Instit: 35% of income from government
  • Adopt-a-Family of the Palm Beaches Inc: 15% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • Connecticut Foodshare Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Milton Academy: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
19get 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Bruised Camel Charitable Foundationinc?

Find your warmest path to Bruised Camel Charitable Foundationinc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 130 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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where grant money is based, and what stays home