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Camber Foundation

Invest in organizations that seek to strengthen communities through health and wellness, education, and economic development.

$3.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
79
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$302k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Employment$35MEducation$2.1MHealth$1.6MYouth Development$1.2MInternational$885kCommunity Improvement$677kHuman Services$574kReligion$443kOther$0
02FY2024 · 79 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k55 grants · $1.4M
  • $50k–250k19 grants · $1.7M
  • $250k+1 grant · $302k
$26,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$155M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GCF GLOBAL LEARNING LLC$302,410
RURAL OPPORTUNITY INSTITUTE (FISCAL SPONSOR AREA L AHEC)$175,000
SETSER GROUP COMMUNITY$150,000
NORTH CAROLINA PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION$133,000
UNC CHAPEL HILL OFFICE OF SPONSORED RESEARCH$131,000
NC ASSOCIATION OF FREE AND CHARITABLE CLINICS$125,000
WAKEMED FOUNDATION$125,000
NC STATE UNIVERSITY JUNTOS PROGRAM$108,000
NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER ASSOCIATION$100,000
RIP MEDICAL DEBT$98,268
UNIVERSTIY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT PEMBROKE FOUNDATION$75,000
MARIUS MAXIMUS FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH INC$53,000
THE PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN OF WAYNE COUNTY INC$51,000
KINSTON COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER$50,000
METHODIST UNIVERSITY$50,000
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 (FY19–24, $920k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%RIP MEDICAL DEBT: $98k → 13%BELOVED HAVEN: $15k → 9%LOWER CAPE FEAR LIFECARE: $15k → 12%CASA AZUL DE WILSON: $50k → 20%NC FIELD INC: $50k → 21%BERTIE COUNTY HIVE HOUSE: $30k → 24%PROSPERA NORTH CAROLINA: $50k → 10%CAPE FEAR VALLEY MEDICAL FOUNDATION INC: $45k → 16%BERTIE COUNTY HIVE HOUSE: $15k → 24%LUMBEE REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION: $15k → 26%CASA AZUL DE WILSON: $33k → 20%WESTERN YOUTH NETWORK: $8k → 21%PLACE OF POSSIBILITIES: $50k → 24%MEN AND WOMEN UNITED FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES CDC: $50k → 21%NC FIELD INC: $25k → 21%ROBESON COUNTY CHURCH AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $50k → 26%MEN AND WOMEN UNITED FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES CDC: $25k → 21%SUDS OF LOVE INC: $15k → 26%PREVENT BLINDNESS NORTH CAROLINA: $25k → 8%YWCA LOWER CAPE FEAR: $40k → 12%KOINONIA COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS: $50k → 20%WACCAMAW SIOUAN TRIBE INC: $40k → 21%SUDS OF LOVE INC: $8k → 26%Place of Possibilities: $23k → 24%KRAMDEN INSTITUTE: $46k → 11%KOINONIA COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS: $25k → 20%DRESS FOR SUCCESS TRIANGLE NC: $25k → 8%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.
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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$40M · 42 repeat orgs$27M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +5% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

42 repeat relationships: 35 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 44 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
34

Total granted

$40M
$25M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+5%

Still filing today

90%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationCommunity ImprovementEmploymentOther
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

  • GI
    GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $35M · revenue +165% · 100% of their budget
  • RF
    RIPE FOR REVIVAL
    2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +56%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE ALBEMARLE INC
    3× · 2018–2023 · $90k · revenue +117%

Funded once

  • G
    GIENC
    one grant, 2018 · $23M
  • BA
    Boys and Girls Club
    one grant, 2019 · $325k
  • BG
    Boys & Girls Club Durham Orange
    one grant, 2018 · $179k
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
Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence Found ation
Health
2
North Carolina Empowerment Organization
Civil Rights
3
Carolina Family Health Centers Inc

Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST

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4
Womens Resource Center of Greensboro Inc

To promote the self-reliance of women by assessing needs, providing services, and acting as a gateway to community resources; to seek solutions for unmet needs by providing strategic leadership through collaboration and partnerships within…

Human Services
5
The Center for Rural Health Innovation

Improve healthcare in rural communities

Health
6
North Carolina Business Group On Health Inc

To educate, advocate, and innovate for a better healthcare delivery system in nc.

Health
7
Wnc Health Network Inc

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

Health
8
North Carolina Institute for Constitutional Law
Crime & Legal
9
East Carolina Health

To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.

Health
10
University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina Inc

To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.

Health
11
Tri-County Community Health Council Inc

Provider of comprehensive, compassionate, high quality primary medical, dental, pharmacy and behavioral health services in southeastern north carolina.

—
12
Pitt County Memorial Hospital Inc

To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Health Education Foundation of Eastern N; the most unlike its peers is Simply Girls Incorporated. 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

99 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 99 of the 120 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
99/99
Grantees still filing
58/99
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC: $34,749,626 · EmploymentGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC+2 more: $65,000 · EmploymentGIENC: $23,000,000 · OtherGIENCGCF GLOBAL LEARNING LLC: $2,135,088 · OtherGCF GLOBAL LEARNING LLC+42 more: $3,016,791 · Other+42 moreNorth Carolina Community Health Center Assoc Inc: $200,000 · HealthNORTH CAROLINA ASSOCIATION OF FREE AND CHARITABLE CLINICS INC: $125,000 · HealthWakeMed: $125,000 · HealthHOPE CLINIC: $75,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY CARE CLINIC OF DARE: $75,000 · HealthMARIUS MAXIMUS FOUNDATION: $53,000 · HealthCUMBERLAND HEALTHNET INC: $52,500 · HealthCOLUMBUS COUNTY DREAM CENTER INC: $52,500 · HealthCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY EASTERN NC INC: $52,500 · HealthOCRACOKE HEALTH CENTER INC: $50,000 · HealthKINSTON COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $50,000 · HealthROANOKE CHOWAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $48,000 · HealthCoastal Horizons Center Inc: $45,000 · HealthBEAUFORT COUNTY ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND: $42,500 · Health+10 more: $223,500 · HealthMEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC: $98,268 · Human ServicesCasa Azul De Wilson: $82,500 · Human ServicesKOINONIA COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS: $75,000 · Human ServicesNC Field Inc: $75,000 · Human ServicesMEN & WOMEN UNITED FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesPLACE OF POSSIBILITIES INC: $73,311 · Human ServicesROBESON COUNTY CHURCH AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $50,000 · Human ServicesPROSPERA NORTH CAROLINA LLC: $50,000 · Human ServicesKRAMDEN INSTITUTE INC: $46,000 · Human ServicesCAPE FEAR VALLEY MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $45,000 · Human ServicesBertie County Hive House: $45,000 · Human ServicesYWCA of the Lower Cape Fear Inc: $40,000 · Human ServicesWACCAMAW SIOUAN INDIAN TRIBE INC: $40,000 · Human Services+7 more: $125,232 · Human ServicesHEALTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF EASTERN N: $175,000 · EducationMYFUTURENCINC: $100,000 · EducationSTRATEGIC TWIN-COUNTIES EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP: $75,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT PEMBROKE FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · EducationTHE PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN OF WAYNE COUNTY INC: $51,000 · EducationMETHODIST UNIVERSITY INC: $50,000 · EducationCAPE FEAR LITERACY COUNCIL: $45,000 · EducationTHE ALICE AYCOCK POE CENTER FOR HEALTH EDUCATION: $45,000 · EducationWILSON EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP INC: $31,000 · Education+1 more: $15,000 · EducationBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE ALBEMARLE INC: $90,000 · Youth DevelopmentKinston Teens Inc: $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentDIVERSITY NURTURES ACHIEVEMENT: $52,500 · Youth DevelopmentSIMPLY GIRLS INCORPORATED: $52,500 · Youth DevelopmentWilson Youth United Inc: $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHILDREN'S CANCER PARTNERS OF THE CAROLINAS INC: $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentMY KIDS CLUB: $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentBlue Ribbon Commission on the Prevention of Youth Violence: $31,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE ALBEMARLE FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS - NORTH CAROLINA COASTAL PINES INC: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentRIPPLE EFFECTS GROUP: $82,500 · Community ImprovementTar River Community Development: $50,000 · Community ImprovementRURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $50,000 · Community ImprovementHISPANIC FEDERATION INC: $50,000 · Community ImprovementNORTH CAROLINA CENTER FOR NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS INC: $50,000 · Community ImprovementARRAY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $45,000 · Community ImprovementPARTNERS IN MINISTRY: $45,000 · Community ImprovementASHE COUNTY ADVANTAGE PROJECT: $25,000 · Community ImprovementCarolina Common Enterprise: $25,000 · Community Improvement
Employment$34,814,626Other$28,151,879Health$1,269,500Human Services$920,311Education$662,000Youth Development$446,000Community Improvement$422,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC: $34,749,626 over 2y, 100% of budgetGCF GLOBAL LEARNING LLC: $2,135,088 over 3y, 100% of budgetNorth Carolina Community Health Center Assoc Inc: $200,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHEALTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF EASTERN N: $175,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE NORTH CAROLINA PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION INC: $133,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA ASSOCIATION OF FREE AND CHARITABLE CLINICS INC: $125,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetWakeMed: $125,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMYFUTURENCINC: $100,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetRIPE FOR REVIVAL: $100,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetTEEN DRIVING SOLUTIONS SCHOOL INC: $100,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetMEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC: $98,268 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE ALBEMARLE INC: $90,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetNEW LIFE INTERNATIONAL MISSION INC: $89,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetRIPPLE EFFECTS GROUP: $82,500 over 2y, 11% of budgetCasa Azul De Wilson: $82,500 over 2y, 17% of budgetKOINONIA COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS: $75,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetTHE SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSTRATEGIC TWIN-COUNTIES EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP: $75,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetNC Field Inc: $75,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetFEAST DOWN EAST INC: $75,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetHOPE CLINIC: $75,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT PEMBROKE FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMEN & WOMEN UNITED FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES INC: $75,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY CARE CLINIC OF DARE: $75,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetPLACE OF POSSIBILITIES INC: $73,311 over 2y, 50% of budgetKinston Teens Inc: $60,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetTHE HILL FAMILY FARM EDUCATION CENTER: $60,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetMARIUS MAXIMUS FOUNDATION: $53,000 over 1y, 55% of budgetCUMBERLAND HEALTHNET INC: $52,500 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetSAFE HAVEN OF PENDER INC: $52,500 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetDIVERSITY NURTURES ACHIEVEMENT: $52,500 over 2y, 18% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF WAYNE CO INC: $52,500 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetCOLUMBUS COUNTY DREAM CENTER INC: $52,500 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetSIMPLY GIRLS INCORPORATED: $52,500 over 2y, 18% of budgetKIDS FIRST INC: $52,500 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetALBEMARLE HOPELINE INC: $52,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY EASTERN NC INC: $52,500 over 2y, 17% of budgetTHE PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN OF WAYNE COUNTY INC: $51,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMILLERS CREW INC: $50,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetOCRACOKE HEALTH CENTER INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetROBESON COUNTY CHURCH AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetPROSPERA NORTH CAROLINA LLC: $50,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetRURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKINSTON COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetONSLOW COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetMETHODIST UNIVERSITY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHISPANIC FEDERATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA CENTER FOR NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 3.3% 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.

North Carolina Commun…Anonymous Trust U/A D…The Cannon Foundation…Z Smith Reynolds Foun…The Golden Leaf IncThe Conservation Fund…Truist Foundation IncThe Winston-Salem Fou…Triangle Community Fo…Foundation for the Ca…The Duke EndowmentCorning Incorporated …
North Carolina Community FoundationNC102.6× affinity62 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: North Carolina Community Foundation · Anonymous Trust U/A Dated 2-4-2008 · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · The Golden Leaf Inc · The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation · Truist Foundation Inc · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Duke Endowment · Corning Incorporated Foundation

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 Camber Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Camber Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    45report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 120 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 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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