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· Public charity

Camden Education Fund Inc

To sustain and accelerate progress in camden's public school system.

$3.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$670k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$16MFood & Nutrition$772kYouth Development$750kEmployment$250kHealth$241kHuman Services$200kArts & Culture$110kPublic Benefit$65kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $240k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $1.0M
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.8M
$50,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAMDEN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT$670,439
ONE CAMDEN$600,000
MASTERY$265,000
12PLUS$255,000
Individual grant recipient$190,000
UNCOMMON SCHOOLS INC$178,000
THE CENTER FOR LEARNER EQUITY INC$175,000
THE ACHIEVEMENT NETWORK$145,787
IMMSCHOOLS$101,125
TO PROPEL$100,000
ALCHEMY EDUCATION & WELLNESS$60,000
ARRAY EDUCATION$50,000
PARENTS INVINCIBLE$50,000
I DARE TO CARE$40,000
Individual grant recipient$32,744
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 (FY22–25, $205k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WHOLESOME RICHES INC: $10k → 8%SOCIAL RESPONSIBILTY THROUGH ME: $30k → 12%SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY THROUGH ME: $15k → 12%SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY THROUGH ME: $10k → 12%RAISE THE BAR FAMILY SERVICES INC: $30k → 12%I DARE TO CARE: $40k → 12%I DARE TO CARE: $40k → 12%I DARE TO CARE ASSOCIATION: $20k → 12%I DARE TO CARE ASSOCIATION: $10k → 12%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

NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
DE
DC
LA
TX
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$17M · 35 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

35 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
22

Total granted

$17M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
0%

Still filing today

74%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $602k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureHuman ServicesAnimalsEnvironmentOther
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

  • PI
    PARENTS INVINCIBLE INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +63% · 65% of their budget
  • KC
    KIPP COOPER NORCROSS INC A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORPORATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +48%
  • 1P
    12 PLUS
    4× · 2022–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +71% · 25% of their budget

Funded once

  • PF
    PARENTS FOR GREAT CAMDEN SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2021 · $325k · revenue -32%
  • TN
    TRIO NEW COLLEGE NETWORK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue +130%
  • HC
    HOPE COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +24%
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
Central Jersey College Prep Charter School

The mission of central jersey college preparatory charter school ("cjcp") is to provide academic and social challenges to students, while instilling in them the skills and knowledge that they will need to succeed in their future endeavors.…

Education
2
Compass Academy Charter School

The mission of compass academy charter school is to increase each child's success in learning, and as a result, academic achievement. using the "let me learn process" as its innovative approach, the school leadership and teachers will help…

Education
3
Lead Charter School Inc

The mission of lead charter is to help students ages 16-21 in grades 9-12 to master the essential skills crucial for success in post-secondary education, career and community leadership within a global society.

Education
4
Nj Leep Inc

Nj leep is a college access and success program serving low-income and first-generation students in the greater newark area. our college bound program empowers students with the academic and social-emotional skills to succeed in college…

Education
5
Multicultural Academy Charter School

It is the mission of the multicultural academy charter school to educate the whole child by providing a safe environment where students can learn and teachers can instruct while emphasizing the importance of parental involvement in the…

Education
6
Thrive Charter School a Nj Nonprofit Corporation

The mission of Thrive Charter School is to empower students with knowledge, critical thinking skills, and a sense of civic responsibility, fostering their growth into confident, compassionate, and capable individuals prepared to thrive in…

Education
7
Marion P Thomas Charter School

The charter schools mission is to prepare newarks next generation of children to be intelectually, emotionally, socially and financially responsible citizens.

Education
8
YouthBuild Newark Inc

To harness the intelligence and positive energy of low-income young people to rebuild their community and their lives.

Youth Development
9
Unity Charter School

The unity charter school (ucs) was chartered by the new jersey department of education in january 1997 as the only charter school that had included a planning year prior to its opening. the charter school opened its doors to the first 60…

Education
10
The Learning Community Charter School

The Learning Community Charter School is a Public School that is overseen by the NJ Department Of Education. The School offers an alternative academic program to assist children to discover their talents and provides a community resource…

Education
11
Classical Academy Charter School of Clifton Inc

The classical academy charter school of clifton's (the "charter school") mission is to blend core traditional learning foundations and modern day educational initiatives to create a progressive learning environment. through the fusion of a…

Education
12
Uncommon New York City Charter Schools

Uncommon new york city charter schools operates outstanding urban public schools that close the opportunity gap and prepare students from low-income communities to graduate from college.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Parents for Great Camden Schools; the most unlike its peers is Superior Arts Institute. 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

44 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. 44 of the 66 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/44
Grantees still filing
31/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ONE CAMDEN INC: $3,100,000 · EducationONE CAMDEN INCPARENTS INVINCIBLE INC: $1,615,000 · EducationPARENTS INVINCIBLE INCKIPP COOPER NORCROSS INC A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $1,184,438 · EducationKIPP COOPER NORCROSS INC A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORPORATION12 PLUS: $1,170,400 · Education12 PLUSCAMDEN PREP INC: $1,127,500 · EducationCAMDEN PREP INCMASTERY SCHOOLS OF CAMDEN INC: $1,017,500 · EducationMASTERY SCHOOLS OF CAMDEN INCRELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION: $570,644 · Education50CAN INC: $483,950 · EducationPROPEL AMERICA: $450,000 · Education+10 more: $2,347,136 · Education+10 moreCAMDEN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $1,216,500 · OtherCAMDEN CITY SCHOOL DISTR…IMMSCHOOLS: $647,375 · OtherIMMSCHOOLSCAMDENS PROMISE CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $365,000 · OtherCAMDENS PROMISE CHARTER …PARENTS FOR GREAT CAMDEN SCHOOLS: $325,000 · OtherPARENTS FOR GREAT CAMDEN…Individual grant recipient: $190,000 · OtherTHE CENTER FOR LEARNER EQUITY INC: $175,000 · OtherTHE ACHIEVEMENT NETWORK: $145,787 · Other+23 more: $824,104 · Other+23 moreCENTER FOR BLACK EDUCATOR DEVELOPMENT: $425,980 · Arts & CultureCAMDEN REPERTORY THEATRE: $75,000 · Arts & CultureKOINONIA FAMILY LIFE INC DBA CAMDEN DREAM CENTER TECHNOLOGY TRAINING SCHOOL: $30,000 · Arts & CultureSuperior Arts Institute: $25,000 · Arts & CultureInstitute for the Development of Education in the Arts: $20,000 · Arts & CultureRISING LEADERS GLOBAL: $157,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS OF SUSTAINABLE STRENGTH MENTORING: $140,000 · Youth DevelopmentFREE ALL MINDS: $85,000 · Youth DevelopmentWOMEN OF THE DREAM INC: $80,000 · Youth DevelopmentLUCY OUTREACH A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $25,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentI DARE TO CARE ASSOCIATION: $110,000 · Human ServicesSOCIAL RESPONSIBLITY THROUGH ME: $55,000 · Human ServicesRAISE THE BAR FAMILY SERVICE: $30,000 · Human ServicesWHOLESOME RICHES: $10,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY: $50,000 · PhilanthropyNeighborhood Collaborative Community Gardens: $10,000 · Environment
Education$13,066,568Other$3,888,766Arts & Culture$575,980Youth Development$502,000Human Services$205,000Philanthropy$50,000Environment$10,000

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 budgetONE CAMDEN INC: $3,100,000 over 5y, 100% of budgetPARENTS INVINCIBLE INC: $1,615,000 over 5y, 65% of budgetKIPP COOPER NORCROSS INC A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $1,184,438 over 4y, 1.7% of budget12 PLUS: $1,170,400 over 4y, 25% of budgetCAMDEN PREP INC: $1,127,500 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetMASTERY SCHOOLS OF CAMDEN INC: $1,017,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetIMMSCHOOLS: $647,375 over 4y, 16% of budgetRELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION: $570,644 over 4y, 0.3% of budget50CAN INC: $483,950 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetPROPEL AMERICA: $450,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetCENTER FOR BLACK EDUCATOR DEVELOPMENT: $425,980 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetLEAP ACADEMY UNIVERSITY CHARTER SCHOOL: $390,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetThe Center for Learner Equity: $376,136 over 4y, 11% of budgetUNCOMMON SCHOOLS INC: $360,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBARD COLLEGE: $300,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetARRAY EDUCATION INC: $300,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetFREEDOM PREP CHARTER SCHOOL: $210,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTRIO NEW COLLEGE NETWORK INC: $200,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetRISING LEADERS GLOBAL: $157,000 over 4y, 39% of budgetBOYS OF SUSTAINABLE STRENGTH MENTORING: $140,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetI DARE TO CARE ASSOCIATION: $110,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetHOPE COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL: $100,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetNEW JERSEY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION A NJ NON PROFIT CORPORATION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFREE ALL MINDS: $85,000 over 2y, 32% of budgetWOMEN OF THE DREAM INC: $80,000 over 1y, 47% of budgetCAMDEN REPERTORY THEATRE: $75,000 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetSOCIAL RESPONSIBLITY THROUGH ME: $55,000 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $40,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetKOINONIA FAMILY LIFE INC DBA CAMDEN DREAM CENTER TECHNOLOGY TRAINING SCHOOL: $30,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetRAISE THE BAR FAMILY SERVICE: $30,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetURBANPROMISE MINISTRIES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLUCY OUTREACH A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetInstitute for the Development of Education in the Arts: $20,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetTEENSHARP: $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNEW JERSEY CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNeighborhood Collaborative Community Gardens: $10,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetWHOLESOME RICHES: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPARADA SAN JUAN BAUTISTA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCENTER FOR AQUATIC SCIENCES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMINORITIES ALLIED LENDERS INC: $7,000 over 1y, 54% 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.

Community Foundation …Cpac the Community Pl…The Philadelphia Foun…50can IncCity FundAmerican Water Charit…Subaru of America Fou…Gates FoundationOceanfirst FoundationThe William Penn Foun…New Schools FundWalton Family Foundat…
Community Foundation of New JerseyNJ24.6× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of New Jersey · Cpac the Community Planning & Advocacy Council · The Philadelphia Foundation · 50can Inc · City Fund · American Water Charitable Foundationinc · Subaru of America Foundation Inc · Gates Foundation · Oceanfirst Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · New Schools Fund · Walton Family Foundation 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 Camden Education Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Camden Education Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • New Jersey Public Charter Schools Association a Nj Non Profit Corporation: 100% of income from government
  • Koinonia Family Life Inc Dba Camden Dream Center Technology Training School: 39% of income from government
  • Teensharp: 11% of income from government
  • One Camden Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Institute for the Development of Education in the Arts: 6% of income from government
  • Trio New College Network Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Rising Leaders Global: 2% of income from government
  • Neighborhood Center Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.
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Find your warmest path to Camden Education Fund 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 66 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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