How much did CAMELBACK VENTURES grant in FY2024?

Education$1.9MCommunity Improvement$405kHuman Services$201kYouth Development$136kEnvironment$128kCrime & Legal$120kArts & Culture$95kPhilanthropy$91kHealth$81kOther$1.6M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

issuespromotingbusinesshigh-techstartupsspacecapital

2019

ahecpicture learning'sser-jobssocial impactaccessdevelopcare

2020

beataceafricanindividualansweryoung menled

2021

emergencyimprovementcreativeskillstrainingcareer

2022

stemdataplatformsinclusiveaimsojibweapproach

2023

tlfprisonteacherscurrentjuvenilemental healthshare

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k12 grants · $416k
$50k–250k1 grant · $241k

$40,000

Median grant

States reached

$15M

Total assets

Largest grants

NATIONSWELL$241,250
SLEDGE INSTITUTE$40,000
PEER DEFENSE PROJECT$40,000
EMPOWR CO$40,000
BUILD OUR LIVES TOGETHER$40,000
GIVING CREDIT INC$40,000
FISCAL SPONSORSHIP ALLIES$40,000
EUKI INC$40,000
SOCIETY TO BENEFIT EVERYONE INC$30,000
ECHOING GREEN$26,500
MOONSHOOT EDVENTURES$26,500
4POINT0 SCHOOLS$26,500
NEW SCHOOLS FUND$26,500

02The need

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 (FY19–23, $201k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

32%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.5M · 25 repeat orgs$3.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +158% since the first grant, against +104% for the ones you funded once.

25 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.5M

$2.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+158%

+104%

Still filing today

88%

68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $551k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesCrime & LegalPhilanthropyOther

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

SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC
3× · 2021–2023 · $115k · revenue +388%
ME
MOONSHOT EDVENTURES
3× · 2021–2024 · $92k · revenue +869%
GS
GENERATION SUCCESS
3× · 2019–2021 · $85k · revenue +112% · 42% of their budget

Funded once

DC
DIVERSE CHARTER SCHOOLS COALITIONgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $72k · revenue +231%
TL
THE LEADERSHIP SCHOOLgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $51k · revenue +1440%
SB
SCHOOL BOARD SCHOOLgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $44k · revenue +115%

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.

360 Accelerator Education Partners

360 Accelerator provides leadership development services to public education leaders.

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Deans for Impact

Deans for Impact supports educator-preparation programs to bring the science of learning into teaching practice; partners with policymakers to ensure pathways into teaching are accessible, practice-based, and instructionally-focused; and…

Education

The Open School

Providing learner-led education that respects, trusts, and empowers students to pursue their interests, optimize their potential as humans, and allows their true selves to emerge.

Education

Project Invent

Project Invent empowers students with the 21st-century skills to succeed individually and impact globally, through invention for social good.

Science & Tech

Washington Leadership Academy Public

Our mission is to prepare our kids to thrive in the world and change it for the better. our graduates are college ready, have career ready tech skills, and lead positive change in their communities and the world.

Education

Lead Liberated

Through coaching and group facilitation, leaders of color heal from racism, develop skills to identify & interrupt racism in personal leadership, organizational practices & policies, and produce antiracist solutions in partnership with the…

Education

Let's Innovate Through Education Dba Lit

Equipping african american and latinx students with 21st century skills to create wealth.

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School Leader Lab

We partner with leaders to disrupt racism, inspire staff, and champion rigorous learning.

Human Services

Education for Liberation Network

To help underserved young people and communities understand the causes of inequalities and injustice in society and how communities have fought against them, develop both a deep belief in themselves that they can challenge those injustices…

Human Services

Booker T Washington Academy Inc

Booker T. Washington Academy, Inc. (The "Academy") educates its scholars for leadership and responsible citizenship in society by developing the cognitive, moral, and social skills of children so they can compete academically and thrive in…

Education

School of Leadership for Public Service

We empower educators, public service and safety employees and leaders, parents, and students to collaborate in building and implementing a unique learning program where students develop a sense of community service and carve a path toward…

Education

Innovate Public Schools

Build the parent and community demand for world-class public schools, and to accelerate the growth of these schools, particularly for low-income students, students of colors, and students with special needs.

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Diverse Charter Schools Coalition Inc and the most unlike its peers is New Venture Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 8 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 23% of your grantees by number, and just 21% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 7% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

7/107

the rest of the field

11%

206,157/1,819,458

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.

05the grantee network

92 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

85/92

Grantees still filing

70/92

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Education$1,869,680Other$1,915,250Community Improvement$405,000Human Services$201,000Youth Development$136,000Environment$128,000Crime & Legal$120,000

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

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 Schools FundCA56.5× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Schools Fund · Echoing Green Inc · New Profit Inc · Walton Family Foundation Inc · Charter Fund Inc · Education Leaders of Color Inc · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · 4point0 Schools · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Roddenberry Foundation · Gates Foundation · Citytutor DC

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 organisation CAMELBACK VENTURES 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

7get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: COHORT SISTAS INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~1 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 4 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 861674110 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on COHORT SISTAS INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 81% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Camelback Ventures?

Find your warmest path to Camelback Ventures through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

CAMELBACK VENTURES

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

92 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Camelback Ventures?

More from the funding graph

CAMELBACK VENTURES

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

92 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Camelback Ventures?

More from the funding graph