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Camelback Ventures

CAMELBACK VENTURES vision is to create livable communities, quality education, and economic opportunity for everyone in one generation.

$657k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$241k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2017–2024.

Education$1.5MCommunity Improvement$1.5MHealth$361kEmployment$351kYouth Development$275kArts & Culture$192kEnvironment$128kCrime & Legal$120kOther$0
02FY2024 · 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
9
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONSWELL$241,250
FISCAL SPONSORSHIP ALLIES$40,000
EUKI INC$40,000
EMPOWR CO$40,000
SLEDGE INSTITUTE$40,000
PEER DEFENSE PROJECT$40,000
BUILD OUR LIVES TOGETHER$40,000
GIVING CREDIT INC$40,000
SOCIETY TO BENEFIT EVERYONE INC$30,000
NEW SCHOOLS FUND$26,500
4POINT0 SCHOOLS$26,500
ECHOING GREEN$26,500
MOONSHOOT EDVENTURES$26,500
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 (FY19–23, $201k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PEOPLE WHO CARE PROJECT: $40k → 13%INSPIRING FUTURES INC: $40k → 28%FOR OAK CLIFF: $41k → 14%THE LIBERATION FOUNDATION: $40k → 22%WISE YOUNG BUILDERS: $25k → 14%WISE YOUNG BUILDERS: $15k → 14%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.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
NV
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
MD
DE
NC
DC
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

32%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 25 repeat orgs$3.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +80% since the first grant, against +25% 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

25
77

Total granted

$1.5M
$2.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+80%
+25%

Still filing today

84%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
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

  • GS
    Generation Success
    4× · 2019–2023 · $93k · revenue +60% · 42% of their budget
  • SR
    Sankofa Roots
    2× · 2022–2023 · $88k · revenue +19% · 55% of their budget
  • TH
    THE HADANOU COLLECTIVE
    2× · 2017–2019 · $80k · revenue ×16

Funded once

  • DC
    DIVERSE CHARTER SCHOOLS COALITION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $72k · revenue -1%
  • TL
    THE LEADERSHIP SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $51k · revenue ×25
  • SB
    School Board School
    one grant, 2020 · $44k · revenue +22%

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
Building Bridges Education

Building Bridges Education (BBE) is a non-profit organization at the forefront of creating transformative, high-impact programming. BBE is committed to equity-driven initiatives that empower students to embark on journeys of…

Education
2
National Equity Project

To transform the experiences, outcomes, and life options for children & families who have been historically underserved by our institutions and systems.

Education
3
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…

Education
4
Deans for Impact

See Schedule ODeans 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…

Education
5
Laurel Leadership Institute

Identifies, develops and supports racially diverse public school leaders to serve as change agents to close the opportunity gap, through movement, building, growing talent pipelines for excellence in school leadership and advocacy.

Education
6
Ilearn Collaborative

ILearn Collaborative creates equity in education by building the capacity of educators to implement student-centered learning. We provide professional development, consulting services and a wide variety of digital resources, and we welcome…

Education
7
The National Center on Education and the Economy

The Center is dedicated to providing tools the nation needs to lead the world in education & training in a swiftly globalizing world economy.

Public Benefit
8
Washington Leadership Academy Public Charter School

Wla combines best practices in teaching and learning, with the latest in educational technology to create an unparalleled high school experience. students will graduate from wla prepared for college, career, and lives of public leadership.

Education
9
360 Accelerator Education Partners

360 Accelerator provides leadership development services to public education leaders.

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10
Equal Opportunity Schools

Equal opportunity schools' mission is to strengthen educator and system leader capacity to break down barriers to increase access, belonging, and success in rigorous college and career-prep secondary school courses for students of color…

Education
11
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
12
Revolution Institute

Revolution Institute's purpose is to liberate the expansive potential of African-American and Latinx communities through sustainable, future-oriented work, entrepreneurship, and value-aligned collaborations.

Employment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Diverse Charter Schools Coalition Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pirandello Lyceum Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyWomen & Girls Leadership De…Elementary Literacy TutoringUnited Way AffiliatesCommunity FoundationsImmigrant Worker SupportYouth Mentoring ProgramsYouth Development ServicesPolicy Research and AdvocacyIndependent K-12 Schools
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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%23%<5yr14%38%5–10yr19%23%10–20yr16%8%20–35yr13%5%35–55yr16%4%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%21%<5yr14%38%5–10yr19%26%10–20yr16%8%20–35yr13%4%35–55yr16%3%55yr+

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 — 6% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
6%
7/108
the rest of the field
13%
240,389/1,819,457

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

93 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. 93 of the 113 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.

14
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
34
Early backer (in before they grew)
86/93
Grantees still filing
58/93
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $114,930 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD FUND INCGeneration Success — $93,000 · EducationMoonshot edVentures — $91,500 · EducationTHE HADANOU COLLECTIVE — $80,000 · EducationDIVERSE CHARTER SCHOOLS COALITION INC — $72,000 · EducationSOCIAL JUSTICE PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL INC — $65,000 · EducationSt Louis Black Authors of Childrens Literature — $65,000 · Education+34 more — $1,296,250 · Education+34 moreNATIONSWELL — $241,250 · OtherNATIONSWELLMindworks Collaborative Inc — $76,000 · OtherPhoenix International Incorporated — $66,000 · Other+45 more — $1,524,000 · Other+45 moreCREATIVE REACTION LAB — $70,000 · Community ImprovementCREATIVE …GENUNITY INC — $50,000 · Community ImprovementGENUNITY …MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER — $40,000 · Community ImprovementMOVEMENT …Suma — $40,000 · Community ImprovementSumaFISCAL SPONSORSHIP ALLIES INC — $40,000 · Community ImprovementFISCAL SP…Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers — $40,000 · Community ImprovementGreater C…BUILD OUR LIVES TOGETHER INC — $40,000 · Community ImprovementBUILD OUR…Resilience Partners NFP — $35,000 · Community ImprovementResilienc…SOCIETY TO BENEFIT EVERYONE INC — $30,000 · Community ImprovementSOCIETY T…Smarter in the City Inc — $20,000 · Community ImprovementTHE PEOPLE WHO CARE PROJECT — $80,000 · Human ServicesFOR OAK CLIFF — $41,000 · Human ServicesINSPIRING FUTURES INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesLIBERATION FOUNDATION — $40,000 · Human ServicesEIGHT MILLION STORIES INC — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentHow Our Lives Link Altogether Inc — $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentVillage Of Wisdom — $23,000 · Youth DevelopmentYouth Empowerment Broadcasting Org — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentB-360 Baltimore Inc — $8,000 · Youth DevelopmentSankofa Roots — $88,000 · EnvironmentNEW VENTURE FUND — $40,000 · EnvironmentCOLLECTIVE CLIMB — $40,000 · Crime & LegalSIDE PROJECT INC — $40,000 · Crime & LegalUNLOCKED LABS — $40,000 · Crime & Legal
Education$1,877,680Other$1,907,250Community 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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $114,930 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGeneration Success — $93,000 over 4y, 42% of budgetMoonshot edVentures — $91,500 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetSankofa Roots — $88,000 over 2y, 55% of budgetTHE HADANOU COLLECTIVE — $80,000 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetTHE PEOPLE WHO CARE PROJECT — $80,000 over 3y, 35% of budgetMindworks Collaborative Inc — $76,000 over 2y, 98% of budgetDIVERSE CHARTER SCHOOLS COALITION INC — $72,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetCREATIVE REACTION LAB — $70,000 over 2y, 30% of budgetPhoenix International Incorporated — $66,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetSOCIAL JUSTICE PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL INC — $65,000 over 3y, 7.9% of budgetSt Louis Black Authors of Childrens Literature — $65,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetIMMSCHOOLS — $63,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetBRIDGING EDUCATION & ART TOGETHER INC — $57,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetWeird Enough Company Inc — $55,000 over 2y, 46% of budget4point0 Schools — $51,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetNEW SCHOOLS FUND — $51,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetECHOING GREEN INC — $51,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEIGHT MILLION STORIES INC — $50,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetGENUNITY INC — $50,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetHomeWorks Trenton — $50,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetFREE ALAS — $50,000 over 2y, 66% of budgetSchool Board School — $44,300 over 1y, 16% of budgetWASHINGTON REGIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GRANTMAKERS — $41,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE PRAXIS PROJECT INC — $41,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMARCY LAB INC — $41,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetLiberation Journeys — $40,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetMINDRIGHT INC — $40,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER — $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION — $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSER-JOBS FOR PROGRESS OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPEER DEFENSE PROJECT — $40,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetFFWD — $40,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND — $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENDAZHI-NITAAWIGING CHARTER SCHOOL — $40,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetSuma — $40,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetEMPOWR CO — $40,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetSledge Institute — $40,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetCOLLECTIVE CLIMB — $40,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetHEALTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF EASTERN N — $40,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSIDE PROJECT INC — $40,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetINSPIRING FUTURES INC — $40,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetTHE BIG PICTURE COMPANY — $40,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFISCAL SPONSORSHIP ALLIES INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGreater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers — $40,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetUNLOCKED LABS — $40,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetEuki Inc — $40,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetCommunity Finance Inc (FKA Giving Credit Inc) — $40,000 over 1y, 12% 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 Schools FundEchoing Green IncWalton Family Foundat…New Profit IncCharter Fund Inc D/B/…Education Leaders of …Margulf FoundationThe Roddenberry Found…4point0 SchoolsSilicon Valley Commun…Carnegie Corporation …Gates Foundation
New Schools FundCA59× affinity29 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 · Walton Family Foundation Inc · New Profit Inc · Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund · Education Leaders of Color Inc · Margulf Foundation · The Roddenberry Foundation · 4point0 Schools · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Carnegie Corporation of New York · Gates Foundation

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 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • HomeWorks Trenton — 6% of income from government
  • Side Project Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
27report 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

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.

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 113 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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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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the interactive map of money crossing state lines