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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.5MCommunity Improvement$1.5MHealth$361kEmployment$351kYouth Development$275kArts & Culture$192kEnvironment$128kCrime & Legal$120kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
EUKI INC$40,000
SLEDGE INSTITUTE$40,000
PEER DEFENSE PROJECT$40,000
EMPOWR CO$40,000
FISCAL SPONSORSHIP ALLIES$40,000
BUILD OUR LIVES TOGETHER$40,000
GIVING CREDIT INC$40,000
SOCIETY TO BENEFIT EVERYONE INC$30,000
4POINT0 SCHOOLS$26,500
ECHOING GREEN$26,500
MOONSHOOT EDVENTURES$26,500
NEW SCHOOLS FUND$26,500
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 (FY19–23, $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 its 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
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

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
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +80% since the first grant, against +25% for those 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
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

  • 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 -6%
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Diverse Charter Schools Coalition Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

93 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. 93 of the 113 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 …BUILD OUR LIVES TOGETHER INC: $40,000 · Community ImprovementBUILD OUR…FISCAL SPONSORSHIP ALLIES INC: $40,000 · Community ImprovementFISCAL SP…Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers: $40,000 · Community ImprovementGreater C…MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER: $40,000 · Community ImprovementMOVEMENT …Suma: $40,000 · Community ImprovementSumaResilience 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 · EnvironmentUNLOCKED LABS: $40,000 · Crime & LegalSIDE PROJECT INC: $40,000 · Crime & LegalCOLLECTIVE CLIMB: $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 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 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 budgetHomeWorks Trenton: $50,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetGENUNITY INC: $50,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetFREE ALAS: $50,000 over 2y, 66% of budgetSchool Board School: $44,300 over 1y, 16% of budgetMARCY LAB INC: $41,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetTHE PRAXIS PROJECT INC: $41,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWASHINGTON REGIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GRANTMAKERS: $41,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUNLOCKED LABS: $40,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetSIDE PROJECT INC: $40,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetBUILD OUR LIVES TOGETHER INC: $40,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetUnited Way of Southwest Louisiana Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOLLECTIVE CLIMB: $40,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetPAY OUR INTERNS INC: $40,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetCommunity Finance Inc (FKA Giving Credit Inc): $40,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetBLACK GIRLS FILM CAMP: $40,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetFISCAL SPONSORSHIP ALLIES INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEDUCATION FORWARD DC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCohort Sistas Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 81% of budgetSledge Institute: $40,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetMINDRIGHT INC: $40,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetINSPIRING FUTURES INC: $40,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetAES LITERACY INSTITUTE INCORPORATED: $40,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetHow Our Lives Link Altogether Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetHEALTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF EASTERN N: $40,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPEER DEFENSE PROJECT: $40,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetEuki Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetGreater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers: $40,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetACCESSOS: $40,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
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 113 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home