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Cameron Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$948k
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$125k
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 FY2017–2025.

Human Services$622kHealth$608kHousing & Shelter$327kFood & Nutrition$182kYouth Development$65kCivil Rights$44kPublic Safety & Disaster$30kEnvironment$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $4k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $290k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $655k
$30,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC$125,000
BETHESDA CENTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC$100,000
WITH LOVE FROM JESUS MINISTRIES$75,000
YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC OF AVERY COUN$54,836
HBOT4HEROES$50,000
INTER-FAITH COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SERVICE$50,000
CANCER SERVICES INC$50,000
MIRACLEFEET$50,000
CARING HOUSE$50,000
RURAL HEALTH GROUP INC$50,000
CASA$40,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF$30,000
WELCOME HOME ANGEL INC$25,000
HINTON RURAL LIFE CENTER$25,000
CHILDRENS CANCER PARTNERS OF THE CAROLI$25,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $512k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COMMUNITY SUPPORT CENTER: $4k → 14%SOUTHEASTERN CANCER CARE: $100k → 18%BETHESDA CENTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $100k → 15%DIAPER TRAIN INC: $20k → 8%DIAPER BANK OF NORTH CAROLINA: $175k → 13%INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $10k → 8%STEPUP DURHAM: $8k → 11%MADE4ME: $15k → 8%GALATIANS COMMUNITY HEALTH: $20k → 8%WOMENS CENTER OF WAKE COUNTY INC: $20k → 8%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $10k → 8%TABLE MINISTRIES INC: $10k → 13%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $10k → 8%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $10k → 8%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.

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.

36%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$714k · 10 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
14

Total granted

$714k
$412k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+31%

Still filing today

80%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $833k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentEducationEnvironmentOther

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

  • CASA
    6× · 2020–2025 · $121k · revenue +32%
  • CHATHAM OUTREACH ALLIANCE INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $62k · revenue +34%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    3× · 2017–2019 · $30k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • DB
    DIAPER BANK OF NORTH CAROLINAgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $175k · revenue +142%
  • SC
    SOUTHEASTERN CANCER CARE
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue -8%
  • GC
    GALATIANS COMMUNITY HEALTH
    one grant, 2023 · $20k

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
Cabarrus Cooperative Christian Ministry

To respond to the growing need in our community by providing immediate assistance to residents of Concord, Kannapolis, and Cabarrus County, NC who are experiencing crisis in the areas of food, shelter or finances while providing them…

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2
Homes of Hope Inc

Provied temporary and emergency and low income housing and secured shelter.

Housing & Shelter
3
Wnc Lighthouse Inc

The mission of WNC Lighthouse Inc is Changing lives, by being a light for Christ our Lord. Our vision is To be fully devoted to Jesus Christ, by opening our arms and providing Christian services to the underseved children, adults and…

Human Services
4
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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5
Charlotte Family Housing

The mission of Charlotte Family Housing is to empower working families experiencing homelessness to achieve long-term self-sufficiency through shelter, housing, supportive services, and advocacy.

Human Services
6
Allied Churches of Alamance County Inc

Provide food & shelter for the homeless, offer support to those that desire to develop or enhance their life goals and assist others in the community with financial assistance for emergency household utility needs.

Philanthropy
7
Secu Family House At Unc Hospitals

Secu family house at unc hospitals provides an affordable, safe, nurturing home away from home for seriously ill patients, their family members, and caregivers from throughout north carolina and beyond.

Health
8
Carolina Community Care Inc

The mission of hospice & community care is to give hope, comfort, and compassion to those that need it most. hospice & community care is a nonprofit healthcare organization providing hospice and palliative care to residents of york,…

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9
Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc

The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.

Human Services
10
First Choice Community Health Ctrs

Providing healthcare to the underserved population of Harnett County NC and the surrounding area.

Health
11
Durham Home Inc
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12
Durhamcares Inc

Help Durham residents love neighbors.

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Womens Center of Wake County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Made4me. 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 backsteadyAffordable Housing Developm…Regional History MuseumsChristian Ministry SupportStudent Support and College…Performing & Visual Arts Or…
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 34 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%3%<5yr16%11%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr14%31%35–55yr11%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%3%<5yr16%3%5–10yr20%23%10–20yr16%29%20–35yr14%23%35–55yr11%18%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/39
the rest of the field
14%
2,285/16,571

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

38 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. 38 of the 45 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/38
Grantees still filing
16/38
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DREAM CENTER OF FORSYTH COUNTY — $205,000 · OtherDREAM CENTER OF FORSYTH COUNTYINTER-FAITH COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SERVICE INC — $132,000 · OtherINTER-FAITH COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SERVICE INCCHATHAM OUTREACH ALLIANCE INC — $61,500 · OtherCHATHAM OUTREACH ALLIANCE INCINTER-FAITH COUNCIL FOR — $59,100 · OtherINTER-FAITH COUNCIL FORNATIONAL FOUNDATION OF DENTISTRY FOR THE — $37,500 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF — $30,000 · OtherUrban Ministries of Durham Inc — $28,000 · OtherHINTON RURAL LIFE CENTER INC — $25,000 · OtherWELCOME HOME ANGEL INC — $25,000 · OtherFORSYTH JAIL AND PRISON MINISTRIES — $25,000 · Other+8 more — $99,000 · Other+8 moreDIAPER BANK OF NORTH CAROLINA — $175,000 · Human ServicesDIAPER BANK OF NORTH CAROLINASOUTHEASTERN CANCER CARE — $100,000 · Human ServicesSOUTHEASTERN CANCER CAREBethesda Center for the Homesless Inc — $100,000 · Human ServicesBethesda Center for the Homes…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $30,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross &…GALATIANS COMMUNITY HEALTH — $20,000 · Human ServicesWOMENS CENTER OF WAKE COUNTY INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesDIAPER TRAIN — $20,000 · Human Services+5 more — $46,500 · Human Services+5 moreCARING HOUSE INC — $50,000 · HealthCARING HOUSE INCRURAL HEALTH GROUP INC — $50,000 · HealthRURAL HEALTH GROU…HBOT 4 HEROES — $50,000 · HealthHBOT 4 HEROESCANCER SERVICES INC — $50,000 · HealthCANCER SERVICES I…MIRACLEFEET — $50,000 · HealthMIRACLEFEETMETROLINA ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND INC — $20,000 · HealthMETROLINA ASSOCIA…SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER INC — $15,000 · Health+2 more — $20,000 · Health+2 moreUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $125,000 · EducationCASA — $120,900 · Housing & ShelterWith Love From Jesus Ministries — $75,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC — $15,000 · Food & NutritionWILLIAMS YMCA OF AVERY COUNTY — $54,836 · Youth DevelopmentCHILDREN'S CANCER PARTNERS OF THE CAROLINAS INC — $25,000 · Youth Development
Other$727,100Human Services$511,500Health$305,000Education$125,000Housing & Shelter$120,900Food & Nutrition$90,000Youth Development$79,836

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 budgetDREAM CENTER OF FORSYTH COUNTY — $205,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetDIAPER BANK OF NORTH CAROLINA — $175,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetINTER-FAITH COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SERVICE INC — $132,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $125,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCASA — $120,900 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTHEASTERN CANCER CARE — $100,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetBethesda Center for the Homesless Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetWith Love From Jesus Ministries — $75,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCHATHAM OUTREACH ALLIANCE INC — $61,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetWILLIAMS YMCA OF AVERY COUNTY — $54,836 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCARING HOUSE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetRURAL HEALTH GROUP INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHBOT 4 HEROES — $50,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetCANCER SERVICES INC — $50,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetMIRACLEFEET — $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUrban Ministries of Durham Inc — $28,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWELCOME HOME ANGEL INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S CANCER PARTNERS OF THE CAROLINAS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT FUND — $20,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetRESCUE MISSIONS MINISTRIES INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMETROLINA ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER INC — $15,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMade4me — $15,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetHAVEN HOUSE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetANCHOR HOPE — $10,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetTHE PASTORS PANTRY TARGETING SENIOR HUNGER — $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetINTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTABLE MINISTRIES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DURHAM INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPUP DURHAM — $8,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetFaithAction International House — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY SUPPORT CENTER — $3,500 over 1y, 3.2% 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.

The Cannon Foundation…Triangle Community Fo…Duke University Healt…Duke Energy FoundationNorth Carolina Commun…United Way of the Gre…Carolinas Credit Unio…The Leon Levine Found…Foundation for the Ca…Hillsdale FundThe Winston-Salem Fou…Duke University
The Cannon Foundation IncNC34.8× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cannon Foundation Inc · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Duke University Health System Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Carolinas Credit Union Foundation · The Leon Levine Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Hillsdale Fund · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Duke University

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 Cameron Charitable Trust 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 · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 45 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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