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Cameron Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$69k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.

Education$353kEnvironment$36kYouth Development$26kArts & Culture$20kHealth$4kRecreation & Sports$3kPublic Safety & Disaster$1kPhilanthropy$53Other$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $4k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $65k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$564k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOOD RIVER NEW SCHOOL$25,000
MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE$10,000
NANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC$10,000
ST GEORGE'S SCHOOL$10,000
THE ANDREW K DWYER FOUNDATION$10,000
BEDFORD HISTORICAL SOCIETY$2,500
BEDFORD FREE LIBRARY$500
BEDFORD 2030$500
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 55% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 6%PEGASUS THERAPEUTIC RIDING: $1k → 22%RIPPOWAM CISQUA SCHOOL: $20k → 9%NORTH RIVER IV LLC PASS THRU CONTRIBUTION: $22 → 17%PROJECT SOAR: $3k → 14%THE ANDY DWYER FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%HOOD RIVER NEW SCHOOL: $25k → 10%WATERSIDE SCHOOL: $500 → 9%LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL: $4k → 11%ST GEORGES SCHOOL: $8k → 7%MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE: $20k → 9%PEGASUS THERAPEUTIC RIDING: $500 → 22%RIPPOWAM CISQUA SCHOOL: $20k → 9%NORTH RIVER IV LLC PASS THRU CONTRIBUTION: $13 → 17%THE ANDY DWYER FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%HOOD RIVER NEW SCHOOL: $25k → 10%SEE STATEMENT A: $62k → 9%LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL: $3k → 11%ST GEORGES SCHOOL: $5k → 7%MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE: $20k → 9%RIPPOWAN CISQUA SCHOOL: $20k → 9%NORTH RIVER IV LLC PASS THRU CONTRIBUTION: $3 → 17%MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE: $15k → 9%THE ANDREW K DWYER FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%NORTH RIVER IV LLC PASS THRU CONTRIBUTION: $2 → 17%MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE: $10k → 9%THE ANDREW K DWYER FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%BILLION OYSTER PROJECT: $5k → 17%BEDFORD HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $3k → 9%BILLION OYSTER PROJECT: $4k → 17%BEDFORD 2030: $500 → 9%BILLION OYSTER PROJECT: $4k → 17%BEDFORD FIRE DEPARTMENT: $500 → 9%BEDFORD FIRE DEPARTMENT: $500 → 9%BEDFORD HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $500 → 9%BEDFORD 2030: $500 → 9%BEDFORD FREE LIBRARY: $500 → 9%BEDFORD HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $500 → 9%BEDFORD FREE LIBRARY: $500 → 9%BEDFORD FREE LIBRARY: $500 → 9%BEDFORD HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $500 → 9%WESTMORELAND SANCTUARY: $2k → 9%WESTMORELAND SANCTUARY: $2k → 9%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

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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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 28% of Cameron Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Cameron Family Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$408k · 16 repeat orgs$33k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.

16 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
8

Total granted

$408k
$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+5%

Still filing today

75%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentHealthRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • TR
    The Rippowam Cisqua School Inc
    5× · 2019–2024 · $95k · revenue +50%
  • PA
    President and Fellows of Middlebury College
    6× · 2019–2025 · $95k · revenue +47%
  • SG
    ST GEORGE'S SCHOOL
    6× · 2019–2025 · $55k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • MI
    MNFF INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +85%
  • PS
    Project Soar Inc
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
  • PS
    PROJECT SOAR MARRAKECH
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +1%

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.

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President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
2
Bowdoin International Music Festival

The mission of the Bowdoin International Music Festival is to provide gifted young musicians from around the world with an opportunity to study with world-class artists, and to provide audiences with classical music performed to the…

Arts & Culture
3
Hampshire Country School

Hampshire country school is a place of possibilities for high-ability, neurodiverse students enrolling in later elementary or middle school who have not found success in traditional educational environments. hampshire country school offers…

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4
Brown School

Running a private school.

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5
The New Hampton School

New hampton school cultivates lifelong learners who will serve as active global citizens. new hampton school promotes literature, science & useful arts education to students in grades 9 through post-graduate.

Education
6
Poughkeepsie Day School Inc

Please see schedule o.

Education
7
Vermont Wilderness School

Provide nature-based education and mentoring to youth and adults in southern vermont and western massachusetts.

Environment
8
Bedford Stuyvesant New Beginnings Charter School

To provide a school where student achievement is anchored in a fundamental approach to learning. bedford stuyvesant new beginnings charter school merged with bedford stuyvesant new beginnings charter school 2 effective july 1, 2024. the…

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9
Greenfield School

Operation of an independent, nonsectarian, co-educational college preparatory school serving students in preschool through grade twelve.

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10
Wooster School Corporation

The purpose of the wooster school is to prepare young people for fulfillment, happiness and success in life through the rigorous and healthy development of intellect, conscience, body and spirit. the wooster school community fosters a…

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11
Western New York Maritime Charter School

Education of students

Education
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Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bedford 2030 Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Andrew K Dwyer Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 25 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
17/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

The Rippowam Cisqua School Inc — $95,000 · EducationThe Rippowam Cisqua School IncPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College — $95,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Middlebury CollegeST GEORGE'S SCHOOL — $55,000 · EducationST GEORGE'S SCHOOLHOOD RIVER NEW SCHOOL — $50,300 · EducationHOOD RIVER NEW SCHOOLTHE ANDREW K DWYER FOUNDATION — $40,000 · EducationTHE ANDREW K DWYER FOUNDATIONBILLION OYSTER PROJECT INC — $20,500 · EducationBILLION OYSTER PROJECT INCTHE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL — $14,000 · Education+1 more — $2,000 · EducationTHE ANDY DWYER FOUNDATION — $20,000 · OtherWESTMORELAND SANCTUARY INC — $4,000 · OtherProject Soar Inc — $3,000 · OtherTHE NORWALK YOUTH SYMPHONY INC — $2,500 · OtherBEDFORD FREE LIBRARY — $2,000 · OtherPEGASUS THERAPEUTIC RIDING — $1,500 · Other+3 more — $1,553 · OtherMNFF INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BEDFORD HISTORICAL SOCIETYINC — $7,000 · Arts & CultureNANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · EnvironmentBEDFORD 2030 INC — $1,000 · EnvironmentPROJECT SOAR MARRAKECH — $3,000 · InternationalVENNUE FOUNDATION — $2,500 · HealthSOMERS YOUTH SPORTS ORGANIZATION INC — $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentPEGASUS THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC — $500 · Recreation & Sports
Education$371,800Other$34,553Arts & Culture$17,000Environment$11,000International$3,000Health$2,500Youth Development$1,000Recreation & Sports$500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetThe Rippowam Cisqua School Inc — $95,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College — $95,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetST GEORGE'S SCHOOL — $55,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHOOD RIVER NEW SCHOOL — $50,300 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetTHE ANDREW K DWYER FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetBILLION OYSTER PROJECT INC — $20,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL — $14,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMNFF INC — $10,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetTHE BEDFORD HISTORICAL SOCIETYINC — $7,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetWESTMORELAND SANCTUARY INC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT SOAR MARRAKECH — $3,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE NORWALK YOUTH SYMPHONY INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBEDFORD FREE LIBRARY — $2,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWATERSIDE SCHOOL INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBEDFORD 2030 INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOMERS YOUTH SPORTS ORGANIZATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPEGASUS THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Halstatt Charitab…The Santomero Family …The Braewold FundLanbro FoundationJoyce Charitable FundNational Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Halstatt Charitable FoundationDE13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Halstatt Charitable Foundation · The Santomero Family Foundation Inc Co Denise C R Santomero · The Braewold Fund · Lanbro Foundation · Joyce Charitable Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Cameron Family Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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 25 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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