· Public charity
Camp Fire Conservation Fund Inc
To promote the conservation and preservation of wilderness, wildlife and other natural and recreational resources.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $130,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $141,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $11,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $107k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WILD SHEEP FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| ATLANTIC SALMON FEDERATION INC | $15,000 |
| THE RUFFLED GROUSE SOCIETY | $12,000 |
| BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN RIVERS | $10,000 |
| DELTA WATERFOWL | $10,000 |
| THE WILDLIFE SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| SUNY ESF MAXWELL SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP | $8,000 |
| NATIONAL CONSERVATION LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE LTD (NCLI) | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF JAMESTOWN | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 86% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of Camp Fire Conservation Fund 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.
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.
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.
8 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- ECESF COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC4× · 2019–2024 · $112k · revenue +144%
- RGRUFFED GROUSE SOCIETY4× · 2021–2024 · $49k · revenue +10%
- NCNATIONAL CONSERVATION LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE LTD3× · 2017–2024 · $20k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- DODEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICESone grant, 2018 · $27k
- SCSAFARI CLUB INTERNATIONALgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +118%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE UPPER DELAWARE RIVER INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -13%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Wetlands america trust, inc. is a nonprofit organization formed in 1985 to expand ducks unlimited, inc's mission to provide leadership in the protection of the natural balance of wetlands ecosystems ensuring the future viability of…
Ducks unlimited, inc. conserves, restores, and manages wetlands and associated habitats for north america's waterfowl. these habitats also benefit other wildlife and people.
To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
See schedule othe american ornithological society (aos) is an international membership organization that connects ornithologists, science, and bird conservation by supporting science that advances the understanding and conservation of…
Established in 1961, the ruffed grouse society unites conservationists to improve wildlife habitat and forest health and promote a conservation ethic, all grounded in the tenets of science-based management practices.
The national wild turkey federation, inc (nwtf) is dedicated to the conservation of the wild turkey and the preservation of our hunting heritage
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
The mission of the rocky mountain elk foundation (rmef) is to ensure the future of elk, other wildlife, their habitat and our hunting heritage. our mission includes four core programs; land protection and access, hunting heritage, habitat…
To unite the union community through conservation to preserve north america's outdoor heritage.
See schedule onylcv is a non-partisan policy making and political action organization that works to make environmental protection a top priority with elected officials, decision-makers and the voters by evaluating incumbent performance and…
Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wild Sheep Foundation and the most unlike its peers is University of Jamestown. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 23 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds ESF COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RUFFED GROUSE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WILD SHEEP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE WILDLIFE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CONSERVATION LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE LTD ↗
- Who funds Delta Waterfowl Foundation ↗
- Who funds Atlantic Salmon Federation (US) Inc ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED STATES SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAFARI CLUB INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE UPPER DELAWARE RIVER INC ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 388 GREATER HUDSON VALLEY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Bucknell University ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN RIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc Group Return ↗
- Who funds University of Jamestown ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILD TURKEY FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds NRA FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation Inc · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Camp Fire Conservation Fund 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Wildlife Management Institute Inc — 100% of income from government
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.