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Campbell Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$132k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
49
Grants FY2024
38
Organizations funded FY2023
63%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
20 to 50
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
16
Total assets, FY2024
$594k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 63% of the organizations Campbell Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 50% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationPublic BenefitCivil RightsHuman ServicesHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving48$132k52%
FY202338$63k63%
FY202230$68k57%
FY202120$28k60%
FY202020$29k40%
FY201929$48k38%
FY201846$56k48%
FY201750$58kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$160kArts & Culture$137kPublic Benefit$69kHealth$41kSocial Science$40kEducation$34kReligion$32kCivil Rights$28kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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VA
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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 91 grantees
All grantees of Campbell Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Reason Foundation$37,00060%
Artstream Inc$20,00041%
LuMind IDSC Foundation$15,00020%
Cato Institute$11,60050%
National Review Institute$11,50070%
Ludwig Von Mises Institute for Austrian Economics Inc$10,50060%
Free to Choose Network Inc$10,50040%
Citizen Science Foundation$9,50022%
Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression Inc$8,50040%
Hudson Institute Inc$8,00030%
Shedd Aquarium Society$8,00050%
Lansing Symphony Association$7,75070%
Ancestral Health Foundation$7,5001n/a
Field Museum of Natural History$7,50030%
Competitive Enterprise Institute$7,00040%
Heterodox Academy$6,00030%
Pine Tree Society Inc$5,00010%
Independence Association Inc$5,00010%
New York City Ballet Inc$5,00010%
Chicago Horticultural Society$4,75040%
The Nutrition Coalition$4,50021%
Institute for Humane Studies$3,75010%
Illinois Policy Institute$3,50050%
Fairvote Illinois$3,0002n/a
Students for Liberty Inc$3,00020%
State Policy Network$3,00020%
Julie and Michael Tracy Family Foundation$3,00031%
Let Grow Inc$3,00020%
The Joffrey Ballet$2,50010%
American Friends Service Committee$2,5001n/a
Braver AngelsInc$2,50020%
Rank the Vote Inc$2,50020%
Society of Metabolic Health Practitioners Inc$2,50012%
Compassion & Choices$2,50010%
Chapman University$2,50010%
The Philanthropy Roundtable$2,50010%
Kenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry$2,30030%
Conservative Partnership Institute$2,00010%
Buckley Institute Inc$2,00020%
Ethical Culture Fieldston School$2,00010%
Institute for Justice$2,00020%
Young Voices$2,00010%
Network of Enlightened Women Inc$2,00020%
Crime Prevention Research Center Inc$2,00020%
Pacific Research Institute For Public Policy$1,50020%
The Independent Institute$1,50010%
Lincoln Park Zoological Society$1,50030%
Chicago History Museum$1,2502n/a
The Oregon Zoo Foundation$1,20010%
Chicago Parks Foundation$1,20010%
International College of Surgeons$1,10010%
Oregon Historical Society$1,00010%
The Chinati Foundation$1,00010%
Seattle Art Museum$1,00020%
Barry Goldwater Institute for Public Policy Research$1,00010%
Mercatus Center Inc$1,00010%
The Heartland Institute$1,0001n/a
Peace Neighborhood Center$1,00010%
The Adler Planetarium$1,00010%
Chicago Symphony Orchestra$1,00010%
The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies$1,00010%
Epilepsy Foundation of Greater Chicago$1,00010%
University of Chicago$1,00010%
The Heritage Foundation$1,00010%
Paws Chicago$1,00020%
Woodland Park Zoological Society$1,00020%
Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation$1,00010%
Window to the World Communications Inc$90020%
The Art Institute of Chicago$70030%
Ballard Historical Society$5001n/a
Truth in Accounting$50010%
National Nordic Museum$50010%
Chicago Children's Museum$50010%
Tax Foundation$5001n/a
Rochester Christian Reformed Church$5002n/a
Salvador Dali Museum Inc$50010%
Judicial Watch Inc$50010%
Regents of the University of Michigan$5001n/a
Phinney Neighborhood Association$5001n/a
San Diego Museum of Art$40010%
Oregon Museum of Science and Industry$25010%
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum$25010%
Chicago Historical Society$25010%
Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum$25010%
Longwood Gardens Inc$25010%
Kohl Children's Museum of Greater Chicago Inc$20010%
Gettysburg Foundation$15010%
North Shore Senior Center$15010%
The Phillips Collection$10010%
The Friends of Joseph Priestley House$10010%
The Detroit Institute of Arts$10010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 78 recipients with no EIN on record ($178k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Campbell Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Reason Foundation: $37,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetArtstream Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetLuMind IDSC Foundation: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCato Institute: $11,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNational Review Institute: $11,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLudwig Von Mises Institute for Austrian Economics Inc: $10,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFree to Choose Network Inc: $10,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCitizen Science Foundation: $9,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetFoundation for Individual Rights and Expression Inc: $8,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHudson Institute Inc: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetShedd Aquarium Society: $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLansing Symphony Association: $7,750 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetField Museum of Natural History: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCompetitive Enterprise Institute: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHeterodox Academy: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPine Tree Society Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIndependence Association Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York City Ballet Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Horticultural Society: $4,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Nutrition Coalition: $4,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetInstitute for Humane Studies: $3,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIllinois Policy Institute: $3,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetStudents for Liberty Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetState Policy Network: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJulie and Michael Tracy Family Foundation: $3,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetLet Grow Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Joffrey Ballet: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBraver AngelsInc: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRank the Vote Inc: $2,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSociety of Metabolic Health Practitioners Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCompassion & Choices: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChapman University: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Philanthropy Roundtable: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry: $2,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetConservative Partnership Institute: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBuckley Institute Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEthical Culture Fieldston School: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInstitute for Justice: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Voices: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNetwork of Enlightened Women Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCrime Prevention Research Center Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPacific Research Institute For Public Policy: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Independent Institute: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLincoln Park Zoological Society: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Oregon Zoo Foundation: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Parks Foundation: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational College of Surgeons: $1,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOregon Historical Society: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 81.

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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.

Donors Trust IncVA26× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donors Trust Inc · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · The Beach Foundation · The Dunn Foundation · Atlas Economic Research Foundation · Garvey Kansas Foundation · The Randolph Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Charles Koch Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Bartley J Madden 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.

Compare Campbell Family Foundation with peer funders

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How do I get to Campbell Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Campbell Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Campbell Family Foundation

How much does Campbell Family Foundation give?
Campbell Family Foundation reported 49 grants totaling $131,600 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 50 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Campbell Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (25%), Arts & Culture (21%), Public Benefit (11%).
Who are Campbell Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Reason Foundation ($37k), Artstream Inc ($20k), LuMind IDSC Foundation ($15k).
Does Campbell Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 63% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Campbell Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Campbell Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donors Trust Inc, Bradley Impact Fund Inc, The Beach Foundation.
Where is Campbell Family Foundation based?
Campbell Family Foundation is based in IL.

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 172 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-PF 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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