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E & L 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 68% of E & L CAMPBELL FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $170k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $100,000 |
| REHEARSAL FOR LIFE | $50,000 |
| COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER OF BOSTON | $50,000 |
| BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $30,000 |
| CATHLEEN STONE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL (FMR THOMPSON ISLAND) | $20,000 |
| WESLEYAN FUND | $20,000 |
| MASS AUDUBON - BOSTON NATURE CENTER | $20,000 |
| UNITED WAY - MASS BAY AND MERRIMACK VALLEY GENERAL FUND | $15,000 |
| SOUTHERN HARBOR ELDERCARE SERVICES | $15,000 |
| MAINE COAST HERITAGE TRUST | $10,000 |
| HURRICANE ISLAND ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| LAND TRUST ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| GREATER FOOD BANK OF BOSTON | $10,000 |
| NORTH BENNET STREET SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER OF BOSTON | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those 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.
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.
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.
20 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 5 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, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $137k 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
- NBNorth Bennet Street School5× · 2020–2024 · $76k · revenue +36%
- GBGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC3× · 2020–2022 · $68k · revenue +1%
- BSBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC2× · 2023–2024 · $65k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $150k
- WCWatermans Community Centergraduatedone grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue +41%
- NHNORTH HAVEN SUSTAINABLE HOUSINGone grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue +20%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Music Center of Boston Inc and the most unlike its peers is Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 36 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 North Bennet Street School ↗
- Who funds Watermans Community Center ↗
- Who funds NORTH HAVEN SUSTAINABLE HOUSING ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN HARBOR ELDERCARE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds REHEARSAL FOR LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH HAVEN LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds LAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLES RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CATHLEEN STONE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SHADY HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GUILFORD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds VASSAR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
- Who funds THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL 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: Haven Trust · Middlecott Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Strypemonde Foundation · Weld Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
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 E & L Campbell Family Foundation 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.
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Rehearsal for Life Inc — 11% of income from government
- Charles River Watershed Association Inc — 8% of income from government
- Community Music Center of Boston Inc — 1% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Epiphany School Inc — 0% 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.
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