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Flora Cameron Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.4M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2025
5
Organizations funded FY2024
40%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$2,772,250
Organizations funded a year
2 to 10
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$21M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Flora Cameron Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesSocial ScienceHealthOther
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
FY2025still arriving4$3.4M25%
FY20245$1.5M40%
FY20234$1.3M25%
FY20226$960k33%
FY202110$733k70%
FY20202$61k50%
FY201910$52k70%
FY20186$50k100%
93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$3.8MPublic Benefit$2.4MEducation$815kRecreation & Sports$376kReligion$301kHealth$101kScience & Tech$28kHuman Services$21kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
KY
VA
AZ
NM
DC
HI
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 18 grantees
All grantees of Flora Cameron Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Waco Creative Art Center$3,752,250420%
The George and Barbara Bush Foundation$2,400,00059%
Sweet Briar Institute$535,30050%
Hemisfair Conservancy$376,00049%
Trinity University$115,00020%
McLennan Community College Foundation Attn Christopher Qualls$60,00011%
The Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy Inc$50,00011%
Centre College$25,00010%
Christian Assistance Ministry$21,20821%
Southwest School of Art$20,00020%
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum$5,00010%
School for Advanced Research$5,00010%
Texas Biomedical Research Institute$1,00010%
Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest$5502n/a
Manoa Heritage Center Fka Manoa Valley Cultural Heritage Found$30010%
St Marks Episcopal Church$2002n/a
Easter Seals Rehabilitation Center Inc$10010%
White House Historical Association$10010%

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($664k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Flora Cameron Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWaco Creative Art Center: $3,752,250 over 4y, 20% of budgetThe George and Barbara Bush Foundation: $2,400,000 over 5y, 9.4% of budgetSweet Briar Institute: $535,300 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetHemisfair Conservancy: $376,000 over 4y, 9.0% of budgetTrinity University: $115,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMcLennan Community College Foundation Attn Christopher Qualls: $60,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetThe Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCentre College: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChristian Assistance Ministry: $21,208 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSouthwest School of Art: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGeorgia O'Keeffe Museum: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSchool for Advanced Research: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTexas Biomedical Research Institute: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetManoa Heritage Center Fka Manoa Valley Cultural Heritage Found: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEaster Seals Rehabilitation Center Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWhite House Historical Association: $100 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 16.

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.

The McClane Brown Family FoundationTX13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The McClane Brown Family Foundation · The Marshall Steves Foundation · San Antonio Area Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

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Find your warmest path to Flora Cameron 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 Flora Cameron Foundation

How much does Flora Cameron Foundation give?
Flora Cameron Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $3,367,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Flora Cameron Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (47%), Public Benefit (30%), Education (10%).
Who are Flora Cameron Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Waco Creative Art Center ($3.8M), The George and Barbara Bush Foundation ($2.4M), Sweet Briar Institute ($535k).
Does Flora Cameron Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Flora Cameron Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Flora Cameron Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The McClane Brown Family Foundation, The Marshall Steves Foundation, San Antonio Area Foundation.
Where is Flora Cameron Foundation based?
Flora Cameron Foundation is based in TX.

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 32 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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