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George T Cameron Education Foundation at a glance

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George T Cameron Education Foundation

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.

$34k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$64kEducation$63kHuman Services$43kPublic Benefit$36kArts & Culture$20kRecreation & Sports$19kHousing & Shelter$13kEnvironment$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$657k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Little Village Foundation$10,000
US SKI AND SNOWBOARD$6,000
CIVIC NEWS COMPANY$5,000
COMMONWEAL$5,000
Portola Valley School Foundation$2,000
Strawberry Preschool$2,000
SUN VALLEY WRITERS CONFERENCE$2,000
Child and Family Institute$1,000
Djerassi Resident Artists Program$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $88k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%HEROIC IMAGINATION PROJECT: $1k → 10%MY NEW RED SHOES: $1k → 7%COMMONWEAL: $10k → 8%Dry Dock Corporation: $16k → 10%COMMONWEAL: $8k → 8%Dry Dock Corporation: $12k → 10%COMMONWEAL: $5k → 8%Dry Dock Corporation: $10k → 10%COMMONWEAL: $5k → 8%Dry Dock Corporation: $7k → 10%COMMONWEAL: $4k → 8%COMMONWEAL: $4k → 8%COMMONWEAL: $3k → 8%COMMONWEAL: $2k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$221k · 10 repeat orgs$54k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +36% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
16

Total granted

$221k
$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+36%

Still filing today

70%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyEmploymentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TT
    The Thacher School Inc
    4× · 2017–2021 · $51k · revenue +32%
  • DD
    DRY DOCK CORPORATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $45k · revenue +1%
  • COMMONWEAL
    8× · 2017–2025 · $41k · revenue +228%

Funded once

  • TC
    The Cedars of Maringraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $13k · revenue +36%
  • MH
    MICHAEL HARRIS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -97%
  • SC
    SANTA CATALINA SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +66%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Terra Marin School

Our mission is to spark wonder and intellectual curiosity in each child. We achieve this through a purposeful blend of:Engaging academics custom-tailored to each child's abilities, strengths and interests;An unparalleled social-emotional…

Education
2
Institute for Applied Tinkering

Institute for Applied Tinkering IAT develops, practices and shares educational methods that challenge and support all children to engage deeply in their learning via real interests and real tools.

Youth Development
3
San Francisco Public Press

The mission of the San Francisco Public Press is to enrich civic life by publishing investigative and solutions journalism that engages diverse audiences and promotes public accountability. The San Francisco Public Press…

Education
4
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
5
CalMatters

Our team of experienced journalists, with the time and resources to dig deep, is committed to meaningfully informing Californians about the players, politics, and interests that shape the issues that affect their lives.

Civil Rights
6
San Francisco Schoolhouse

An intentionally small community where young people are valued as individuals. A compassionate team of educators approach academic & social-emotional development with the aim of cultivating justice-seeking humans empowered to transform…

Education
7
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
8
California Donor Table

California Donor Table anchors a hub of donors, foundations, and community leaders. We pool together our resources to shape California into a truly democratic state that works for the people, not the powerful. Rooted in our commitment to…

Civil Rights
9
International Child Resource Institute

ICRI provides high quality education and care to children and their families, responsive and emergent to each childs unique needs and strengths.

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10
Institute for Human & Social Development

Institute for Human and Social Development provides excellent comprehensive child development and family support services through center based family child care and home visiting to the highest need children of 0-5 years old and their…

Education
11
Parents for Public Schools of San Francisco

PPS-SF's mission is to promote the fundamental value of public education and pursue the success of every public school by sharing knowledge, bridging communities, and informing policy.

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12
Public Health Foundation Enterprises Inc

To enhance the health, wellness, and resilience of every community we serve - see schedule o for more details

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Health Council Inc; the most unlike its peers is Treatments for Epilepsy and Symptoms of. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 31 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/26
Grantees still filing
17/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Thacher School Inc: $51,000 · EducationThe Thacher School IncCIVIC NEWS COMPANY: $36,000 · EducationCIVIC NEWS COMPANYSUN VALLEY WRITERS' CONFERENCE INC: $8,000 · EducationSUN VALLEY WRITERS' CONFERENCE INCSANTA CATALINA SCHOOL: $5,000 · Education+2 more: $3,000 · EducationDRY DOCK CORPORATION: $45,000 · Human ServicesDRY DOCK CORPORATIONCOMMONWEAL: $40,500 · Human ServicesCOMMONWEAL+2 more: $2,000 · Human ServicesUS SKI AND SNOWBOARD: $18,500 · OtherUS SKI AND SNOWBOARDThe Cedars of Marin: $13,000 · OtherThe Cedars of MarinCHILD AND FAMILY INSTITUTE: $10,000 · OtherCHILD AND FAMILY INSTIT…SAN FRANCISCO BOTANICAL GARDEN: $8,000 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO BOTANICAL…Strawberry Preschool: $2,000 · Other+6 more: $6,000 · Other+6 moreLittle Village Foundation: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BRONX FREEDOM FUND INC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureDesign History Foundation Inc: $1,000 · Arts & CultureMICHAEL HARRIS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthTreatments for Epilepsy and Symptoms of: $2,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HEALTH COUNCIL INC: $1,000 · HealthTHE KOHANAIKI FOUNDATION: $3,000 · PhilanthropyINTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,000 · PhilanthropyEAST PALO ALTO KIDS FOUNDATION: $1,000 · PhilanthropyECUMENICAL HUNGER PROGRAM: $2,000 · Food & Nutrition
Education$103,000Human Services$87,500Other$57,500Arts & Culture$13,000Health$8,000Philanthropy$6,000Food & Nutrition$2,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Thacher School Inc: $51,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDRY DOCK CORPORATION: $45,000 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetCOMMONWEAL: $40,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetCIVIC NEWS COMPANY: $36,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Cedars of Marin: $13,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD AND FAMILY INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetSUN VALLEY WRITERS' CONFERENCE INC: $8,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMICHAEL HARRIS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSANTA CATALINA SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KOHANAIKI FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetPORTOLA VALLEY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetECUMENICAL HUNGER PROGRAM: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTreatments for Epilepsy and Symptoms of: $2,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE BRONX FREEDOM FUND INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHeroic Imagination Project: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetDesign History Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetIMPACT JUSTICE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH COUNCIL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDJERASSI RESIDENT ARTISTS PROGRAM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJOBTRAIN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMBOLDEN CHANGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEAST PALO ALTO KIDS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSt Francis Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Silicon Valley Commun…The William & Flora H…Jewish Community Fede…The San Francisco Fou…Philanthropic Venture…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Marin Community Found…Tosa FoundationAtkinson FoundationThe David and Lucile …Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA19.5× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The San Francisco Foundation · Philanthropic Ventures Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Marin Community Foundation · Tosa Foundation · Atkinson Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization George T Cameron Education Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from George T Cameron Education Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to George T Cameron Education Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to George T Cameron Education 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.

    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 31 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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