· Private foundation
The Cameron Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WEST SACRAMENTO ROTARY EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $9,500 |
| RIVER CITY HIGH SCHOOL WATER POLO | $4,700 |
| WEST SACRAMENTO DOLPHINS SWIM TEAM (WSST) | $3,750 |
| HEAVENLY BOOSTERS | $2,500 |
| WEST SACRAMENTO ROTARY EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| GEORGETOWN DIVIDE ROTARY FOUNDATION RYLA AND REGL CAMPS | $1,000 |
| GEORGETOWN DIVIDE ROTARY FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–23, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 5% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of The Cameron Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 87%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WSWEST SACRAMENTO SWIM TEAM INC2× · 2021–2023 · $16k · revenue +372%
- NCNORTHERN CALIFORNIA PEACE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION SCH3× · 2017–2019 · $15k · revenue +120%
- FOFRIENDS OF FELINES RESCUE2× · 2021–2022 · $14k · revenue +145%
Funded once
- WSWEST SACRAMENTO POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2018 · $12k · revenue +10%
- SLSACRAMENTO LOAVES & FISHESgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +33%
- SHSHRINER'S HOSPITAL FOR CHILDRENone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
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.
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
Animal welfare
Animal rescue of abandoned cats and dogs
animal welfare
reduce and manage feral cat colonies
Friends of the Chico Animal Shelter raises funds for the Chico Animal Shelter medical fund.
Care for retired police canine dogs.
Rescue and placement of canines
To provide free veterinary care
Together with Animal Care and Regulation staff, TEAM Volunteers strive to: Increase adoptions of eligible animals, improve public awareness of animal care and responsbility issues, including the importance of spaying and neutering, raise…
To decrease the cat overpopulation in solano county by providing low cost spay and neuter services for feral, stray, and pet cats. the purpose for which the organization is formed is to provide widespread community outreach, and innovated…
Care and rescue of feral and abandoned kittens and cats
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 26 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds WIDE OPEN WALLS ↗
- Who funds WEST SACRAMENTO SWIM TEAM INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN CALIFORNIA PEACE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION SCH ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FELINES RESCUE ↗
- Who funds The Chester Foundation ↗
- Who funds WEST SACRAMENTO POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN DIVIDE ROTARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SACRAMENTO LOAVES & FISHES ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Heavenly Boosters - DHSCMS ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN DIVIDE ROTARY CLUB ↗
- Who funds SACRAMENTO AREA FIRE FIGHTERS BENEVOLENT FUND ↗
- Who funds PUREBREDS PLUS CAT RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds Chicks in Crisis Inc ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Cameron Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Cameron Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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