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The Campbell Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $66k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAITHFUL FRIENDS | $25,000 |
| CIRCLE OF FRIENDS | $20,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-SWWA | $11,234 |
| DOOR OF HOPE | $10,000 |
| OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS LESS THAN 5000 | $8,662 |
| ALEX'S LEMONADE STAND | $6,000 |
| VAST CHURCH | $5,000 |
| YOUTH MUSIC PROJECT | $2,500 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-NATIONAL | $2,500 |
| EMBRACE COMPASSION | $2,500 |
| CITIZENS 4 COMMUNITY | $2,000 |
| OSU FOUNDATION | $1,920 |
| OREGON ZOO FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF TIMBERLINE | $500 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-PORTLAND | $399 |
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 (FY21–22, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL2× · 2022–2023 · $150k · revenue +26%
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-PORTLAND5× · 2020–2024 · $104k · revenue +17%- VLVITAL LIFE A MARQUIS AND CONSONUS FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2022 · $75k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $32k
- DLDE LA SALLE NORTH CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $25k
- CDCHANGING DIRECTIONS FILMS LLCone grant, 2022 · $15k
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.
Friends of the children - seattle has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years, no matter what. youth in the friends…
Impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years, no matter what.
Friends of the children - tacoma is a washington based nonprofit with the mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years, no…
Friends of the children - austin is a texas based nonprofit with the mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years,no matter…
Friends of the children eastern idaho has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships and professional mentors 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in…
Friends of the children twin cities has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships and professional mentors 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in…
Friends of the children montana has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships and professional mentors 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in…
Our children oregon's mission is to be a voice and force for the common good for all oregon children, ensuring all children have the resources and opportunities they need to reach their full potential. we elevate data and the voices of…
Friends of the children commits to standing alongside our community's youth as they work to overcome barriers to their success. each child receives 1:1 support and guidance from a salaried, professional mentor (called a friend), from…
Friends of the children utah has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in…
Friends of the children - chicago has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in…
Friends of the children coachella valley (friends cv) has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors 12+ years, no matter what. 92%…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of the Children-Portland and the most unlike its peers is Braking Cycles. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
39 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. 39 of the 72 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 TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds Faithful Friends ↗
- Who funds VITAL LIFE A MARQUIS AND CONSONUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDRENS COURSE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN- CENTRAL OREGON ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE OF FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN- NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds CALDERA ↗
- Who funds THE CAMPBELL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds HOLLA ↗
- Who funds SFF PRESENTS ↗
- Who funds Oregon State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds ALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - SW WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds PAID IN FULL OREGON ↗
- Who funds JUNGLE MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds YOUTH MUSIC PROJECT ↗
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: The Oregon Community Foundation · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Juan Young Trust · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · James F & Marion L Miller Foundation · The Roundhouse Foundation · The Collins Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · Silver Family Foundation
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 The Campbell 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.
- Deschutes Land Trust — 46% of income from government
- Holla — 29% of income from government
- Kairospdx — 19% of income from government
- Friends of the Children- Central Oregon — 16% of income from government
- Northwest Pilot Project — 6% of income from government
- Friends of the Children-Portland — 5% of income from government
- Caldera — 1% of income from government
- Youth Music Project — 1% of income from government
- The Campbell Institute — 0% of income from government
- Oregon State University Foundation — 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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