· Private foundation
The Michael and Maryann Camardo 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $135k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JOSEPH'S HOUSE OF CAMDEN | $40,000 |
| RENEW MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| CATHEDRAL KITCHEN | $20,000 |
| ST JOHN OF GOD SCHOOL FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN | $20,000 |
| CATHOLIC PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS | $10,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| HOLY NAME OF CAMDEN MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| HELEN L DILLER VACATION FOR HOME FOR THE BLIND FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF SOUTH JERSEY | $4,000 |
| NATIONAL ALLIANCE MENTALLY ILL | $3,000 |
| CENTER FOR FAMILY SERVICES | $3,000 |
| PHILLY HOUSE | $3,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF NEW JERSEY | $3,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF SOUTHWEST NJ | $2,000 |
| SYPHONY IN C | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $302k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 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
- JHJOSEPH'S HOUSE OF CAMDEN LLC8× · 2017–2025 · $290k · revenue +117%
- TCTHE CATHEDRAL SOUP KITCHEN INC8× · 2018–2025 · $268k · revenue +145%
- TFTHE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE4× · 2018–2025 · $165k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- CCCALVARY CHAPEL CHATTANOOGA TN2× · 2022–2025 · $100k
- GFGUADALUPE FAMILY SERVICES INC2× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue -42%
- ADARCHBISHOP DAMIANO SCHOOL2× · 2023–2025 · $20k
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.
Diocesan housing services was established with the purpose of providing affordable housing and housing related services for seniors and/or families earning very low, low, and moderate incomes throughout the new jersey counties of atlantic,…
The home was a retirement facility dedicated to the spiritual and physical needs of its residents and patients.
To holistically and individually engage people experiencing homelessness in gaining stability and control of their lives.
The organization's mission is to increase local services and resources for the homeless. miph provides affordable permanent housing in central new jersey, giving families a stable place to live while they prepare for their lives free from…
To provide a comprehensive and responsive service system for families of children with special mental, emotional, and behavioral needs throughout the county of camden, as well as to increase awareness of these children and their needs.
The organization serves by meeting practical needs of the lost while connecting those served to the life changing power of Jesus Christ. Our goals are to assist newly released ex-offenders, to provide meals, clothing and care to the poor…
Alleviate and prevent homelessness through the provision of shelter, services, support, hospitality and guidance to homeless individuals, youth and families. the organization's mission is to provide non-judgmental services to end…
Restore dignity and the quality of life of the residents of the waterfront south community in camden, new jersey through programs for housing restoration, economic expansion and human development.
To recruit volunteers to provide non-professional supportive home care services to the frail, the ederly, the disabled and the homebound, enabling them to live independently. volunteers provide all services including: medical…
Carelink community support services of new jersey's mission is to assist adult citizens of nj living with psychiatric disability in acquiring the tools necessary to live health and fulfilling lives.
The mission of south jersey dream center (sjdc) is to help break the vicious cycle of poverty by offering people options to change.
To build the skills of individuals with varying abilities and developmental needs, by providing clinical treatment, community integration, vocational training and work opportunities in order to achieve and maintain productive lives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food Bank of South Jersey Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pride Ventures Inc. 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 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 49 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 JOSEPH'S HOUSE OF CAMDEN LLC ↗
- Who funds THE CATHEDRAL SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds HOLY NAME OF CAMDEN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE JOSEPH FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS CAMDEN ↗
- Who funds RENEW MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF SOUTH JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds GUADALUPE FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SUNDAY BREAKFAST RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds SYMPHONY IN C ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds PRIDE VENTURES INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF SOUTHWEST NJ ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF CHARITY ↗
- Who funds HOSPITALLER BROTHERS OF ST JOHN OF GOD ↗
- Who funds HELEN L DILLER VACATION HOME FOR BLIND CHILDREN 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: South Jersey Charitable Foundation · Domenica Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Wsfs Cares Foundation · Connelly Foundation · David and Marilyn Krupnick Foundation · Phillies Charities Inc · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Oceanfirst 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 Michael and Maryann Camardo 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.
- Center for Family Services — 73% of income from government
- Joseph's House of Camden Llc — 32% of income from government
- Food Bank of South Jersey Inc — 30% 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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