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Tr Ua the Camden Foundation at a glance

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Tr Ua the Camden 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.

$192k
Granted FY2025still arriving
40
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Environment$234kArts & Culture$226kHealth$98kInternational$86kCrime & Legal$77kHousing & Shelter$59kEducation$55kPhilanthropy$53kOther$0
02FY2025 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k35 grants · $140k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $52k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COASTAL MOUNTAINS LAND TRUST$12,000
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION$10,000
UNICEF - NEW ENGLAND$10,000
GREATER CINCINNATI TELEVISION$10,000
BAY CHAMBER CONCERTS$10,000
SAVE OUR HERITAGE INC$7,000
NEW MAINERS PUBLIC HEALTH INITIATIVE$6,000
THE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOLS$5,000
PALAVER STRINGS INC$5,000
SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC$5,000
CAMDEN CONFERENCE$5,000
THE GIRLS FOUNDATION OF TANZANIA$5,000
HURRICANE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND$5,000
CINCINNATI ART MUSEUM$5,000
PINE TREE LEGAL ASSISTANCE INC$5,000
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 (FY20–25, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%STEPS TO SUCCESS INC: $1k → 9%Children's Home of Cincinnati: $5k → 16%Children's Home of Cincinnati: $5k → 16%Children's Home of Cincinnati: $5k → 16%Children's Home of Cincinnati: $3k → 16%CHILDRENS HOME OF CINCINNATI OHIO INC: $3k → 16%BEST POINT: $3k → 16%BEYOND BOND & LEGAL DEFENSE FUND: $5k → 8%PENOBSCOT BAY YMCA: $1k → 11%PENOBSCOT BAY YMCA: $1k → 11%KNOX COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION: $3k → 11%Knox County Homeless Coalition: $3k → 11%KNOX COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION: $3k → 11%Knox County Homeless Coalition: $3k → 11%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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$905k · 49 repeat orgs$71k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

49 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
12

Total granted

$905k
$38k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+5%

Still filing today

82%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • BC
    BAY CHAMBER CONCERTS INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $55k · revenue +194%
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +26%
  • MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $36k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • OI
    Ohio Innocence Project
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • MA
    Mt Auburn Hospital FBO Healing Garden
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • RL
    ROCKPORT LIBRARY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -84%
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
Maine Appalachian Trail Land Trust

To preserve and protect land surrounding the appalachian trail in maine for public benefit.

Environment
2
Midcoast Conservancy

The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.

Environment
3
Mount Desert Land and Garden Preserve

The mission of the mount desert land & garden preserve is to conserve and share the beauty of our historic lands and gardens.

—
4
Kennebunk Land Trust

Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.

Environment
5
Somerset Woods Trustees

To conserve lands with significant ecological or cultural resources and manage them in a sustainable way for public benefit.

Environment
6
Islesboro Islands Trust

The mission of Islesboro Islands Trust is to enhance the quality of residents' lives through the preservation of open space, educate all residents as to the value of the island's natural ecosystems, and act as an environmental advocate on…

Philanthropy
7
Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc

Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements

Food & Nutrition
8
Maine Media College

Maine Media Workshops & College educates and inspires visual artists and storytellers to achieve their creative potential. We provide lifelong learning opportunities for those pursuing the fine arts and media-related professions. We are…

—
9
Maine Tree Foundation

Our Mission is to educate and advocate for the sustainable use of the forest and the ecological, economic, and social health of Maines forest community

Environment
10
Maine Historical Society

Maine Historical Society, founded in 1822, is a private non-profit whose mission is to preserve and share Maine's story. Based in Portland, we work closely with communities and partners throughout the state, and serve a statewide and…

Arts & Culture
11
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
12
MaineGeneral Health

To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maine Farmland Trust; the most unlike its peers is Save Our Heritage Inc. 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

52 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 52 of the 70 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/52
Grantees still filing
33/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNICEF - New England: $60,000 · OtherUNICEF - New EnglandMaine Coast Heritage Trust FBO Aldemere: $60,000 · OtherMaine Coast Heritage Trust FBO AldemereCAMDEN CONFERENCE: $26,000 · OtherCAMDEN CONFERENCEGreater Cincinnati Television Educational: $20,000 · OtherMINUTE MAN ARC FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC: $20,000 · OtherCET FBO Public Affairs Programming: $20,000 · OtherGREATER CINCINNATI TELEVISION: $20,000 · OtherMEGUNTICOOK WATERSHED ASSOCIATION: $18,000 · OtherThe Food Project Inc: $16,000 · OtherThe Genesis Fund: $23,000 · OtherThe Genesis Fund+23 more: $145,000 · Other+23 moreCoastal Mountains Land Trust: $52,000 · EnvironmentCoastal Mountains Land…MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $36,000 · EnvironmentMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON …Maine Coast Heritage Trust: $35,000 · EnvironmentMaine Coast Heritage T…Natural Resources Council of Maine Inc: $18,000 · EnvironmentNatural Resources Coun…MOTHERS OUT FRONT INC: $16,000 · EnvironmentMOTHERS OUT FRONT INCSUNRISE MOVEMENT EDUCATION FUND: $14,000 · EnvironmentSUNRISE MOVEMENT EDUCA…LINCOLN LAND CONSERVATION TRUST: $10,000 · Environment+3 more: $16,000 · Environment+3 moreBAY CHAMBER CONCERTS INC: $55,000 · Arts & CultureBAY CHAMBER C…PALAVER STRINGS INC: $30,000 · Arts & CulturePALAVER STRIN…FRIENDS OF THE STRAND THEATRE INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF TH…CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · Arts & CultureMAINE PRESERVATION: $4,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $50,000 · PhilanthropyTHE UNIVE…CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $18,000 · PhilanthropyCAMBRIDGE…SAVE OUR HERITAGE INC: $14,000 · PhilanthropySAVE OUR …+1 more: $2,000 · PhilanthropyTHE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOL: $25,000 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $19,000 · EducationSWEET TREE ARTS: $7,000 · EducationTrustees of Tufts College: $5,000 · EducationROCKPORT LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationThe Mercantile Library: $4,000 · Education+2 more: $4,000 · EducationPINE TREE LEGAL ASSISTANCE INC: $32,000 · Crime & LegalMUSKIE FUND FOR LEGAL SERVICES: $30,000 · Crime & LegalThe Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio: $24,000 · Human ServicesHomeworthy: $12,000 · Human ServicesThe Girls Foundation of Tanzania: $10,000 · Human ServicesBEYOND BOND AND LEGAL DEFENSE: $5,000 · Human ServicesPENOBSCOT BAY YMCA: $2,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human Services
Other$428,000Environment$197,000Arts & Culture$119,000Philanthropy$84,000Education$69,000Crime & Legal$62,000Human Services$54,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBAY CHAMBER CONCERTS INC: $55,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetCoastal Mountains Land Trust: $52,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $36,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPINE TREE LEGAL ASSISTANCE INC: $32,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPALAVER STRINGS INC: $30,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetMUSKIE FUND FOR LEGAL SERVICES: $30,000 over 6y, 43% of budgetCAMDEN CONFERENCE: $26,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetTHE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOL: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio: $24,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Genesis Fund: $23,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMINUTE MAN ARC FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE STRAND THEATRE INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $19,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $18,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNatural Resources Council of Maine Inc: $18,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMEGUNTICOOK WATERSHED ASSOCIATION: $18,000 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetThe Food Project Inc: $16,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMOTHERS OUT FRONT INC: $16,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSUNRISE MOVEMENT EDUCATION FUND: $14,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSAVE OUR HERITAGE INC: $14,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetPOWER SHIFT NETWORK: $14,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHomeworthy: $12,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMaine Farmland Trust: $11,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT HOME DBA QUALITY HOUSING COALITION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Girls Foundation of Tanzania: $10,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetLINCOLN LAND CONSERVATION TRUST: $10,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CAMBRIDGE HOMES: $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW MAINERS PUBLIC HEALTH INITIATIVE: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSWEET TREE ARTS: $7,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCINCINNATI NATURE CENTER: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS INTERFAITH POWER AND LIGHT: $5,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetLifeFlight of Maine LLC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShelterhouse Volunteer Group Inc: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROCKPORT LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMAINE PRESERVATION: $4,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBROOKLINE FOOD PANTRY INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Mercantile Library: $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYOUTH AND FAMILY OUTREACH: $4,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPS TO SUCCESS INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPENOBSCOT BAY YMCA: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED MIDCOAST CHARITIES INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Owls Head Transportation Museum: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMDEN PUBLIC LIBRARY FUND: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% 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.

  • Who funds BAY CHAMBER CONCERTS INC ↗
  • Who funds Coastal Mountains Land Trust ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
  • Who funds PINE TREE LEGAL ASSISTANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds PALAVER STRINGS INC ↗
  • Who funds MUSKIE FUND FOR LEGAL SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds CAMDEN CONFERENCE ↗
  • Who funds THE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds The Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio ↗
  • Who funds The Genesis Fund ↗
  • Who funds MINUTE MAN ARC FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE STRAND THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Natural Resources Council of Maine Inc ↗
  • Who funds MEGUNTICOOK WATERSHED ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds The Food Project Inc ↗
  • Who funds MOTHERS OUT FRONT INC ↗
  • Who funds SUNRISE MOVEMENT EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds SAVE OUR HERITAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds POWER SHIFT NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds Homeworthy ↗
  • Who funds Maine Farmland Trust ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT HOME DBA QUALITY HOUSING COALITION ↗
  • Who funds The Girls Foundation of Tanzania ↗
  • Who funds LINCOLN LAND CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds THE CAMBRIDGE HOMES ↗
  • Who funds NEW MAINERS PUBLIC HEALTH INITIATIVE ↗

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.

Maine Community Found…Otter Island Foundati…Fisher Charitable Fou…Bangor Savings Bank F…Davis Family Foundati…The Bertuzzi Family F…Onion FoundationElmina B Sewall Found…The Aldermere Foundat…Combined Jewish Phila…Donald & Alice Noble …Maine Health Access F…
Maine Community Foundation IncME33× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Otter Island Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · The Bertuzzi Family Foundation · Onion Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · The Aldermere Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Donald & Alice Noble Foundation Inc · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc

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 Tr Ua the Camden Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tr Ua the Camden Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation: 23% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Steps to Success Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Minute Man Arc for Human Services Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 70 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home