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Vera R Campbell Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.7M
Granted FY2020
47
Grants FY2020
8
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

75% of Vera R Campbell Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to American Endowment Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 5 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Vera R Campbell Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 28 organizations, $2M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

34
’17
35
’18
35
’19
28
’20
4
’21
4
’22
9
’23
5
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Philanthropy$39MArts & Culture$2.9MEducation$1.7MReligion$537kHuman Services$371kYouth Development$370kCommunity Improvement$199kHealth$157kOther$0
02FY2020 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k10 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $468k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.2M
$25,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$4.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF LOS ANGELES$200,000
CITY YEAR LA$200,000
PROYECTO PASTORAL DOLORES MISSION$175,000
SELF-HELP GRAPHICS$100,000
NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF LOS ANGELES$100,000
826LA$75,000
CORAZON DE VIDA FOUNDATION$75,000
NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF LOS ANGELES$60,000
POSSE FOUNDATION$50,000
PARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS$50,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$50,000
COLLEGE TRACK$50,000
INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES$35,000
SELF-HELP GRAPHICS$35,000
INSTITUTE FOR FIELD RESEARCH$28,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $530k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Cast: $10k → 8%Corazon de Vida Foundation: $75k → 10%CORAZON DE VIDA FOUNDATION: $75k → 10%Corazon de Vida Foundation: $50k → 10%Corazon De Vida: $50k → 10%JACARANDA FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%Corazon de Vida Foundation: $25k → 10%JACARANDA FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%Junior Blind of America: $10k → 14%Jeffrey Foundation: $250 → 14%Proyecto Patoral: $150k → 14%INNERCITY STRUGGLE: $15k → 14%InnerCity Struggle: $15k → 14%InnerCity Struggle: $15k → 14%Inner City Struggle: $10k → 14%Catholic Charities of Los Angeles Inc: $10k → 14%Catholic Charities of Los Angeles Inc: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
RI
CA
UT
MO
VA
MD
DC
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.9M · 49 repeat orgs$830k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.

49 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2020, 16 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
39

Total granted

$5.9M
$345k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+29%

Still filing today

67%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • IA
    INNER-CITY ARTS
    4× · 2017–2020 · $1.0M · revenue +44%
  • CITY YEAR INC
    4× · 2017–2023 · $603k · revenue +15%
  • IL
    ICA LA
    6× · 2017–2024 · $387k · revenue +236%

Funded once

  • PP
    Proyecto Pastoralgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $150k · revenue +89%
  • LF
    LAS FOTOS PROJECT
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • WF
    Wayfinder Family Servicesgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +62%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
2
Communities in Schools of Los Angeles Inc

To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. we work with public school systems, establishing relationship with superintendents, principals, educators, and community partners to…

Youth Development
3
Arts for La

Arts for la leads communities, artists and organizations to advocate for an equitable, healthy, and creative los angeles region through the arts.

Arts & Culture
4
California Institute of Contemporary Art
—
5
Los Angeles World Affairs Council and Town Hall

The organization is a non-partisan, membership based speakers' forum that connects business leaders, community members, and engaged individuals with shared interest in local, national, and global affairs. it provides an open and accessible…

International
6
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

—
7
Los Angeles Conservancy

The los angeles conservancy is a nonprofit membership organization that works through education and advocacy to recognize, preserve, and revitalize the historic architectural and cultural resources of los angeles county.

Arts & Culture
8
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
9
Los Angeles Opera Company

To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…

Arts & Culture
10
Cangress Dba Los Angeles Community Action Network

Community organizing, education, advocacy, leadership development, direct services and organizational development for communities faced with immense poverty.

Community Improvement
11
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

—
12
California College of the Arts

California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Partners and the most unlike its peers is The J Paul Getty Trust. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsCancer Support ServicesChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Affordable Housing Developm…Immigrant Worker SupportLocal History MuseumsHealth Access Advocacy and …Food Banks and PantriesDomestic Violence ServicesPolicy Research and AdvocacyIndependent K-12 SchoolsChristian Missionary Organi…Community Arts Centers
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 31 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%2%<5yr12%4%5–10yr21%18%10–20yr14%35%20–35yr16%24%35–55yr20%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr12%0%5–10yr21%1%10–20yr14%94%20–35yr16%3%35–55yr20%1%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/73
the rest of the field
11%
8,037/74,233

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.

04the grantee network

68 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. 68 of the 110 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
68/68
Grantees still filing
51/68
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION — $39,235,885 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION+3 more — $276,000 · PhilanthropyCITY YEAR INC — $602,500 · OtherProyecto Pastoral Dolores Mission — $525,000 · OtherNATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF LOS ANGELES — $500,000 · OtherCITY YEAR LA — $200,000 · Other+66 more — $1,037,040 · OtherINNER-CITY ARTS — $1,049,000 · Arts & CultureICA LA — $386,850 · Arts & CultureSELF HELP GRAPHICS & ART INC — $235,000 · Arts & CultureARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC — $80,000 · Arts & Culture+9 more — $67,500 · Arts & Culture826LA — $290,000 · EducationTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC — $200,000 · EducationPARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS — $200,000 · EducationCOLLEGE TRACK — $200,000 · Education+6 more — $67,500 · EducationCORAZON DE VIDA FOUNDATION — $275,000 · Human ServicesProyecto Pastoral — $150,000 · Human ServicesINNERCITY STRUGGLE — $55,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC — $20,000 · Human Services+4 more — $30,250 · Human ServicesINSTITUTE FOR FIELD RESEARCH — $119,568 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $50,000 · InternationalYOUNG STORYTELLERS — $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES — $45,000 · Youth Development+1 more — $2,500 · Youth Development
Philanthropy$39,511,885Other$2,864,540Arts & Culture$1,818,350Education$957,500Human Services$530,250International$169,568Youth Development$147,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION — $39,235,885 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetINNER-CITY ARTS — $1,049,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetCITY YEAR INC — $602,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetICA LA — $386,850 over 6y, 7.2% of budget826LA — $290,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetCORAZON DE VIDA FOUNDATION — $275,000 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetSELF HELP GRAPHICS & ART INC — $235,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetTHE J PAUL GETTY TRUST — $235,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC — $200,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS — $200,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCOLLEGE TRACK — $200,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetProyecto Pastoral — $150,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR FIELD RESEARCH — $119,568 over 6y, 12% of budgetYOUNG STORYTELLERS — $100,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC — $80,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINNERCITY STRUGGLE — $55,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetUtah Dine Bikeyah — $50,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES — $45,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $32,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION TO ABOLISH SLAVERY & TRAFFICKING — $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNew Community Project — $30,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetALTAMED HEALTH SERVICES CORPORATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FORWARD INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BIG PICTURE COMPANY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSHELTER PARTNERSHIP INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHENANDOAH VALLEY SCHOLARS LATINO INITIATIVE INC — $20,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKCRW FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCARITAS OF AUSTIN — $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWayfinder Family Services — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJACARANDA FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetLA-MAS INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCAST INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCASA OF LOS ANGELES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDIGNITY HEALTH — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE LOS ANGELES RIVER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWORKERS DEFENSE PROJECT — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWHOLE WOMAN'S HEALTH ALLIANCE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetURBAN JUSTICE CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEMOS A NETWORK FOR IDEAS AND ACTION LTD — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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 AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds INNER-CITY ARTS ↗
  • Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
  • Who funds ICA LA ↗
  • Who funds 826LA ↗
  • Who funds CORAZON DE VIDA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SELF HELP GRAPHICS & ART INC ↗
  • Who funds THE J PAUL GETTY TRUST ↗
  • Who funds THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE TRACK ↗
  • Who funds Proyecto Pastoral ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR FIELD RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG STORYTELLERS ↗
  • Who funds ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds INNERCITY STRUGGLE ↗
  • Who funds Utah Dine Bikeyah ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES ↗
  • Who funds MATTHEW SILVERMAN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds COALITION TO ABOLISH SLAVERY & TRAFFICKING ↗
  • Who funds New Community Project ↗
  • Who funds ALTAMED HEALTH SERVICES CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds FOOD FORWARD INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BIG PICTURE COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds SHELTER PARTNERSHIP 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.

California Community …The Ahmanson Foundati…The Ralph M Parsons F…Weingart FoundationThe Annenberg Foundat…Liberty Hill Foundati…Community PartnersThe J Paul Getty TrustGs Donor Advised Phil…Jewish Community Foun…The Stanley & Joyce B…The California Endowm…
California Community FoundationCA34.8× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · Community Partners · The J Paul Getty Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Stanley & Joyce Black Family Foundation · The California Endowment

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 Vera R 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • Cast Inc — 15% of income from government
  • City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
23report 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

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 110 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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