How much does Vera R Campbell Foundation give?

Vera R Campbell Foundation reported 47 grants totaling $1,693,500 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 44 and 48 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.

What does Vera R Campbell Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (85%), Arts & Culture (6%), Education (4%).

Who are Vera R Campbell Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Inner-City Arts ($1.0M), City Year Inc ($603k), Ica La ($387k).

Does Vera R Campbell Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2020, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Vera R Campbell Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Vera R Campbell Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, The Ahmanson Foundation, The Ralph M Parsons Foundation.

Where is Vera R Campbell Foundation based?

Vera R Campbell Foundation is based in CA.

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California · Private foundation

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: 44
Organizations funded FY2020: 27%
First-time grantees FY2020

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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.

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

Median grant, FY2020: $25,000
Largest grant, FY2020: $200,000
Organizations funded a year: 44 to 48; FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020: 8
Total assets, FY2020: $4.6M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 27% of the organizations Vera R Campbell Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $418k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureHealthEnvironmentFood & NutritionCivil RightsOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2020	44	$1.7M	27%
FY2019	48	$1.6M	31%
FY2018	46	$1.6M	52%
FY2017	45	$1.6M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

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

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

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Inner-City Arts	$1,049,000	4	12%
City Year Inc	$602,500	4	0%
Ica La	$386,850	6	7%
826la	$290,000	4	5%
Corazon de Vida Foundation	$275,000	4	6%
The J Paul Getty Trust	$235,000	5	0%
Self Help Graphics & Art Inc	$235,000	4	10%
College Track	$200,000	4	0%
Partnership for Los Angeles Schools	$200,000	4	0%
The Posse Foundation Inc	$200,000	4	0%

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All grantees of Vera R Campbell Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Inner-City Arts	$1,049,000	4	12%
City Year Inc	$602,500	4	0%
Ica La	$386,850	6	7%
826la	$290,000	4	5%
Corazon de Vida Foundation	$275,000	4	6%
The J Paul Getty Trust	$235,000	5	0%
Self Help Graphics & Art Inc	$235,000	4	10%
College Track	$200,000	4	0%
Partnership for Los Angeles Schools	$200,000	4	0%
The Posse Foundation Inc	$200,000	4	0%
Proyecto Pastoral	$150,000	1	4%
Institute for Field Research	$119,568	6	12%
Young Storytellers	$100,000	4	3%
Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center Inc	$80,000	2	0%
Innercity Struggle	$55,000	4	1%
World Central Kitchen Inc	$50,000	1	0%
Utah Dine Bikeyah	$50,000	2	3%
Homeboy Industries	$45,000	4	0%
Matthew Silverman Memorial Foundation	$40,000	4	n/a
Community Partners	$32,500	2	0%
New Community Project	$30,000	2	4%
Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking	$30,000	3	0%
The Big Picture Company	$25,000	1	0%
Food Forward Inc	$25,000	1	0%
Altamed Health Services Corporation	$25,000	1	0%
Shenandoah Valley Scholars Latino Initiative Inc	$20,000	2	11%
The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles	$20,000	2	0%
Shelter Partnership Inc	$20,000	4	0%
Catholic Charities of Los Angeles Inc	$20,000	2	0%
Kcrw Foundation Inc	$15,000	3	0%
Southern California Public Radio	$15,000	3	0%
Caritas of Austin	$12,000	4	0%
Carmel of the Immaculate Heart of Mary	$10,500	6	n/a
Las Fotos Project	$10,300	1	n/a
Wayfinder Family Services	$10,000	1	0%
La-Mas Inc	$10,000	2	1%
Catholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties	$10,000	1	0%
Southern California Institute of Architecture	$10,000	1	0%
Jacaranda Foundation Inc	$10,000	2	1%
Cast Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Foundation	$10,000	1	0%
Mountains Recreation & Conservation Authority	$10,000	1	n/a
Los Angeles Mission Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Dignity Health	$10,000	1	0%
Greater Los Angeles Zoological Association	$10,000	1	0%
Museum of Contemporary Art	$10,000	1	0%
Casa of Los Angeles	$10,000	1	0%
Workers Defense Project	$5,000	1	0%
Communities in Schools of Michigan	$5,000	2	n/a
Whole Woman's Health Alliance	$5,000	1	0%
Friends of the Los Angeles River	$5,000	1	0%
The Rape Foundation	$5,000	1	0%
Demos a Network for Ideas and Action Ltd	$5,000	2	0%
Central Texas Food Bank Inc	$5,000	1	0%
The Industry Productions Inc	$5,000	1	1%
Urban Justice Center	$5,000	1	0%
Simbolei Community Assistance Association	$4,800	1	n/a
Fidm Scholarship Foundation Inc	$4,000	4	0%
Active Cultures	$3,000	2	1%
Open Fist Theatre Company	$2,500	1	1%
Communities in Schools	$2,500	1	0%
American Jewish Committee	$2,500	1	0%
Hollenbeck Police Activities League	$2,500	1	0%
The Los Angeles Free Clinic	$2,500	1	0%
The University of Texas Foundation Inc	$1,440	1	0%
University of Utah	$1,000	1	n/a
Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life	$1,000	1	0%
Hirshberg Foundation for Pancreatic Canc	$1,000	1	0%
Utah Film Center	$1,000	1	0%
Breakthrough T1d	$1,000	1	0%
The Art of Elysium	$1,000	1	n/a
Jeffrey Foundation	$250	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.9M), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Vera R Campbell Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 63.

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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.

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

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.

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About Vera R Campbell Foundation

How much does Vera R Campbell Foundation give?: Vera R Campbell Foundation reported 47 grants totaling $1,693,500 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 44 and 48 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does Vera R Campbell Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (85%), Arts & Culture (6%), Education (4%).
Who are Vera R Campbell Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Inner-City Arts ($1.0M), City Year Inc ($603k), Ica La ($387k).
Does Vera R Campbell Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2020, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Vera R Campbell Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Vera R Campbell Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, The Ahmanson Foundation, The Ralph M Parsons Foundation.
Where is Vera R Campbell Foundation based?: Vera R Campbell Foundation is based in CA.