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Vera R Campbell Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its 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 it funds
0197% classified

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
02FY2020 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
CORAZON DE VIDA FOUNDATION$75,000
826LA$75,000
NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF LOS ANGELES$60,000
COLLEGE TRACK$50,000
PARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS$50,000
POSSE FOUNDATION$50,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$50,000
SELF-HELP GRAPHICS$35,000
INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES$35,000
INSTITUTE FOR FIELD RESEARCH$28,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its 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
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.

Which US states its grants reach

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

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +29% for those 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
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

  • 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%
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
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
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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Partners; 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.
04the grantee network

68 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · EducationCOLLEGE TRACK: $200,000 · EducationPARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS: $200,000 · EducationTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetTHE J PAUL GETTY TRUST: $235,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSELF HELP GRAPHICS & ART INC: $235,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetCOLLEGE TRACK: $200,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS: $200,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 4y, 0.2% 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 budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUtah Dine Bikeyah: $50,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $45,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $32,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew Community Project: $30,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetCOALITION TO ABOLISH SLAVERY & TRAFFICKING: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BIG PICTURE COMPANY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFOOD FORWARD INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALTAMED HEALTH SERVICES CORPORATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHENANDOAH VALLEY SCHOLARS LATINO INITIATIVE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSHELTER PARTNERSHIP INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKCRW FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO: $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 budgetLA-MAS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCatholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJACARANDA FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCAST INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIGNITY HEALTH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCASA OF LOS ANGELES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWORKERS DEFENSE PROJECT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWHOLE WOMAN'S HEALTH ALLIANCE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE LOS ANGELES RIVER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE RAPE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDEMOS A NETWORK FOR IDEAS AND ACTION LTD: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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 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 THE J PAUL GETTY TRUST ↗
  • Who funds SELF HELP GRAPHICS & ART INC ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE TRACK ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • 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 WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds Utah Dine Bikeyah ↗
  • Who funds HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES ↗
  • Who funds MATTHEW SILVERMAN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds New Community Project ↗
  • Who funds COALITION TO ABOLISH SLAVERY & TRAFFICKING ↗
  • Who funds THE BIG PICTURE COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds FOOD FORWARD INC ↗
  • Who funds ALTAMED HEALTH SERVICES CORPORATION ↗

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 …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

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 Vera R Campbell Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vera R Campbell Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's 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
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 110 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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