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CAMARADA INC

CAMARADA INC (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $195,896 to it, the largest being L ROBERT & PATRICIA PAYNE FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($81,111). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$356k
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$196k
Net assets
$93k
7/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 25%
01What it does

What Camarada Inc does

Mission

The mission of camarada is to enrich the san diego community and beyond by presenting phenomenal chamber music concerts, while engaging diverse audiences through visionary and educational programming, featuring living composers, and commissioning new music.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Multiple concert performances chamber music and mixed media performances during the year as well as educational performances at schools, art centers and museums.

    $241,627 spent$119,612 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $241,627.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($142k) Expenses 100 ($122k) Net assets 100 ($32k)2018 Revenue 87 ($124k) Expenses 118 ($144k) Net assets 36 ($12k)2019 Revenue 117 ($166k) Expenses 132 ($162k) Net assets 50 ($16k)2020 Revenue 117 ($167k) Expenses 139 ($170k) Net assets 38 ($12k)2021 Revenue 110 ($157k) Expenses 117 ($144k) Net assets 79 ($26k)2022 Revenue 212 ($301k) Expenses 241 ($294k) Net assets 99 ($32k)2023 Revenue 243 ($346k) Expenses 279 ($341k) Net assets 115 ($37k)2024 Revenue 250 ($355k) Expenses 287 ($351k) Net assets 131 ($42k)2025 Revenue 251 ($356k) Expenses 309 ($377k) Net assets 287 ($93k)
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Revenue (251)Expenses (309)Net assets (287)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $46k to $96k (+108%).

$32k
$12k
$16k
$12k
$26k
$32k
$37k
$46k
$96k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 9% · 2023 11% · 2024 9% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

66% of CAMARADA INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$20k
’17
−$21k
’18
$4k
’19
−$4k
’20
$13k
’21
$6k
’22
$5k
’23
$4k
’24
−$21k
’25
0.7
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Lisa Barnhouse-Gal

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2022202320242025
Listed11111213
Joined·+1+2+2
No longer listed·111
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $11k → $39k.

3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of CAMARADA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

CAMARADA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

41%
largest funder
76%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 39% · 2022 38% · 2023 64% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

100% of CAMARADA INC's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $46k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CAMARADA INC has grown faster than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−6% · below the median
Months of reserve0.7mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like CAMARADA INC

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

64% of spending goes to programs.

Program 64%Management 22%Fundraising 14%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

82%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CAMARADA INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds CAMARADA INC?
CAMARADA INC (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $195,896 to it, the largest being L ROBERT & PATRICIA PAYNE FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($81,111). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CAMARADA INC have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $195,896 in grants to CAMARADA INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CAMARADA INC?
L ROBERT & PATRICIA PAYNE FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $81,111 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CAMARADA INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 7 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing