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CAMFED USA FOUNDATION

CAMFED USA FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 234 organizations whose IRS filings report $86,318,362 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($25,126,266). 126 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$30M
Revenue FY2025
234
Funders on record
$86M
Grants received
$75M
Net assets
126/234 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year

Against its field

CAMFED USA FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 131 international nonprofits its size.

Operating margin11% · top quartile
Months of reserve4.0mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)30% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 131 international nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($3.8M) Expenses 100 ($3.3M) Net assets 100 ($6.6M)2018 Revenue 107 ($4.0M) Expenses 149 ($5.0M) Net assets 86 ($5.6M)2019 Revenue 329 ($12M) Expenses 144 ($4.8M) Net assets 201 ($13M)2020 Revenue 362 ($14M) Expenses 158 ($5.3M) Net assets 328 ($22M)2021 Revenue 496 ($19M) Expenses 285 ($9.5M) Net assets 468 ($31M)2022 Revenue 469 ($18M) Expenses 527 ($18M) Net assets 470 ($31M)2023 Revenue 995 ($38M) Expenses 547 ($18M) Net assets 764 ($50M)2024 Revenue 1247 ($47M) Expenses 777 ($26M) Net assets 1090 ($72M)2025 Revenue 807 ($30M) Expenses 811 ($27M) Net assets 1142 ($75M)
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Revenue (807)Expenses (811)Net assets (1142)Peer revenue range

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: 2017 4% · 2018 1% · 2022 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

91% of CAMFED USA FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (96% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 384 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$432k
17
$938k
18
$7.6M
19
$8.4M
20
$9.2M
21
$96k
22
$19M
23
$21M
24
$3.3M
25
4.0
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 25 funders to 111 funders, grant income rose $1.4M → $13M.

40 of 234 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)77% 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 CAMFED USA FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 234 funders by total. 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

CAMFED USA FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

85% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CAMFED USA FOUNDATION.

29%
largest funder
57%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 45% · 2019 55% · 2020 25% · 2021 78% · 2022 17% · 2023 30%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.

How long its funders stay

42% of CAMFED USA FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

77% of CAMFED USA FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $20M that is directly attributable, 69% of it comes from funders outside California, across 31 states.

AK
ME
VT
NH
WA
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
NE
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NC
SC
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL

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

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $66M arriving through sponsors registered in 21 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 234 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like CAMFED USA FOUNDATION

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In California

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 4%Fundraising 5%

Governance

6
board members
83%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

57%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 37 states

AK
ME
NH
WA
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
KY
WV
VA
MD
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
HI
OK
MS
AL
GA
FL

Part of a family of 11 related entities

  • Camfed International · exempt
  • Camfed Canada · exempt
  • Camfed Ghana · exempt
  • Camfed Malawi · exempt
  • Camfed Tanzania · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CAMFED USA FOUNDATION: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds CAMFED USA FOUNDATION?
CAMFED USA FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 234 organizations whose IRS filings report $86,318,362 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($25,126,266). 126 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CAMFED USA FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 234 organizations giving $86,318,362 in grants to CAMFED USA FOUNDATION, 126 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CAMFED USA FOUNDATION?
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $25,126,266 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CAMFED USA FOUNDATION 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.

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 234funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing