Cameron Schrier Foundation

Cameron Schrier Foundation

The Egg Foundation, also known as the Cameron Schrier Foundation, was established in 2006 by Derek Schrier and Cecily Cameron. Schrier previously spent nearly a decade as a partner at private equity firm Hellman & Friedman before founding Indaba Capital Management, a San Francisco-based investment manager that runs the foundation's endowment assets. Cameron serves on the board of Larkin Street Youth Services. The foundation makes grants to nonprofit organizations in the US and South Africa. Programmatic focus areas include developing young leaders, promoting education equity, assisting underserved communities, and encouraging informed public discourse. On the investment side, the endowment is managed by Indaba Capital Management, which Schrier founded and runs. Indaba is known for its concentrated, value-oriented public markets strategy and has engaged in activist campaigns at companies including GoDaddy and e.l.f. Beauty (public record). The foundation's tax filings list diverse assets including liquidating trust interests, Washington State timberland through Pope Resources, and San Francisco office equipment. The foundation operates from San Francisco. Schrier and Cameron are Princeton and Stanford alumni and are active in both university communities as major donors. The foundation maintains the Cameron Schrier Foundation as a related philanthropic entity. In recent years, the foundation has made grants in areas such as Minnesota, directed by Schrier's family connections to the region and the educational institutions there, including a $40,000 grant to a school in the state (per a US media outlet, 2023). Structurally, the Egg Foundation sits within a dual architecture that pairs a grantmaking foundation with a private investment firm, both controlled by Schrier. This arrangement allows for unified management of a capital base dedicated to both market-rate returns and charitable distribution — a configuration more common among single-family offices than standalone foundations.