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Douglas A & Margaret E DeCamp 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
68% of Douglas A & Margaret E DeCamp Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Barry Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Douglas A & Margaret E DeCamp Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 7 organizations, $1M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k4 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $148k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $380k
- $250k+2 grants · $550k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Serenity Village of Barry County | $300,000 |
| YMCA of Barry County | $250,000 |
| Barry Community Foundation | $200,000 |
| Spectrum Health Foundation | $100,000 |
| Maple Valley Schools | $80,000 |
| Willard G Pierce and Jessie M Pierce Foundation | $45,200 |
| Grand Rapids Symphony | $43,000 |
| VFW Post 8260 Thornapple Valley | $40,000 |
| Thornapple Arts Council | $10,000 |
| Casa For Kids | $10,000 |
| Barry County Serenity Club | $5,000 |
| Spiritual Care Consultants of West Michigan | $4,332 |
| Embracing Imperfections Inc | $3,000 |
| Hastings Area School District | $475 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–22, $103k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Douglas A & Margaret E DeCamp Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in MI; read by stated purpose it is 71% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TWTHE WILLARD G PIERCE AND JESSIE M PIERCE FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $276k · revenue +35%
- GGGREEN GABLES HAVEN2× · 2021–2022 · $53k · revenue +25%
- CFCASA FOR KIDS INC4× · 2017–2024 · $47k · revenue +181%
Funded once
- COCity of Hastingsone grant, 2020 · $74k
- CACOMMUNITY ACTION AGENCYone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue -12%
- GRGRAND RAPIDS SYMPHONY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $23k · revenue 0%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Providing patient support, community connections, education and advocacy.
To promote business and economic development for eight towns in southwest michigan.
To provide compassionate in-home skilled nursing care and supportive resources for those affected by cancer and related illnesses in southwest michigan.
To advance pharmacy through education, practice innovation and research focused on patient care, for the improvement and promotion of public health and public education.
Surrounding seniors with the care you need to remain in the home you love.
Protecting life. sharing the truth. empowering people to make healthy life choices
Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.
Provide free legal assistance to indigent and low income persons
Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.
To protect and restore central michigan's land, water, and wildlife resources to improve the quality of life for all.
Working together to strengthen the quality of life in our communties.
Hospice care - wings of hope hospice and palliative care, inc. provides compassionate care in the later stages of life and support through the grief experience for individuals and families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Barry Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Willard G Pierce and Jessie M Pierce Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 25 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BARRY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds SERENITY VILLAGE OF BARRY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE WILLARD G PIERCE AND JESSIE M PIERCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREEN GABLES HAVEN ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY ↗
- Who funds CASA FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS SYMPHONY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BARRY COUNTY UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HASTINGS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds SPIRITUAL CARE CONSULTANTS OF WEST MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds EMBRACING IMPERFECTIONS INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Barry Community Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Feldpausch Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Douglas A & Margaret E DeCamp Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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