· Private foundation
J L Camp Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $126k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $62k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $59k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHARLOTTESVILLE FREE CLINIC | $59,000 |
| ARTS ALLIANCE (FKA BUSINESS CONSORTIUM FOR ARTS SUPPORT) | $22,000 |
| FOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VA INC | $15,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF THE KING'S DAUGHTERS | $15,000 |
| VIRGINIA FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT COLLEGES | $10,000 |
| JAMES L CAMP JR YMCA | $9,000 |
| VIRGINIA OPERA FOUNDATION | $9,000 |
| JUDEO CHRISTIAN OUTREACH CENTER | $8,000 |
| ELIZABETH RIVER PROJECT | $8,000 |
| ELEVATE EARLY EDUCATION | $8,000 |
| FORKIDS INC | $8,000 |
| UPCENTER | $8,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION - FRANKLIN | $7,000 |
| TEXIE CAMP MARKS CHILDREN'S CENTER | $6,000 |
| SAMARITAN HOUSE | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $71k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 13% of J L Camp 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, 98% of the giving stays in VA; read by stated purpose it is 92% — 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.
30 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- CHChildren's Hospital of the King's Daughters9× · 2017–2025 · $178k · revenue +106%
- FOFOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA9× · 2017–2025 · $148k · revenue +90%
- VFVA FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT COLLEGES9× · 2017–2025 · $132k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- FSFREEMASON STREET BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $20k
- VMVIRGINIA MUSEUM OF THE CONFEDERACYone grant, 2017 · $3k
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.
To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…
Virginia community action partnership (vacap) is the statewide membership association for virginia's thirty-one non-profit and public community action agencies. vacaps mission is to build the capacity and competencies of virginias…
The virginia association of museums is a statewide network serving the museum community. the association's mission statement is "the virginia association of museums helps our museum community succeed".
Facilitating statewide collaboration among Virginia's food banks, partners, and neighbors to improve nutrition security and empower strong, healthy communities.
The mission of voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.
The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…
The Roanoke Symphony Orchestra provides a professional symphony orchestra of artistic excellence and integrity to enrich lives, to educate, and to entertain diverse audiences in western Virginia with the highest quality instrumental and…
The richmond symphony performs, teaches and champions music to inspire and unite our communities.
Driven by its core values of artistic excellence and inclusion, the virginia symphony orchestra is dedicated to creating world-class symphonic performances, transformative music education, and purposeful community engagement throughout…
Collaborating with our members and stakeholders, vhha works to ensure the sustainability of virginia's health care system and improve the health of all virginians.
To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.
To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hampton Roads Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 35 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 Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters ↗
- Who funds FOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds VA FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT COLLEGES ↗
- Who funds FORKIDS INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTESVILLE FREE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds JUDEO-CHRISTIAN OUTREACH CENTERINC ↗
- Who funds CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF EASTERN VA INC D/B/A THE UP CENTER ↗
- Who funds BUSINESS CONSORTIUM FOR ARTS SUPPORT ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE EARLY EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Elizabeth River Project ↗
- Who funds THE VIRGINIA COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds THE NORFOLK ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA OPERA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Lees Friends ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA BEACH RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA OPERA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation ↗
- Who funds HAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN SOUTHAMPTON COMMUNITY CONCERTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMSBURG CHRISTIAN RETREAT CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF FOSTER CARE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Samaritan House 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: Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Hampton Roads Community Foundation · Patricia and Douglas Perry Foundation DBA The Perry Family Foundation · The Blocker Foundation · Sentara Health · The Landmark Foundation · Tidewater Jewish Foundation Inc · United Way of South Hampton Roads · The Windward Foundation · Townebank Foundation · The Richard S Glasser Family Foundation · Birdsong Charitable 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 J L Camp 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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