· Private foundation
Samuel Higby Camp Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $67k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ELLA SHARP MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| CASCADES HUMANE SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| BARKLEY AND LULU FOUNDATION | $9,800 |
| MICHIGAN THEATRE | $5,200 |
| IMAGINE PLANET | $5,000 |
| LUMAN CHRISTI HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| SHOP RAT FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| LOST RAILWAY MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| KIWANIS CLUB | $5,000 |
| JACKSON FRIENDLY HOME | $5,000 |
| ANDYS ANGELS | $5,000 |
| JOHN GEORGE HOME | $5,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $5,000 |
| AWARE SHELTER | $5,000 |
| TOMPKINS CENTER MUSEUM | $2,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
25 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- JGJOHN GEORGE HOME INC6× · 2018–2024 · $35k · revenue +101%
- AAANDYS ANGELS6× · 2018–2024 · $35k · revenue ×24
- TSTHE SHOP RAT FOUNDATION INC5× · 2018–2024 · $25k · revenue +864%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF THE ANIMALS IN THE JACKSone grant, 2022 · $5k
- MTMICHIGAN TTHEATREone grant, 2019 · $5k
- GSGIRL SCOUTS HEART OF MICHIGABone grant, 2019 · $4k
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 preserve and operate historic sites for public tours and research. to preserve historic documents for public inspection.
To renovate and restore the historic theatre and to provide a versatile center for the arts, entertainment, and education.
The mission of jackson community ambulance is to provide high-quality out-of-hospital care and transportation services to the communities we serve.
Build decent housing for low income families.
To connect and strengthen the arts through strengthening and expanding the arts organizations in the community, and increasing arts education opportunities, arts advocacy, and communications and commnication services.
Promote jazz music through free concerts and individual concerts. money is raised through fundraisers to pay for expenes relating to the festival.
The mission of the greater jackson arts council is to act as a catalyst to preserve and advance the cultural life of the greater jackson area
Seeking to put Gods love into action, Jackson Interfaith Shelter provides temporary shelter and other essential resources to people experiencing homelessness and poverty.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jackson School of the Arts Assoc and the most unlike its peers is Andys Angels. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 32 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 ELLA SHARP MUSEUM ASSOCIATION OF JACKSON ↗
- Who funds JOHN GEORGE HOME INC ↗
- Who funds CASCADES HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ANDYS ANGELS ↗
- Who funds THE SHOP RAT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE JACKSON FRIENDLY HOME ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS HEART OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds LOST RAILWAY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SOAR CAFE AND FARMS ↗
- Who funds Jackson School of the Arts Assoc ↗
- Who funds Kiwanis Club of Jackson Michigan ↗
- Who funds JACKSON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL 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: The Alvin L Glick Foundation · Phil & Pat Willis Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Lavery Foundation · John George Jr Paragraph X Trust · The Hurst Foundation · Speckhard-Knight Charitable Foundation · Louis Glick Memorial & Charitable Trust · The L H Field Family Foundation · Weatherwax Foundation · Macchia Family Foundation · Addison P Cook III 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 Samuel Higby 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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