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Samuel Higby Camp Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$87k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2024
18
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
13 to 19
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$2.0M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Samuel Higby Camp Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’22’23
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving15$87k7%
FY202318$91k0%
FY202219$90k11%
FY202013$89k23%
FY201916$70k38%
FY201815$67k27%
FY201716$63kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$110kArts & Culture$107kYouth Development$93kEducation$68kAnimals$40kHealth$35kPhilanthropy$30kHuman Services$22kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Ella Sharp Museum Association of Jackson$40,00071%
John George Home Inc$35,00061%
Cascades Humane Society Inc$35,00061%
Andys Angels$35,000614%
The Shop Rat Foundation Inc$25,00054%
The Jackson Friendly Home$21,50042%
Girl Scouts Heart of Michigan$20,97530%
Lost Railway Museum$20,00044%
Imagine Planet$12,0003n/a
Soar Cafe and Farms$10,00024%
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All grantees of Samuel Higby Camp Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Ella Sharp Museum Association of Jackson$40,00071%
John George Home Inc$35,00061%
Cascades Humane Society Inc$35,00061%
Andys Angels$35,000614%
The Shop Rat Foundation Inc$25,00054%
The Jackson Friendly Home$21,50042%
Girl Scouts Heart of Michigan$20,97530%
Lost Railway Museum$20,00044%
Imagine Planet$12,0003n/a
Soar Cafe and Farms$10,00024%
Jackson School of the Arts Assoc$7,50020%
Kiwanis Club of Jackson Michigan$4,50022%
Jackson Community College Foundation$3,00010%
Michigan Shakespeare Festival Inc$2,0001n/a

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($286k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Samuel Higby Camp Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetElla Sharp Museum Association of Jackson: $40,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetJohn George Home Inc: $35,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetCascades Humane Society Inc: $35,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetAndys Angels: $35,000 over 6y, 14% of budgetThe Shop Rat Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetThe Jackson Friendly Home: $21,500 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetGirl Scouts Heart of Michigan: $20,975 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLost Railway Museum: $20,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetSoar Cafe and Farms: $10,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetJackson School of the Arts Assoc: $7,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetKiwanis Club of Jackson Michigan: $4,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetJackson Community College Foundation: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Alvin L Glick FoundationMI28.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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Find your warmest path to Samuel Higby Camp Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Samuel Higby Camp Foundation

How much does Samuel Higby Camp Foundation give?
Samuel Higby Camp Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $87,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 19 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Samuel Higby Camp Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (20%), Arts & Culture (19%), Youth Development (17%).
Who are Samuel Higby Camp Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Ella Sharp Museum Association of Jackson ($40k), John George Home Inc ($35k), Cascades Humane Society Inc ($35k).
Does Samuel Higby Camp Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Samuel Higby Camp Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Samuel Higby Camp Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Alvin L Glick Foundation, Phil & Pat Willis Foundation, Consumers Energy Foundation.
Where is Samuel Higby Camp Foundation based?
Samuel Higby Camp Foundation is based in MI.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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