· Private foundation
Samuel Higby Camp Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| SHOP RAT FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| LOST RAILWAY MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| AWARE SHELTER | $5,000 |
| IMAGINE PLANET | $5,000 |
| LUMAN CHRISTI HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| JACKSON FRIENDLY HOME | $5,000 |
| ANDYS ANGELS | $5,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $5,000 |
| JOHN GEORGE HOME | $5,000 |
| KIWANIS CLUB | $5,000 |
| TOMPKINS CENTER MUSEUM | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Samuel Higby Camp Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Samuel Higby Camp Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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