Virginia · Private foundation
The Cameron Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $5.0M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 157
- Grants FY2024
- 70
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $8,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 70 to 115
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $168M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 14% of the organizations The Cameron Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $249k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 96 | $5.0M | 23% |
| FY2023 | 70 | $3.5M | 14% |
| FY2022 | 71 | $3.7M | 11% |
| FY2021 | 90 | $4.3M | 30% |
| FY2020 | 90 | $3.8M | 24% |
| FY2019 | 87 | $2.8M | 21% |
| FY2018 | 83 | $3.4M | 22% |
| FY2017 | 115 | $5.4M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Central Virginia Health Services Inc | $2,374,839 | 8 | 1% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Richmond (6769) | $1,735,353 | 8 | 1% |
| Virginia's Gateway Region T/A Virginia's Gateway Region | $1,490,693 | 8 | 47% |
| Friends of the Lower Appomattox River | $1,468,752 | 8 | 72% |
| Elderhomes Corporation | $1,284,854 | 7 | 2% |
| Local Initiatives Support Corporation | $850,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Communities in Schools of Petersburg Inc | $723,834 | 8 | 17% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Richmond | $496,740 | 8 | 2% |
| Brightpoint Community College Foundation Inc | $489,100 | 8 | 15% |
| Childsavers- Memorial Child Guidance Clinic | $487,351 | 6 | 2% |
Show all 151 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 89 recipients with no EIN on record ($8.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Cameron Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 19 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 122 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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 Community Foundation Inc · John Randolph Foundation Support Fund Inc · Richmond Memorial Health Foundation · Robins Foundation · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · The Pauley Family Foundation · The Titmus Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Herndon Foundation · Virginia Nonprofit Housing Coalition · Shelton H Short Jr Trust · Townebank Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Cameron Foundation
- How much does The Cameron Foundation give?
- The Cameron Foundation reported 157 grants totaling $4,985,052 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 70 and 115 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Cameron Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Community Improvement (18%), Health (17%), Education (14%).
- Who are The Cameron Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Central Virginia Health Services Inc ($2.4M), Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Richmond (6769) ($1.7M), Virginia's Gateway Region T/A Virginia's Gateway Region ($1.5M).
- Does The Cameron Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Cameron Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Cameron Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation Inc, John Randolph Foundation Support Fund Inc, Richmond Memorial Health Foundation.
- Where is The Cameron Foundation based?
- The Cameron Foundation is based in VA.
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