· Private foundation
The Cameron 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 $10k81 grants · $166k
- $10k–50k46 grants · $1.2M
- $50k–250k26 grants · $2.2M
- $250k+4 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SUSSEX COUNTY | $500,000 |
| YMCA OF GREATER RICHMOND | $385,000 |
| PROJECT HOMES | $281,500 |
| JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY COL OF EDUCATION | $276,885 |
| SUSSEX COUNTY YOUTH AND ADULT REC | $229,857 |
| CENTRAL VIRGINIA HEALTH SERVICES | $198,000 |
| BETTER HOUSING COALITION | $150,000 |
| COMMUNITY COALITION OF SUSSEX VIRGINIA | $100,000 |
| LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION | $100,000 |
| VIRGINIA'S GATEWAY REGION | $99,190 |
| BRIGHTPOINT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $93,750 |
| VIRGINIA'S GATEWAY REGION | $88,271 |
| SOUTHEAST 4-H EDUCATION CENTER | $87,000 |
| JAMES HOUSE THE | $75,000 |
| LAMB CENTER FOR ARTS AND HEALING | $75,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $3.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 73% 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.
135 repeat relationships: 74 still active in FY2024, 61 since wound down; 22 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CVCENTRAL VIRGINIA HEALTH SERVICES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +158%
- YMYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Richmond (6769)8× · 2017–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +32%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE LOWER APPOMATTOX RIVER8× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +83% · 72% of their budget
Funded once
- COCITY OF PETERSBURG VIRGINA DEPT OF TRANSPORTATIONone grant, 2017 · $624k
- COCITY OF HOEWELL SOUTHSIDE GATEWAY PROJECTone grant, 2018 · $463k
- PGPRINCE GEORGE COUNTYone grant, 2017 · $400k
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.
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…
To use policy, research, and analysis to advance the well-being of Virginia communities, and improve the economic security and social opportunities of all Virginians.
Vcn is a facilitator of strategic action, a resource for network partners statewide, and a constant preservation presence in richmond. playing a unique role in virginia's conservation community, vcn helps the community speak with one…
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".
Elevating awareness of the transformative power of architecture and design.
VCDC delivers vital financial resources and support while collaborating with local organizations dedicated to social impact, ensuring the creation of affordable homes in vibrant neighborhoods where everyone can thrive.
The charlottesville regional chamber of commerce is a non-profit corporation organized under the laws of the commonwealth of virginia for the purpose of representing private enterprise, promoting business, economic growth and vitality, and…
Promoting for the benefit of the general public, the preservation, protection and enjoyment of our natural resources, principally in the lower james, york, rappahannock and chowan rivers and surrounding watersheds.
Working within the faith community to educate and mobilize citizen to create systemic social change for low income Virginians.
Our mission is to ensure the availability, access, and affordability of locally produced food by connecting local farmers and all members of the community through programs, awareness, and advocacy.
How this is measured
135 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. 135 of the 243 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 CENTRAL VIRGINIA HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Richmond (6769) ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA'S GATEWAY REGION T/A VIRGINIA'S GATEWAY REGION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE LOWER APPOMATTOX RIVER ↗
- Who funds ELDERHOMES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF PETERSBURG INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTPOINT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDSAVERS- MEMORIAL CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds FEED MORE INC ↗
- Who funds COLONIAL HEIGHTS FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH'S VILLA ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC PETERSBURG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds SERENITY INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER RICHMOND FIT4KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST CONNECTIONS FOR EARLY SUCCESS ↗
- Who funds HISTORICORPS ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN CHURCHES UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds The James House InterventionPrevention Services Inc ↗
- Who funds LAMB CENTER FOR ARTS AND HEALING ↗
- Who funds SOUTHSIDE VIRGINIA EMERGENCY CREW INC ↗
- Who funds CRATER COMMUNITY HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY LIFELINE ↗
- Who funds BETTER HOUSING COALITION ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Cameron Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Cameron Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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