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The Ruth Camp Campbell Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.7M
Granted FY2023
116
Grants FY2023
16
States reached
$129k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0164% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2023.

Education$1.3MHuman Services$700kArts & Culture$397kHealth$318kYouth Development$190kFood & Nutrition$142kHousing & Shelter$131kEnvironment$99kCrime & Legal$95kOther$2.2M
02FY2023 · 116 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 116 grants below total $1,327,750 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,699,900 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $372,150 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k70 grants · $346k
  • $10k–50k42 grants · $683k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $299k
$7,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Elms Foundation$129,000
Western Tidewater Free Clinic$60,000
YMCA of South Hampton Roads$55,000
Southampton Academy$54,500
Village at Woods Edge$40,000
VMI Foundation$40,000
Southeast 4-H Educational Center$35,000
Woodberry Forest School$35,000
Paul D. Camp Community College Foundation$30,000
Franklin-So Economic Development$28,600
Blackwater Library$25,000
Virginia Legal Aid Society$25,000
Liberation Veterans Services, Inc.$23,000
Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, Inc.$20,000
V M I Foundation$20,000
02Your edge
repeat funding

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.8M · 110 repeat orgs$687k to everyone else

110 repeat relationships — 90 still active in FY2023, 20 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

110
63

Total granted

$4.8M
$596k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+39%

Still filing today

75%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $92k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’21’22’23
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionOther

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

  • SA
    SOUTHAMPTON ACADEMY
    4× · 2019–2023 · $392k · revenue +44%
  • VF
    VMI Foundation
    4× · 2019–2023 · $220k · revenue +25%
  • WT
    WESTERN TIDEWATER FREE CLINIC INC
    4× · 2019–2023 · $200k · revenue +90%

Funded once

  • VA
    Vmi Alumni Agencies Board Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $60k · revenue +6%
  • S4
    Southeast 4-H Center (Airfield)
    one grant, 2019 · $40k
  • SC
    Southampton County Fire & Rescue
    one grant, 2019 · $35k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

03Your field

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.

1
Hampden-Sydney College

Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.

Education
2
The Williams School

The williams school builds with each child the foundation for academic, moral and social success. a williams school student embodies confidence, integrity and a love of learning.

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3
Virginia Wesleyan University

Virginia wesleyan university is a fully accredited liberal arts, united-methodist related institution founded in 1961.

—
4
Vcu Investment Management Company

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…

Education
5
Virginia Commonwealth University Intellectual Property Foundation

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…

Health
6
The Miller School of Albemarle

We create opportunities for discovery and reflection by engaging the minds, hands, and hearts of our students.

Education
7
Community Memorial Hospital

To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.

Health
8
University of Virginia Law School Foundation

The university of virginia law school foundation's primary purpose is to receive, manage and expend funds for the benefit of the university of virginia school of law.

Education
9
Good Shepherd Episcopal School

The mission of Good Shepherd Episcopal School is to inspire each child to achieve academic excellence within a diverse, nurturing community that builds character and fosters respect for one another and our shared environment, locally and…

Education
10
Vcu Health Tappahannock Hospital

To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.

Health
11
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
12
University of Virginia Foundation

To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Southampton County Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyYmca Community CentersLocal History MuseumsCivil Legal ServicesCommunity Hospital SystemsYouth Development CentersFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Senior Support ServicesAnimal Rescue and ShelterVeteran Support ServicesEnvironmental Advocacy and …Faith-Based Homeless Servic…Christian Outreach Ministri…Early Childhood Care CentersProfessional Dance CompaniesClassical Music OrchestrasChildhood Cancer SupportChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Jewish Community FederationsFaith-Based Senior LivingCommunity Theater CompaniesDomestic Violence and Sexua…Food Pantries and AssistanceYouth Sports ProgramsChristian Youth CampsVolunteer Fire & RescueGovernment Accountability &…College Foundation SupportCharter and Independent Sch…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%1%<5yr14%7%5–10yr18%16%10–20yr14%12%20–35yr15%22%35–55yr15%43%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr18%12%10–20yr14%5%20–35yr15%40%35–55yr15%38%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/113
the rest of the field
13%
6,446/50,355

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

03the grantee network

106 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 106 of the 185 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
103/106
Grantees still filing
87/106
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE ELMS FOUNDATION — $559,000 · OtherTHE ELMS FOUNDATIONPAUL D CAMP COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $92,400 · OtherLIBERATION VETERAN SERVICES INC — $120,500 · OtherVirginia Legal Aid Society Inc — $85,000 · Other+109 more — $1,658,350 · Other+109 moreSOUTHAMPTON ACADEMY — $392,000 · EducationSOUTHAMPTON ACADEMYVMI Foundation — $220,000 · EducationVMI FoundationSAINT MARYS SCHOOL — $105,000 · EducationSAINT MARYS SCHOOLVmi Alumni Agencies Board Inc — $60,000 · EducationST CHRISTOPHER'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $52,000 · EducationST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $52,000 · Education+23 more — $376,500 · Education+23 moreYoung Men's Christian Association of South Hampton Roads — $190,000 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Ch…THE VILLAGE AT WOODS EDGE — $125,000 · Human ServicesTHE VILLAGE AT…FRANKLIN COOPERATIVE MINISTRY INC — $70,000 · Human ServicesFRANKLIN COOPE…THE CHILDREN'S CENTER — $67,500 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S…OPERATION SHOESTRING INC — $60,000 · Human ServicesOPERATION SHOE…YMCA BLUE RIDGE ASSEMBLY INC — $33,000 · Human ServicesThe Camp Cole Foundation Inc — $32,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS — $25,000 · Human ServicesEPWORTH CHILDREN'S HOME — $24,000 · Human Services+5 more — $73,500 · Human Services+5 moreJAMESTOWN-YORKTOWN FOUNDATION INC — $96,000 · Arts & CultureVPM MEDIA CORPORATION — $50,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTHAMPTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $49,000 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $43,000 · Arts & CultureBALLET VERO BEACH INC — $37,000 · Arts & CultureTHE GIFFORD FLORIDA YOUTH ORCHESTRA — $37,000 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA WAR MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC — $28,000 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC RICHMOND FOUNDATION — $18,000 · Arts & CultureRAWLS MUSEUM ARTS INC — $15,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more — $24,000 · Arts & CultureWESTERN TIDEWATER FREE CLINIC INC — $200,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital of the King's Daughters — $57,500 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $37,000 · Health+4 more — $23,000 · HealthSOUTHEAST 4-H EDUCATIONAL CTR INC — $143,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUT COUNCIL OF COLONIAL COAST — $17,000 · Youth DevelopmentBEST DAY FOUNDATION — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA INC — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentFOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA — $57,500 · Food & NutritionHARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK — $37,500 · Food & NutritionFEED MORE INC — $35,000 · Food & NutritionTHE FOOD PANTRY OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC — $12,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$2,515,250Education$1,257,500Human Services$700,000Arts & Culture$397,000Health$317,500Youth Development$190,000Food & Nutrition$142,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE ELMS FOUNDATION — $559,000 over 4y, 33% of budgetSOUTHAMPTON ACADEMY — $392,000 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetVMI Foundation — $220,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetWESTERN TIDEWATER FREE CLINIC INC — $200,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of South Hampton Roads — $190,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHEAST 4-H EDUCATIONAL CTR INC — $143,000 over 4y, 7.7% of budgetTHE VILLAGE AT WOODS EDGE — $125,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetLIBERATION VETERAN SERVICES INC — $120,500 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetSAINT MARYS SCHOOL — $105,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJAMESTOWN-YORKTOWN FOUNDATION INC — $96,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetPAUL D CAMP COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $92,400 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetVirginia Legal Aid Society Inc — $85,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC — $70,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFRANKLIN COOPERATIVE MINISTRY INC — $70,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER — $67,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetVmi Alumni Agencies Board Inc — $60,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetOPERATION SHOESTRING INC — $60,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetFOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA — $57,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital of the King's Daughters — $57,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST CHRISTOPHER'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $52,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $52,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetVPM MEDIA CORPORATION — $50,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHAMPTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $49,000 over 4y, 7.3% of budgetLAUREL ARTS LEAGUE INC — $45,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetVIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $43,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BERKSHIRE SCHOOL INC — $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GENIEVE SHELTER — $40,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetHARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK — $37,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $37,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBALLET VERO BEACH INC — $37,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetTHE GIFFORD FLORIDA YOUTH ORCHESTRA — $37,000 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetST MARY'S HOME FOR DISABLED CHILDREN INC — $36,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFEED MORE INC — $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL — $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHeathwood Hall Episcopal School — $35,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOliver Gospel Mission — $35,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetYMCA BLUE RIDGE ASSEMBLY INC — $33,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetThe Camp Cole Foundation Inc — $32,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA WAR MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC — $28,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetNANSEMOND SUFFOLK ACADEMY ASSOCIATION INC — $27,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetVA FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT COLLEGES — $26,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetDelta Waterfowl Foundation — $26,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS — $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEPWORTH CHILDREN'S HOME — $24,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEarly Childhood Western Tidewater — $21,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetGRAZ'N ACRES THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER — $20,500 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetSOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA AREAWIDE MODEL PROGRAM INC — $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Ruth Camp and Henry C…Franklin Southampton …Obici Healthcare Foun…The Community Foundat…Hampton Roads Communi…Dominion Energy Chari…The Mary Morton Parso…The Blocker FoundationRobert G Cabell III a…Richard S Reynolds Fo…Robins FoundationUnited Way of South H…
Ruth Camp and Henry Campbell FdnVA101.7× affinity46 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ruth Camp and Henry Campbell Fdn · Franklin Southampton Charities · Obici Healthcare Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation Inc · Hampton Roads Community Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · The Blocker Foundation · Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell Foundation · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · Robins Foundation · United Way of South Hampton Roads

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.

04Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Ruth Camp Campbell Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Ruth Camp Campbell Foundation Inc 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 185 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $1.9M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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