Indiana · Nonprofit
JAMESON INC
JAMESON INC (Indiana) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,818,347 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($5,098,955). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $8.8M
- Net assets
- $9.8M
What Jameson Inc does
Mission
Jameson camp serves as a year round youth development agency. The organization's primary purpose is to provide children and youth with a camp experience that fosters character and leadership development and an appreciation for environmental stewardship. The organization also seeks to support, encourage and assist charitable, religious, scientific, literary, educational and other program groups through hospitality, consisting of year-round facility and meeting space rental, lodging, food service, and fee-based educational activities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Jameson camp served children ages 7-17 of whom over 82% were from economically challenged circumstances. Jameson camp filled 525 camping slots with 481 individual campers, some of whom returned for more than one session. The camp also specialized in serving children with minor social or emotional challenges.the camp enables children to engage in a variety of enriching experiences such as hiking, camping, nature discovery, arts and crafts, sports, culinary arts, and more. The programming is designed to foster positive youth development bypromoting positive values and behavior.
$1,018,322 spentof which $2,000 as grants$370,950 earned by the program71% of program spendingEnvironmental education programming is provided to school and other youth groups to learn about nature through activities designed on indiana state education standards for science. In 2025, jameson served >2,000 students in this program. Challenge course programs are designedto foster teambuilding and to develop confidence and leadership skills. Older children and adults utilize the low ropes, climbing tower, high ropes and zipline.
$111,214 spent$25,689 earned by the program8% of program spendingJameson camp also provides year-round hosting of non-profit and educational groups of all ages for lodging, meals, meeting space, and mission related experiential and teambuilding activities.
$292,990 spent$358,400 earned by the program21% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$6,002 spent$8,984 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,428,528.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $9.3M to $10M (+10%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2019 1% · 2021 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
28% of JAMESON INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
David Ramsey
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 18 funders to 16 funders, grant income fell $1.6M → $1.2M.
10 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of JAMESON INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
JAMESON INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
38% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund JAMESON INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 92% · 2019 95% · 2020 24% · 2021 45% · 2022 40% · 2023 86% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
38% of JAMESON INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
99% of JAMESON INC's grant income comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $458k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
JAMESON INC's revenue fell 64% between 2019 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,732 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding JAMESON INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $40k on record.
- Department of Defense$40k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like JAMESON INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
50%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JAMESON INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds JAMESON INC?
- JAMESON INC (Indiana) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,818,347 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($5,098,955). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JAMESON INC have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $8,818,347 in grants to JAMESON INC, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JAMESON INC?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,098,955 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JAMESON INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 40 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing