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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
21/40 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 79%
01What it does

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

  1. 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 program
    71% of program spending
  2. Environmental 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 program
    8% of program spending
  3. Jameson 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 program
    21% of program spending
  4. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $6,002 spent$8,984 earned by the program
    0% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,428,528.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($3.4M) Expenses 100 ($1.0M) Net assets 100 ($9.2M)2020 Revenue 41 ($1.4M) Expenses 82 ($850k) Net assets 106 ($9.8M)2021 Revenue 28 ($952k) Expenses 105 ($1.1M) Net assets 107 ($9.8M)2022 Revenue 34 ($1.2M) Expenses 117 ($1.2M) Net assets 100 ($9.2M)2023 Revenue 56 ($1.9M) Expenses 139 ($1.4M) Net assets 110 ($10M)2024 Revenue 36 ($1.2M) Expenses 159 ($1.6M) Net assets 107 ($9.8M)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (36)Expenses (159)Net assets (107)Peer revenue range

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%).

$9.4M
$10.0M
$9.9M
$9.3M
$10M
$10.0M
201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

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).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,898 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$2.4M
’19
$547k
’20
−$143k
’21
−$47k
’22
$490k
’23
−$408k
’24
2.0
months of
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.

201920202021202220232024
Listed191513171614
Joined·+1+0+7+4+1
No longer listed·52353
03Who funds it

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.

58%
largest funder
90%
top three
~2
effective funders

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.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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.

IL
IN
PA
MO
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Indiana out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

JAMESON INC's revenue fell 64% between 2019 and 2024.

Operating margin−33% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.0mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−18% · bottom quartile

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.

Federal$40k
grants $0contracts $40k
Top agencies
  • 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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 12%Fundraising 11%

Governance

14
board members
93%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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

IN

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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