Ira W. DeCamp Foundation
/OVERVIEW: The Ira W. DeCamp Foundation supports community-based health care, foster care, and workforce development in New York.
IP TAKE: This foundation has become increasingly interested in funding collaboratives with other local foundations that serve New York City. The foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications online, and offers multi-year grants to organizations that get on its radar. This funder is overseen by Trustees at JPMorgan. It doesn’t make many grants a year, but those that occur invest in New York, primarily for capacity-building, project, and capital grants. This is not a funder that accepts contact by phone.
PROFILE: Established in 1970, the Ira W. DeCamp Foundation is the foundation of Elizabeth DeCamp McInery, who named it after her late husband. The foundation is based on New York City and focuses its grantmaking here. Over the years, the foundation has largely supported health, education, and social service nonprofits. Current grantmaking interests are community-based health care, foster care, and workforce development.
Grants for Community Development and LGBTQ
Community-based health care grants fund community health centers and primary care providers in the region. These grants go towards capacity-building, organizational improvement activities, and capital projects. Recent community grantees related to this area of grantmaking include the Betances Health Center, Vision Care Center at Betances Health Center, Breaking Ground, and Care for the Homeless, among others. All of these grantees are located in New York.
Foster care grants support programs that link relevant service providers, train and recruit caseworkers and staff, and that also train and recruit foster parents and kinship caregivers. Other foster care grants go towards policy and advocacy efforts, LGBTQ youth in the foster care system, and services for transition age youth. Recent grantees in this area include Adoptive and Foster Family Coalition of New York, Helpline Coordinator, Advocates for Children of New York Inc, and Foster Care Excellence Fund's continued work with the Fair Futures Initiative, among others.
Grants for Economic Development
Finally, workforce development grants fund workforce development grants in the New York City metropolitan area and come in the form of capacity building, program development, and research and evaluation grants.
Important Grant Details:
Foundation grants tend to range from $25,000 to $250,000 per year. The Foundation will consider multi-year requests.
Nonprofits can view past grantees and award amounts on the Contributions page of the funder’s website. Grantmaking is generally restricted to the New York City metropolitan area. DeCamp does not provide funding for private foundations, matching gifts, loans, or individuals.
The foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications online.
The annual submission deadline for all program areas is July 15.
The funder makes grant decisions in October and sends out notifications in early-November.
JPMorgan Chase Bank is the sole trustee for this foundation, so the most appropriate person to contact depends on the program a nonprofit is interested in. Direct correspondence about funding may be made to lindsey.s.crane@jpmorgan.com.
The foundation does not encourage telephone contact.
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