Ira W. DeCamp Foundation

Guidelines

The DeCamp Foundation was established in 1970 by Elizabeth DeCamp McInery in memory of her late husband Ira W. DeCamp. Over the past 20 years, the DeCamp Foundation’s grantmaking has supported a wide array of organizations within three major program areas: community-based health, workforce development and foster care. Grants exclusively support work in the New York metropolitan area.

Funding Interests:
The foundation’s grantmaking currently focuses on three areas: community-based health care, foster care, workforce development.

Community Health grants will support community health centers (primarily federally qualified health centers) and select primary care providers in the metropolitan area. The contact person for this initiative is Lindsey Crane, lindsey.s.crane@jpmorgan.com.

Funding will be provided for:

  • capacity building (e.g., leadership development, staff training and improving fundraising or other key resources);
  • organization improvement activities (e.g., strategic planning; markets, operations and systems analysis; performance measurement and process improvement); and
  • capital projects (e.g., renovations, new space acquisition and development, information technology and infrastructure enhancements).

The foundation’s Foster Care Grants Program seeks to support programs in the metropolitan area that address one or more of the following:

  1. Programs designed to support service linkages and partnerships with different service providers within the child welfare community (e.g., substance abuse, domestic violence, mental health and housing).
  2. Training and strategies to recruit and retain qualified caseworkers and front-line staff at foster care agencies.
  3. Recruitment, training, and support for caregivers, including foster parents and kinship caregivers.
  4. Services for older and transition age youth, including education, job training, and independent living skills, with a focus on innovative and youth-driven programming.
  5. Services for special populations such lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth.
  6. Policy and advocacy efforts around issues such as (but not limited to) housing for youth in foster care, legal support for youth in care, updating the foster care rate-setting methodology and sustaining quality-assurance programs.

The contact person for this program is Lindsey Crane, lindsey.s.crane@jpmorgan.com

Workforce Development grants will support workforce development organizations (including intermediaries) in the metropolitan area. The contact person for this initiative is Lindsey Crane, lindsey.s.crane@jpmorgan.com.

Funding will be provided for:

  1. Capacity building (infrastructure investments that enable the organization to expand, sustain and manage its services more effectively).
  2. Program development (investments in new aspects of the program that will enhance the training and placement experience.
  3. Research and evaluation (to understand the impact of job training programs and of public policy in this area). Note: preference will be given to job training organizations that offer hard skills and life skills training; have support services available to trainees; focus on placing adults in full-time competitive employment; provide post-placement support; and collect data about graduation, placement, starting salaries and retention.
  4. Organizations receiving two or more consecutive years of funding are required to take at least one year off before reapplying (Only applies to Workforce Development applicants).

Geographic Focus:
New York City

Restrictions:
No grants are made to individuals, private foundations, or for matching gifts or loans. No grants are made to endowments, scholarships, or fellowships.

Eligibility:
Organizations must be classified by the Internal Revenue Service as public charities and tax-exempt under section 501 (c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.

Grant Cycle:
The annual submission deadline for all program areas is July 15. Decisions are made in October, with notifications sent out by the first week of November.

Type of Support:
Capacity-building, project, and capital (see guidelines for each program area).

JPMorgan Chase Relationship:
Sole Trustee

How to Apply:
If after reading the Funding Interest guidelines you find a fit with your organization, please review our application procedures and submit your application online.

Application

Please include the following items in your organization’s request:

1. Proposal (maximum of three pages, 12 pt font, normal margins) which includes:

a. Overview of the organization (i.e., primary goals, needs or problems being addressed, population served)
b. Description of the project for which you are seeking support

i. Statement of purpose and the needs being addressed by the project
ii. Population served and how they will benefit from the project
iii. Project timeline/anticipated project duration

c. Brief biography of the executive director and key project staff

2. Project budget

a. If it is a two-year request, please include a two-year projected budget
b. Include a list of foundation, corporate and other support applied to the budget

3. Current fiscal year organizational budget

a. Also include a projected budget for upcoming year (if available)
b. Indicate if the organization has an endowment

i. Quote the most recent value of the corpus
ii. Indicate if the funds are permanently restricted or board restricted

4. List of foundation and corporate supporters

a. Include a list of funders for the current fiscal year
b. Also provide a list from the most recently completed fiscal year
c. Include foundation and corporation names and amounts

5. Most recently completed audited financial statements.

6. List of board members

a. Include professional affiliations (employer)
b. Include length of board service
 

Please note:
All applications to the
Ira W. DeCamp Foundation
must be submitted online.

Contributions
Total Contributions in 2022: $4,800,000

Callen-Lorde Community Health Center, New York, NY
$100,000 as the first installment for Callen-Lorde CHC Foundation planning

Cardinal McCloskey Community Services, Valhalla, NY
$35,000 for technology and infrastructure for a new school-based mental health clinic

Care for the Homeless, New York, NY
$112,500 as the second installment to hire a consultant to build fundraising capacity for service sustainability and growth

Center for Comprehensive Health Practice, New York, NY
$150,000 for capital infrastructure for the new location on 110th Street

Community Health Care Association of New York State, Inc, New York, NY
$100,000 as the second installment for infrastructure upgrades and improved technology

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
$80,000 as the second installment for East Harlem Health Outreach Partnership's Addressing the Mental Health Crisis in East Harlem: Building Treatment Capacity for the Uninsured, Living in Poverty

Institute for Family Health, New York, NY
$100,000 for startup support for a new clinic on 108th Street

Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY
$175,200, over two years, for the Community Health Workers program

New York School-Based Health Foundation, New York, NY
$95,000 for continued expansion of the Data Hub

NYC Health + Hospitals, New York, NY
$82,500 for new wellness rooms at two NYC Health + Hospitals:  East New York and Morrisania

Primary Care Development Corporation, New York, NY
$150,000 for measuring impact and supporting data-driven strategy for community health centers

St. Francis Hospital and Heart Center, Roslyn, NY
$100,000 for the Bayside, Queens clinic expansion

Adoptive and Foster Family Coalition of New York, Brooklyn, NY
$50,000 as the second installment for Helpline Coordinator, Per Diem Hourly Staff, and paid outreach/advertising

Advocates for Children of New York, Inc, New York, NY
$87,500 as the second installment for continued support of Project Achieve

At the Table, Brooklyn, NY
$50,000 for college tutoring and advising for students currently and formerly in foster care

CASA NYC, New York, NY
$87,500 as the second installment for CASA-NYC to hire a Director of Advocacy

Center for Family Representation, New York, NY
$100,000 to improve data collection and reporting to leverage future funding and opportunities

Children's Aid, New York, NY
$75,000 as the second installment for the Fostering Youth Success Alliance

Children's Village, Dobbs Ferry, NY
$100,000 for Families Supporting Teens (FaST)

Citizens' Committee for Children of New York, New York, NY
$35,000 for general operating support to improve child welfare services in NYC

Community Foundation of New Jersey, Morristown, NJ
$100,000 as the first installment for the Foster Care Excellence Fund's continued work with the Fair Futures Initiative

Council of Family and Child Caring Agencies, New York, NY
$50,000 as the second installment for "Stronger Together," a project to retain front-line foster-care workers

Day One New York, New York, NY
$75,000 as the first installment to support foster care youth affected by intimate partner violence

The Door - A Center of Alternatives, Inc, New York, NY
$50,000 as the second installment for legal services and advocacy for foster-involved youth

Family Justice Law Center, New York, NY
$50,000 to launch the Family Justice Law Center

Forestdale, Forest Hills, NY
$75,000 as the first installment to improve practice at the Core of Work with Child Survivors of Abuse and Neglect initiative

Fostering Change for Children, Rocky Point, NY
$50,000 as the first installment for the Children's Corps

Fostering Media Connections, Los Angeles, CA
$30,000 to expand the Youth Voice program in New York City

Graham Windham, Brooklyn, NY
$87,500 as the second installment for the Family Success Initiative

Harlem United Community AIDS Center, Inc, New York, NY
$75,000 as the second installment to support the hiring of a bilingual Digital Associate, website upgrades, and marketing materials

Lutheran Social Services of New York, New York, NY
$50,000 as the second installment for implementation of a trauma-informed model among staff and parents

Mobilization for Justice, Inc, New York, NY
$50,000 as the second installment to support the Kinship Caregiver Law Project

The New School (fbo New York City Affairs), New York, NY
$50,000 for Child Welfare Watch

New York Foundling Hospital, New York, NY
$100,000 as the first installment for LifeSet: Launching Success for Young Adults

Rise, New York, NY
$75,000 for Rise's Parents Empowering Parents program in collaboration with ACS

Rising Ground, Brooklyn, NY
$50,000 as the second installment for the Co-Parenting Program

You Gotta Believe! The Older Child Adoption & Permanency Movement (YGB), Brooklyn, NY
$87,500 as the second installment for a strategic partnership expansion with a mental health provider

Youth Communication New York Center, Inc, New York, NY
$50,000 as the second installment for Youth Communication's foster care initiatives

Association of Community Employment Programs for the Homeless (ACE), Long Island City
$75,000 as the second installment for Expansion of Therapeutic Support Initiative

Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation, Brooklyn, NY
$75,000 as the second installment for Chestnut Commons Kitchen Incubator Project

Edith and Carl Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst (“Marks JCH”), Brooklyn, NY
$150,000, over two years, for workforce development for Ukrainian refugees

Genesys Works New York City, New York, NY
$150,000, over two years, to hire a Development Manager and Program Coordinator

Henry Street Settlement, New York, NY
$150,000, over two years, for the Cyber Pathways bridge program

Hot Bread Kitchen, Brooklyn, NY
$75,000 as the second installment for Investing in Breadwinners

JobsFirst NYC, New York, NY
$50,000 for general operating support

New York on Tech d/b/a America on Tech, New York, NY
$75,000 as the second installment for Increasing the Capacity of AOT's Alumni Workforce Fellowship

Nontraditional Employment for Women, New York, NY
$150,000, over two years, for construction and building trades pre-apprenticeship training for women

Pursuit Transformation Company Inc, Long Island City, NY
$75,000 as the second installment for Capacity Building for Pursuit Programs: Core and Employment

Queens Community House Inc, Queens, NY
$75,000 as the second installment for Young Adult Food Sector Employment Initiative

Red Hook Initiative, Inc, Brooklyn, NY
$75,000 as the second installment for Strengthening the Impact of RHI's Workforce Development Program for Young Adults in Red Hook, Brooklyn

Reel Stories Teen Filmmaking (dba Reel Works), Brooklyn, NY
$150,000, over two years, for Media Career Pathways

Refoundry, Inc, Brooklyn, NY
$200,000, over two years, for the Maker Training Program

Restaurant Opportunities Centers - ROC United, New York, NY
$100,000, over two years, to hire a Bilingual Career Coach for ROC New York

Solar One, Long Island City, NY
$125,000 to increase the capacity of Solar One's technical training programs

Win (Women In Need, Inc.), New York, NY
$75,000 as the second installment for Building Win’s Capacity to Better Address Family Needs through Person-Centered Planning

Workforce Professionals Training Institute, New York, NY
$50,000 for Phase II of the Digital Transformation Initiative

Year Up Inc., New York, NY
$150,000, over two years, to hire a Senior Director, Growth Strategy Lead

Contact Information

All application materials must be submitted online.

Grant recipients should address receipts and reports to: The Ira W. DeCamp Foundation, grant.reports@jpmorgan.com.

Contacts for the specific initiative are: