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.

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:

• 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).

• Training and strategies to recruit and retain qualified caseworkers and front-line staff at foster care agencies.

• Recruitment, training, and support for caregivers, including foster parents and kinship caregivers.

• Services for older and transition-age youth, including education, job training, and independent living skills, with a focus on innovative and youth-driven programming.

• Services for special populations such as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth.

• 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:

• Capacity building (infrastructure investments that enable the organization to expand, sustain and manage its services more effectively).

• Program development (investments in new aspects of the program that will enhance the training and placement experience.

• 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.

• 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).

Type of Support:

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

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