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Margaret Cameron and James M

Sleepy Hollow, NY · EIN 92-1408515. Reported 86 grants totalling $640,232 to 61 recipients across tax years 2023-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$1,000median grant
$640,232granted, 2023-2025
61recipients, as named on its returns
43%of grantees funded again the next year
$6,288,199assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Margaret Cameron and James M did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $1,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $5,000; the smallest was $230 and the largest $50,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
7 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
57 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
5 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
8 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
9 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Anti-Defamation LeagueNew York, NY$100,000222025
Equal Justice InitiativeMontgomery, AL$100,000222025
The Metropolitan OperaNew York, NY$100,000222025
Dupuytren Research GroupWest Palm Beach, FL$63,500332025
Nyc BalletNew York, NY$50,000112025
NycbNew York, NY$50,000112024
Holy Trinity Church InwoodNew York, NY$20,000112024
The Possibility ProjectNew York, NY$20,000222025
Barnum FestivalBridgeport, CT$10,000112024
Caf AmericaAlexandria, VA$10,000112024
Organization for Refugee and Immigrant SuccessManchester, NH$10,000112024
Uja Federation of New YorkNew York, NY$10,000112025
Children's Miracle NetworkGainesville, FL$6,000222025
Rye Free Reading RoomRye, NY$5,500222025
Center for Reproductive RightsNew York, NY$5,000112023
Jericho ProjectNew York, NY$5,000112025
New Hampshire Food BankManchester, NH$5,000112025
Horseman's HarvestSleepy Hollow, NY$4,500222025
Carver CenterPort Chester, NY$4,000222025
Feeding WestchesterElmsford, NY$3,000332025
Calvary HospitalBronx, NY$2,500112025
International Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva AssocKansas City, MO$2,500112025
Pebble Beach Company FoundationCarmel, CA$2,500112024
Westchester Region NAACP Act-So CoalitionTarrytown, NY$2,352222025
Impact 100 WestchesterHartsdale, NY$2,150222025
5 Steps to FiveRye, NY$2,000222025
Adaptive Sports PartnersFranconia, NH$2,000222025
Caritas of Port ChesterPort Chester, NY$2,000112023
Daniel's Music FoundationNew York, NY$2,000112024
Hope for UkraineRoseland, NJ$2,000112025
Inclusive Ski TouringHanover, ME$2,000222025
Lafayette Parent Teacher OrganizationFranconia, NH$2,000222025
Mount Washington ObservatoryNorth Conway, NH$2,000222025
Rye Arts CenterRye, NY$2,000222025
SpryeRye, NY$2,000222025
The Danny Butler Memorial Fund IncRye, NY$2,000222025
Friends of Rye Town ParkRye, NY$1,500222025
The Sharing ShelfPort Chester, NY$1,500222025
America GivesNew York, NY$1,000112024
American Heart AssociationDallas, TX$1,000112024
Avon Little LeagueAvon, CT$1,000112024
Bird Homestead & Meeting House ConservancyRye, NY$1,000112025
Boys & Girls Club New RochelleNew Rochelle, NY$1,000112025
Boys & Girls Club RidgefieldRidgefield, CT$1,000112025
Bread of Lifegiving Tree GlobalRye, NY$1,000112023
Children's Philanthropy of RyeRye, NY$1,000112023
Civic Helpers IncWhite Plains, NY$1,000112025
GlobalsfSan Francisco, CA$1,000112024
Meals on Main StreetPort Chester, NY$1,000112025
Mike Rowe WorksSanta Monica, CA$1,000112025
Neighbors LinkMount Kisco, NY$1,000112025
Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic IncNew York, NY$1,000112025
Port Chester Carver CenterPort Chester, NY$1,000112023
Rotary Club of the Hudson ValleyBriarcliff Manor, NY$1,000112024
Rye Police AssociationRye, NY$1,000222025
Sleepy Coffee TooSleepy Hollow, NY$1,000112025
Soul RyedersRye, NY$1,000112025
Tergar InternationalMinneapolis, MN$1,000112024
Volunteer KcKansas City, MO$1,000112024
Open Door FoundationOssining, NY$500112023
Part of the SolutionRye, NY$230112024

23 of 61 (38%) received money in more than one year over the 3 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 43%, across 2 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 51 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Human Services
11 grants
Diseases & Disorders
6 grants
Arts & Culture
6 grants
Civil Rights
5 grants
Health Care
4 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
3 grants
Recreation & Sports
2 grants
Education
2 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
20238$14,000$1,000
202438$301,582$1,000
202540$324,650$1,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

65% of its giving went to organizations in New York. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

New York
$414K
Alabama
$100K
Florida
$70K
New Hampshire
$21K
Connecticut
$12K
Virginia
$10K
California
$4K
Missouri
$4K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund30 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc28 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc24 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program23 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust20 shared recipientsThe Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc14 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $1,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in New York.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Margaret Cameron and James M's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 3 returns (tax years 2023-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: 8 Kendall Avenue, Sleepy Hollow, NY, 10591. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 92-1408515 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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