The foundation overwhelmingly supports Camphill-affiliated residential and service communities—providing large, organizational-level funding to sustain operations and facilities. Grants are focused on campus- and community-based programs serving people with developmental disabilities and related therapeutic education, with occasional capital and emergency gifts to allied organizations.
Highly concentrated giving: a very small number of large grants (two recipients receive the vast majority of funding), multiple grants to the same core affiliates, mostly unrestricted or organizational support and occasional targeted capital/emergency gifts.
Camphill Village Copake Foundation Inc’s recent giving is dominated by large operating support for Camphill-affiliated residential communities in New York. The biggest grants in the file went to Camphill Village USA Inc in Copake, with awards in 2025, 2024, and 2023, showing a sustained pattern of organizational backing rather than project-by-project funding. A parallel stream supports Camphill Ghent Inc in Ghent, also through activities-based grants across multiple years. The foundation’s work centers on communities serving adults with developmental disabilities and related therapeutic education settings connected to the Camphill network. Most of the documented grants are unrestricted organizational support, with the recipients using the funds to sustain activities. Smaller awards appear only occasionally and are directed to allied organizations, including capital, campaign, and emergency assistance requests. That combination of repeated large grants and selective smaller gifts suggests a funder that prioritizes continuity for core Camphill institutions while still making targeted support available to related projects and contingencies.
One major theme in the foundation’s grantmaking is organizational sustainability for Camphill residential communities. In 2025, it gave $2,339,833 to Camphill Village USA Inc for the organization’s activities, and it also made multiple other large activities-based grants to the same recipient in prior years. A second theme is support for another Camphill community in New York: Camphill Ghent Inc received $654,472 in 2025 and also larger activities grants in earlier years. The foundation also supports infrastructure needs. It awarded $20,000 to Riverflow Community Inc for a capital project and another $20,000 to Raphael Academy for a capital campaign. Emergency assistance appears as a separate use case, shown by a $20,000 grant to Camphill Foundation for emergency assistance.
The documented grant sizes are wide-ranging, with a 25th percentile of $20,000, a median of $654,472, and a 75th percentile of $1,685,511. That spread reflects a structure built around a few very large operating grants and a smaller number of lower-dollar special-purpose awards. Several recipients appear across multiple years, especially Camphill Village USA Inc and Camphill Ghent Inc, which points to recurring support rather than one-time funding. The foundation is a private foundation, and the recent grants show direct organizational support rather than individual grants or program-related investments. No application process is shown in the provided data.
$3M
$84M
$3.8M
$3.6M
Most grants fall between $20K and $1.7M, with a median of $654K.
25th Percentile
$20K
Median
$654K
75th Percentile
$1.7M
WILLIAM KOLBERG
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Notable grantees: CAMPHILL VILLAGE USA INC, CAMPHILL GHENT INC, CAMPHILL FOUNDATION, RAPHAEL ACADEMY, RIVERFLOW COMMUNITY INC
Grantmaking is concentrated in New York, which accounts for 78% of grants in the data. The strongest cluster is in Copake, where Camphill Village USA Inc received repeated large awards, and in Ghent, where Camphill Ghent Inc also appears multiple times. Outside New York, the recent grants include North Ferrisburgh, Vermont, and New Orleans, Louisiana. All recorded recipients are in the United States.
The foundation primarily supports Camphill-affiliated residential and service communities serving adults with developmental disabilities, along with related therapeutic education organizations and allied nonprofits. Recent recipients include Camphill Village USA Inc, Camphill Ghent Inc, Riverflow Community Inc, Raphael Academy, and Camphill Foundation.
The grant-size distribution is skewed toward large awards: the 25th percentile is $20,000, the median is $654,472, and the 75th percentile is $1,685,511. That pattern matches a portfolio centered on major organizational support, with a small number of lower-dollar capital or emergency grants.
Yes. Camphill Village USA Inc appears in 2023, 2024, and 2025, and Camphill Ghent Inc appears in 2023 and 2025. The repeated awards indicate ongoing support for a set of core organizations rather than isolated one-time grants.
Most grants go to recipients in New York, which represents 78% of grants in the data. Recent New York recipients include organizations in Copake, Ghent, and Chestnut Ridge.
The recent grants include activities support, a capital project, a capital campaign, and emergency assistance. Most of the larger awards are described as supporting the organization’s activities, while smaller grants were directed to Riverflow Community Inc, Raphael Academy, and Camphill Foundation for those specific purposes.
2025
Source: IRS Form 990-PF, fiscal year 2025.
Most recent grants reported to the IRS.
| Recipient | Location | Amount | Year | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAMPHILL VILLAGE USA INC | COPAKE, NY | $2,339,833 | 2025 | TO SUPPORT THE ORGANIZATION'S ACTIVITIES. |
| CAMPHILL GHENT INC | GHENT, NY | $654,472 | 2025 | TO SUPPORT THE ORGANIZATION'S ACTIVITIES. |
| RAPHAEL ACADEMY | NEW ORLEANS, LA | $20,000 | 2025 | CAPITAL CAMPAIGN |
| RIVERFLOW COMMUNITY INC | NORTH FERRISBURGH, VT | $20,000 | 2025 | CAPITAL PROJECT |
| CAMPHILL VILLAGE USA INC | COPAKE, NY | $2,316,600 | 2024 | TO SUPPORT THE ORGANIZATION'S ACTIVITIES. |
| CAMPHILL FOUNDATION | CHESTNUT RIDGE, NY | $20,000 | 2024 | EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE |
| CAMPHILL VILLAGE USA INC | COPAKE, NY | $1,685,511 | 2023 | TO SUPPORT THE ORGANIZATION'S ACTIVITIES. |
| CAMPHILL GHENT INC | GHENT, NY | $965,289 | 2023 | TO SUPPORT THE ORGANIZATION'S ACTIVITIES. |
| CAMPHILL GHENT INC | GHENT, NY | $642,612 | 2023 | TO SUPPORT THE ORGANIZATION'S ACTIVITIES. |
RAPHAEL ACADEMY
$20,000CAPITAL CAMPAIGN
RIVERFLOW COMMUNITY INC
$20,000CAPITAL PROJECT
CAMPHILL FOUNDATION
EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE