· Public charity
Camp Out for Kids
To enrich lives of children in underserved communities by giving them the experience of summer camp.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 14 grants below total $226,820 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $286,313 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $59,493 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k2 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $161k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOUR STAR FELLOWSHIPBAM | $50,000 |
| NATURE'S FARM CAMP | $23,070 |
| OFF THE STREET CLUB | $20,000 |
| YMCA CAMP ECHO | $20,000 |
| URBAN INITIATIVES | $20,000 |
| UNION LEAGUE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $13,000 |
| EXPERIENCE CAMPS | $12,500 |
| HOUSE IN THE WOODS | $12,000 |
| GARY COMER YOUTH CENTER (COMER EDUCATION FOUNDATION) | $10,000 |
| YES | $10,000 |
| CAMP TRIDENT | $10,000 |
| CAMP RILEY | $10,000 |
| ACADEMY FOR GLOBAL CITZENSHIP | $9,500 |
| CHICAGO YOUTH PROGRAMS | $6,750 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–21, $155k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2021, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- YMYoung Mens Christian Assoc McGaw Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $65k · revenue +20%
- UIURBAN INITIATIVES INC6× · 2017–2024 · $45k · revenue +125%
- OTOFF THE STREET CLUB6× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +161%
Funded once
- AAAVID4 ADVENTURE INCone grant, 2017 · $10k
- HAHEART AND HAND CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +65%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +39%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
We provide all Chicago youth with equitable access to chess education empowering them with essential life skills for success on and off the board.
To promote the health and wellness of Chicago children through innovative, engaging, and sustainable youth running programs.
At girls in the game nfp, every girl finds her voice, discovers her strength and leads with confidence through fun and active sports, health and leadership programs.
To empower students in urban communities using soccer, writing, creative expression and service-learning while inspiring the youth to lead healthy lifestyles, be engaged students, and become agents of change in their communities.
Cool Learning Experience offers out of school programs for school aged children in the Waukegan area, using STEAM-based age appropriate curriculum with an environmental focus.
The organization is a nonprofit after school program that uses the power of running to teach girls, 3rd-8th grade, critical social emotional learning skills.
To provide high-quality early learning and out-of-school time enrichment in under-resourced neighborhoods to holistically support children of all ages, their families, and their communities.
Female strong is a 501c3 non-profit organization and a community of committed individuals that offer hands-on programs, mentorship, and experiences that build confidence in middle and high school girls. we support the inclusion of all…
Girls inc of chicago provides programming for girls grades k-12 throughout the chicagoland area to inspire them to be strong, smart and bold. as developed by longstanding tax-exempt organization girls incorporated, our comprehensive…
A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Clubs of Chicago and the most unlike its peers is Herban Foundation Nfp. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 8% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Young Mens Christian Assoc McGaw Inc ↗
- Who funds URBAN INITIATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds OFF THE STREET CLUB ↗
- Who funds Natures Farm Camp LLC ↗
- Who funds Camp Trident Inc ↗
- Who funds GARY COMER YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Young Eisner Scholars ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY FOR GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNION LEAGUE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS ↗
- Who funds HERBAN FOUNDATION NFP ↗
- Who funds Camp Kesem National ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO YOUTH PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds EXPERIENCE CAMPS ↗
- Who funds House in the Woods Inc ↗
- Who funds HEART AND HAND CENTER ↗
- Who funds James Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREENHEART INTERNATIONAL ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Greater Chicago Food Depository · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Service Club of Chicago · Fulk Family Foundation Inc · Northwestern University · Imc Chicago Charitable Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · American Endowment Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Camp Out for Kids funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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