Missouri · Public charity
Camps for Kids
Camps For Kids' mission is to ensure that no Kansas City-area child is turned away from summer camp because of low income or physical, medical or developmental disability.
- $415k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2024
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $23,695
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $61,172
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 14
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $277k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 14% of the organizations Camps for Kids funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 15 | $411k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $314k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $295k | 27% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $205k | 22% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $142k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $139k | 10% |
| FY2017 | 10 | $143k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Camp Encourage | $226,875 | 7 | 18% |
| Shared Human Assistance Resources | $224,717 | 7 | 78% |
| Wildwood Outdoor Education Center | $213,772 | 7 | 4% |
| Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey | $212,649 | 7 | 4% |
| Wonderland Camp Foundation | $173,125 | 7 | 5% |
| Camp Quality USA Inc | $158,841 | 7 | 2% |
| Congenital Heart Defects Families Association | $118,193 | 7 | 61% |
| Kansas City Hospice Inc | $65,721 | 3 | 0% |
| Joshua Center for Neurological Disorders | $59,600 | 5 | 4% |
| Whatsoever Community Center In | $35,791 | 4 | 4% |
Show all 20 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Camp Encourage | $226,875 | 7 | 18% |
| Shared Human Assistance Resources | $224,717 | 7 | 78% |
| Wildwood Outdoor Education Center | $213,772 | 7 | 4% |
| Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey | $212,649 | 7 | 4% |
| Wonderland Camp Foundation | $173,125 | 7 | 5% |
| Camp Quality USA Inc | $158,841 | 7 | 2% |
| Congenital Heart Defects Families Association | $118,193 | 7 | 61% |
| Kansas City Hospice Inc | $65,721 | 3 | 0% |
| Joshua Center for Neurological Disorders | $59,600 | 5 | 4% |
| Whatsoever Community Center In | $35,791 | 4 | 4% |
| Greater Kansas City Sports Foundation | $31,930 | 3 | 1% |
| Heart of America Shakespeare Festival | $23,935 | 3 | 1% |
| Community Covenant Church Lenexa Ks | $19,845 | 2 | n/a |
| Kingdom Kids | $14,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Midwest Hemophilia Association | $13,600 | 1 | 5% |
| National Kidney Foundation Inc | $10,976 | 1 | 0% |
| Green Works In Kansas City | $10,385 | 1 | 4% |
| Burns Recovered Support Group Inc | $7,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Camp Heartland Therapeutic Riding | $6,295 | 1 | n/a |
| Kymel Inc | $5,280 | 1 | 3% |
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($15k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Camps for Kids supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 17 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg · The Curry Family Foundation · Jackson County Community Children's Services Fund · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Edward & Kathryn Mader Foundation · The Children's Mercy Hospital · Buttonwood Foundation Charitable Tr · The Kansas City Royals Foundation · Hallmark Corporate Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Servant Foundation
How this is measured
About Camps for Kids
- How much does Camps for Kids give?
- Camps for Kids reported 15 grants totaling $415,248 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Camps for Kids fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (29%), Recreation & Sports (27%), Arts & Culture (14%).
- Who are Camps for Kids's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Camp Encourage ($227k), Shared Human Assistance Resources ($225k), Wildwood Outdoor Education Center ($214k).
- Does Camps for Kids fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Camps for Kids?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg, The Curry Family Foundation.
- Where is Camps for Kids based?
- Camps for Kids is based in MO.
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