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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 FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$61k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$474kRecreation & Sports$439kArts & Culture$237kHealth$211kYouth Development$148kEnvironment$80kEducation$39kReligion$20k
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $279k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $116k
$23,695
Median grant
2
States reached
$277k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Camp Wildwood$61,172
Camp MITIOG$55,270
Camp Encourage$46,396
Camp Wonderland$43,055
Camp Alvin Ailey$40,645
Camp Quality GKC$35,900
Camp Carousel & Erin$25,200
Camp Systole$23,695
Camp Joshua Center$17,860
Camp Wilderness$13,600
Camp Whatsoever$11,275
Camp ChiMer$10,976
Camp Shakespeare$10,835
Camp WIN for KC$8,500
Camp Heartland Therapeutic Riding$6,295
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $553k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Camp Carousel & Erin: $25k → 5%Camp Encourage: $46k → 15%Camps Carousel & Erin: $23k → 5%Camp Encourage: $44k → 15%Camps Carousel & Erin: $18k → 5%Camp Encourage: $40k → 15%Camp Encourage: $39k → 15%Camp Encourage: $20k → 15%Camp Encourage: $19k → 15%Camp Encourage: $19k → 15%Camp Whatsover: $12k → 15%Camp Whatsoever: $11k → 15%Whatsoever Community Center: $6k → 15%Camp Whatsover: $6k → 15%Camp MITIOG: $55k → 15%Camp MITIOG: $46k → 15%Camp MITIOG: $45k → 15%Share Inc: $22k → 15%Share Inc dba Camp MITIOG: $20k → 15%Share Inc: $20k → 15%Share Inc: $17k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 14 repeat orgs$68k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +94% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
4

Total granted

$1.6M
$38k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+94%
+13%

Still filing today

86%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEnvironmentRecreation & SportsEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CE
    Camp Encourage
    7× · 2017–2024 · $227k · revenue +151%
  • SH
    SHARED HUMAN ASSISTANCE RESOURCES
    7× · 2017–2024 · $225k · revenue +265% · 78% of their budget
  • WO
    Wildwood Outdoor Education Center
    7× · 2017–2024 · $214k · revenue +156%

Funded once

  • CJ
    Camp Joshua Center
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
  • GW
    Green Works In Kansas City
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -29%
  • BR
    BURNS RECOVERED SUPPORT GROUP INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue +35%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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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.

Recreation & Sports
2
Kansas Bible Camp Inc

Youth Bible Camp - Summer camps and retreats.

Youth Development
3
Special Days Camps

Special Days Camps exists to provide a safe and memorable camping opportunity in a medically supervised environment for children who have experienced cancer, their siblings, and their families.

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4
Camps for Spiffy-Kyds Inc

Camps for children and young adults with disabilities

Youth Development
5
Kimball Camp Outdoor Center

Kimball Camp offers a safe and enriching environment for all ages by fostering a connection with faith, community, self and nature.

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6
Camp Kv for Kids
Unclassified
7
Camp for All Foundation

Camp For All transforms the world for children and adults with challenging illnesses, disabilities, or special needs.

Youth Development
8
Camp Kaleidoscope

Camp Kaleidoscope, with offices on the Stanford University campus, trains student leaders to support San Francisco Bay Area children who have or had a parent with cancer. Through a free, week-long overnight camp and year-round programming,…

Human Services
9
Camp No Worries Inc

Camp no worries exists to provide pediatric oncology families in new jersey and the surrounding region, regardless of income or background, with the opportunity to safely send their children to traditional summer sleep away camp, leaving…

Health
10
Kentucky Diabetes Camp for Children Inc D/B/a Camp Hendon

The mission of camp hendon is to give children with diabetes life-changing experiences, empowering each of them to take control of their unique journey.

Health
11
Kansas Children's Discovery Center Inc

The kansas children's discovery center enhances the lives of children and enriches the communities it serves.

Arts & Culture
12
Kids 'N Kamp

When a child with cancer struggles with the physical and emotional pain a diagnosis can bring, the entire family is affected as well. kids 'n kamp offers programs to every family member, cancer patients, parents and sibling alike.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Camp Quality Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is National Kidney Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 21 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
13/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Camp Encourage: $226,875 · Human ServicesCamp EncourageSHARED HUMAN ASSISTANCE RESOURCES: $224,717 · Human ServicesSHARED HUMAN ASSISTANCE RESOURCESKansas City Hospice Inc: $65,721 · Human ServicesKansas City Hospice IncWhatsoever Community Center In: $35,791 · Human ServicesWhatsoever Community Center InWONDERLAND CAMP FOUNDATION: $173,125 · OtherWONDERLAND CAMP FOUNDATIONCAMP QUALITY USA INC: $158,841 · OtherCAMP QUALITY USA INCCOMMUNITY COVENANT CHURCH LENEXA KS: $19,845 · OtherCamp Joshua Center: $14,954 · OtherKingdom Kids: $14,000 · OtherMIDWEST HEMOPHILIA ASSOCIATION: $13,600 · Other+2 more: $13,295 · OtherKANSAS CITY FRIENDS OF ALVIN AILEY: $212,649 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CITY FRIE…HEART OF AMERICA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $23,935 · Arts & CultureHEART OF AMERICA…Wildwood Outdoor Education Center: $213,772 · EnvironmentWildwood Outdo…CONGENITAL HEART DEFECTS FAMILIES ASSOCIATION: $118,193 · HealthCONGENITAL HE…JOSHUA CENTER FOR NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS: $59,600 · HealthJOSHUA CENTER…National Kidney Foundation Inc: $10,976 · HealthNational Kidn…+1 more: $5,280 · HealthGREATER KANSAS CITY SPORTS FOUNDATION: $31,930 · Recreation & SportsGreen Works In Kansas City: $10,385 · Education
Human Services$553,104Other$407,660Arts & Culture$236,584Environment$213,772Health$194,049Recreation & Sports$31,930Education$10,385

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCamp Encourage: $226,875 over 7y, 18% of budgetSHARED HUMAN ASSISTANCE RESOURCES: $224,717 over 7y, 78% of budgetWildwood Outdoor Education Center: $213,772 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetKANSAS CITY FRIENDS OF ALVIN AILEY: $212,649 over 7y, 4.4% of budgetWONDERLAND CAMP FOUNDATION: $173,125 over 7y, 5.2% of budgetCAMP QUALITY USA INC: $158,841 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetCONGENITAL HEART DEFECTS FAMILIES ASSOCIATION: $118,193 over 7y, 61% of budgetKansas City Hospice Inc: $65,721 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJOSHUA CENTER FOR NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS: $59,600 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetWhatsoever Community Center In: $35,791 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetGREATER KANSAS CITY SPORTS FOUNDATION: $31,930 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetHEART OF AMERICA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $23,935 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetMIDWEST HEMOPHILIA ASSOCIATION: $13,600 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation Inc: $10,976 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreen Works In Kansas City: $10,385 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetBURNS RECOVERED SUPPORT GROUP INC: $7,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetKYMEL INC: $5,280 over 1y, 2.6% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Greater Kansas City C…R a Long Foundation 6…The Curry Family Foun…Jackson County Commun…Ewing Marion Kauffman…Edward & Kathryn Made…The Children's Mercy …Buttonwood Foundation…The Kansas City Royal…Hallmark Corporate Fo…United Way of Greater…Servant Foundation
Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO18× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Camps for Kids funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Camps for Kids. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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