· Public charity
Care Camps Foundation
Care camps funds medically supervised pediatric oncology camps across the united states and canada to bring the healing power of community and the outdoors to children living with cancer and their families.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $150k
- $10k–50k80 grants · $1.6M
- $50k–250k2 grants · $117k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SMILE-A-MILE | $60,000 |
| COCA INTL | $57,000 |
| CHILDREN'S ONCOLOGY SERVICES INC | $42,500 |
| CAMP MK-A-DREAM | $42,000 |
| DISCOVERY CAMPS INC | $41,000 |
| KIDS CANCER ALLIANCE | $41,000 |
| CAMP HAPPY DAYS | $40,000 |
| CAMP RAINBOW FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| CHAI LIFELINE | $40,000 |
| HAPPINESS IS CAMPING | $38,000 |
| THE GOODTIMES PROJECT | $37,000 |
| SOUTHWEST KIDS CANCER FOUNDATION | $36,500 |
| CAMP QUALITY USA (KENTUCKIANA) | $36,000 |
| CAMP BOGGY CREEK | $36,000 |
| CAMP RISING SUN INC | $30,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $766k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 44% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +55% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
97 repeat relationships — 72 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $180k 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
- CQCAMP QUALITY USA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +35%
- SDSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $387k · revenue +38%
- COCHILDRENS ONCOLOGY CAMPING ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL6× · 2019–2024 · $374k · revenue +7% · 33% of their budget
Funded once
- CDCAMP DEBBIE LOUone grant, 2017 · $9k
- FSFour Seasons Hotel Houston - Camp H Townone grant, 2018 · $5k
- CGCANINE GUARDIANS ASSISTANCE DOGSone grant, 2017 · $750 · revenue +22%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Project Camp Inc and the most unlike its peers is Camp Debbie Lou. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
102 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. 102 of the 112 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
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 CAMP QUALITY USA INC ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS ONCOLOGY CAMPING ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds SMILE-A-MILE ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS ONCOLOGY CAMP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BOGGY CREEK GANG INC ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY CAMPS INC ↗
- Who funds Childrens Oncology Services Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMP RAINBOW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OKIZU FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMP HAPPY DAYS INC ↗
- Who funds THE GOODTIMES PROJECT ↗
- Who funds KIDS CANCER ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds UKANDU ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST KIDS CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Special Days Camps ↗
- Who funds CAMP GOOD DAYS AND SPECIAL TIMES INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP HOBE INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONTS CAMP TA-KUM-TA ↗
- Who funds HIS KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE DREAMS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL LOVE INC ↗
- Who funds HEART OF PASSION INC ↗
- Who funds MOTIVATIONAL RECOVERY ENVIRONMENTS INC ↗
- Who funds PRISMA HEALTH MIDLANDS FOUNDATION F/K/A PALMETTO HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMP KIDS ARE KIDS CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds RAINBOW CONNECTION GALVESTON ↗
- Who funds JOSHUAS CAMP CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Camp Casco Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMP RISING SUN INC ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Toledo ↗
- Who funds CHAI LIFELINE INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC ↗
- Who funds KYMEL INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP RAINBOW GOLD INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP CASEY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds The Periwinkle Foundation ↗
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: Joy In Childhood Foundation Inc · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc · Usg Foundation Inc · Rite Aid Healthy Futures · The Children's Oncology Group Foundation Inc · Motorsports Charities Inc · Global Impact · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · American Cancer Society Inc · Enterprise Holdings 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 Care Camps Foundation 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.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
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.