· Public charity
Maine Youth Camping Foundation D/B/A Maine Summer Camps
To support and promote meaningful developmental, educational, environmental, and recreational experiences for children by engaging in activities that enhance the quality and effectiveness of Maine's youth camps.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 73% of Maine Youth Camping Foundation D/B/A Maine Summer Camps’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 31 grants below total $93,475 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $102,604 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $9,129 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Camp Mechuwna | $7,000 |
| Agassiz Village | $6,750 |
| YMCA Camp of Maine | $6,750 |
| The Summer Camp | $6,500 |
| Camp Bishopswood (Episcopal Diocese) | $6,250 |
| University of Maine 4-H Camp at Greenland | $4,575 |
| West End House Girls Camp | $3,500 |
| West End House Boys Camp | $3,500 |
| Kieve Wavus Education Inc | $3,000 |
| Pine Island Camp | $3,000 |
| Camp Chewonki | $3,000 |
| Camp Wigwam | $2,750 |
| Kamp Kohut | $2,500 |
| Friends Camp - Quaker | $2,500 |
| Camp O-AT-KA | $2,500 |
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 (FY23–25, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 95% 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.
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 +79% since the first grant, against +61% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k 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 ASSOCIATION3× · 2023–2025 · $27k · revenue +13%
- AVAGASSIZ VILLAGE FOUNDED BY MR & MRS HARRY E BURROUGHS3× · 2023–2025 · $26k · revenue +312%
- TSTHE SUMMER CAMP INC3× · 2023–2025 · $22k · revenue +79%
Funded once
- ACAMERICAN CAMPING ASSOCIATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $13k · revenue +61%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $6k
- KCKUKUNSOOK CAMP OWNERS ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2023 · $6k
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.
Empowering young women to have a lasting positive impact on society by strengthening their confidence, independence, and companionship for others.
To provide recreational activities to youth
Girl scouting builds girls of courage, confidence and character who make the world a better place. the girl scout leadership experience provides girls in kindergarten through twelfth grade with a variety of skill-building and leadership…
To develop moral, personal, physical, and leadership skills in the spirit of fellowship and fun, enabling boys and girls to lead lives characterized by devotion to others.
The foundation operates a residential summer camp for boys located in Weld, Maine. The foundation is supported primarily through camper tuition and charitable donations.
The mission of Penn-York Camp is to develop dedicated followers of Jesus Christ by building spirit, mind, and body, in a natural setting.
Provide private school education for children from nursery school through grade 8
Camp Susquehannock operates a summer camp in the Endless Mountains in northeastern Pennsylvania that uses sports and other activities to develop confident, resilient, independent and happy young girls and boys.
Camp claire is a full-service, resident cooperative education summer camp open to persons ages seven through fourteen and provides a positive, nuturing environment that encourages curiosity and creativity.
Camp billings is dedicated to enriching the lives of children by providing a summer camping experience in thetford, vermont on lake fairlee.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Summer Camp Inc and the most unlike its peers is Girl Scouts of Maine. 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 52 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
19 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. 19 of the 34 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 YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AGASSIZ VILLAGE FOUNDED BY MR & MRS HARRY E BURROUGHS ↗
- Who funds THE SUMMER CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF MAINE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WEST END HOUSE GIRLS CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds WEST END HOUSE CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds Kieve Wavus Education Inc ↗
- Who funds Chewonki Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Pine Island Camp ↗
- Who funds Camp O-AT-KA Inc ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN CAMPS & CONFERENCE INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKWATER LEARNING ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND MUSIC CAMP ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CAMP LAUGHING LOON ↗
- Who funds BERWICK BOYS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Timanous Foundation ↗
- Who funds BIRCH ROCK CAMP ↗
- Who funds Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust Inc ↗
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: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Boston Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Maine Youth Camping Foundation D/B/A Maine Summer Camps 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.