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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.

$103k
Granted FY2025still arriving
31
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$7k
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, FY2021 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$194kYouth Development$63kHuman Services$2k
02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 31 grants below total $93,475, the rows itemized in this filing. The $102,604 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $9,129 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$2,250
Median grant
3
States reached
$651k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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 Boys Camp$3,500
West End House Girls Camp$3,500
Camp Chewonki$3,000
Kieve Wavus Education Inc$3,000
Pine Island Camp$3,000
Camp Wigwam$2,750
Camp O-AT-KA$2,500
Kamp Kohut$2,500
Friends Camp - Quaker$2,500
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Camp Berwick: $2k → 8%Camp Laughing Loon: $2k → 9%Kieve Wavus Education Inc: $3k → 9%YMCA Camp of Maine: $11k → 12%YMCA Camp of Maine: $9k → 12%YMCA Camp of Maine: $7k → 12%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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$172k · 7 repeat orgs$86k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +79% since the first grant, against +61% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
3

Total granted

$172k
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+79%
+61%

Still filing today

57%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentEducationOther
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

  • YM
    YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $27k · revenue +13%
  • AV
    AGASSIZ VILLAGE FOUNDED BY MR & MRS HARRY E BURROUGHS
    3× · 2023–2025 · $26k · revenue +312%
  • TS
    THE SUMMER CAMP INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $22k · revenue +79%

Funded once

  • AC
    AMERICAN CAMPING ASSOCIATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $13k · revenue +61%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $6k
  • KC
    KUKUNSOOK CAMP OWNERS ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2023 · $6k
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.

1
Camp Nakanawa

Empowering young women to have a lasting positive impact on society by strengthening their confidence, independence, and companionship for others.

Recreation & Sports
2
The Camp At Sunshine Farm
Philanthropy
3
Camp Tuckabatchee Inc

To provide recreational activities to youth

Recreation & Sports
4
Girl Scouts of Southeastern New England

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…

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5
Fantasy Camps for Kids
Recreation & Sports
6
Camp Dudley Inc

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.

—
7
George & Raymond Frank Foundation

The foundation operates a residential summer camp for boys located in Weld, Maine. The foundation is supported primarily through camper tuition and charitable donations.

Recreation & Sports
8
Penn-York Camp Association Inc

The mission of Penn-York Camp is to develop dedicated followers of Jesus Christ by building spirit, mind, and body, in a natural setting.

Recreation & Sports
9
Pine Cobble School Incorporated

Provide private school education for children from nursery school through grade 8

Education
10
Camp Susquehannock Inc

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.

Youth Development
11
Camp Claire Inc

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.

Youth Development
12
Camp Billings

Camp billings is dedicated to enriching the lives of children by providing a summer camping experience in thetford, vermont on lake fairlee.

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Summer Camp Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 34 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
8/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM INC: $45,505 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM INCAGASSIZ VILLAGE FOUNDED BY MR & MRS HARRY E BURROUGHS: $26,250 · OtherAGASSIZ VILLAGE FOUNDED BY MR & MRS HARRY E BURROUGHSDIOCESE OF MAINE CAMP BISHOPSWOOD: $22,650 · OtherDIOCESE OF MAINE CAMP BISHOPSWOODTHE SUMMER CAMP INC: $22,000 · OtherTHE SUMMER CAMP INCIndividual grant recipient: $13,050 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAMERICAN CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC: $12,500 · OtherAMERICAN CAMPING ASSOCIATION INCCamp Mechuwna: $9,250 · Other+13 more: $38,000 · Other+13 moreYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $26,780 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS CHR…Kieve Wavus Education Inc: $3,000 · Human ServicesKieve Wavus Ed…CAMP LAUGHING LOON: $1,540 · Human ServicesBERWICK BOYS FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 · Human ServicesGIRL SCOUTS OF MAINE: $16,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOU…WEST END HOUSE GIRLS CAMP INC: $3,500 · Youth DevelopmentWEST END …Timanous Foundation: $1,500 · Youth DevelopmentTimanous …Pine Island Camp: $3,000 · Recreation & SportsCamp O-AT-KA Inc: $2,500 · Recreation & SportsCHRISTIAN CAMPS & CONFERENCE INC: $2,000 · Recreation & SportsBIRCH ROCK CAMP: $1,500 · Recreation & SportsChewonki Foundation Inc: $3,000 · EnvironmentBrunswick-Topsham Land Trust Inc: $860 · EnvironmentBREAKWATER LEARNING: $2,000 · Education
Other$189,205Human Services$32,820Youth Development$21,000Recreation & Sports$9,000Environment$3,860Education$2,000

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 budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $26,780 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetAGASSIZ VILLAGE FOUNDED BY MR & MRS HARRY E BURROUGHS: $26,250 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE SUMMER CAMP INC: $22,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF MAINE: $16,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWEST END HOUSE CAMP INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWEST END HOUSE GIRLS CAMP INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPine Island Camp: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChewonki Foundation Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCamp O-AT-KA Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHRISTIAN CAMPS & CONFERENCE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKWATER LEARNING: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIRCH ROCK CAMP: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBERWICK BOYS FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBrunswick-Topsham Land Trust Inc: $860 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Maine Community Found…Agnes M Lindsay TrustBoston Foundation IncNational Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…The Pfizer Foundation…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…The Blackbaud Giving …American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…The Bank of America C…
Maine Community Foundation IncME21.3× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Maine Youth Camping Foundation D/B/A Maine Summer Camps funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Maine Youth Camping Foundation D/B/A Maine Summer Camps. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 34 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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