· Public charity
Seriousfun Children's Network
Together, we empower children with serious illnesses and their families to reimagine what is possible by creating inclusive camp and recreational experiences, inspiring confidence and joy, and building community and connection.
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.
The 9 grants below total $4,671,547 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $9,941,493 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,269,946 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 |
|---|---|
| THE PAINTED TURTLE | $833,795 |
| FLYING HORSE FARMS | $706,504 |
| HOLE IN THE WALL GANG | $533,714 |
| CAMP BOGGY CREEK | $520,308 |
| CAMP KOREY | $454,679 |
| DOUBLE H RANCH | $445,698 |
| ROUNDUP RIVER RANCH | $427,308 |
| VICTORY JUNCTION | $395,883 |
| NORTH STAR REACH | $353,658 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 62% of your 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.
Which US states your grants reach
Grants abroad, by region — $4.4M on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 6 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: GRANTS TO PROMOTE CAMP SUSTAINABILITY. CAMPS PROMOTE PSYCHOSOCIAL PROGRAMMING IN A RESIDENTIAL CAMP FACILITY.
Stated purpose: GRANTS TO PROMOTE CAMP SUSTAINABILITY. CAMPS PROMOTE PSYCHOSOCIAL PROGRAMMING IN A RESIDENTIAL CAMP FACILITY.
Stated purpose: GRANTS TO PROMOTE CAMP SUSTAINABILITY. CAMPS PROMOTE PSYCHOSOCIAL PROGRAMMING IN A RESIDENTIAL CAMP FACILITY.
Stated purpose: GRANTS TO PROMOTE CAMP SUSTAINABILITY. CAMPS PROMOTE PSYCHOSOCIAL PROGRAMMING IN A RESIDENTIAL CAMP FACILITY.
Stated purpose: GRANTS TO PROMOTE CAMP SUSTAINABILITY. CAMPS PROMOTE PSYCHOSOCIAL PROGRAMMING IN A RESIDENTIAL CAMP FACILITY.
Stated purpose: GRANTS TO PROMOTE CAMP SUSTAINABILITY. CAMPS PROMOTE PSYCHOSOCIAL PROGRAMMING IN A RESIDENTIAL CAMP FACILITY.
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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 +21% since the first grant, against -28% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- FHFLYING HORSE FARMS8× · 2017–2024 · $7.2M · revenue +31% · 27% of their budget
- CKCAMP KOREY8× · 2017–2024 · $3.5M · revenue +20%
- HIHOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC8× · 2017–2024 · $3.4M · revenue +5%
Funded once
- BFBARRETSTOWN FOUNDATION USAone grant, 2022 · $144k · revenue -28% · 71% of their budget
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.
Instilling inspiration and empowerment, while enhancing the lives of children with serious illnesses.
Camp rise above provides life-changing camp programs for children and adults with serious illnesses, disabilities, and life challenges.
To provide a safe, loving place where children from vermont and new york who have, or have had cancer can play, swim, share and heal. camp t-k-t is where kids go to reclaim a childhood robbed by cancer.
Our mission is to let kids with cancer be kids again by establishing and sustaining community-based camping and year-round support and activities for children with cancer and their families. these programs, offered without charge, provide…
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.
Camp twin lakes offers year-round recreational and educational programs for campers facing serious illness, disabilities and other physical, emotional, and social challenges. in collaboration with more than 70 community non-profit…
To provide children of all abilities a fun, safe summer camp experience.
Founded in 1984, camp sunshine provides retreats combining respite, recreation and support, while enabling hope and promoting joy, for children with life-threatening illnesses and their families through the various stages of a child's…
Camp For All transforms the world for children and adults with challenging illnesses, disabilities, or special needs.
The camp rainbow foundation dba camp braveways provides free, medically-supported camp experiences and programs so children and families affected by childhood cancer or blood-related diseases can experience joy and community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Double H Hole in the Woods Ranch Inc and the most unlike its peers is Barretstown Foundation Usa. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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.
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 FLYING HORSE FARMS ↗
- Who funds THE PAINTED TURTLE ↗
- Who funds CAMP KOREY ↗
- Who funds HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOGGY CREEK GANG INC ↗
- Who funds DOUBLE H HOLE IN THE WOODS RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds ROUNDUP RIVER RANCH ↗
- Who funds VICTORY JUNCTION GANG CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH STAR REACH ↗
- Who funds BARRETSTOWN FOUNDATION USA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF JORDAN RIVER VILLAGE 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Seriousfun Children's Network 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.