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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.

$9.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$834k
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.

Recreation & Sports$23MHealth$6.8MYouth Development$5.1MInternational$258k
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $4,671,547, the rows itemized in this filing. The $9,941,493 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $5,269,946 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.
$454,679
Median grant
9
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 62% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE PAINTED TURTLE: $1.0M → 14%DOUBLE H RANCH: $530k → 10%CAMP BOGGY CREEK: $561k → 10%NORTH STAR REACH: $481k → 14%HOLE IN THE WALL GANG: $559k → 12%VICTORY JUNCTION: $467k → 14%ROUNDUP RIVER RANCH: $501k → 7%FLYING HORSE FARMS: $1.1M → 11%CAMP KOREY: $593k → 9%THE PAINTED TURTLE: $903k → 14%DOUBLE H RANCH: $510k → 10%CAMP BOGGY CREEK: $520k → 10%NORTH STAR REACH: $390k → 14%HOLE IN THE WALL GANG: $534k → 12%VICTORY JUNCTION: $456k → 14%ROUNDUP RIVER RANCH: $480k → 7%FLYING HORSE FARMS: $1.0M → 11%CAMP KOREY: $498k → 9%THE PAINTED TURTLE: $834k → 14%DOUBLE H RANCH: $446k → 10%CAMP BOGGY CREEK: $469k → 10%NORTH STAR REACH: $386k → 14%HOLE IN THE WALL GANG: $416k → 12%VICTORY JUNCTION: $396k → 14%ROUNDUP RIVER RANCH: $441k → 7%FLYING HORSE FARMS: $1.0M → 11%CAMP KOREY: $465k → 9%THE PAINTED TURTLE: $600k → 14%DOUBLE H RANCH: $437k → 10%CAMP BOGGY CREEK: $420k → 10%HOLE IN THE WALL GANG: $415k → 12%VICTORY JUNCTION: $375k → 14%ROUNDUP RIVER RANCH: $427k → 7%FLYING HORSE FARMS: $984k → 11%CAMP KOREY: $455k → 9%THE PAINTED TURTLE: $490k → 14%DOUBLE H RANCH: $377k → 10%HOLE IN THE WALL GANG: $399k → 12%VICTORY JUNCTION: $370k → 14%FLYING HORSE FARMS: $898k → 11%CAMP KOREY: $394k → 9%THE PAINTED TURTLE: $455k → 14%HOLE IN THE WALL GANG: $379k → 12%FLYING HORSE FARMS: $830k → 11%THE PAINTED TURTLE: $452k → 14%HOLE IN THE WALL GANG: $377k → 12%FLYING HORSE FARMS: $707k → 11%FLYING HORSE FARMS: $683k → 11%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MI
NY
OH
CT
CA
CO
NC
FL

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.

Middle East and North Africa$3.2M · 72% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: GRANTS TO PROMOTE CAMP SUSTAINABILITY. CAMPS PROMOTE PSYCHOSOCIAL PROGRAMMING IN A RESIDENTIAL CAMP FACILITY.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$495k · 11% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: GRANTS TO PROMOTE CAMP SUSTAINABILITY. CAMPS PROMOTE PSYCHOSOCIAL PROGRAMMING IN A RESIDENTIAL CAMP FACILITY.

South Asia$322k · 7% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: GRANTS TO PROMOTE CAMP SUSTAINABILITY. CAMPS PROMOTE PSYCHOSOCIAL PROGRAMMING IN A RESIDENTIAL CAMP FACILITY.

East Asia and the Pacific$283k · 6% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: GRANTS TO PROMOTE CAMP SUSTAINABILITY. CAMPS PROMOTE PSYCHOSOCIAL PROGRAMMING IN A RESIDENTIAL CAMP FACILITY.

Central America and the Caribbean$95k · 2% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: GRANTS TO PROMOTE CAMP SUSTAINABILITY. CAMPS PROMOTE PSYCHOSOCIAL PROGRAMMING IN A RESIDENTIAL CAMP FACILITY.

Sub-Saharan Africa$32k · 1% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: GRANTS TO PROMOTE CAMP SUSTAINABILITY. CAMPS PROMOTE PSYCHOSOCIAL PROGRAMMING IN A RESIDENTIAL CAMP FACILITY.

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. 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$35M · 10 repeat orgs$144k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against -28% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
1

Total granted

$35M
$144k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
-28%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Recreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentInternationalHealthOther
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

  • FH
    FLYING HORSE FARMS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $7.2M · revenue +31% · 27% of their budget
  • CK
    CAMP KOREY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $3.5M · revenue +20%
  • HI
    HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $3.4M · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • BF
    BARRETSTOWN FOUNDATION USA
    one grant, 2022 · $144k · revenue -28% · 71% of their budget
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
Project Camp Inc

Instilling inspiration and empowerment, while enhancing the lives of children with serious illnesses.

Health
2
Camp Rise Above Inc

Camp rise above provides life-changing camp programs for children and adults with serious illnesses, disabilities, and life challenges.

Recreation & Sports
3
Camp Sunshine At Sebago Lake Inc

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…

Recreation & Sports
4
Vermonts Camp Ta-Kum-Ta

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.

Health
5
Camp Quality Usa Inc

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…

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6
Fantasy Camps for Kids
Recreation & Sports
7
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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8
Camp Twin Lakes Inc

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…

Recreation & Sports
9
Greenfield Health Camp Inc

To provide children of all abilities a fun, safe summer camp experience.

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10
Camp Sonshine

To unlock and unleash kingdom builders by leveraging camp experiences to create a place to belong and become.

Youth Development
11
The Camp At Sunshine Farm
Philanthropy
12
Camp for All Foundation

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

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Double H Hole in the Woods Ranch Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

11 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.

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

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FLYING HORSE FARMS: $7,239,208 · Recreation & SportsFLYING HORSE FARMSHOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC: $3,395,386 · Recreation & SportsHOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INCDOUBLE H HOLE IN THE WOODS RANCH INC: $3,290,802 · Recreation & SportsDOUBLE H HOLE IN THE WOODS RANCH INCROUNDUP RIVER RANCH: $3,273,852 · Recreation & SportsROUNDUP RIVER RANCHTHE PAINTED TURTLE: $5,110,985 · Youth DevelopmentTHE PAINTED TURTLECAMP KOREY: $3,466,024 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP KOREYVICTORY JUNCTION GANG CAMP INC: $3,057,480 · Youth DevelopmentVICTORY JUNCTION GANG CAMP INCNORTH STAR REACH: $2,930,871 · Youth DevelopmentNORTH STAR REACHTHE BOGGY CREEK GANG INC: $3,309,959 · HealthTHE BOGGY …BARRETSTOWN FOUNDATION USA: $144,113 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF JORDAN RIVER VILLAGE FOUNDATION: $113,488 · International
Recreation & Sports$17,199,248Youth Development$14,565,360Health$3,309,959International$257,601

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 budgetFLYING HORSE FARMS: $7,239,208 over 8y, 27% of budgetTHE PAINTED TURTLE: $5,110,985 over 8y, 22% of budgetCAMP KOREY: $3,466,024 over 8y, 18% of budgetHOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC: $3,395,386 over 8y, 3.8% of budgetTHE BOGGY CREEK GANG INC: $3,309,959 over 8y, 12% of budgetDOUBLE H HOLE IN THE WOODS RANCH INC: $3,290,802 over 8y, 11% of budgetROUNDUP RIVER RANCH: $3,273,852 over 8y, 12% of budgetVICTORY JUNCTION GANG CAMP INC: $3,057,480 over 8y, 9.3% of budgetNORTH STAR REACH: $2,930,871 over 8y, 56% of budgetBARRETSTOWN FOUNDATION USA: $144,113 over 1y, 71% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF JORDAN RIVER VILLAGE FOUNDATION: $113,488 over 3y, 8.6% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Donor Advised Charita…
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO7.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Seriousfun Children's Network funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Seriousfun Children's Network. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 20%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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 11 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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