· Public charity
The Summer Camp Fund
To increase the opportunities for low-income children to experience the outdoors through summer camp.
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 21 grants below total $366,416 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $395,252 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $28,836 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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $333k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GIRL SCOUTS HORNETS NEST COUNCIL | $44,520 |
| YMCA CAMP THUNDERBIRD | $39,725 |
| LEARNING HELP CENTERS OF CHARLOTTE | $27,050 |
| SALVATION ARMY BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS | $27,000 |
| YMCA-CAMP HARRISON | $25,650 |
| YMCA-STRATFORD RICHARDSON | $18,775 |
| CAMP GRIER | $15,800 |
| YMCA-SIMMONS | $15,800 |
| TRUSTED PARENTS | $15,692 |
| CAMP CELO INC | $15,675 |
| AUTISM SOCIETY OF NC | $15,600 |
| YMCA-KEITH | $13,552 |
| YMCA-STEELE CREEK | $13,260 |
| YMCA-LAKE NORMAN | $12,600 |
| YMCA-SALLY'S | $11,340 |
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, $416k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 92% 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.
14 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 3 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
- GSGirl Scouts Hornets Nest Council4× · 2017–2024 · $95k · revenue +14%
- CGCamp Grier4× · 2017–2024 · $70k · revenue +918%
AUTISM SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC4× · 2017–2024 · $42k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- NINOVUSWAY INCone grant, 2017 · $9k
- GRGREEN RIVER PRESERVEone grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue -27%
- CRCamp Rockmontone grant, 2017 · $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.
Building girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place.
Girl scouting builds girls of courage, confidence and character who make the world a better place.
Girl Scouting builds girls of courage, confidence and character, who make the world a better place.
Girl Scouting builds girls of courage, confidence, and character who make the world a better place.
The mission of the girl scouts is to build girls of courage, confidence, and character who make the world a better place.
The YMCA of Southeastern NC (YMCA of SENC)is an inclusive non-profit association committed to putting Christian principles into practice through programs that build a healthy spirit, mind and body for all. Our staff and volunteers work…
The mission of the Boy Scouts of America is to prepare young people to make ethical choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the Scout Oath and Law.
Girl scout council of colonial coast, a united way agency, serves girls in grades k-12, in southeastern virginia and northeastern north carolina. our mission is to build girls of courage, confidence and character, who make the world a…
Girl Scouting builds girls of courage, confidence and character who make the world a better place. Girl Scouting is girl led, where girls work together and learn collaboratively and experientially. Girls work under the guidance, coaching…
Our mission is to put Judeo-Christian principles into practice though programs that build a healthy spirit, mind and body for all. The YMCA of Greensboro is a volunteer-led public charity that includes men, women, and children of all ages,…
The organization works to provide innovative programs for 9,700 girl members and approximately 4,700 adult members and strives to offer girls a safe environment where they can discover new things about themselves, connect with others and…
Girl scouting builds girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girl Scouts Carolinas Peaks to Piedmont Inc and the most unlike its peers is Learning Help Centers of Charlotte. 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. 11 of the 18 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 MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CHARLOTTE ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts Hornets Nest Council ↗
- Who funds Camp Grier ↗
- Who funds LEARNING HELP CENTERS OF CHARLOTTE ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA MECKLENBURG COUNTY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds UPPER PALMETTO YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds THE NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS CAROLINAS PEAKS TO PIEDMONT INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN RIVER PRESERVE ↗
- Who funds Christmount Christian Assembly ↗
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: Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · The Allstate Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 The Summer Camp Fund 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.
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