· Public charity
The Summer Camp Fund
To increase the opportunities for low-income children to experience the outdoors through summer camp.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
| YMCA-SIMMONS | $15,800 |
| CAMP GRIER | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GSGirl Scouts Hornets Nest Council4× · 2017–2024 · $95k · revenue +6%
- 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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
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. 11 of the 18 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Summer Camp Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Summer Camp Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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