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Camp Allen Camp & Conference Center

Camp Allen Camp & Conference Center (Texas) receives grants from 80 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,709,602 to it, the largest being GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,161,050). 52 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$12M
Funders on record
80
Grants received
$9.7M
Net assets
$23M
52/80 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 26%
01What it does

What Camp Allen Camp & Conference Center does

Mission

Camp Allen honors God and enriches lives by being a year-round gathering place for all ages, offering Christian hospitality amidst 1,100 forested acres, and striving for excellence in facilities, service, and programs.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Camp Allen Camp and Conference Center is a modern, year-round facility located one hour northwest of Houston. The Camp covers more than 1,100 acres and includes a conference center and camp facilities located in a beautiful pine forest with rolling hills and two lakes. As a leader in the camp, conference and retreat center ministry, Camp Allen accommodates a variety of spiritual and educational events for all ages. Our experienced management team shares a passion for service and Christian hospitality. In 2025, over 69,000 individuals attended a variety of programs including music, art, spiritual, leadership, and family retreats.

    $4,975,582 spent$5,511,372 earned by the program
    56% of program spending
  2. The Summer Camp program covers ages 3rd grade to high school. These programs are one week summer camp sessions. During 2025 we had over 1,900 summer campers. The program has outdoor activities, enrichment programs, spiritual programs and leadership training.

    $2,078,378 spentof which $163,800 as grants$1,874,789 earned by the program
    23% of program spending
  3. The Discovery Outdoor Education program was established in 2000, and served over 6,900 school children in 2025. The students come to Camp Allen with teachers and have various educational tracks from Texas Living History to Aquatics to Challenge Courses. Approximately one-third of the attendees are attending the program from economically disadvantaged schools. Camp Allen typically has seven full time instructors for this program along with designated classroom space.

    $1,901,286 spentof which $72,083 as grants$1,059,986 earned by the program
    21% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,955,246.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($11M) Expenses 100 ($7.5M) Net assets 100 ($1.5M)2018 Revenue 92 ($10M) Expenses 106 ($7.9M) Net assets 917 ($14M)2019 Revenue 87 ($9.5M) Expenses 110 ($8.2M) Net assets 1033 ($15M)2020 Revenue 58 ($6.4M) Expenses 87 ($6.5M) Net assets 1027 ($15M)2021 Revenue 72 ($7.9M) Expenses 100 ($7.5M) Net assets 1056 ($16M)2022 Revenue 100 ($11M) Expenses 123 ($9.2M) Net assets 1170 ($17M)2023 Revenue 114 ($13M) Expenses 130 ($9.8M) Net assets 1360 ($20M)2024 Revenue 113 ($12M) Expenses 132 ($9.9M) Net assets 1524 ($23M)
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Revenue (113)Expenses (132)Net assets (1524)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $19M to $22M (+17%).

$15M
$17M
$19M
$18M
$17M
$19M
$22M
$25M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 11% · 2021 9% · 2022 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$3.5M
’17
$2.1M
’18
$1.3M
’19
−$86k
’20
$422k
’21
$1.8M
’22
$2.8M
’23
$2.5M
’24
3.8
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

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Listed2725292828272829
Joined·+4+6+5+2+5+10+4
No longer listed·6262693
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 42 funders, grant income rose $1.0M → $1.4M.

14 of 80 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of Camp Allen Camp & Conference Center’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 80 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

Camp Allen Camp & Conference Center has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left

12%
largest funder
33%
top three
~18
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 31% · 2019 26% · 2020 38% · 2021 15% · 2022 26% · 2023 22% — broadly stable.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

47% of Camp Allen Camp & Conference Center's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

99% of Camp Allen Camp & Conference Center's grant income comes from Texas funders.

VT
DE
NC
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like Camp Allen Camp & Conference Center

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Texas

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 9%Fundraising 5%

Governance

26
board members
96%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

94%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Camp Allen Endowment Inc · exempt
  • Episcopal Diocese of Texas · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds Camp Allen Camp & Conference Center?
Camp Allen Camp & Conference Center (Texas) receives grants from 80 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,709,602 to it, the largest being GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,161,050). 52 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Camp Allen Camp & Conference Center have?
IRS filings report 80 organizations giving $9,709,602 in grants to Camp Allen Camp & Conference Center, 52 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Camp Allen Camp & Conference Center?
GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,161,050 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Camp Allen Camp & Conference Center find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 80 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing