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Camp Cedar Cliff

Camp Cedar Cliff (North Carolina) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $228,561 to it, the largest being KING FAMILY FOUNDATION ($80,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.6M
Funders on record
14
Grants received
$229k
Net assets
$3.2M
3/14 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Camp Cedar Cliff does

Mission

To manage and operate a camp which provides a quality Christian camp experience to young people through the integration of recreational, educational, spiritual, and religious activities which is founded upon Christian scholarship and learning and the gospel and teachings of Jesus Christ.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. In 2025, Camp Cedar Cliff hosted over 1700 campers for our 8 weeks of overnight summer camp and 9 weeks day camp programs. Of those, 307 of those campers made a first time decision to accept Christ as their Savior or rededicate their lives to Christ. Campers were introduced to a variety of programs/activities and people that challenged them in new ways to strengthen their faith and deepen their love for the Lord.

    $2,440,772 spentof which $251,647 as grants$1,835,190 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. We never want a child to not be able to attend camp due to finances. Because of this, we awarded 210 scholarships through our scholarship program to campers who otherwise would not have been able to attend camp. We also hosted our 9th annual Week of Joy camp, a free week of camp for children who have been touched by cancer, all possible because of our scholarship program and our generous donors.

  3. In the non-summer months, we hosted hundreds of youth through retreats, our free community Spring and Fall Festival events, and volunteer projects. We were also honored to be voted #1 Overnight Camp (for the 6th year in a row!) and #3 Day Camp in Western North Carolina by Mountain Xpress Best of WNC X Awards.

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,440,772.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.8M) Expenses 100 ($1.4M) Net assets 100 ($1.7M)2018 Revenue 96 ($1.7M) Expenses 110 ($1.5M) Net assets 109 ($1.9M)2019 Revenue 109 ($1.9M) Expenses 112 ($1.6M) Net assets 130 ($2.2M)2020 Revenue 66 ($1.2M) Expenses 89 ($1.2M) Net assets 125 ($2.2M)2021 Revenue 105 ($1.8M) Expenses 115 ($1.6M) Net assets 140 ($2.4M)2022 Revenue 99 ($1.7M) Expenses 141 ($2.0M) Net assets 127 ($2.2M)2023 Revenue 116 ($2.0M) Expenses 143 ($2.0M) Net assets 134 ($2.3M)2024 Revenue 192 ($3.4M) Expenses 169 ($2.4M) Net assets 193 ($3.3M)2025 Revenue 150 ($2.6M) Expenses 199 ($2.8M) Net assets 186 ($3.2M)
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Revenue (150)Expenses (199)Net assets (186)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $2.6M to $3.6M (+39%).

$1.8M
$2.0M
$2.3M
$2.3M
$2.5M
$2.5M
$2.6M
$3.6M
$3.5M
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 23% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

27% of Camp Cedar Cliff’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,360 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$369k
’17
$151k
’18
$366k
’19
−$78k
’20
$251k
’21
−$219k
’22
$43k
’23
$1.0M
’24
−$120k
’25
1.1
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.

Chief executive

Timothy Brady

President/CEO/Camp Director

Board chair

David Phillips

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed666556588
Joined·+0+2+0+4+5+0+3+1
No longer listed·02144101
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $26k → $135.

7 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 Cedar Cliff’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 Cedar Cliff leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

53% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Camp Cedar Cliff.

35%
largest funder
63%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 70% · 2021 54% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.

“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

25% of Camp Cedar Cliff's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 21% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

79% of Camp Cedar Cliff's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.

IL
NC
GA
FL

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

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North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $110k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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

Against its field

Camp Cedar Cliff's revenue grew 50% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−5% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.1mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 9%Fundraising 3%

Governance

7
board members
71%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

82%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NC

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Questions and answers

Who funds Camp Cedar Cliff?
Camp Cedar Cliff (North Carolina) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $228,561 to it, the largest being KING FAMILY FOUNDATION ($80,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Camp Cedar Cliff have?
IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $228,561 in grants to Camp Cedar Cliff, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Camp Cedar Cliff?
KING FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $80,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Camp Cedar Cliff find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 14 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