Oregon · Nonprofit
CAMP FIRE COLUMBIA
CAMP FIRE COLUMBIA (Oregon) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,066,118 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($400,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.4M
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $3.1M
- Net assets
- $4.8M
What Camp Fire Columbia does
Mission
To build lasting, equitable, and caring relationships with nature, others, and ourselves.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
During the year ended june 30, 2025, the organization discontinued its school based programs.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
School based programs: camp fire's school based programs partner with schools and families to strengthen student achievement and help youth build assets that lead to success in school, community, and in life. In 2024-25 our school based programs served nearly 1,300 youth at 19 schools through before-school, in-school, after school and summer programs in elementary, middle and high schools, including several title 1 schools in multnomah and yamhill counties. Each program provides academic support, experiential learning, enrichment, mentoring, leadership, and community engagement. Special emphasis is on reaching the most vulnerable youth. Programs increase student achievement and develop essential youth assets such as confidence, motivation, and feelings of connectedness to peers, school, and community.
$2,069,375 spent$1,251,780 earned by the program52% of program spendingCamp programs: in 2024-25 Camp Fire Columbia's camp namanu overnight camps served more than 1,450 youth grades k-12 during eight weeks of summer programming designed to immerse youth in unique hands-on experiences that keep them engaged, exploring and learning during out-of-school months. Camp namanu also welcomed nearly 1,500 sixth graders through area outdoor school programs.
$1,907,860 spent$1,664,436 earned by the program48% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,977,235.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $6.6M to $9.8M (+50%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2018 8% · 2019 8% · 2020 21% · 2021 59% · 2022 53% · 2023 37% · 2024 21% · 2025 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Board chair
Melynda Retallack
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $47k → $825k.
9 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $124k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Camp Namanu). These are real filings, and they are not money CAMP FIRE COLUMBIA raised.
From the IRS filings of CAMP FIRE COLUMBIA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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 FIRE COLUMBIA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
57% 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 FIRE COLUMBIA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 30% · 2019 25% · 2020 17% · 2021 35% · 2022 20% · 2023 48% — diversifying over time.
“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
59% of CAMP FIRE COLUMBIA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.
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
70% of CAMP FIRE COLUMBIA's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $936k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Organizations like CAMP FIRE COLUMBIA
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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Camp Namanu · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CAMP FIRE COLUMBIA: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CAMP FIRE COLUMBIA?
- CAMP FIRE COLUMBIA (Oregon) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,066,118 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($400,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CAMP FIRE COLUMBIA have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $3,066,118 in grants to CAMP FIRE COLUMBIA, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CAMP FIRE COLUMBIA?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CAMP FIRE COLUMBIA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 38 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing