Iowa · Nonprofit
CAMP FIRE HEART OF IOWA
CAMP FIRE HEART OF IOWA (Iowa) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,008,377 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA ($1,866,522). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $3.0M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Camp Fire Heart of Iowa does
Mission
To provide opportunities for youth, including resident camp, day camps and clubs, for youth to realize their potential and to function effectively as caring, self directed youth.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Summer camp - camp hantesa has been offering youth day camp experience in central iowa in the des moines river valley for nearly 100 years. Our programs range from a few nights of camp for our youngest campers to four weeks of intense leadership training for our high school aged youth called the apprentice program. Most youth attend for a week, where they are able to experience swimming, canoeing, kayaking, shooting sports, environmental studies and much more. The camp is co-educational, and open to all youth no matter their background or membership in camp fire. Youth at camp hantesa learn leadership and citizenship skills as well as learning self-reliance through hands on activities.
$766,839 spent$370,576 earned by the program55% of program spendingYouth development - these consist of four programs, each with their own unique niche and duration, serving school-aged children during the time they are out of school. The programs are: camp fire club, school day off and before and after school programs, summer day camps and outdoor education. Our programs enrich the academic learning that happens at school and home with skills that help youth to thrive and reach their full potential. In a very real way, camp fire's extended learning programs pick up where schools leave off by providing quality out of school opportunities for students from 1st grade through middle school and even into high school. These programs have proven effective in reinforcing and enhancing learning, literacy, self-confidence, and strengthening family involvement and connections.
$319,484 spent$184,520 earned by the program23% of program spendingCommunity centers- camp fire has conducted subsidized, low cost, full day day camps at des moines community centers since 1992. We provide both intensive summer programming and year round programs at the following sites: pioneer/columbus community center, four mile community center, and madison elementary school. These programs provide structured learning activities in a safe environment for low-income youth 5 days a week from 7 am to 5:30 pm, when youth are out of school. Campers participate in literacy and stem education,combating summer learning loss with proven positive outcomes. For many families, this care is the only care they can afford. The programs are on par with full cost programs we offer. Meals are provided each day to ensure proper nutrition through the summer.
$309,930 spent$350,984 earned by the program22% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,396,253.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $2.7M to $2.2M (−16%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 11 funders, grant income fell $352k → $324k.
6 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 FIRE HEART OF IOWA’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 FIRE HEART OF IOWA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 HEART OF IOWA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 76% · 2018 66% · 2019 68% · 2020 67% · 2021 75% · 2022 75% · 2023 45% — 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
35% of CAMP FIRE HEART OF IOWA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
87% of CAMP FIRE HEART OF IOWA's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $225k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 HEART OF IOWA
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 Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CAMP FIRE HEART OF IOWA?
- CAMP FIRE HEART OF IOWA (Iowa) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,008,377 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA ($1,866,522). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CAMP FIRE HEART OF IOWA have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $3,008,377 in grants to CAMP FIRE HEART OF IOWA, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CAMP FIRE HEART OF IOWA?
- UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA is the largest funder on record, with $1,866,522 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CAMP FIRE HEART OF IOWA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 30 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