Massachusetts · Nonprofit
CAMP FIRE NORTH SHORE INC
CAMP FIRE NORTH SHORE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $626,634 to it, the largest being CUMMINGS FOUNDATION GRANTS INC (FKA ONEWORLD BOSTON INC) ($165,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $627k
- Net assets
- $873k
What Camp Fire North Shore Inc does
Mission
To provide, through programs and informal education, opportunities for youth to realize their potential and to function as caring, self directed individuals, responsible to themselves and others. As an organization, we seek to improve those conditions that affect youth.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
During the year ended december 31, 2024, the organization executed an agreement to acquire 100% of the net assets of cairn hill, inc. D/b/a cairn hill nature preschool. The organization and cairn hill share common interest and goals, including but not limited to, providing program services for children and youth in northeastern massachusetts. The organization acquired cairn hill to expand program offerings to include preschool services.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Camp fire summer camp located on 70 acres of woods on the lynn/salem massachusetts line provides children kindergarten through eighth grade an outdoor summer experience. Children participate in swimming, music, sports, nature, arts and crafts, drama, hiking, and service learning programs.
$834,069 spent$323,406 earned by the program38% of program spendingCamp fire school age child care programs located in seven elementary schools provide a safe, supportive environment for children kindergarten through fifth grade throughout the school year. Children participate in projects, work on homework, and spend time playing with friends, inside and outside, in the care of the company trained, caring adults.
$954,268 spent$659,668 earned by the program43% of program spendingCamp fire's preschool program strives to provide a sensory-rich environment for young children to be bale to safely discover the world. Time in nature is balanced by classroom learning of pre-academic skillss, which are presented artistically and creatively to assure kindergarten readiness.
$406,357 spent$331,447 earned by the program19% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,194,694.
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.
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 $815k to $1.2M (+45%).
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: 2019 5% · 2020 46% · 2021 51% · 2022 56% · 2023 43% · 2024 29%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
52% of CAMP FIRE NORTH SHORE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Lauire Hamill
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $34k → $77k.
1 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 NORTH SHORE INC’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 NORTH SHORE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
30% 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 NORTH SHORE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 83% · 2019 78% · 2020 41% · 2021 29% · 2022 42% · 2023 88% — 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
43% of CAMP FIRE NORTH SHORE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
71% of CAMP FIRE NORTH SHORE INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $185 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Against its field
CAMP FIRE NORTH SHORE INC has grown faster than half of the 1,928 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,928 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like CAMP FIRE NORTH SHORE INC
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 Fire USA · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CAMP FIRE NORTH SHORE INC: 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 NORTH SHORE INC?
- CAMP FIRE NORTH SHORE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $626,634 to it, the largest being CUMMINGS FOUNDATION GRANTS INC (FKA ONEWORLD BOSTON INC) ($165,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CAMP FIRE NORTH SHORE INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $626,634 in grants to CAMP FIRE NORTH SHORE INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CAMP FIRE NORTH SHORE INC?
- CUMMINGS FOUNDATION GRANTS INC (FKA ONEWORLD BOSTON INC) is the largest funder on record, with $165,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CAMP FIRE NORTH SHORE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing