Georgia · Nonprofit
CAMP KUDZU INC
CAMP KUDZU INC (Georgia) receives grants from 90 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,178,968 to it, the largest being NEW VENTURE FUND ($434,743). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 90
- Grants received
- $3.2M
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Camp Kudzu Inc does
Mission
Camp kudzu's mission is to educate, empower and inspire children and teens living with t1d. Through its camp and other educational programs, camp kudzu changes young people's lives. Without the lessons learned and practiced at camp kudzu, many children lack access to diabetes self-management support and would have increased risk for serious medical complications and/or shortened life spans. Camp kudzu is a non-profit organization which began providing medical self-management education, recreation and peer-networking programs in the year 2000. It was formed in 1999 in atlanta, georgia by parents, doctors, health professionals and community leaders who joined forces to establish programs to support the developmental and medical needs of children with type 1 diabetes in a fun environment marked by clinical oversight and direction.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Large participation in programs was steady. Over the past twelve months, camp kudzu hosted three week-long residential (sleepaway) programs with over 400 participants. Camp kudzu's 5 day day-camp program for younger campers, aged 5-9 years old, a teen retreat weekend, a junior retreat weekend, three family camp weekends, and several kudzu one-day events across the state of georgia translated to nearly 1,200 participants total. Fully staffed by volunteers, many of them living with t1d themselves, camp kudzu programs play a vital role in a lifetime of proper disease management. Our programs have medical professionals present to provide guidance, education and help families manage day to day challenges and coping skills for family and school life. As part of our multiyear outcomes research project, now in year 7, data still show that youth and their families grow and are mentally and physically supported by program. Proven to be statistically significant. Camp kudzu continues to yield high satisfaction and proves to be statistically relevant and important in shaping the lives and supporting the broader t1d community. Year after year, data has shown that attendees in camp kudzu…
$1,263,298 spent$292,322 earned by the program75% of program spendingWhen a child is diagnosed with diabetes, families must learn how to manage the condition on a daily basis. Education starts almost immediately with information to absorb and skills to be practiced. The learning process introduces parents and children to an array of medical words and terms that describe diabetes and how to manage day to day; insulins, ketones, shots, pokes, tests, sugars, highs and lows, reactions, control. These words become a part of everyday language in the household and the entire family's schedule is formed around diabetes management. Camp kudzu recognizes the life-changing impact type 1 diabetes has on the entire family, we saw 105 families totaling 421 people in attendance of the 3 family camp programs. Camp kudzu's family camp is a fun-filled, educational and networking weekend for the entire family; children of all ages with diabetes, their parents and siblings. This is a program for families with children too young to attend summer camp and for those who have been recently diagnosed. Family camp is a time to learn more about diabetes, have fun and make friends with families who are experiencing the same challenges of living with diabetes.parents tell us…
$312,412 spent$61,617 earned by the program19% of program spendingOur teen retreat weekend programming is offered to participants in 7th to 12th grade and has grown in participation in recent years. Moving from the cap of the winter 2021 program of 50 campers, we hosted 100 teen campers in 2025. This weekend overnight program provides the co-ed experience of camp with fun and education focused on skills required to successfully transition to young adults. Professionals are on site throughout the weekend to deliver diabetes management information and to answer questions about diet, activity and emerging trends in glycemic control. Teens have the opportunity to connect and develop friendships that can sustain them year-round.
$106,560 spent$20,525 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,682,270.
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 2023 to 2024, from $2.4M to $3.1M (+26%).
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: 2020 10% · 2021 7% · 2023 7% · 2024 3% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
83% of CAMP KUDZU INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
Robert Shaw
CEO/executive director
Board chair
Trevor Pitt
Board chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 32 funders, grant income rose $144k → $492k.
18 of 90 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 KUDZU INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 90 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 KUDZU INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% 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
64% 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 KUDZU INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 21% · 2018 25% · 2019 49% · 2020 22% · 2021 17% · 2022 41% · 2023 20% — 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
30% of CAMP KUDZU INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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
75% of CAMP KUDZU INC's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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.
Against its field
CAMP KUDZU INC's funding base is broadening — from 15 funders to 32 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,152 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CAMP KUDZU 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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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
- Kudzu Community House LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CAMP KUDZU INC?
- CAMP KUDZU INC (Georgia) receives grants from 90 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,178,968 to it, the largest being NEW VENTURE FUND ($434,743). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CAMP KUDZU INC have?
- IRS filings report 90 organizations giving $3,178,968 in grants to CAMP KUDZU INC, 44 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CAMP KUDZU INC?
- NEW VENTURE FUND is the largest funder on record, with $434,743 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CAMP KUDZU INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 90 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