Tennessee · Nonprofit
Camp Nakanawa
Camp Nakanawa (Tennessee) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $500,628 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($269,950). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
Camp Nakanawa runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,561 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,561 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2023
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Brown Foundation Incshared funders
- Maine Youth Camping Foundation D/B/A Maine Summer Campsportfolio match
- American Camping Association Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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.
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.
86% of Camp Nakanawa’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $5k → $129k.
6 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 93% 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 Nakanawa’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 Nakanawa leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% 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 Nakanawa.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2023 39% — 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.
Where its funders are
93% of Camp Nakanawa's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $37k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Tennessee, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $463k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 13 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Brown Foundation Incshared fundersTX · backs 33 organizations that share your funders
- Maine Youth Camping Foundation D/B/A Maine Summer Campsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Camping Association Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Summer Camp Opportunities Promote Education Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Camp Fireportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fry W Cotr Uw - L P Fry Mem Trportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Girls Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Girl Scouts of the United States of Americaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Camp Nebagamon Scholarship Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Care Camps Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Womens Funding Allianceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Camp Out for Kidsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Camp Nakanawa
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
21% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Camp Nakanawa: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Camp Nakanawa?
- Camp Nakanawa (Tennessee) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $500,628 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($269,950). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Camp Nakanawa have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $500,628 in grants to Camp Nakanawa, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Camp Nakanawa?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $269,950 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Camp Nakanawa find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2022–2023), and the filings of 13funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing