Illinois · Nonprofit
CAMP OF DREAMS
CAMP OF DREAMS (Illinois) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $96,802 to it, the largest being KOVLER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($20,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CAMP OF DREAMS's revenue fell 66% between 2017 and 2020.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,155 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2020
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.
- Robert R McCormick Foundationshared funderslocal
- Care Camps Foundationportfolio match
- Summer Camp Opportunities Promote Education Incportfolio match
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.
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: 2017 2% · 2018 4% · 2019 2% · 2020 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of CAMP OF DREAMS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $32k → $5k.
2 of 13 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 OF DREAMS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 12 of 13 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 OF DREAMS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 36% · 2019 40% · 2020 57% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
25% of CAMP OF DREAMS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
66% of CAMP OF DREAMS's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
- Robert R McCormick Foundationshared funderslocalIL · backs 48 organizations that share your funders · funds 426 organizations near you
- Care Camps Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Summer Camp Opportunities Promote Education Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Sacchi Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hands on Tzedakah Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Abram M and Mabel B Skier Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ute City Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Innovating Worthy Projects Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gary and Wanda Walsh Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Flourish Arbonne Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- John and Janet Kornreich Charitable Foundation Ltdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arie and Ida Crown Memorialshared fundersIL · backs 77 organizations that share your funders
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 OF DREAMS
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% 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 OF DREAMS: 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 OF DREAMS?
- CAMP OF DREAMS (Illinois) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $96,802 to it, the largest being KOVLER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($20,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CAMP OF DREAMS have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $96,802 in grants to CAMP OF DREAMS, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CAMP OF DREAMS?
- KOVLER FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CAMP OF DREAMS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2020 (financials across 2017–2020), 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