Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
CAMP RAMAH IN THE POCONOS
CAMP RAMAH IN THE POCONOS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,839,213 to it, the largest being THE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION ($641,767). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.3M
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $2.8M
- Net assets
- $14M
What Camp Ramah in the Poconos does
Mission
Creating life-long jewish connections one happy camper at a time.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Camp Ramah in the Poconos provides immersive jewish overnight camp experiences for children and teens, primarily from greater philadelphia region, south jersey, and the baltimore metropolitan area. Across its programs, ramah serves campers ranging from rising elementary school students through high school, as well as college-age staff and leadership participants.campers participate in jewish learning and ritual, hebrew language programming, israel education, athletics, arts, waterfront activities, outdoor adventure, and leadership development. Through daily communal living, campers build independence, confidence, friendships, and lasting connections to jewish life. During fy 2025, Camp Ramah in the Poconos provided safe and joyful summer experiences for 485 campers, maintained a strong israeli staff presence, expanded camper care and mental health supports, strengthened staff training, and enhanced programming across jewish education, recreation, the arts, and social-emotional learning.
$5,049,964 spentof which $287,170 as grants$4,791,064 earned by the program78% of program spendingRamah day camp philadelphia provides jewish day camp experiences for children and families throughout the greater philadelphia area. The program combines traditional camp activities, including sports, swimming, arts, music, and outdoor play, with jewish learning, hebrew language, israel education, shabbat celebrations, and values-based community experiences. Campers develop friendships, confidence, independence, and a stronger connection to jewish life in a welcoming and inclusive environment. During fy 2025, the day camp delivered programming to 175 campers, strengthened camper support and staff training, and continued to provide families with a joyful and accessible jewish camp experience.
$1,330,109 spentof which $78,778 as grants$723,652 earned by the program21% of program spendingTikvah inclusion programs are a nationally recognized definingcomponentof ramah's overnight camp program. The tikvah inclusion initiative includes theyedidimresidential program for teens and young adults with developmental and intellectual disabilities andtochnitavodah, a vocational training and workforce development program where participants take on meaningful responsibilities throughout camp. These programs combine individualized support with full participation in camp life and reflect ramah's belief that every person deserves the opportunity to experience independence, friendship, jewish community, and personal growth. In fy 2025, ramah continued to strengthen tikvah inclusion programming through individualized support and meaningful integration into camp community life for 27 campers.
$88,782 spent$276,618 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,468,855.
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 2020 to 2021, from $8.9M to $12M (+30%).
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: 2021 6% · 2022 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
28% of CAMP RAMAH IN THE POCONOS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Miryam Seid
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $57k → $537k.
7 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $3.6M from 8 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia). These are real filings, and they are not money CAMP RAMAH IN THE POCONOS raised.
From the IRS filings of CAMP RAMAH IN THE POCONOS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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 RAMAH IN THE POCONOS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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
66% 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 RAMAH IN THE POCONOS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 42% · 2019 78% · 2020 42% · 2021 52% · 2022 27% · 2023 37% — 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
56% of CAMP RAMAH IN THE POCONOS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
CAMP RAMAH IN THE POCONOS draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $912k 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.
Against its field
CAMP RAMAH IN THE POCONOS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,623 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,623 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CAMP RAMAH IN THE POCONOS
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
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 RAMAH IN THE POCONOS?
- CAMP RAMAH IN THE POCONOS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,839,213 to it, the largest being THE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION ($641,767). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CAMP RAMAH IN THE POCONOS have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $2,839,213 in grants to CAMP RAMAH IN THE POCONOS, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CAMP RAMAH IN THE POCONOS?
- THE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $641,767 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CAMP RAMAH IN THE POCONOS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 33 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