Connecticut · Nonprofit
CAMP WIGHTMAN CAMPING & CONFERENCE CENTER
CAMP WIGHTMAN CAMPING & CONFERENCE CENTER (Connecticut) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $78,523 to it, the largest being PWC FOUNDATION INC ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $625k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $79k
- Net assets
- $891k
What Camp Wightman Camping & Conference Center does
Mission
Camp Wightman Camping and Conference Center is a year-round non-profit outdoor ministry that promotes and inspires life-long development for children, adults, and families through programs and experiences by enhancing the spiritual, physical, social, and mental well-being of each individual. Camp Wightman achieves this through a broad range of experiences that serve a community rich in religious, racial, ethnic, and economic diversity. Camp Wightman serves churches and other faith-based organizations, families (including campers), nonprofit groups, and educational organizations.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Camp Wightman provides up to 700 camper weeks annually. Campership Funds aid campers who would otherwise be unable to attend Camp due to financial hardship. Typical camp activities include archery, fishing, swimming, paddle boarding, kayaking, canoeing, rowing, crafts, hiking, nature studies, worship, and fellowship. Camp offers: Camp programming throughout the summer months, Leadership programs including counselor-in-training/junior counselor training, Programs for campers with special needs, and Family Camp. Retreats provide an opportunity for individuals or groups to: work, plan and build; focus on each other, work goals, or program purposes without the distraction of the work-a-day world; reflect and focus on community building, to improve communication skills, and to strengthen relationships; Relax, breathe deeply, and experience God's presence on this holy ground. Retreat centers provide housing and gathering space complimented by dining services and access to the waterfront, hiking trails, campfires, and chapel.
$422,881 spentof which $6,750 as grants$362,964 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $422,881.
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.
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 $730k to $904k (+24%).
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.
37% of CAMP WIGHTMAN CAMPING & CONFERENCE CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 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
Todd Garmer
Executive Director
Board chair
Onezime Picard
Director, Chairperson
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 WIGHTMAN CAMPING & CONFERENCE CENTER’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 WIGHTMAN CAMPING & CONFERENCE CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 WIGHTMAN CAMPING & CONFERENCE CENTER.
“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
CAMP WIGHTMAN CAMPING & CONFERENCE CENTER draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $28k 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.
Against its field
CAMP WIGHTMAN CAMPING & CONFERENCE CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding CAMP WIGHTMAN CAMPING & CONFERENCE CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $48k on record.
- Department of Homeland Security$48k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CAMP WIGHTMAN CAMPING & CONFERENCE CENTER
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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CAMP WIGHTMAN CAMPING & CONFERENCE CENTER?
- CAMP WIGHTMAN CAMPING & CONFERENCE CENTER (Connecticut) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $78,523 to it, the largest being PWC FOUNDATION INC ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CAMP WIGHTMAN CAMPING & CONFERENCE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $78,523 in grants to CAMP WIGHTMAN CAMPING & CONFERENCE CENTER, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CAMP WIGHTMAN CAMPING & CONFERENCE CENTER?
- PWC FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CAMP WIGHTMAN CAMPING & CONFERENCE CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 2022–2024), and the filings of 4 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