Ohio · Nonprofit
CAMPING AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION
CAMPING AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 70 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,821,929 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($701,178). 50 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.7M
- Funders on record
- 70
- Grants received
- $6.8M
- Net assets
- $16M
What Camping and Education Foundation does
Mission
At the Camping and Education Foundation, our mission is to develop young men and women through transformational wilderness experiences that celebrate a love of the outdoors.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
In addition to the leadership that camping & education, llc provides to boyh of its summer camps, c&e has expanded its educational opportunities. We partner with the university of cincinnati, the cincinnati parks district and cincinnati public schools to create experiential outdoor programming for urban youth in the cincinnati area.
$1,247,744 spent$136,373 earned by the program38% of program spendingSummer camp for boys (camp koochiching): operated outside international falls, mn., the purpose is to teach young men to live in harmony with nature, develop their outdoor skills and abilities and sense of service to others. The heart of our summer camp program are our wilderness trips which explore the canadian canoeing waterways from southern ontario to the northern region of hudson bay.
$1,207,590 spent$1,359,594 earned by the program37% of program spendingSummer camp for girls (camp ogichi daa kwe) operated outside internaional fall, mn. The purpose is to teach young women to live in harmony with nature, develop their skills and abilities and sense of service to others. The heart of our summer camp program is our wilderness trips which explore the canadian canoeing waterways from southern ontario to the northern region of hudson bay.
$837,840 spent$1,040,549 earned by the program25% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,293,174.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $16M to $15M (−10%).
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 5% · 2022 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
Hugh R Haller
President/CEO
Board chair
James C Shook Jr
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $519k → $715k.
21 of 70 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 CAMPING AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 70 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
CAMPING AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 10% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
52% 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 CAMPING AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 22% · 2019 17% · 2020 14% · 2021 16% · 2022 12% · 2023 20% — 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
52% of CAMPING AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
50% of CAMPING AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION'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 $3.4M that is directly attributable, 54% of it comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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.
Organizations like CAMPING AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
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 3 related entities
- Camping & Education LLC · disregarded
- Camp Kooch-I-Ching LLC · disregarded
- Camp Ogichi LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CAMPING AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
- CAMPING AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 70 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,821,929 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($701,178). 50 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CAMPING AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 70 organizations giving $6,821,929 in grants to CAMPING AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION, 50 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CAMPING AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $701,178 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CAMPING AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 70 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