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CHRISTIAN CAMPING MINISTRIES INC DBA SON-LIFE CAMP & RETREAT CENTER

CHRISTIAN CAMPING MINISTRIES INC DBA SON-LIFE CAMP & RETREAT CENTER (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $73,522 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($47,983). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$381k
Revenue FY2024
4
Funders on record
$74k
Grants received
$834k
Net assets
2/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 10%

Against its field

CHRISTIAN CAMPING MINISTRIES INC DBA SON-LIFE CAMP & RETREAT CENTER holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 12,796 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin15% · above the median
Months of reserve20.1mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,796 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($266k) Expenses 100 ($215k) Net assets 100 ($422k)2019 Revenue 109 ($290k) Expenses 107 ($230k) Net assets 82 ($346k)2020 Revenue 94 ($251k) Expenses 88 ($190k) Net assets 97 ($408k)2021 Revenue 156 ($415k) Expenses 90 ($194k) Net assets 149 ($629k)2022 Revenue 142 ($378k) Expenses 132 ($282k) Net assets 172 ($725k)2023 Revenue 139 ($370k) Expenses 156 ($334k) Net assets 182 ($767k)2024 Revenue 143 ($381k) Expenses 152 ($326k) Net assets 198 ($834k)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (143)Expenses (152)Net assets (198)Peer revenue range

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

52% of CHRISTIAN CAMPING MINISTRIES INC DBA SON-LIFE CAMP & RETREAT CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 15,235 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$51k
18
$60k
19
$62k
20
$221k
21
$96k
22
$36k
23
$55k
24
20
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $25k → $23k.

2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)65% 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 CHRISTIAN CAMPING MINISTRIES INC DBA SON-LIFE CAMP & RETREAT 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

CHRISTIAN CAMPING MINISTRIES INC DBA SON-LIFE CAMP & RETREAT CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% 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

65% 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 CHRISTIAN CAMPING MINISTRIES INC DBA SON-LIFE CAMP & RETREAT CENTER.

65%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100%broadly stable.

“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

65% of CHRISTIAN CAMPING MINISTRIES INC DBA SON-LIFE CAMP & RETREAT CENTER'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 $26k that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from funders outside Michigan, across 2 states.

MI
NV

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $48k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

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.

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 CHRISTIAN CAMPING MINISTRIES INC DBA SON-LIFE CAMP & RETREAT CENTER

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 Michigan

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 11%Fundraising 7%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

97%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MI

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHRISTIAN CAMPING MINISTRIES INC DBA SON-LIFE CAMP & RETREAT CENTER: 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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds CHRISTIAN CAMPING MINISTRIES INC DBA SON-LIFE CAMP & RETREAT CENTER?
CHRISTIAN CAMPING MINISTRIES INC DBA SON-LIFE CAMP & RETREAT CENTER (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $73,522 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($47,983). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CHRISTIAN CAMPING MINISTRIES INC DBA SON-LIFE CAMP & RETREAT CENTER have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $73,522 in grants to CHRISTIAN CAMPING MINISTRIES INC DBA SON-LIFE CAMP & RETREAT CENTER, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHRISTIAN CAMPING MINISTRIES INC DBA SON-LIFE CAMP & RETREAT CENTER?
NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $47,983 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHRISTIAN CAMPING MINISTRIES INC DBA SON-LIFE CAMP & RETREAT CENTER find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 4funders 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