North Carolina · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF CAMP CELO INC
FRIENDS OF CAMP CELO INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $240,681 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($133,200). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $70k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $241k
- Net assets
- $152k
What Friends of Camp Celo Inc does
Mission
Friends of Camp Celo, Inc. is organized exclusively for charitable, religious, and educational purposes, including: 1. To ensure the long-term preservation of Camp Celo as an educational and spiritual center where children can experience farming, hiking, arts and crafts, music, folk dance and fellowship in the natural environment; 2. To work in conjunction with the Celo Friends Meeting to promote the Religious Society of Friends' values of nonviolence, simplicity, and environmental awareness within the farm/home camp experience; 3. To provide scholarships and other financial support to keep the Camp Celo experience affordable to families of all income levels and backgrounds; 4. To build a supportive organization of alumni, staff, friends, and families of those who have participated for more than five decades in the Camp Celo experience and to capture and record that history; and 5. To carry out all other activities allowed by law in furtherance of these goals and purposes.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Scholarships: We provided need-based scholarship assistance for 31 children, totaling $63,101.
$0 spentof which $63,101 as grantsFriends of Camp Celo, Inc. granted Camp Celo $55,000, to help Camp Celo recover from damage caused by Hurricane Helene, using funds donated for that purpose.
$0 spentof which $55,000 as grants
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
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 $101k to $204k (+101%).
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.
99% of FRIENDS OF CAMP CELO INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $13k → $23k.
4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% 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 FRIENDS OF CAMP CELO INC’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
FRIENDS OF CAMP CELO INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
74% 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 FRIENDS OF CAMP CELO INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 96% · 2021 98% · 2022 36% · 2023 44% — 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.
Where its funders are
74% of FRIENDS OF CAMP CELO INC'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 $63k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside North Carolina, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $178k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
FRIENDS OF CAMP CELO INC has grown faster than half of the 9,787 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,787 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like FRIENDS OF CAMP CELO INC
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
42%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CAMP CELO INC?
- FRIENDS OF CAMP CELO INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $240,681 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($133,200). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF CAMP CELO INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $240,681 in grants to FRIENDS OF CAMP CELO INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF CAMP CELO INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $133,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF CAMP CELO INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 6 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