Wisconsin · Nonprofit
Friends of Wisconsin Camp Tapawingo Corporation
Friends of Wisconsin Camp Tapawingo Corporation (Wisconsin) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $78,550 to it, the largest being RUTH ST JOHN & JOHN DUNHAM WEST FOUNDATION INC ($35,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $168k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $79k
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Friends of Wisconsin Camp Tapawingo Corporation does
Mission
At Camp Tapawingo each visitor engages with nature to learn and grow, as an individual, a peer group, or a family group. Our priority is to offer low-cost camp programming to meet the needs of the community. Camp activities are on recurring schedules based on demand. All camps are open to youth, and some camps will engage family groups, or include adults depending upon the nature of the activity. The camps employ both volunteer and paid staff who have met requirements to work with youth, including background checks. For activities that require certified instructors, certificates are required for both volunteer and paid instructors. Youth camps include youth counselors. This is an opportunity for older youth to learn and exercise leadership, problem solving, communication and organization. The camp property is open for rental to other not-for-profit groups. Income from public and private rentals(e.g., family reunions, weddings) defrays cost of operations to keep fees low.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Youth programming in the 2025 season included 6 overnight youth camps and 6 day camps. These camps included Winter Camp, Winter Leadership Camp, Tractor Safety Camps, Summer Camp, Fish and Fletch Camp, Arts Camp, Games Camp, Mini Wingo, and Wingo Camps. In addition, one family camp weekend. These served 312 youth and 19 adults during the family camp weekend.
$95,388 spent$29,308 earned by the program70% of program spendingRental of camp facilities to other local 501(c)(3) and community organizations. Renters in 2025 included Patch of the Lakeshore Quilters (x2)25, Mishicot Schools (x2)110, Two Rivers School District 60, Valders School District 66, Boys and Girls Club of Manitowoc 50, Manitowoc Boy Scout Troop 905 (x2) 50, Falling Stars Childcare 40, Faith Church Mission Manitowoc 30, Alliance Church Two Rivers (x3)95, MKP Wisconsin 80, Manitowoc County 4H Association 60.
$40,880 spent$17,833 earned by the program30% of program spendingInvestment Income, Ice Age Trail Easement, and Recovered Funds
$34,791 earned by the program
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $136,268.
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 2022 to 2023, from $2.0M to $2.1M (+2%).
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.
29% of Friends of Wisconsin Camp Tapawingo Corporation’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 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $35k → $12k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 Wisconsin Camp Tapawingo Corporation’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 Wisconsin Camp Tapawingo Corporation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
31% 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 Wisconsin Camp Tapawingo Corporation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 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
90% of Friends of Wisconsin Camp Tapawingo Corporation's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $24k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 Wisconsin Camp Tapawingo Corporation holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Friends of Wisconsin Camp Tapawingo Corporation
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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Friends of Wisconsin Camp Tapawingo Corporation: 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 Friends of Wisconsin Camp Tapawingo Corporation?
- Friends of Wisconsin Camp Tapawingo Corporation (Wisconsin) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $78,550 to it, the largest being RUTH ST JOHN & JOHN DUNHAM WEST FOUNDATION INC ($35,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Friends of Wisconsin Camp Tapawingo Corporation have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $78,550 in grants to Friends of Wisconsin Camp Tapawingo Corporation, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Friends of Wisconsin Camp Tapawingo Corporation?
- RUTH ST JOHN & JOHN DUNHAM WEST FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $35,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Friends of Wisconsin Camp Tapawingo Corporation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 5 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