Indiana · Nonprofit
HAPPY HOLLOW CAMP INC
HAPPY HOLLOW CAMP INC (Indiana) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,042,049 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($3,448,248). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 50
- Grants received
- $5.0M
- Net assets
- $4.5M
What Happy Hollow Camp Inc does
Mission
To provide educational and outdoor residential camping programs designed to increase understanding of the environment for children ages 7-14 years old. Happy hollow provides highly reduced rates to campers who come from families in indianapolis and surrounding counties who are experiencing financial hardships. Camp also serves children with special needs and youth groups throughout indiana. Happy hollow provides a safe, supportive, and supervised learning environment for youth to participate in.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Signature summer camp - an accredited overnight camp program through the american camp association, happy hollow children's camp meets the needs of the community by providing high-quality summer camp programming while lessening barriers for youth and families to accessing and affording the residential camp experience. The summer camp program operates for five weeks from june to july and targets economically disadvantaged children ages 7 - 14 from the greater indianapolis area - marion, boone, hamilton, hancock, hendricks, and morgan counties. Children who qualify for the free or reduced lunch program receive a reduced rate. Households with higher incomes pay a rate based on a sliding scale fee. Children receive three home cooked meals per day, 24-hour supervision, 8:2 child/counselor ratio, and round-trip transportation from indianapolis to and from camp.
$712,341 spent$179,449 earned by the program55% of program spendingYouth user groups - happy hollow offers outdoor education programs for school groups and other youth serving organizations in the fall, winter & spring. The camp experiences are customized for each youth group covering topics such as nature education, animal observations, forest ecosystems, aquatic studies, history/geography, capital resources, conservation, bird studies, engineering, orienteering, astronomy and team building. The programs range from day long experiences to three-night, four-day programs. Schools & youth groups provide chaperones, a coordinator, a healthcare provider and transportation.
$582,825 spent$110,881 earned by the program45% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,295,166.
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. 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 2018 to 2019, from $2.7M to $3.8M (+39%).
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: 2017 2% · 2018 2% · 2019 1% · 2020 11% · 2021 12% · 2022 16% · 2023 1% · 2024 14% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of HAPPY HOLLOW CAMP INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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
Sara Noyed
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $226k → $931k.
4 of 50 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 HAPPY HOLLOW CAMP INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 50 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
HAPPY HOLLOW CAMP INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 44% · 2019 89% · 2020 37% · 2021 25% · 2022 37% · 2023 74% — growing more concentrated.
“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
47% of HAPPY HOLLOW CAMP INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
97% of HAPPY HOLLOW CAMP INC's grant income comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $88k 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
HAPPY HOLLOW CAMP INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,767 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,767 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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In Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HAPPY HOLLOW CAMP INC?
- HAPPY HOLLOW CAMP INC (Indiana) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,042,049 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($3,448,248). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HAPPY HOLLOW CAMP INC have?
- IRS filings report 50 organizations giving $5,042,049 in grants to HAPPY HOLLOW CAMP INC, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HAPPY HOLLOW CAMP INC?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,448,248 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HAPPY HOLLOW CAMP INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 50 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