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HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC

HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 352 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,478,349 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($7,526,511). 206 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$25M
Funders on record
352
Grants received
$36M
Net assets
$175M
206/352 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 33%
01What it does

What Hole in the Wall Gang Fund Inc does

Mission

The hole in the wall gang camp, in collaboration with its associated camps in the united states and abroad, provides children, adolescents and young adults with cancer and other serious illnesses and conditions a camping experience of the highest quality, while extending year-round support to those individuals and their families.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Provided on-site residential programs for nearly 1,000 participants totaling nearly 6,000 "camper" days.

    $9,728,847 spent
    63% of program spending
  2. Provided more than 30,000 in-person hospital interactions. Provided virtual programming in hospitals and homes and alternative community group programming for more than 2,500 participants.

    $5,570,476 spent
    36% of program spending
  3. Provided support to organizations with similar missions to assist with capital and operating needs.

    $150,000 spentof which $150,000 as grants
    1% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $15,449,323.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($17M) Expenses 100 ($13M) Net assets 100 ($105M)2018 Revenue 86 ($15M) Expenses 101 ($13M) Net assets 99 ($105M)2019 Revenue 85 ($14M) Expenses 110 ($15M) Net assets 107 ($112M)2020 Revenue 104 ($18M) Expenses 95 ($13M) Net assets 115 ($121M)2021 Revenue 121 ($20M) Expenses 97 ($13M) Net assets 137 ($144M)2022 Revenue 172 ($29M) Expenses 124 ($16M) Net assets 137 ($144M)2023 Revenue 86 ($15M) Expenses 138 ($18M) Net assets 140 ($147M)2024 Revenue 105 ($18M) Expenses 156 ($21M) Net assets 156 ($164M)2025 Revenue 146 ($25M) Expenses 169 ($22M) Net assets 167 ($175M)
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Revenue (146)Expenses (169)Net assets (167)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $124M to $145M (+17%).

$106M
$105M
$113M
$124M
$145M
$146M
$149M
$165M
$178M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

81% of HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (11% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 336 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$3.7M
’17
$1.2M
’18
−$140k
’19
$5.1M
’20
$7.7M
’21
$13M
’22
−$3.7M
’23
−$2.9M
’24
$2.3M
’25
0.4
months of
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

James Canton

CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed403939403939404142
Joined·+1+2+6+2+4+3+4+3
No longer listed·22534232
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 93 funders to 150 funders, grant income rose $2.7M → $4.8M.

37 of 352 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 352 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

HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left

59% 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 HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC.

21%
largest funder
36%
top three
~16
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 20% · 2018 20% · 2019 20% · 2020 21% · 2021 15% · 2022 22% · 2023 19% — 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.

How long its funders stay

48% of HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC draws 61% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 30 states in all.

VT
NH
WA
ID
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
SD
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
DE
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Connecticut out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 184 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin9% · above the median
Months of reserve0.4mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 184 recreation & sports nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Organizations like HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND 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 Connecticut

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

69% of spending goes to programs.

Program 69%Management 9%Fundraising 22%

Governance

31
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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 26 states

ME
VT
NH
WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
SC
GA
FL

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Questions and answers

Who funds HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC?
HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 352 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,478,349 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($7,526,511). 206 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC have?
IRS filings report 352 organizations giving $36,478,349 in grants to HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC, 206 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $7,526,511 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 352 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