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LIONS CAMP MERRICK INC

LIONS CAMP MERRICK INC (Maryland) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $363,509 to it, the largest being WALDORF LIONS FOUNDATION INC ($210,921). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$492k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$364k
Net assets
$814k
8/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 17%
01What it does

What Lions Camp Merrick Inc does

Mission

To provide summer camp programs which empower children, teens, and adults living with deafness, blindness, diabetes, or post-traumatic stress disorder through specialized programs that elevate their unique gifts and limitless abilities in areas such as creative expression, education, and positive social interaction. Program fosters self-esteem, confidence, and independence, helping campers reach their full potential and develop important skills that they can carry into other facets of their lives.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. To empower children, teens, and adults living with deafness, blindness, diabetes, or post-traumatic stress disorder through specialized programs within a summer residential camp.

    $481,372 spent$87,719 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $481,372.

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 ($580k) Expenses 100 ($631k) Net assets 100 ($831k)2018 Revenue 99 ($575k) Expenses 98 ($618k) Net assets 95 ($788k)2019 Revenue 71 ($412k) Expenses 62 ($394k) Net assets 97 ($806k)2020 Revenue 50 ($292k) Expenses 31 ($194k) Net assets 109 ($904k)2021 Revenue 59 ($340k) Expenses 40 ($251k) Net assets 109 ($906k)2022 Revenue 44 ($253k) Expenses 57 ($361k) Net assets 96 ($798k)2023 Revenue 123 ($710k) Expenses 85 ($538k) Net assets 99 ($821k)2024 Revenue 85 ($492k) Expenses 79 ($499k) Net assets 98 ($814k)
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Revenue (85)Expenses (79)Net assets (98)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 2022 to 2023, from $798k to $1.0M (+29%).

$974k
$936k
$940k
$1.1M
$939k
$798k
$1.0M
$1.1M
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 65% · 2018 63% · 2019 47% · 2020 69% · 2021 22% · 2022 6% · 2023 13% · 2024 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

51% of LIONS CAMP MERRICK INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (18% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 16,168 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$51k
’17
−$43k
’18
$18k
’19
$98k
’20
$90k
’21
−$107k
’22
$173k
’23
−$7k
’24
4.2
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.

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Listed10101010981111
Joined·+0+4+0+7+0+6+1
No longer listed·0408131
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $500 → $56k.

1 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 LIONS CAMP MERRICK INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 10 of 11 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

LIONS CAMP MERRICK INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

75% 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 LIONS CAMP MERRICK INC.

58%
largest funder
90%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 55% · 2019 50% · 2020 80% · 2021 89% · 2022 49% · 2023 82% — 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

25% of LIONS CAMP MERRICK INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

79% of LIONS CAMP MERRICK INC's grant income comes from Maryland funders.

IL
NY
VA
MD
DC

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

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’21
’22
’23
Maryland out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $838 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

LIONS CAMP MERRICK INC's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−2% · below the median
Months of reserve4.2mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

96% of spending goes to programs.

Program 96%Management 4%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MD

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LIONS CAMP MERRICK INC: 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 LIONS CAMP MERRICK INC?
LIONS CAMP MERRICK INC (Maryland) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $363,509 to it, the largest being WALDORF LIONS FOUNDATION INC ($210,921). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LIONS CAMP MERRICK INC have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $363,509 in grants to LIONS CAMP MERRICK INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LIONS CAMP MERRICK INC?
WALDORF LIONS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $210,921 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LIONS CAMP MERRICK INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 11 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