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MOTIVATIONAL RECOVERY ENVIRONMENTS INC

MOTIVATIONAL RECOVERY ENVIRONMENTS INC (New York) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $857,534 to it, the largest being MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($162,926). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$764k
Funders on record
31
Grants received
$858k
Net assets
$267k
15/31 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 27%
01What it does

What Motivational Recovery Environments Inc does

Mission

KiDS NEED MORE is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charitable organization dedicated to enhancing the lives of children, families & young adults coping with cancer and life-threatening illness.Our Camp Adventure program is a sleep away camp every August for kids coping with cancer.Our Hope for Johnathon program provides year round visits to kids and families in hospitals, homes and other places for those too ill to attend camp or who simply need our assistance.Our MORE University program helps to train volunteers and provide mentoring for leadership skills and hands on experience that yields resume-building, education and character.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Camp Adventure - Our pediatric oncology sleepaway camp served nearly 100 children free of charge including transportation. We provied a fantasy camp with go karts, zip-lining, rock climbing, heated swimming pools, art & crafts, STEM, cabin culture, sports activities on pristine playing fields during the day. Then, for our evening events we had a big Fuzzfest concert, MoRE Memories Memorial Ceremony, Prom, Scavenger Hunt, Game Show Night, Talent Show, Drive-In Movie Night, & Ice Cream Social. Our Team FUN rides around providing snacks and refreshments throughout the day. We are proud to have kept this safe and positive environment going since 1990 free of charge where kids can forget about their struggles with cancer and just be kids having fun and sharing experiences

    $188,147 spent
    37% of program spending

  2. Holiday Cheer Bus Elf Ride - Roughly 1,000 volunteers dressed as elves Santa and other holiday attire collect gifts throughout the season and then sort & organize them at The North Pole aka our office in Amityville each weekend until the Sunday before Christmas when we deliver to over 1,500 children throughout Long Island, NYC, NJ, CT on busses filled with elf teams and gifts and we go right to the homes of children coping with life-threatening illnesses & trauma and their siblings and bring them huge sacks of toys and participate with them in silly challenges and acts of kindness as each elf team competes to win the prestigious Holiday Cup of Cheer. The parents, guardians, & caregivers have to pay nothing for the holidays. All of our services are provided free of charge and include the siblings giving respite to the caregivers.

    $77,868 spent
    15% of program spending

  3. Saddle Rock Ranch Day Camp - Our day camp serves children and their siblings coping with life-threatening illnesses & trauma. We serve over 100 kids each day with free door to door transportation included. Besides our daily offerings of STEM, sign language classes, cabin culture, creative arts & crafts, sports, drama, music, & dance, we have special events each day including Carnival with bounce houses & slippy slides, Family PicNic with food trucks, games, a concert on a parade float, a shaving cream fight and foam party. We also have a Mister Softee Truck every day and bottomless sno cones. We also have a Dart Zone days with fun Nerf guns and a talent show. Our MoRE Memories ceremony where we release hundreds of butterlies in memory of our loved ones

    $59,711 spent
    12% of program spending

  4. Other program expenses include various miscellaneous programs, a virtual camp and community events held throughout the year.

    $58,000 spent
    11% of program spending

  5. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $58,000 spent
    11% of program spending

  6. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $58,000 spent
    11% of program spending

  7. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $12,261 spent
    2% of program spending

The 7 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $511,987.

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 ($456k) Expenses 100 ($466k) Net assets 100 ($157k)2018 Revenue 111 ($506k) Expenses 121 ($563k) Net assets 64 ($101k)2019 Revenue 116 ($528k) Expenses 119 ($553k) Net assets 43 ($67k)2020 Revenue 78 ($355k) Expenses 61 ($284k) Net assets 88 ($138k)2021 Revenue 123 ($562k) Expenses 104 ($482k) Net assets 139 ($218k)2022 Revenue 117 ($534k) Expenses 130 ($605k) Net assets 93 ($147k)2023 Revenue 138 ($630k) Expenses 128 ($599k) Net assets 113 ($178k)2024 Revenue 167 ($764k) Expenses 145 ($675k) Net assets 170 ($267k)
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Revenue (167)Expenses (145)Net assets (170)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 2019 to 2020, from $88k to $192k (+119%).

$161k
$115k
$88k
$192k
$253k
$232k
$245k
$341k
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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: 2021 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

62% of MOTIVATIONAL RECOVERY ENVIRONMENTS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,932 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.

−$10k
’17
−$57k
’18
−$25k
’19
$71k
’20
$80k
’21
−$71k
’22
$31k
’23
$89k
’24
2.9
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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Joined·+0+0+0+0+0+2+0
No longer listed·0000000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $45k → $145k.

Funder
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'22
'23
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'25*
'26*
total
Care Camps Foundationunclassified
$135k
Rite Aid Healthy Futuresunclassified
$75k
Ann Liguori Foundationunclassified
$10k
funders
6
6
8
8
11
12
13
11
9
1

5 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 MOTIVATIONAL RECOVERY ENVIRONMENTS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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

MOTIVATIONAL RECOVERY ENVIRONMENTS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

71% 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 MOTIVATIONAL RECOVERY ENVIRONMENTS INC.

19%
largest funder
47%
top three
~10
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 39% · 2019 25% · 2020 36% · 2021 26% · 2022 21% · 2023 28% — 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.

How long its funders stay

58% of MOTIVATIONAL RECOVERY ENVIRONMENTS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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

MOTIVATIONAL RECOVERY ENVIRONMENTS INC draws 60% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 8 states in all.

MT
IL
NY
PA
CA
CO
DE
FL

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

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New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $114k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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

MOTIVATIONAL RECOVERY ENVIRONMENTS INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 13,769 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin12% · above the median
Months of reserve2.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,769 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like MOTIVATIONAL RECOVERY ENVIRONMENTS 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 New York

Thrive to Survive Organization Inc72%Little Saint Nick Foundation Inc72%Camp Good Days and Special Times Inc71%Kids-N-Camp Fund Inc71%Ramapo for Children Inc71%Felix Organization - Adoptees for Children Inc71%Friends of Karen Inc71%Sunrise Day Camps Association Inc70%

Nationally

His Kids Inc75%Power of Humans Inc Fka Hometown Heroes Inc73%Special Camps for Special Kids73%Hope for Kids Inc73%Kids Cancer Alliance Inc73%Kids 'N Kamp73%Camp Fiesta Inc73%Camp Magical Moments Cancer Camp for Kids Inc73%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 4%Fundraising 20%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

99%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 6 states

NY
PA
NJ
CT
CA
FL

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Questions and answers

Who funds MOTIVATIONAL RECOVERY ENVIRONMENTS INC?
MOTIVATIONAL RECOVERY ENVIRONMENTS INC (New York) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $857,534 to it, the largest being MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($162,926). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MOTIVATIONAL RECOVERY ENVIRONMENTS INC have?
IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $857,534 in grants to MOTIVATIONAL RECOVERY ENVIRONMENTS INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MOTIVATIONAL RECOVERY ENVIRONMENTS INC?
MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $162,926 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MOTIVATIONAL RECOVERY ENVIRONMENTS INC find more funders?
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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 31 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