North Carolina · Nonprofit
R Bruce Irons Camp Fund
R Bruce Irons Camp Fund (North Carolina) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,018,724 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($401,051). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $940k
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $680k
What R Bruce Irons Camp Fund does
Mission
Wayfinders' mission is ignite students potential by expanding their confidence, connections, and horizons. We achieve this through summer camps, year-round enrichment programs, and mentor relationships for self-motivated, underserved students.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Summer Camp: Wayfinders partnered with 9 mountain camps and 8 college camps this year, providing 180 children with transformative summer adventures! We sent three scholars to camp in Colorado for the first time through a partnership with A Thousand Summers.
$360,214 spent47% of program spendingFamily Support: We supported 29 families in or near crisis in the past year with free mental health therapy, housing assistance, and other urgent needs.
$142,290 spent19% of program spendingYear-Round Enrichment: Wayfinders hosted about 30 enrichment activities throughout the year, including a new Blue Hornets Soccer Team! We also founded our Youth Leadership Council in FY25, a cohort of 10th-12th grade scholars who will participate in leadership development throughout the year and provide community voice in our programming.
$98,692 spent13% of program spendingOther Program
$85,586 spent11% of program spendingMentorship: Wayfinders hired a second Mentor Co-Coordinator, allowing us to recruit more than 30 new volunteer mentors!
$78,315 spent10% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $765,097.
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 2021 to 2022, from $460k to $656k (+43%).
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.
95% of R Bruce Irons Camp Fund’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $25k → $334k.
12 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% 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 R Bruce Irons Camp Fund’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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
R Bruce Irons Camp Fund has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% 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
68% 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 R Bruce Irons Camp Fund.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 45% · 2019 24% · 2020 20% · 2021 30% · 2022 15% · 2023 20% — 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
71% of R Bruce Irons Camp Fund's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
62% of R Bruce Irons Camp Fund's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $763k that is directly attributable, 83% of it comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
R Bruce Irons Camp Fund runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,688 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,688 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like R Bruce Irons Camp Fund
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for R Bruce Irons Camp Fund: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds R Bruce Irons Camp Fund?
- R Bruce Irons Camp Fund (North Carolina) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,018,724 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($401,051). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does R Bruce Irons Camp Fund have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $2,018,724 in grants to R Bruce Irons Camp Fund, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of R Bruce Irons Camp Fund?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $401,051 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like R Bruce Irons Camp Fund find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
Play a game about who funds R Bruce Irons Camp →
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 38 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