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ROCKY BOTTOM CAMP OF THE BLIND

ROCKY BOTTOM CAMP OF THE BLIND (South Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,249 to it, the largest being Leclerc Charity Fund ($30,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$55k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$43k
Net assets
$214k
2/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 19%
01What it does

What Rocky Bottom Camp of the Blind does

Mission

None

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The organization provides camping services for no charge to the blind of south carolina.

    $84,861 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $84,861.

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 ($45k) Expenses 100 ($83k) Net assets 100 ($320k)2018 Revenue 225 ($101k) Expenses 154 ($129k) Net assets 90 ($287k)2019 Revenue 179 ($80k) Expenses 119 ($99k) Net assets 84 ($270k)2020 Revenue 217 ($98k) Expenses 102 ($85k) Net assets 88 ($281k)2021 Revenue 321 ($144k) Expenses 138 ($115k) Net assets 97 ($312k)2022 Revenue 115 ($52k) Expenses 127 ($106k) Net assets 80 ($255k)2023 Revenue 146 ($66k) Expenses 115 ($96k) Net assets 70 ($225k)2024 Revenue 122 ($55k) Expenses 79 ($66k) Net assets 67 ($214k)
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Revenue (122)Expenses (79)Net assets (67)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 2021 to 2022, from $314k to $258k (−18%).

$321k
$288k
$272k
$283k
$314k
$258k
$225k
$214k
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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 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

79% of ROCKY BOTTOM CAMP OF THE BLIND’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 15,075 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$39k
’17
−$28k
’18
−$19k
’19
$13k
’20
$29k
’21
−$55k
’22
−$30k
’23
−$11k
’24
2.8
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.

Board chair

Thom Spittle

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed10101010991212
Joined·+0+0+1+1+0+4+0
No longer listed·0012010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $6k → $47.

2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $95k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest National Federation of the Blind of Sc Sc Aurora Club of the Blind). These are real filings, and they are not money ROCKY BOTTOM CAMP OF THE BLIND raised.

From the IRS filings of ROCKY BOTTOM CAMP OF THE BLIND’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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

ROCKY BOTTOM CAMP OF THE BLIND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

69%
largest funder
95%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 59% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.

Where its funders are

ROCKY BOTTOM CAMP OF THE BLIND draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 2 states in all.

DE
SC

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

’20
’21
’22
South Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

ROCKY BOTTOM CAMP OF THE BLIND has grown faster than half of the 13,282 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−21% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.8mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,282 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

Organizations like ROCKY BOTTOM CAMP OF THE BLIND

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 South Carolina

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

93% of spending goes to programs.

Program 93%Management 7%Fundraising 0%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

74%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

SC

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ROCKY BOTTOM CAMP OF THE BLIND: 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 ROCKY BOTTOM CAMP OF THE BLIND?
ROCKY BOTTOM CAMP OF THE BLIND (South Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,249 to it, the largest being Leclerc Charity Fund ($30,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ROCKY BOTTOM CAMP OF THE BLIND have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $43,249 in grants to ROCKY BOTTOM CAMP OF THE BLIND, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ROCKY BOTTOM CAMP OF THE BLIND?
Leclerc Charity Fund is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ROCKY BOTTOM CAMP OF THE BLIND find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 5 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