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The Cedars Camps Inc

The Cedars Camps Inc (Missouri) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,630,023 to it, the largest being TENACRE FOUNDATION ($14,099,545). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$5.7M
Funders on record
41
Grants received
$20M
Net assets
$34M
26/41 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 81%
01What it does

What The Cedars Camps Inc does

Mission

To give each camper an appreciation of spiritual sense and an abundance of wholesome, joyous activities. We provide summer camp activities for Christian Scientists promoting character building, outdoor education, and spiritual growth as well as teamwork and individual interests. These activities include Bible lesson study, horseback riding, Starvish swimming classes, crafts, archery, canoeing, nature study, sports, ropes courses, zipline, musical theater, waterskiing, cable skiing and family camp. We strive to be able to make camp possible to anyone that needs financial aid. During summer 2025 56% of the campers needed financial aid totaling $655,101.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Salaries for program service go to summer college counselors, seasonal workers and 13 year-round employees that provide care for our heard of horses, activity upkeep and maintaining 1000 acres of property which includes facilities, grounds and equipment. We have a ratio of 1 counselor to every 3 campers. The summer program involves nine weeks of camping, and additional three weeks of pre-camp training for staff, plus fall events that are staffed with counselors. During pre-camp, staff become trained by and in some activity areas certified through the following: USA Archery certified instruction; certified instructors for high ropes and low ropes team building and ziplining; certified Horsemanship Association (CHA) for training staff as riding instructors at various levels; nature instructors; ski boat instruction for staff who are teaching water-skiing and boat driving; certified instruction on our cable ski system. Staff are also trained on cabin management, all facets of working with campers and they study our staff manual and handbook. As a member of the American Camp Association (ACA), we follow the guidelines they provide for staff training.

    $1,303,901 spent
    37% of program spending
  2. Cedars Camps has 9 weeks of summer camp activities (June-August) on 1000 acres of land near Lebanon, MO for Christian Scientists. In addition, there are several long weekend programs for adults or other organizations off season. Cedars Camps has 1 and 2 week camping sessions with a total of 410 individual campers and 1046 camper weeks. 132 people attended one week of Family Camp; 115 attended a Memorial Day Weekend Family Camp; 425 people from 3 other organizations came for 3 to 4 days in the fall and spring; 24 campers attended a virtual Cedars program; and 230 people attended a Bible study virtually. Cedars has small class and activity groups with a camper to counselor ratio of 3 to 1. Activities at Cedars include Bible lesson study; horseback riding; Starfish swimming classes; crafts; nature study; sports; ropes courses; zipline; climbing wall; musical theater; kayaking; paddle boarding; log rolling; cable skiing; water skiing; archery. Cedars has specialty programs in soccer; volleyball; horseback riding; waterskiing; aerial arts, as well as having many of these activities available to all campers as a choice of activities. We have a herd of 45 horses that we maintain year…

    $686,790 spent
    19% of program spending
  3. Maintenance includes upkeep for our program support buildings: 22 cabins with bathrooms, 4 individual residences/homes, 4 staff housing facilities, 3 lodges with kitchens and dining rooms, care facility, sports center and heavy and small equipment. There are 1000 acres of property to maintain including fencing to contain our herd of horses; aquatic center with a Jr. Olympic lap pool and diving well; waterslide; soccer fields; trails for horseback riding; 2 covered arenas (1 large); basketball court; and an outdoor covered chapel. Cedars has 3 maintenance buildings which includes a fire truck garage for camp safety. The facilities support the activities and Cedars purpose/mission. We also have a program for high school campers to work on the grounds crew and in food service, which trains them to see the bigger picture of what it takes to run camp and prepares them for counseling in future years.

    $618,763 spent
    17% of program spending
  4. List of all other accumulated expense

    $934,485 spent
    26% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,543,939.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($5.1M) Expenses 100 ($2.2M) Net assets 100 ($21M)2021 Revenue 92 ($4.7M) Expenses 126 ($2.8M) Net assets 113 ($24M)2022 Revenue 127 ($6.5M) Expenses 163 ($3.6M) Net assets 120 ($25M)2023 Revenue 144 ($7.4M) Expenses 172 ($3.8M) Net assets 139 ($29M)2024 Revenue 111 ($5.7M) Expenses 183 ($4.1M) Net assets 152 ($32M)2025 Revenue 110 ($5.7M) Expenses 186 ($4.2M) Net assets 161 ($34M)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (110)Expenses (186)Net assets (161)

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 $26M to $29M (+15%).

$22M
$24M
$26M
$29M
$32M
$34M
202020212022202320242025
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$2.9M
’20
$1.9M
’21
$2.8M
’22
$3.5M
’23
$1.6M
’24
$1.5M
’25
3.9
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.

Chief executive

Dr Holly Bruland

Trustee & executive director

Board chair

Laurel New

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.

202020212022202320242025
Listed151514141313
Joined·+0+0+1+0+1
No longer listed·01111
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $521k → $6.0M.

11 of 41 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 The Cedars Camps Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 41 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

The Cedars Camps Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

82% 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 The Cedars Camps Inc.

72%
largest funder
83%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 48% · 2019 45% · 2020 28% · 2021 78% · 2022 79% · 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

59% of The Cedars Camps Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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

The Cedars Camps Inc draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 15 states in all.

MN
IL
MI
NY
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
DE
KS
NC
TX
FL

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Missouri out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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

Organizations like The Cedars Camps 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 Missouri

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 15%Fundraising 0%

Governance

13
board members
85%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

43%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds The Cedars Camps Inc?
The Cedars Camps Inc (Missouri) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,630,023 to it, the largest being TENACRE FOUNDATION ($14,099,545). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does The Cedars Camps Inc have?
IRS filings report 41 organizations giving $19,630,023 in grants to The Cedars Camps Inc, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of The Cedars Camps Inc?
TENACRE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $14,099,545 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like The Cedars Camps Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 41 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