Grants for summer camps

Name: Top 25 grants made to recreational and summer camps
Creator: Cause IQ
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1,151 recreational and summer camps received at least $119.4 million in grants for the most recent fiscal year. This includes 2,045 grants made from 1,540 grantmaking organizations, with a median grant amount of $1,300. Of these 1,540 foundations, 87% made just a single grant to summer camps, and 2% made grants to four or more summer camps. This analysis is based on grantmakers that e-file their Form 990s, and likely is an undercount of grants.

$119,364,050

Total grant dollars given to summer camps

2,045

Number of grants made annually to summer camps

1,540

Number of grantmakers funding summer camps

$1,300

Median grant size to summer camps

Foundations that support recreational and summer camps

Out of all grants made to summer camps, 79% came from small foundations with less than $10 million in assets. The top 10 grantmakers accounted for 96% of the dollar-value of grants to summer camps. Foundations funding summer camps also made grants to christian organizations, food banks, multiservice human service organizations, boys and girls clubs, and religious organizations.

Foundation size

Foundation size	Number of grantmakers
Small	1,231
Medium	175
Large	133

Small foundations have <$10M in assets. Medium foundations have $10M to $50M in assets. Large foundations have >$50M in assets.

Foundation type

Foundation type	Number of grantmakers
Community	38
Private	1,303
Corporate	78
Other	121

Grants made

Grants made to summer camps	Number of grantmakers
1	1,352
2-3	143
4-10	33
11+	12

Top 10 foundations supporting recreational and summer camps

Grantmaker	State	Geographic focus	Percent of grant dollars to summer camps	Number of grants made to summer camps	Median grant size
Baird Foundation	WI	National	0.3%	33	$13
Abbvie Foundation	IL	National	0.0%	22	$240
Shell Oil Company Foundation	TX	National	0.1%	19	$1,000
The Oscar C Rixson Foundation	NC	National	4.7%	19	$500
Arkansas Community Foundation	AR	State	0.0%	18	$1,000
Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee (CFMT)	TN	Metro	0.1%	17	$1,500
JP Morgan Chase Foundation	NY	National	0.0%	16	$230
Chubb Charitable Foundation	PA	National	0.1%	16	$250
Carmax Foundation	VA	National	0.1%	13	$500
The Rhode Island Foundation	RI	Metro	0.1%	11	$2,000

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Recreational and summer camps grantees

Summer camps with more than $5 million in total revenues received 94% of all grant dollars. These larger organizations accounted for 20% of all summer camps.

Grant amounts

Size of grant	Number of grants
<$10k	2,040
$10k-$25k	0
$25k-$100k	0
$100k+	5

Grant amount by grantee size

Grantee annual revenue	Median grant size
<$100k	$1,266
$100k-$500k	$1,500
$500k-$1M	$1,500
$1M-$5M	$1,700
>$5M	$1,000

Grantee states

State of grantee	Number of grants
New York	324
California	166
Texas	108
Missouri	107
Other	1,340

Grantee metros

Metro area of grantee	Number of grants
New York City	273
Los Angeles	99
Atlanta	66
Kansas City	61
Other	1,228

Top 25 grants made to summer camps

Grantee	Grant size	Purpose	Grantmaker
Camp Bowie Service Center	$96,913,317	Per Agreement	Kaiser Foundation Health Plan (KFHP)
Camp Bowie Service Center	$6,692,348	Per Agreement	Kaiser Foundation Health Plan (KFHP)
Victory Junction	$4,497,422	CCS - Child Welfare	United Way of Greater St. Louis
Camp Beech Cliff	$4,000,000	Endowment	Fidelity Foundation
Florida Elks Youth Camp	$3,139,512	Support Operations of Youth Camp	Harry-Anna Investment Fund
Camp Mak-A-Dream	$5,000	General Operating	Kingsbury Memorial Foundation
One Heartland	$5,000	Wilderness Preservation	Ferguson Foundation
Kids Across America (KAA)	$5,000	Program Support	Christian Community Foundation of Memphis and the Mid-South
Camp Anderson Corporation	$5,000	Program Assistance	Albemarle Foundation
Rotary Camp for Children with Special Needs	$5,000	Social Services	The Columbus Foundation
Flying Horse Farms	$5,000	Social Services	The Columbus Foundation
Catholic Youth Summer Camp (CYSC)	$5,000	Social Services	The Columbus Foundation
Flying Horse Farms	$5,000	Social Services	The Columbus Foundation
Catholic Youth Summer Camp (CYSC)	$5,000	Social Services	The Columbus Foundation
Camp Hebron	$5,000	Grant	Harold N and Thelma G Lenker Millersburg Community Trust
Lighthouse Ministries of Canton	$5,000	Meeting the Social-Emotional, Cognitive, Physical and Spiritual Needs of At-Risk Children and Families in Se Canton	Kismet Foundation
Camp Magical Moments Cancer Camp for Kids	$5,000	Equipment Needs	Voigt Foundation
The Circle Program	$5,000	Unrestricted Donation	Mclaneharper Charitable Foundation
Camp Challenge	$5,000	General Assistance	Zurich Classic of New Orleans
Live Oak Wilderness Camp	$5,000	General Assistance	Zurich Classic of New Orleans
Camp Spalding	$5,000	Christian Camp	Selah Charitable Trust
Camp For Change	$5,000	Entreprenuership	The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation
The Goodtimes Project	$5,000	501(c)3 Fundraising Gala	Lu-Wong Foundation
John Austin Cheley Foundation	$5,000	Unrestricted	The OAK Foundation
Texas Lions Camp Texas Lions League for Children (TLC)	$5,000	To Provide Outdoor Recreation To Youth	Greater Killeen Lions Club Foundation

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Methodology: To determine grants and grantees, Cause IQ analyzes electronically-filed Form 990, Form 990-EZ, and Form 990-PF financial disclosure documents, matching grantees to specific organizations using EINs and fuzzy matching logic. The "Summer camps" category for this page is determined by the "N20: Recreational and Sporting Camps" National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code. Cause IQ determines NTEEs for organizations by its own internally-developed secret-sauce algorithms.