Summer Camp Opportunities Promote Education
ActivePublic CharityYouth Development
About Summer Camp Opportunities Promote Education
SCOPE (Summer Camp Opportunities Promote Education) provides children from under-resourced communities with access to life-changing overnight summer camp experiences and college/trade-school scholarships, creating pathways to potential through Camp, Classroom, College, and Career.
Focus Areas
Youth developmentEducationSummer camp accessScholarshipsOut-of-school time programs
Who They Fund
childrenyouthcamp participants
Funding Style
individual financial assistanceprogram-restricted supportdirect service fundingscholarship/subsidy model
About Summer Camp Opportunities Promote Education
Summer Camp Opportunities Promote Education Inc centers its grantmaking on overnight camp access for children from under-resourced communities, pairing campership support with college and trade-school scholarships for campers who stay in school. In 2023, the largest grants in the record went to Trail Blazers in Brooklyn at $119,000 and Fiver Foundation in New York City at $114,400, both for camperships. That pattern points to a funder that works through partner camps and camp-based enrollment, rather than through broad open grant competitions. The foundation’s program model links summer experiences to longer educational pathways through camp, classroom, college, and career. Its recent grants also show support for camps and youth-serving organizations across the Northeast and beyond, including Camp Wilber-Herrlich in Patterson, YMCA Camp Hi-Rock in Mount Washington, and The Fresh Air Fund in New York. Across the record, camperships appear as the core vehicle for helping children and teens attend accredited overnight camps with tuition covered through SCOPE-allocated funding.
What Summer Camp Opportunities Promote Education Funds
The foundation’s clearest area of support is summer camp access. It gave $96,900 to Camp Wilber-Herrlich in Patterson, NY, $61,100 to YMCA Camp Hi-Rock in Mount Washington, MA, and $39,000 to The Fresh Air Fund in New York, all as campership support. It also funds camps serving youth from under-resourced communities, such as $37,400 to Coalition for the Homeless in New York for camperships and $32,500 to Kiddie Keep Well Camp in Edison, NJ. Another thread is education continuity: SCOPE’s college and trade-school scholarship work connects camp participation to later schooling, and its program language ties camp experiences to staying in school. A third area is youth development through camp-based enrichment, reflected in grants to organizations like Ramapo for Children in Rhinebeck, NY and Homes for the Homeless Summer Camp in New York.
How Summer Camp Opportunities Promote Education Gives
Typical grants cluster around a modest middle range, with p25 at $6,750, a median of $15,500, and p75 at $24,700. The 2023 record also includes larger campership allocations, but the distribution suggests many awards are sized to support multiple campers through partner camps. This is a public charity and regular funder, not a DAF or program-related investor. The recent grant list is concentrated in a single year snapshot, so recurring recipients cannot be assessed from the data provided. Camperships are administered through partner camps, and one active program notes that SCOPE accepts unsolicited requests for the partner-camp funding stream.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$863K
Total Assets
$2.6M
Total Revenue
$2M
Total Expenses
$1.6M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $7K and $25K, with a median of $16K.
25th Percentile
$7K
Median
$16K
75th Percentile
$25K
Geographic Reach
Regional9 states funded
About 49% of grants go to recipients in NY.
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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