Thank you Arizona Daily Star readers. We’re just a few dollars away from 2025 Send A Kid to Camp goal

We send local kids to weeklong YMCA, Scouting America (formerly Boy Scouts) and Girl Scout overnight camps, as well as overnight camping at Camp Tatiyee for school-age children with special needs.

Our goal was to raise $225,000 to send at least 500 kids to overnight camp. So far, we’ve received 956 donations totaling $224,834.89 and spent $256,853 on scholarships to send 431 Southern Arizona boys and girls to camp. Camp scholarship numbers were down from proposal at all camps except Camp Tatiyee, which had record interest from families who have children with special needs. Tatiyee scholarships are $1,000 a week, the largest scholarship of the camps we sponsor.

Since 1947, the Sportsmen’s Fund has helped pay for 44,822 children to go to overnight camp. We’re one of the oldest 501(c )(3) charities in Arizona and one of the most efficient, with 97 cents from every dollar going to send kids to camp.

Your contribution to the Arizona Daily Star Sportsmen’s Fund Send a Kid to Camp fund qualifies for the Arizona tax credit for donations to qualifying charitable organizations. Our code is 20450. Joint Arizona filers can donate up to $987 for 2025 taxes, and other Arizona filers can donate up to $495 for 2025. Our EIN is 86-6053274, which is needed for some fund transfers.

Credit-card donations and details on the camps we sponsor: azsendakidtocamp.org

Send checks, payable to Sportsmen’s Fund, to: Send a Kid to Camp, P.O. Box 16141, Tucson, AZ 85732-6141

For more information: Debbie Kornmiller at 520-954-3139 or [email protected]

Donations are welcome throughout the year.

Recent donations include:

Janice Bottorff, in memory of Jerry Cocagne, an avid golfer and fisherman, $100.

Kinlen and Vivian Gee, $987.

Michael W. McGrath, RIP David Glicksman, $100.

The Salpointe Class of 1967 Lunch Bunchers, $80.

One anonymous donation of $25.