The Arizona Daily Star Sportsmen’s Fund raises money so children from low-income households and active military families in Southern Arizona can attend summer camp on scholarships funded by Star readers.
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. New this year were scholarships for Flowing Wells students to go to the overnight Sky Camp on Mt. Lemmon.
So far, we’ve received 983 donations totaling $230,473.80 and spent $256,252 on scholarships to send 423 Southern Arizona boys and girls to camp.
Camp scholarship numbers were down from the proposal at all camps except Camp Tatiyee, which had record interest from families in Pima County who have children with special needs. Tatiyee scholarships are $1,000 a week, the largest scholarship of the camps we sponsor.
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Partial scholarships for 2025 overnight camps were:
- $10,200 for 25 Flowing Wells students to go to Sky Camp on Mt. Lemmon.
- $11,818 for 30 boys and girls to go to Scouting America’s Camp Lawton on Mt. Lemmon.
- $17,462 for 50 Girl Scouts to go to Camp Whispering Pines on Mt. Lemmon.
- $72,000 for 72 girls and boys with special needs to go to Lions Camp Tatiyee in Pinetop-Lakeside.
- $144,772.50 for 246 girls and boys to go to Triangle Y Ranch Camp in Oracle.
Since 1947, the Sportsmen’s Fund has helped pay for 44,814 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 info@azsendakidtocamp.org
Donations are welcome throughout the year.
Recent donations include:
Sonny N. Atwood, $100.
Deanna Bates, $200.
Deb Castiglia, in memory of Kenneth Johnson, $400.
Steve Harnden, $495.
Trudy Hersch, $495.
Roberta Hanson and Frank Sciannella, $250.
Byron M. Snyder, $100.
The Salpointe Class of 1967 Lunch Bunchers, $150.
Marlene and Bill Wright, $25.
More readers will be thanked in the coming weeks.
