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.
Our goal is to raise $225,000 to send at least 500 kids to overnight camp. So far, we’ve received 579 donations totaling $117,356, or just over half of our goal.
Since 1947, the Sportsmen’s Fund has helped pay for 44,391 children to go to 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.
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Joint Arizona filers can donate up to $ $987 for 2025 taxes, and others can donate up to $495 for 2025.
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:
Eleanor Arnold, to sponsor Camp Tatiyee campers, $100.
Ferguson Glaze Donor Advised Fund held at the Community Foundation of Southern Arizona, $1,000.
Patricia Glover, $100.
Patricia Hamill, $50.
Kay L. Humphrey, $100.
Phil and Carol Lyons, $1,000.
Al and Jan McClellan, $5,000.
Claire Morello, $50.
Neal Charitable Trust, $500.
Jerald S. Olson, $100.
Thomas Progin, $100.
Frank and Barbara Sotomayor, $1,000.
Deborah Summers, $200.
The Salpointe Class of 1967 Lunch Bunchers, $125.
Nasario Verdugo, $20.
Robert C. and Peggy J. Wenrick, $500.
More readers will be thanked in the coming week.
