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, Boy Scout and Girl Scout overnight camps, as well as overnight camping at Camp Tatiyee for school-age children with special needs.
We officially kicked off our 2025 camp fundraising drive March 5 with a donation envelope in the Arizona Daily Star. Our goal is to raise $225,000 to send at least 500 kids to overnight camp. We are continuing to tally donations we received in those envelopes in the first few weeks after the envelope appeared.
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.
Joint filers can donate up to $938 for 2024 taxes or $987 for 2025 taxes. All others can donate up to $470 for 2024 taxes or $495 for $2025. Donations made during 2024 or from Jan. 1, 2025, through April 15, 2025, to be claimed on the 2024 Arizona income tax return.
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:
Freddy Alvarez, $30.
Pat Banner, $50.
Nancy Bowersock, $50.
Clait E. Braun, $50.
Cheryl and John Culler, $100.
John and Joan Curran, $104.42.
Dagmar Cushing, $100.
Eleanor Doren, $150.
Sandy Elers, $250.
Rose Ewen, $50.
Craig and Julia Faltin, $200.
Betty Feinberg, $100.
Christina Fell, $104.42.
Raymond Grady, $30.
Sherry Graves, in memory of Wendell Graves — a kid at heart, $100.
Liz Kanter Groskind and Eric Groskind Fund, $987.
William Harlow, $100.
Margaret Hendrickson, $100.
Trudy Hersch, in memory of Robert M. Hersch, $200.
Bruce Hilpert, $100.
James and Veronika Holmberg, $200.
Janet Hoopes, $50.
Dave and Jeanné Hunter, $30.
Robert Eric Johnson, $20.
Cindy Jorgenson, $208.54.
Dennis J. Kelly, $100.
Patrick E. Kelly, in memory of Elizabeth Dickey Kelly, $400.
Merry Lewis, $300.
Elizabeth Lubis, $100.
Rowanne Madson, $50.
Todd and Allison Mayfield, $125.
Cindy McCoy, in memory of Sue Labuda, $100.
Suzanne Mclaren, $52.37.
Craig and Barbara Nelson, $250.
Louis and Nora Nelson, $100.
Robert Ornelas, in memory of Mom, $25.
Nancy Pope, $100.
Julieta Bustamante Portillo and Ernesto Villalobos Portillo, $100.
Rosalie C. Randall, $100.
Barbara Riggs, in memory of Mel Haskell, $200.
Bobby Robinson, $200.
Judy Rubin, $470.
Duncan C. Sauer, $100.
Cheri Schwartz, $100.
Jeanne Shupe, $470.
Monique Steinberg, $50.
Michael and Laura Sullivan, $987.
Bee and Stuart Summers, $400.
The Salpointe Class of 1967 Lunch Bunchers, $30.
Stewart W. Fleisher and Jacqueline L. Tobin, $2,000.
Ross Iwamoto and Marianne Vivirito, $75.
Seven anonymous donations totaling $3,302, including one for $138 in memory of Charles R. Schwinn.
More readers will be thanked in the coming week.
