Camaraderie Foundation Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
270593856
IRS 990 coverage
2012–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2011
Location
Orlando, FL, USA
Phone
4078410071
Rating
82
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Counseling, Support Groups

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,032,277
Expenses
$758,933
Assets
$656,045
Liabilities
$160,813

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

22 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MARIA CHERJOVSKY (CEO)

People named in this filing

  • PETE MARION (CHAIR)
  • MARNIE MCCREE (FOUNDER)
  • MICHAEL WALDROP (CO-FOUNDER)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

See schedule o attachedcamaraderie foundation's mission is to "provide healing for invisiblewounds of war through counseling, emotional, and spiritual support forall branches of military service members, veterans, and theirfamilies." with each day, more and more military families are copingwith the mounting burden of repeated combat deployments and readjustment to civilian live. Increasingly, those burdens include troubling mental health challenges and, inworst-case scenarios, suicidal ideations/actions. Safeguarding themental health of our military men and women and their loved ones is animportant part of ensuring the future readiness of our armed forces, and compensating and honoring those who have served our nation. Through its three transformative programs, camaraderie foundation's goal is tohave a positive impact on the military family's transition back tocivilian life.

What it reported doing in 2025

See schedule o attachedour counseling services directly contributes to the overall camaraderie foundation mission by providing counseling intervention, education, resources and community outreach.this program facilitates an engaged and responsive community effort insupport of military families and their critical need to heal theinvisible wounds of war. Through fiscal year 2024 (fy24), the counseling program awarded 4,176 hours of counseling services to service members, veterans, their famiies and caregivers. Additionally, camaraderiefoundation and its community partners have worked together on numberous outreach events to raise awareness about post traumatic stress, traumatic brain injury, and other invisible wounds and/or mental healthissues that present barriers to successful reintegration. In fy24, we continued to streamline our operations and strengthen ourpartnerships thereby increasing our presence throughout the unitedstates, central Florida, tampa bay, and the i4 corridor. Combined, thecounseling program produced both long- and short-term results for our communities. For the families participating in these programs the results are long-term. There were 294 unduplicated counseling services awarded in 2025. This counseling affords the participants to learn better coping mechanisms enhance their communication and build a stronger family bond. Additionally, 225 counseling scholarships were carried over and managed throughout fy25.services are continually refined based on participant feedback and program staff and medical advisory council leadership. Session evaluations andfeedback are tracked to continuously improve program outcomes in theareas of adjusting to pre and post deployment life, while offeringcoping skills, education and support for caregivers and familiesaffected by the challenges and stresses of combat, deployments andreintegration.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 70% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 48% for direct work, and 52% for grants.

The verdict

STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 65
  • Transparency & Controls: 94
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 60
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 59.5%; rating input score 59
  • Program expense ratio: 80.9%; rating input score 81
  • Fundraising efficiency: $16.37 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 26.5%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.86; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.25; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 9.2% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 11.7% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 59.5% of revenue deployed · 80.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 21 of 21 board members independent · 7 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $614K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 22 people listed
  • Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2012 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 59/100.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 50/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.