Uncommon Schools Camden Prep
Legal name: Camden Prep Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 471221222
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Camden, NJ, US
- Phone
- 6467748629
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Elementary, Secondary Education, K - 12
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $40,609,179
- Expenses
- $43,092,305
- Assets
- $100,184,226
- Liabilities
- $98,281,287
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JULIE JACKSON (SECRETARY/CEO-CEO)
- BRETT PEISER (CO-CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
- JULIE JACKSON (SECRETARY/CO-CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
Highest reported compensation
- MICHELLE WALLACE (PRINCIPAL): $158,530 total reported compensation
- SYRENA MCKENZIE BURNAM (PRINCIPAL): $151,679 total reported compensation
- ASHLEY JACKSON (DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS): $145,851 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To prepare every student to succeed in college and beyond.
What it reported doing in 2024
Camden prep is a New Jersey public renaissance school overseen by the state of New Jersey department of education. Camden prep offers a wide range of courses that spark curiosity and develop our students' interests. Students have multiple opportunities to continue their learning and self-development through a variety of extracurricular activities. Camden prep teachers and leaders communicate frequently with parents and families. They share updates and work as a team with parents and families to ensure every child has the support he or she needs to succeed.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 81% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 70
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.2%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 82.2%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: $12.15 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th 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: -6.1%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.32; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.98; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.7%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 20.3% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 18.7% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 34.5% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 87.2% of revenue deployed · 82.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 7 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $35.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $159K · 19 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $5.8M reported
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 44/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 7/100.