Camp 252 Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 843793113
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Little Neck, NY, USA
- Phone
- 9176704610
- Rating
- 36
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $637
- Expenses
- $1,743
- Assets
- $45,247
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Christopher Chung (President)
People named in this filing
- Joseph Ting (Treasurer)
- Meng Han Ho (Director)
- Christopher Chung (President)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of camp 252 is to provide a cost-efficient annual summer program for elementary and middle school students of the little neck community and neighboring towns. Our annual six-week summer program provides families with time flexibility during the busy summers and prioritizes spiritual maturity, academic excellence and a secure environment for their children. Camp 252 focuses on supporting the local school districts by allowing students to maximize their summer time with academic preparation. Students that enroll in camp 252 benefit from high-quality instructors and tailored curriculum that will allow them to excel in the upcoming fall semester.
What it reported doing in 2025
The mission of camp 252 is to provide a cost-efficient annual summer program for elementary and middle school students of the little neck community and neighboring towns. Our annual six-week summer program provides families with time flexibility during the busy summers and prioritizes spiritual maturity, academic excellence and a secure environment for their children. Camp 252 focuses on supporting the local school districts by allowing students to maximize their summer time with academic preparation. Students that enroll in camp 252 benefit from high-quality instructors and tailored curriculum that will allow them to excel in the upcoming fall semester. Camp 252 cultivates an environment of academic growth enhanced by the values of spiritual maturation, leadership training, unified teamwork and development of social skills. Over the course of the summer, the student experience at camp 252 develops into a balance of educational preparation and truly enjoyable recreation. Our program provides registrants with weekly organized sessions that evenly integrate academic studies (math, reading, writing, science, etc.), field trips, group games, sports, music and the performing arts. Camp 252 achieves its mission by recruiting qualified, department of education certified instructors who affirm our core ideals and mission values. Our teaching staff at camp 252 are committed to the ideals of luke 2:52, which emphasize a young person's intellectual growth, spiritual maturity and leadership development. In doing so, camp 252 benefits the little neck community by providing employment to qualified professionals and future instructors, who in turn pave the way for mentorship and career preparation for the next generation of leaders. Camp 252 accommodates its summer sessions in church buildings that are adequate in terms of classroom capacity, building safety regulations and optimal accessibility. Camp 252 will expand its mission by planting future satellite locations throughout long island and sending out qualified leaders to start additional summer programs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -173.6%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 25.96; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -8.2% per year; rating input score 0; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.7% per year; rating input score 0; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 29.9% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.