Camp Attaway Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
521795189
IRS 990 coverage
2018–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2019
Location
Columbia, MD, USA
Phone
4435187671
Rating
72
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Camps

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$513,428
Expenses
$425,334
Assets
$645,816
Liabilities
$18,270

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

15 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • SUE ANN SHAFLEY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • DENISE L POPE (PRESIDENT)
  • JAIME W LUSE (VICE PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • SUE ANN SHAFLEY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $159,818 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 nurture the mind, the body, and the spirit of children who are missing out on fun, friendship, success, and achievement because of an inability to manage their emotions and behaviors as well as provide education and support to their families.

What it reported doing in 2024

Camp attaway serves children with complex emotional and behavioral disorders many of whom carry multiple diagnoses, including post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder (ocd), fetal alcohol syndrome, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (adhd), autism, oppositional defiant disorder, intermittent explosive disorders, and others. Children learn how to break out of their negative cycles and learn how to recognize and control their emotions and behaviors; while making friends, sometimes for the first time in their lives. While learning, children enjoy sports, nature, art therapy, rock climbing, and swimming.children work on self-regulation and learn how to recognize and manage their negative emotions. They learn and practice new coping and self-regulation skills. There is a 2 to 1 child to staff ratio where children work in small groups led by highly trained professionals from the fields of special education, psychology, counseling and psychiatry. Children work with staff in setting daily and weekly behavior management goals, while forging friendships and having summer fun. Camp attaway also has a counselor in training (c-i-t) program for former campers who receive one-on-one coaching, and learn job skills that prepare them for future employment. Individual goals are set that include computer, office and organizational skills customized to their situation.furthermore, camp attaway supports the mental health of families by providing year-round parent education programs and support groups led by a licensed social worker or child psychologist. Additionally, camp attaway provides intensive training and mentoring of staff from an onsite child psychologist and program director who both have extensive experience working with children with complex behaviors and mental health challenges. Camp attaway strengthens education and mental health services disseminated in schools, recreation, as well as counseling programs in countless communities extending the organization's impact in this community environment.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 72% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 72
  • Transparency & Controls: 60
  • Accountability: 84
  • Sustainability: 58
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 68.2%; rating input score 68
  • Program expense ratio: 81.5%; rating input score 81
  • Fundraising efficiency: $24.85 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Missing
  • 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 17.2%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.52; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 37.6%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 11% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 11.4% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 15.5% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 68.2% of revenue deployed · 81.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $347K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $160K · 15 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 25 of 26 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2018 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 59/100.