Camp Blue Skies Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 262354082
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Charlotte, NC, USA
- Phone
- 7042367902
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Centers to Support the Independence of Specific Populations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,074,525
- Expenses
- $787,254
- Assets
- $5,762,154
- Liabilities
- $64,337
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Richard Sesler (President)
- Jon Beall (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Kimberly Conroy (Executive Dir.): $85,008 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Camp Blue Skies Foundation offers residential camps, four week-long and one weekend, for adults with developmental disabilities, to enhance their lives through recreation, socialization and life skills education.
What it reported doing in 2025
The 2025 five-day/four night camp sessions took place in two locations: near Atlanta, Georgia (Camp Twin Lakes in Rutledge, GA) and in Western North Carolina (YMCA Camp Harrison in Boomer, NC). Camps were leased for one-week programs in March and October. The website is maintained for camper sign-up and for recruitment of volunteers. There is extensive planning for camp sessions for adults with developmental disabilities. The first camp session in Georgia was held March 12-16, 2025 and served 65 disabled adults with help from 50 volunteers. A second (Williams syndrome) camp session was held March 19-23, 2025 and served 72 adults with Williams syndrome with help from 63 volunteers.The first North Carolina session was held October 4-8, 2025 and served 71 disabled adults with help from 100 volunteers. The second NC session was held October 11-15, 2025 and served 74 disabled adults with help from 72 volunteers.Our Weekend camp (3 day/2 night session) was held May 2-4, 2025 in upstate South Carolina (YMCA Camp Thunderbird in Lake Wylie, SC) and served 55 disabled adults with help from 52 volunteers
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 71% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 63
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 74
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 61.9%; rating input score 62
- Program expense ratio: 75.8%; rating input score 76
- Fundraising efficiency: $9.41 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 33; 33rd 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: Limited
- 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 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 26.7%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.32; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.8%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.4% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 20.6% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 61.9% of revenue deployed · 75.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 17 of 17 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $597K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $85K · 18 people listed
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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 33/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 35/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 59/100.