Camp Copass
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 751325965
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Denton, TX, United States
- Phone
- 940.565.0050
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,277,619
- Expenses
- $4,415,328
- Assets
- $14,131,097
- Liabilities
- $54,335
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RONNIE CONYERS (President)
- BILL STARR (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- BRAD SPRINGER (Secretary)
- RONNIE CONYERS (President)
- HOLLIS PARSONS (Director)
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
Camp Copass is a Christian retreat center that is open year-round for conferences, retreats and summer camps. We exist primarily for the purpose of providing an environment conducive to Christian worship, training, discipleship, evangelism, and recreation. The Board of Directors for Camp Copass is composed of members elected from each of the four Baptist Associations that support Camp Copass. The associations are: Denton Baptist Association, Palo Pinto Baptist Association, Cooke Baptist Association, and Harvest Baptist Association. The Board of Directors meet quarterly and is responsible for policy making, personnel decisions, and approving the yearly budget. The current Board Members are: Ronnie Conyers, President.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provide meals, lodging and meeting facilities for camps, retreats, conferences and other events primarily for Southern Baptist Churches in a surrounding six-county region.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 91% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 73
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84.1%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 99.8%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 16.3%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.2; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 84.1% of revenue deployed · 99.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 17 of 17 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $4.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 17 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2015 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.