Camp Fire Central Puget Sound
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 910575953
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Phone
- (206) 461-8550
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $7,736,847
- Expenses
- $4,578,994
- Assets
- $7,077,305
- Liabilities
- $1,471,154
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOANNA CERAR (BOARD PRESIDENT)
- CARA THOMPSON (BOARD VICE PRESIDENT)
- JEFFREY ROBERTS (BOARD PAST-PRESIDENT)
- RICK TAYLOR (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- RICK TAYLOR (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $135,922 total reported compensation
- DANA AOYAMA (FINANCE DIRECTOR): $94,811 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 Fire Central Puget Sound's mission is to provide opportunities for young people to get outside, make lifelong friends, thrive on their own terms, and stand up for what they believe.
What it reported doing in 2025
Group programs and community programs - 178 youth and 102 adults participated in camp fire's community outreach programs including our signature group program, teen leadership, and after-school programming. Camp fire engages groups of youth, families, or individuals; and participants are able to develop friendships, have fun, learn new outdoor and leadership skills, and provide community service. Activities build social skills and encourage a sense of belonging and self-empowerment.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 78% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 97% 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 - 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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 66
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 94.7%; rating input score 95
- Program expense ratio: 88.3%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.72 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 13; 13th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- 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: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 40.8%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.55; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.21; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.5% per year; rating input score 100; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 7 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 94.7% of revenue deployed · 88.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $136K · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 37 of 37 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 13/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 34/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 57/100.