Camp Fire Central Texas
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 741552713
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Austin, TX, USA
- Phone
- 5123492111
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $212,234
- Expenses
- $265,984
- Assets
- $68,620
- Liabilities
- $24,951
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Nicole Renaux (Vice President)
- Travis Tidwell (President)
- Vance Wilson (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Donna Daugherty (Executive Dir.): $97,722 total reported compensation
- Barbara Dunnam Outgoing (Executive Dir.): $30,534 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Camp Fire Central Texas builds caring, confident youth and future leaders through hands-on science, outdoor experiences, and service to the community.
What it reported doing in 2024
Fee based camp fire central Texas summer camp - an immersive outdoor camping experience that encourages exploration of nature and the outdoors through traditional camp activities. Youth are engaged in curriculum that helps to prevent summer learning loss. It is teks aligned, stem based and immersive. Camp fire central Texas operated traditional and outdoor clubs, engaging youth in nature-based activities throughout the year. These clubs provided participants opportunities to explore the outdoors, develop leadership skills, and build meaningful connections with peers. Through these programs, camp fire central Texas impacted the lives of thousands of children, youth, and families in our community, helping them discover their sparks, connect with nature, and develop lifelong skills.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 74% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 52
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 11
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 61.5%; rating input score 61
- Program expense ratio: 49%; rating input score 49
- Fundraising efficiency: $3.71 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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; 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: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -25.3%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.26; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.36; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 48.2%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.7% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.4% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 61.5% of revenue deployed · 49% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $130K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $98K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 49/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 16/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.