Camp Fire USA
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 760704763
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2021, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Bowie, MD, USA
- Phone
- 2403916246
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $189,751
- Expenses
- $152,297
- Assets
- $37,454
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- rosemary pezzuto (CEO)
People named in this filing
- rosemary pezzuto (CEO)
- Sharon Fox Mould (Member)
- Mary Ruth Sherren (Mrs)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Camp Fire provides out of school, family enrichment, environmental education, teen leadership, self-reliance, community outreach, and camp programs for youth and families. Our programs are intentional, inclusive, and have clear goals and objectives. We utilize a methodology-Thrivology to help participants set goals, determine the best method for achieving the goals, and finding ways to make adjustments as needed to reach their potential.
What it reported doing in 2024
Club Program_ Program is delivered by volunteer, staff or partner leaders to small groups on a regularly schedule basis suing camp fire youth development curriculum that is outcome based and builds assets. all program is assessed using national youth development standards. Youth engage in activities including building personal knowledge, knowing their family and community, giving back through service, participating in creative arts activities, sports and wellness activities, outdoor and environmental education activities, and preparing for and planning for the future. We offer this program in schools, apartments, and Senior Centers. Our programs include intergenerational programs that include youth, seniors, and families.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 94% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.9%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 19.7%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.25; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 40%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -4.1% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.8% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -4.1% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 81.9% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 5 filed program accomplishments · $155K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.