Camp Gideon of Northeastern Ohio

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 820992547
IRS 990-EZ coverage: 2022–2025
Forms available: Form 990-EZ 2025
Location: Damascus, OH, USA
Phone: 3305095400
Rating: 45
Verdict: MIXED
Rating confidence: Moderate
Affiliation: Christianity

Reported finances

Revenue: $50,301
Expenses: $48,270
Assets: $28,847

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

People named in this filing

MICHAEL KNOEDLER (PRES)
CHERYL LIBB (ADMINISTRATOR)
RICK BECK (VP)

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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To provide christian teaching to youth through a church camp experience.

What it reported doing in 2025

Youth summer church camp. Approximately 100 childrenattended these events.

Operating model

Revenue model: Earned-program. 74% 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

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

Financial Efficiency: 18
Transparency & Controls: 82
Sustainability: 41
Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 18.4%; rating input score 18
Program expense ratio: 19.2%; rating input score 19

Transparency & Controls

Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

Operating margin: 4%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.6; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

Program expense growth: -46% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: -16.3% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: 11.5% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 18.4% of revenue deployed · 19.2% of spending went to programs
Governance: Filed governance answers
Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $9K in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
Schedules: 2 filed schedules
Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 18/100.
High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 19/100.
High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 52/100.
Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.