Camp Korey

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
203829742
IRS 990 coverage
2011–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
Location
Conway, WA, USA
Phone
4254400850
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Camp Fire

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$3,774,697
Expenses
$4,894,609
Assets
$16,760,926
Liabilities
$8,713,170

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

19 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DAN WORRA (CEO)
  • JAY HENNINGSEN (CEO (THRU 01/2024))
  • ANDY FRY (BOARD PRESIDENT)
  • SUE COLBOURNE (BOARD VICE PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • DAN WORRA (CEO): $171,275 total reported compensation
  • JENNIFER SHAW (NURSING DIRECTOR): $143,032 total reported compensation
  • ELICIA GIFFIN (DIRECTOR OF CAMP): $117,010 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The mission of camp korey is to honor the courage, strength, and determination of children and their families living with life-altering medical conditions by providing them with a transformational experience in a fun, safe camp environment with specialized medical support. Our programs are provided 100% free of charge to campers and families.

What it reported doing in 2024

Camp korey provides free, year-round programming to children diagnosed with over 90 life-altering medical conditions. Since our founding we have served over 50,000 campers and families. In 2024, camp korey brought confidence, friendship, and joy to more than 3,000 campers and their family members from six states. Thirty-eight percent of participants were from the bipoc community. Programming included eight 5-day sessions of overnight summer camp (353 served); seven, 3-day family weekends (329 served), and multiple family day adventures (439 served) including equine assisted learning at little bit therapeutic riding center, zoo day at woodland park zoo, martiners and bellingham bells baseball games, and warm fuzzy ice-skating at sno-king ice arena. Camp korey's camp to you hospital outreach program brought joy, growth, and empowerment to 1,867 children and family members across healthcare settings, including randall and shriner's children's hospitals in portland, mary bridge children's hospital in tacoma, and seattle children's hospital and ronald mcdonald house in seattle. Over 15,400 volunteer hours were donated and helped make these programs possible.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 90% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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 - 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: 83
  • Transparency & Controls: 84
  • Accountability: 84
  • Sustainability: 30
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 78.2%; rating input score 78
  • Fundraising efficiency: $4.56 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • 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: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -29.7%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.42; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.52; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 10.7%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 1.7% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -2% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -0.6% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 78.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3.8M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $171K · 19 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 4 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 15/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 4/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 28/100.