Camp Tails
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 923919409
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Carmel Valley, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8316592761
- Rating
- 52
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $325,057
- Expenses
- $18,481
- Assets
- $309,598
- Liabilities
- $1,068
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PATRICIA DEAN (CEO/BOARD CHAIR)
People named in this filing
- PATRICIA DEAN (CEO/BOARD CHAIR)
- LYNN STEELE (COO)
- MARI BUSH (DIRECTOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide refuge for neglected, abused, and abandoned animals; help other local animal rescue organizations improve animal adoption rates; and educate and engage the community on animal rights issues.
What it reported doing in 2024
Camp tails worked with and helped other equine rescue non profit organizations. Camp tails secured rental property and facilities to guarantee the safe keeping of animals in need of rescue with the plan to start bringing donkeys to the sanctuary in the first quarter of 2025. The sanctuary's initial goal is to provide proper diets, exercise, grooming, dental and hoof care.budgets were created in order to acquire essential equipment and supplies to be purchased in 2025 for donkey care and maintaining the property.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. 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: 9
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 88
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 1.5%; rating input score 1
- Program expense ratio: 26.1%; rating input score 26
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 94.3%; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 16.75; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 1.5% of revenue deployed · 26.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $5K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 19 of 19 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 1/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 26/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 52/100.