Camp Taylor Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 043709177
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2009
- Location
- Modesto, CA, USA
- Phone
- 2095453853
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Camp Fire
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,109,449
- Expenses
- $1,232,748
- Assets
- $4,639,459
- Liabilities
- $1,907,516
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KIMBERLIE GAMINO (President)
Highest reported compensation
- KIMBERLIE GAMINO (President): $141,492 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 taylor is to cultivate enriching experiences for children affected by heart disease and for their families. By integrating the healing power of nature, we aim to meet their mental, social, and psychosocial needs. Concurrently, we strive to educate the public on heart health, fostering healthier communities that provide unwavering support to children with heart conditions wherever they may be.
What it reported doing in 2024
Camp Taylor, Inc. helps the under-served population of pediatric cardiology. The children and their families are supported through programs designed to enrich and uplift, creating an immediate positive impact in the lives of this special community.Since its inception in 2002, the flagship program continues to be medically supervised residential camp programs for young people 7 17 years of age affected by heart disease. Camp Taylor remains the only program of its kind throughout Central and Northern California. Camp Taylor camps provide the unique opportunity for children fighting a life-threatening illness to feel normal surrounded by children fighting similar battles. The children grow emotionally, mentally, and socially as they engage in heart education classes, campfire skits, Giving Tree heart 2 heart talks, and standard camp fun activities. The impact that a week at Camp Taylor creates in the lives of the children is felt deep as children make lifelong friends and bond over their similar health challenges. When campers return home to begin the new school year, theyre empowered with newfound self-esteem and excellent knowledge of their specific disease, knowing they are not alone.Camp Taylor programs reach the children served at a depth not available in a physicians office or hospital environment. Camp is a safe have a world away from the daily trials of living with their disease.Camp Taylor purchased land and is building their own Forever Home Campus to continue expanding programs for children with heart disease and offering the facility to programs affecting children of other illnesses.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 75% 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
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: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 56
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89.2%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 80%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: $3.27 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 60%; rating input score 60; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- 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: -11.1%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.76; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.41; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.5%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.1% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.6% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 20.5% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 89.2% of revenue deployed · 80% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 5 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $986K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $141K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 29 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 10/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 19/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 32/100.