Camp Wightman Camping & Conference Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 874741953
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Griswold, CT, USA
- Phone
- 8603762179
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Camps
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $625,152
- Expenses
- $469,083
- Assets
- $903,557
- Liabilities
- $12,183
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Todd Garmer (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Todd Garmer (Executive Director): $113,914 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Camp Wightman Camping and Conference Center is a year-round non-profit outdoor ministry that promotes and inspires life-long development for children, adults, and families through programs and experiences by enhancing the spiritual, physical, social, and mental well-being of each individual. Camp Wightman achieves this through a broad range of experiences that serve a community rich in religious, racial, ethnic, and economic diversity. Camp Wightman serves churches and other faith-based organizations, families (including campers), nonprofit groups, and educational organizations.
What it reported doing in 2024
Camp Wightman provides up to 700 camper weeks annually. Campership Funds aid campers who would otherwise be unable to attend Camp due to financial hardship. Typical camp activities include archery, fishing, swimming, paddle boarding, kayaking, canoeing, rowing, crafts, hiking, nature studies, worship, and fellowship. Camp offers: Camp programming throughout the summer months, Leadership programs including counselor-in-training/junior counselor training, Programs for campers with special needs, and Family Camp. Retreats provide an opportunity for individuals or groups to: work, plan and build; focus on each other, work goals, or program purposes without the distraction of the work-a-day world; reflect and focus on community building, to improve communication skills, and to strengthen relationships; Relax, breathe deeply, and experience God's presence on this holy ground. Retreat centers provide housing and gathering space complimented by dining services and access to the waterfront, hiking trails, campfires, and chapel.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 83
- Sustainability: 66
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 69.3%; rating input score 69
- Program expense ratio: 90.2%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: $22.05 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 80%; rating input score 80; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- 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: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 25%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.93; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 24.3%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.5% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.1% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 19.5% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 69.3% of revenue deployed · 90.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 10 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $423K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $114K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.