Camp Zion Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 831657852
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Ellison Bay, WI, USA
- Phone
- 8473441261
- Rating
- 53
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,344,479
- Expenses
- $551,863
- Assets
- $6,507,499
- Liabilities
- $938,000
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- Mike McDowell (Exec Pastor and Chairman): $87,744 total reported compensation
- Dale Stewart (Camp Director): $86,715 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Supplement the ministries of churches and other organizations by providing camping and retreat experiences that help participating individuals find and grow a relationship with God
What it reported doing in 2024
Supplement the ministries of church and other organizations by providing camp and retreat experiences that help participating individuals find and grow a relationship with God. Camp allows you to take a break from the pace of life and breathe in the beauty of Gods creation listen to Gods voice and learn from His Word. Our daily schedule offers a variety of fun activities including age-appropriate themed Bible studies and evening campfires led by committed Christian staff. The Gospel is presented throughout a camp session in many spoken and unspoken ways. Summer activities include swimming boating archery campfires water activities skiing tubing etc hiking crafts singing ping pong nine-square star-gazing skits team games outdoor games fishing. etc Winter activities include broomball, snow tubing cross-country skiing. In 2024 we served 450 campers with approximately 200 volunteers.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 70% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 93% 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 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: 13
- Transparency & Controls: 89
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 78
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 10.5%; rating input score 10
- Program expense ratio: 22%; rating input score 22
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 95.8%; rating input score 96; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- 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 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 59%; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 11.79; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 19.9%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -29.4% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -4.3% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 24.2% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 10.5% of revenue deployed · 22% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $122K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $88K · 9 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $528K reported
- Consistency: 44 of 45 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 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: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 10/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 22/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 15/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 37/100.