Campersand Co
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 815079519
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Albuquerque, NM, USA
- Phone
- 5052700064
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Mathematics
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $260,814
- Expenses
- $144,300
- Assets
- $137,060
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Anita Chou (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Anita Chou (Executive Director): $10,000 total reported compensation
- Hoa Nguyen (Board director): $5,000 total reported compensation
- Burton Newman (Academic Director): $5,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We seek to bring the highest quality math instruction and enrichment to the exceedingly capable kids who need this and can benefit from what we have to offer. Central to this is a sense of playfulness mathematical rigor and precision and a love of having our brains stretched all in the context of a loving and supportive community of parents faculty and children. Our most significant activity is a math and computer science camp for kids age 9-18 during the summer.
What it reported doing in 2024
The CAMP for Algorithmic and Mathematical Play unites children passionate about math computer science and discovery. We deliver top-tier math instruction and enrichment emphasizing playfulness rigor and intellectual curiosity within a loving community. In 2024 we served 73 students at our residential family camp provided home-based math education to 120 individuals and engaged in various math enrichment conferences.
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 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 62
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 77
- Sustainability: 66
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 53.4%; rating input score 53
- Program expense ratio: 96.5%; rating input score 97
- 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 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 44.7%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.95; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 15.9%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 90.9% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 64.1% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 53.4% of revenue deployed · 96.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $139K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $10K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 41 of 41 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 1 filing year from 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 53/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 23/100.