Camphill Ghent Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 270489223
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Chatham, NY, USA
- Phone
- 5183292760
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Senior Citizens' Housing/Retirement Communities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,401,749
- Expenses
- $5,073,753
- Assets
- $21,768,808
- Liabilities
- $695,489
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
26 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- WILLIAM KOLBERG (CFO): $188,058 total reported compensation
- DAVID CLARK (ASSISTANT TREASURER): $100,997 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
As part of the camphill movement, camphill ghent's mission is to create an inclusive, caring and uplifting residential community for elders, including those with developmental disabilities, which draws on the values and spiritual foundation of the international camphill communities, and which is integrated with the local community.within the context of a healthy community environment, camphill ghent's goal is to provide a quality of life and care that addresses the physical, emotional, social and spiritual well-being and needs of elders. A further goal is to create an environment in which the journey towards dying can be experienced as a both a natural and a sacred transformation, and in which people's physical, emotional and spiritual needs on that journey can be supported with loving, insightful care.
What it reported doing in 2025
Independent living - residential community setting with varying support for seniors as they age. Approximately 33 units occupied during the year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 66% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 93
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Accountability: 78
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 99.2%; rating input score 99
- Program expense ratio: 86.1%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: $62.26 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 62.5%; rating input score 62; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -15.3%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.29; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.6%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.4% per year; rating input score 100; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.2% per year; rating input score 100; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 99.2% of revenue deployed · 86.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 24 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $4.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $188K · 26 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $150K reported
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.