Campton Historic Agricultural Lands Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 362969064
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- LaFox, IL, USA
- Phone
- 6305848485
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Historical Societies & Historic Preservation
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $503,698
- Expenses
- $400,470
- Assets
- $5,564,512
- Liabilities
- $5,193
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Helen Bauer (President)
- Jerome Johnson (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Jerome Johnson (Executive Director): $75,045 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Education, Preservation, Wild Life, Historical Farm Museum
What it reported doing in 2025
Director and Volunteers host Visitors to living history Farm, Savanna, introduce prairie plants, public relations, fund raising, prairie walks, organize events, prairie and wetland management. Educational tours for up to 3,000 school children annually, scouts, seniors, public, eagle badge projects, Farm skills, demonstrations, skills of 1840s docents. Seed saver, heritage fruit and garden show, antique tool show, seminars on birds, composting, prairie burns, grating fruit trees, reptiles and insects, restoration. Staff presents off-site slide-video, lecture programs. Annual attendance is over 10,000. Preservation of historic documents, diaries of 1840s settler, and a 375-acre living history farm on the National register of Historic Places.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 72% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
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 fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 74
- Sustainability: 73
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.1%; rating input score 77
- Program expense ratio: 83.6%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: $16.48 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 50; 50th 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: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 20.5%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 13.89; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 18.7%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 77.1% of revenue deployed · 83.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $335K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $75K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 50/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.