Childrens Oncology Camping Association International
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 311530836
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Dadeville, AL, USA
- Phone
- 2054107154
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Cancer
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $312,665
- Expenses
- $301,599
- Assets
- $228,437
- Liabilities
- $4,019
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RYAN CAMPBELL (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JENNIFER AMUNDSEN (EXECUTIVE DI): $59,962 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Childrens oncology camping association, internationals (coca-i) mission is to strengthen, support and connect the international community of camps serving individuals and families affected by childhood cancer.
What it reported doing in 2025
The children's oncology camping association, international's (coca) mission is to strengthen, support and connect the international community of camps serving individuals and families affected by childhood cancer. Currently, there are 137 member camps across the united states and canada. Coca provides education and networking for camp professionals, virtually and at an in-person conference each year. In 2025, 290 people attended the conference, representing 80 member camps. Our partner, care camps foundation, provides support for cocacademy, an immersive education track held at the conference as well as the karen mcandrew scholarship to assist members in sending attendees to the conference each year. Coca offers up to 11 contact hours for medical professionals at the conference each year through the Virginia nurses association. Over 85 hours of education and training are provided to coca members each year, virtually or in person. Coca has an online professional development learning center for continuing education for members. Our partner, northwestern mutual supports this platform. There are currently over 160 users of this learning center. Coca also provides a best practices program, gold ribbon accreditation, to help camps improve their policies and procedures so they can work to provide medically safe camps and programs for children with cancer and their families. In 2025, coca accredited 17 member camps. The accreditation program is supported by our partner, care camps foundation. Since the program's inception in 2018, coca has accredited over 75 member camps, half of coca's membership and plans to visit 65 camps over the next three years.
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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 74
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.9%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 83.7%; rating input score 84
- 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; 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: NotApplicable
- 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: 3.5%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.76; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 19.9%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 80.9% of revenue deployed · 83.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 18 of 18 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $252K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $60K · 19 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 44/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 35/100.