Clydehurst Christian Ranch
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 208689095
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Billings, MT, USA
- Phone
- 4062940394
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,409,236
- Expenses
- $1,291,167
- Assets
- $4,009,247
- Liabilities
- $6,098
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SCOTT BROWNSON (CAMP EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- SCOTT BROWNSON (CAMP EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $81,547 total reported compensation
- AUSTEN SCAMMON (PROGRAM DIRECTOR): $66,868 total reported compensation
- HOLLIE KOENIGSBERG (DIRECTOR OF ADMIN AND DEVELOPMENT): $55,403 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Clydehurst rests in the rugged Boulder River Valley in the Gallatin National Forest surrounded by the pristine Absaroka Beartooth Wilderness. The green lawns stretch toward the beautiful Boulder River and are filled with activities like hikes, horseback riding, basketball, volleyball, and swimming. _(Hikes and trail rides are permitted by the Gallatin National Forest Service.)_ The scenery around camp is picture perfect and opportunities are provided to enjoy the scenic creation. You may choose to take a hike to the falls, take a trail ride on horseback, go fishing, or just sit and relax. There is always plenty of excellent food and staff to help make meal times a pleasure for the entire fam.
What it reported doing in 2025
A total of 930 children and teenagers attended summer youth camps and 540 people attended summer family camps. Off-season retreats totaled 454 people. All groups attended for training according to our mission statement.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 67% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 57
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.5%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 84%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: $22.52 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 59; 59th 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: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: 8.4%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.11; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 21.6%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 80.5% of revenue deployed · 84% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $82K · 16 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 59/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.