Friends of Camp Celo
Legal name: Friends of Camp Celo Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 275055525
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Asheville, NC, US
- Phone
- 2408934955
- Rating
- 45
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $70,377
- Expenses
- $122,441
- Assets
- $151,915
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Clark Rinard (President)
- Anthony Mace (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Clark Rinard (President)
- Anthony Mace (Vice President)
- Evan Raskin (Treasurer)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To ensure the long-term preservation of Camp Celo as an educational and spiritual center where children can experience farming, hiking, arts and crafts, music, folk dance and fellowship in the natural environment; to work in conjunction with the Celo Friends Meeting to promote the Religious Society of Friends’ values of nonviolence, simplicity, and environmental awareness within the farm/home camp experience; to provide scholarships and other financial support to keep the Camp Celo experience affordable to families of all income levels and backgrounds; to build a supportive organization of alumni, staff, friends, and families of those who have participated in the Camp Celo experience and to capture and record that history.
What it reported doing in 2025
Friends of Camp Celo, Inc. granted Camp Celo $55,000, to help Camp Celo recover from damage caused by Hurricane Helene, using funds donated for that purpose.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -74%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.24; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -63.9% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.7% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.1% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.