Happy Hollow Camp Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
350942648
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Nashville, IN, USA
Phone
8129884900
Rating
82
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Camps

Reported finances

Revenue
$2,334,346
Expenses
$1,479,108
Assets
$4,544,742
Liabilities
$51,713

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

24 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ANDY BROWN (PAST PRESIDENT)
  • JODY LITTRELL (PRESIDENT)
  • ALEJANDRA REICHARD (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • SARA NOYED (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • SARA NOYED (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $126,724 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To provide educational and outdoor residential camping programs designed to increase understanding of the environment for children ages 7-14 years old. Happy hollow provides highly reduced rates to campers who come from families in indianapolis and surrounding counties who are experiencing financial hardships. Camp also serves children with special needs and youth groups throughout Indiana. Happy hollow provides a safe, supportive, and supervised learning environment for youth to participate in.

What it reported doing in 2025

Signature summer camp - an accredited overnight camp program through the american camp association, happy hollow children's camp meets the needs of the community by providing high-quality summer camp programming while lessening barriers for youth and families to accessing and affording the residential camp experience. The summer camp program operates for five weeks from june to july and targets economically disadvantaged children ages 7 - 14 from the greater indianapolis area - marion, boone, hamilton, hancock, hendricks, and morgan counties. Children who qualify for the free or reduced lunch program receive a reduced rate. Households with higher incomes pay a rate based on a sliding scale fee. Children receive three home cooked meals per day, 24-hour supervision, 8:2 child/counselor ratio, and round-trip transportation from indianapolis to and from camp.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 77% 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.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filed totals do not add up.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 68
  • Transparency & Controls: 87
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 74
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 58.4%; rating input score 58
  • Program expense ratio: 87.6%; rating input score 88
  • Fundraising efficiency: $21.61 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 21st 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; 63rd 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: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 36.6%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.07; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 8.6%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 58.4% of revenue deployed · 87.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 23 of 23 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $1.3M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $127K · 24 people listed
  • Consistency: 29 of 30 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • 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
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 58/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 38/100.