Idaho BaseCamp
Legal name: Idaho Base Camp Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 273427884
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2013
- Location
- Ketchum, ID, US
- Phone
- (208) 202-4030
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Environmental Education and Outdoor Survival Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,674,921
- Expenses
- $923,440
- Assets
- $4,889,428
- Liabilities
- $72,550
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JAMIE EVERETT (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- MATHEW GERSHATER (EXECUTIVE DI): $63,077 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Through outdoor adventure education, we help cultivate lasting values in children for all their adventures that lie ahead.
What it reported doing in 2025
Outdoor hispanic leaders Idaho basecamps outdoor hispanic leaders (ohl) program is dedicated to developing leadership skills through outdoor education for hispanic middle school students in blaine county, Idaho. Ohl guides a cohort of 26, 6th-8th grade hispanic students through a culturally targeted outdoor curriculum that fosters positive youth development by equipping students with essential social and emotional skills such as personal responsibility, courage, respect, communication, and leadership. Through these experiences, our goal is to equip participants with a strong sense of self, enabling them to navigate the transition to high school and beyond with confidence. Sprouts a waldorf-inspired creative learning experience for children ages 4.5 - 6 years old. Idaho basecamps sprouts kinderschool is a warm and nurturing environment where children can learn and grow through exploration and intentional play. Free from outside distractions, the children are fully engaged with the world around them. We believe that all children are unique individuals with their own strengths and interests, and we tailor our curriculum to meet each child's needs. Big lost campus
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 75% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 48
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 83
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 26.7%; rating input score 27
- Program expense ratio: 75.9%; rating input score 76
- Fundraising efficiency: $29.93 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 69; 69th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 65.5%; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.29; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.8%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.4% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 19.7% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 23.4% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 3 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 26.7% of revenue deployed · 75.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $701K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $63K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2014 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 27/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 46/100.