Kidney Kamp Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
450493892
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
Location
Houston, TX, USA
Phone
7133921352
Rating
92
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Voluntary Health Associations & Medical Disciplines N.E.C.

Reported finances

Revenue
$50,952
Expenses
$53,037
Assets
$25,545
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JOSHUA SAMUELS (PRESIDENT & TREASURER)

People named in this filing

  • JOSHUA SAMUELS (PRESIDENT & TREASURER)
  • CARRIANNE MANCE (SECRETARY)
  • RUBY CERDA (DIRECTOR)

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

The purpose of the kidney kamp foundation is to provide a camping experience for children and teens with challenging kidney and bladder diseases. The camp is offered to children on dialysis, with kidney transplants, neurogenic bladders, or another form of chronic kidney disease. The foundation raises money to provide camp at minimal or no-cost to the participants.

What it reported doing in 2025

Chronic kidney disease in childhood is increasingly understood to be a condition with serious repercussions to afflicted patients and their families. Many patients experience significant interruptions in both school and social aspects of childhood. Frequent medical visits, hospitalizations, and medication administration make attendance at a traditional summer camp difficult if not impossible. The kidney kamp foundation was established to fund and coordinate a sleep-away camp experience for patients in a safe setting, including on-site physicians and medical staff to manage each camper's complex medical conditions.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% 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 available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 40
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

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: -4.1%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.48; rating input score 31; 31st 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: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $53K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.