National Campers and Hikers Association Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 160872172
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2016, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Cheektowaga, NY, USA
- Phone
- 3039411671
- Rating
- 34
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Camps
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $50,564
- Expenses
- $95,680
- Assets
- $236,232
- Liabilities
- $342,569
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Gerald Pfirsch (President)
- Sharon Weber (Immediate Past President)
People named in this filing
- Gerald Pfirsch (President)
- Linda English (VP of Operations)
- Ed Shaneyfelt (VP of Programs)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To share with all campers/campers fun, friendship, fellowship and family feelings of camping together and to promote, and enhance, the experience and enjoyment of recreational family type camping/RVing
What it reported doing in 2024
Our International Heritage, and the strengthening of family bonds through shared activities in the outdoors. We are a member-owned, non-profit organization with activities and programs for youth, teens, adults, and retirees. Family Campers also has programs in many areas, including: Conservation, Wildlife, Campers actively moving program (Camp), and Disaster Awareness and Safety Training (DASAT). There are annual Family Campers & RVers International Campventions, Regional Campouts, State & Provincial campouts, and many other family campers campouts. Family Campers and RVers also enjoy discounts and other benefits. If you like camping, fun and fellowship, you will love Family Campers and RVers. All campers regardless of type or brand of RV, or tent, or trailer, are welcome in Family Campers & RVers. Come camp with us
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 82
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 0
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; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -89.2%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.47; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.45; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -16.6% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -8.7% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -6.4% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 8/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 4/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.