Projectcamp
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 844640242
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3103444286
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Disaster Preparedness and Relief Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,817,167
- Expenses
- $889,844
- Assets
- $1,323,953
- Liabilities
- $30,866
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Michael Latner (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Oliver Baron (Deputy Director): $113,824 total reported compensation
- Henry Meier (Director of External Affairs): $110,572 total reported compensation
- Michael Latner (Executive Director): $110,500 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Project: Camp provides care for children, relief for families, and resilience for communities impacted by natural disasters. Through our pop-up day camps after natural disasters we provide crucial social-emotional support for kids while parents navigate services and return to work. Through our organizing and preparedness work, we support communities to provide support for children and families in future disasters by bringing together multiple government agencies and community groups and build action plans in the event of future disasters.
What it reported doing in 2025
Our Pop-Up Day Camp programs are free, trauma-informed pop-up day camps that provide for kids in the immediate aftermath of natural disasters. Project: Camp was established in response to several types of natural disasters, including wildfires, tornadoes, and hurricanes and provided almost 17,271 hours of free childcare to families in Oklahoma, Florida, Iowa, New Mexico, and North Carolina. We were able to accomplish our mission with the help of 2375 volunteer hours from local community childcare professionals, including teachers, camp counselors, and after school program staff. A significant portion of the 2024 funding supporting this program have grant periods that cross into the next fiscal year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
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: 66
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 35.2%; rating input score 35
- Program expense ratio: 69.9%; rating input score 70
- Fundraising efficiency: $15.04 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 47; 47th 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 51%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.49; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 37.6%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 17.1% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 25.1% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.7% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 35.2% of revenue deployed · 69.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $622K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $114K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 45 of 45 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 35/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 47/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 52/100.