Sequoia Lake Music Camp
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 815161962
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Fresno, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5594094128
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Camps
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $77,882
- Expenses
- $75,588
- Assets
- $2,886
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KAMILAH SIMBA (CEO)
People named in this filing
- KAMILAH SIMBA (CEO)
- JOHN AYALA (Secretary)
- STEPHANIE VAGIM (CFO)
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
Sequoia Lake Music Camp is organized exclusively for charitable and educational purposes to provide music education, enrichment and performance opportunities for youth through camp. The purpose of this organization is to foster appreciation for music and the arts by offering educational music camp programs that benefit youth, families and the community.
What it reported doing in 2025
Sequoia Lake Music Camp provides a week-long overnight music education camp for elementary and secondary students. Through instruction, ensemble rehearsals, performances and recreational activities we serve approximately 90 students each year in a positive and supportive environment. The program promotes musical growth, confidence, teamwork and creativity while making music education accessible to local families through scholarships. We award around 30 partial scholarships per year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 98
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 97.1%; rating input score 97
- 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: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.9%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.04; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 20.4% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 25.2% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 131.9% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 97.1% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $76K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 50/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.