Star Lake Camp
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 460799279
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- St Paul, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6512630578
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Camps
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $68,564
- Expenses
- $48,976
- Assets
- $74,459
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Walter Lockhart (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Walter Lockhart (Executive Director)
- Dan Hudson (Board Chair)
- Rebecca Mix (treasurer)
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
Star Lake Wilderness Camp provides an outdoor education, recreation and living experience where youth can unplug and grow in their physical, social and mental health. We intentionally welcome youth who are traditionally underserved, have challenges, or would otherwise lack meaningful exposure to nature, and we are open to all. Educating our youth to become confident, healthy individuals with knowledge of and appreciation for the natural world.
What it reported doing in 2025
We operated a week of summer camp that provided camping learning experience for 8 youth with special challenges.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 92% 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. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 71.4%; rating input score 71
- 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: 28.6%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.52; rating input score 59; 59th 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: 45% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -34.1% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 27% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 71.4% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $49K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 59/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.