Swamp Camp Mission Alliance Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 993800291
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Wilmington, NC, USA
- Phone
- 7068185842
- Rating
- 90
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $183,979
- Expenses
- $211,581
- Assets
- $21,061
- Liabilities
- $987
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PAUL RAMSEY (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- PAUL RAMSEY (PRESIDENT)
- VACANT (VICE PRESIDE)
- RICHARD L REDD (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
The organization was established as a sister entity to swamp camp services, inc. (EIN: 58-2381032) following a decision by the swamp camp services, inc. Board of directors to divest the swamp corps program into a separate organization. In 2010, the swamp corps program was developed to assist churches both domestically and internationally in establishing their own christian-based overnight summer camps through a structured three year training process. The organization plans and organizes these events, recruiting and coordinating volunteers to assist at camp locations. International camp sessions have been conducted in jamaica, barbados, south africa, brazil, india, zimbabwe, nicaragua, pakistan, cambodia, kenya, mozambique, honduras, taiwan, nepal, and paraguay, with future expansion planned for angola, botswana, and bolivia. The primary activity of the organization is christian teaching, training, and worship through overnight camping experiences, with the goal of establishing perennia
What it reported doing in 2025
The organization assists churches in the united states and internationally in establishing their own christian-based overnight camps via a structured three-year training process. The organization plans and organizes camp events, recruits and coordinates volunteers, and provides ongoing training and support. International camps have been established in countries including jamaica, barbados, south africa, brazil, india, zimbabwe, nicaragua, pakistan, cambodia, kenya, mozambique, honduras, taiwan, nepal, and paraguay, with further expansion planned.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 74% 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 98
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 13
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 95.5%; rating input score 96
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -15%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.1; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 27.9%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -38.5% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -79.9% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 95.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $202K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.