Camp Swamp
Legal name: Swamp Camp Services Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 582381032
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Union Point, GA, USA
- Phone
- (706) 389-9814
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $927,877
- Expenses
- $977,724
- Assets
- $231,591
- Liabilities
- $57,246
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
People named in this filing
- JOE MOON (CHAIR OF THE)
- AMANDA MITCHELL (SECRETARY)
- VANESSA BYERS (MEMBER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Overnight Christian camp and retreat ministry that creates a safe, spiritual space for belonging, connection, faith, and wonder for children and families. Swamp Camp Mission Alliance Swamp Corps is Swamp Camp Mission Alliance’s global missionary program purposed to provide a three-year training process that establishes a perennial spiritual, fun-filled summer camp while offering missional leadership training and experiences for the Next Generation. Visit SCMA Website. Swamp Corps is Swamp Camp Mission Alliance’s global missionary program purposed to provide a three-year training process that establishes a perennial spiritual, fun-filled summer camp while offering missional leadership training and experiences for the Next Generation. Visit SCMA Website where can we find the camp?
What it reported doing in 2025
Summer camp registration fees, less discounts and scholarships, and weekend retreats for christians.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 62% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 95
- Transparency & Controls: 85
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 96.6%; rating input score 97
- Program expense ratio: 91.6%; rating input score 92
- Fundraising efficiency: $518.88 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 10th 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: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -5.4%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.24; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.25; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 96.6% of revenue deployed · 91.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 16 of 16 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $896K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 16 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 27 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule D land buildings reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.