The Camp-aign for American Kids

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
061797676
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2010–2013
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2013
Location
Providence Forge, VA, USA
Phone
8049286222
Rating
95
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Camps

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$9,455
Expenses
$4,096
Assets
$35,051
Liabilities
$58,275

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2013. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Dr Dan Roberts (Chairman)
  • Carl Zulick (Director)
  • Dr Herman Harmelink III (Director)

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 2013. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To help empower and enable children to resist the ever-increasing pressures responsible for the record levels of campus killings, adolescent suicide, depression, dropouts, incarcerations, and acts of violence among youth in the us today.

What it reported doing in 2013

FYE14 saw a dramatic shift in our program, stemming from the Dec.14, 2012, Sandy Hook Massacre, New Town, CT, resulting in the murder of 20 elementary school children and six staff. Given that tragic situation and the new heightened public understanding of the urgency of such concerns nationwide, for which we've been advocating since inception, The Campaign for American Kids (CAK) launched a concerted effort to make key decision makers in CT aware of the solution we'd created. On November 15, 2013, CAK finally secured trademark rights for name VeraCare America, which has become our signature program. VeraCare was designed to make low cost, yet superior quality child development/daycare services available to those who would benefit most, with a view ultimately to maximizing security and well-being for the whole of American society. Efforts in bringing VeraCare to CT were mostly volunteer-driven, under the leadership of Rev. Jesse Glick. Rev. Glick created an all-volunteer, ad hoc state advisory team, and succeeded in generating numerous valuable relationships. These include Congregation and Communion executives, the Public Education Advocacy Team (PEAT), Edward F Zigler PhD, Sterling Prof Emeritus Psychology; Emeritus Faculty; Director, Emeritus, The Edward Zigler Center in Child Development & Social Policy, Senators Chris Murphy and Dante Bartolomeo, the UCC Women of Connecticut, and the Connecticut Coalition for Children. Rev. Glick also arranged for a December meeting with newly-hired Myra Jones Taylor, PhD, Director, Connecticut Office of Early Childhood and CAK board members. He also assured that our organization and its mission were visible at the UCC Annual Conference in Hartford.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 89% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 71
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • 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: 56.7%; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 8.56; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.66; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 610.4%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -35.3% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -57.5% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 14.3% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $26K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2010 to 2013
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 4/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.