Trailblazer Camps Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 131771421
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Brookyln, NY, USA
- Phone
- 2125295113
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,774,139
- Expenses
- $3,189,897
- Assets
- $3,199,608
- Liabilities
- $1,255,598
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
25 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SHANNA GUMAER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- SHANNA GUMAER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $150,000 total reported compensation
- TIFFANY CATON (DIRECTOR OF RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT): $102,408 total reported compensation
- JOSH BORKIN (DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMS): $98,075 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Through outdoor experimental environmental education, trail blazers strive to facilitate the development of values and life skills essential for productive citizenship in young people.
What it reported doing in 2024
Expansion of day camp program, after school program and overnight program- each program has grown rapidly since ensuring each day is filled with outdoor adventures with a schedule determined by the interests of the group.outdoor experimental adventures- each summer, children from the tri-state area come to trailblazers to experience a unique adventure in which they engage in a variety of adventure-based activities that promote respect for the environment and natural resources, self-confidence, empathy, peaceful conflict resolution, communication, and love of learning.environmental education- trail blazer's programs emphasize a personal connection with the natural environment. Program participants leave with an understanding that the natural environment is everywhere we live, work, and learn, rather than something we get away to. In partnership with the nature conservancy of New Jersey, we offer custom programs in the form of overnight trips throughout the year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 21
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 98.1%; rating input score 98
- Program expense ratio: 85.7%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.6 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -15%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.39; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.9% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 98.1% of revenue deployed · 85.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 22 of 22 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $150K · 25 people listed
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 29/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 27/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 27/100.