Yellowstone Bible Camp
Legal name: Yellowstone Bible Camp Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 451771164
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2020
- Location
- Pray, MT, United States
- Phone
- 4062202442
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and Fund Distribution
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $133,807
- Expenses
- $39,706
- Assets
- $915,591
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SCOTT LAIRD (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- FRANK ARNOLD (TREASURER)
- BILL GOBEN (VICE PRESIDE)
- SCOTT LAIRD (PRESIDENT)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide a spiritually safe Bible camp environment that enhances, develops, and strengthens faith in Jesus Christ, offering encouragement and training for families and youth. In 1954, a small group of visionary people from congregations of the churches of Christ across Montana sought to find a permanent location for a Bible Camp to provide spiritual encouragement and training to families and youth each summer… By 1956 that vision was realized in the opportunity to buy a dude ranch with several log cabins and a lodge along Mill Creek (in the beautiful Paradise Valley) just North of Yellowstone National Park. With the passing of time, those who saw the potential of converting that guest ranch into a thriving Bible camp have also passed away, but their vision has gone far beyond their initial aspirations. The purchase was the just the beginning of many acts of faith.
What it reported doing in 2024
The foundation received contributions for the future benefit of yellowstone bible camp, invested portions of these funds and funds received in previous years, and transferred money to yellowstone bible camp.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 68% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
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.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 91
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.2%; rating input score 63
- Program expense ratio: 98.1%; rating input score 98
- Fundraising efficiency: $74.51 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- 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: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 70.3%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 23.06; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 35.3% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.7% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 63.2% of revenue deployed · 98.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $39K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 15 of 15 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.