YMCA Camp Coniston
Legal name: Young Men's Christian Association Camp Coniston Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 043357821
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Grantham, NH, USA
- Phone
- 6038631160
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Young Men's or Women's Associations
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,084,302
- Expenses
- $4,340,986
- Assets
- $12,655,504
- Liabilities
- $552,318
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOHN TILLEY (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JOHN TILLEY (PRESIDENT): $237,218 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
As a nonprofit social service organization with a focus on youth, YMCA Camp Coniston creates experiences that build spirit, mind, and body for all. A view of Second Lake As a nonprofit service organization with a focus on youth, YMCA Camp Coniston creates experiences that build spirit, mind, and body for all. YMCA Camp Coniston operates around the values of caring, honesty, respect, responsibility, and inclusivity. It is through this spirit and thoughtful programs that camp provides each camper without regard to gender, gender identity, race, religion, color, handicap or national origin as outlined in the Coniston Experience the opportunity to be a vital member of a larger community. read our coniston experience statement ABOUT CAMP.
What it reported doing in 2024
Camp - residential camping is used as a youth development tool for children 8 to 16 years old each summer. Approximately 1800 campers, primarily from New Hampshire and Massachusetts, participate in programs that help children learn resilience and self-sufficiency that will help them successfully navigate the growing pains of adolescence. Offerings include a traditional two week session, a one week session for younger campers, adventure trips for teens, and service trips working with those less fortunate.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 83% 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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - 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 reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 69
- Transparency & Controls: 70
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 69
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70.7%; rating input score 71
- Program expense ratio: 85.2%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: $4 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- 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: 8 of 8 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: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 14.6%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.92; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.5%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.1% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 70.7% of revenue deployed · 85.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $237K · 15 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $559K reported
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 13/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 50/100.