Camp Encourage

Analysis

Camp Encourage is a registered charity in United States, based in Kansas City, MO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 2008, 18 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Camp Encourage reported income of $622k and spending of $508k, spending 82% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $381k to $622k (+63%), an average of +13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 99%. Over the whole period it spent 78% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Camp Encourage sits at the 68th percentile: it is larger than about 68% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 73rd percentile, and in the 71st percentile within MO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Bob Burdette Center Inc ($622k), Brazosport Independent School District Education Foundation ($622k) and Crossroads Outreach Ministries Inc ($622k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 74% and program service revenue 27% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $64k (13% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $113k. It paid $13k in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $641k against liabilities of $39k, net assets of $602k. It reported 10 employees.