Camp Kum-Ba-Yah Inc

Analysis

Camp Kum-Ba-Yah Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Lynchburg, VA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 1983, 43 years ago. Its declared purposes cover recreation and sports, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2022, Camp Kum-Ba-Yah Inc reported income of $915k and spending of $336k, leaving 63% of income unspent that year. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2022, income grew from $633k to $915k (+44%), an average of +13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 101%. Over the whole period it spent 49% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Camp Kum-Ba-Yah Inc sits at the 92nd percentile: it is larger than about 92% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 78th percentile, and in the 79th percentile within VA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Horton Haven-Christian Camp ($915k), Katy Youth Soccer Club ($915k) and Southpointe Amateur Hockey Association Inc ($914k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2022, revenue came from contributions and grants 37% and program service revenue 17% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $170k. At year end it held assets of $1.9m against liabilities of $5,289, net assets of $1.9m. It reported 44 employees.