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CEDARS CAMPS

EIN 44-0663883 BALLWIN, MO

Revenue 2024
$5,652,590
Expenses 2024
$4,159,673

Program services were 85.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1200
Street
410 SOVEREIGN CT STE 8

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

To give each camper an appreciation of spiritual sense and an abundance of wholesome, joyous activities. We provide summer camp activities for Christian Scientists promoting character building, outdoor education, and spiritual growth as well as teamwork and individual interests. These activities include Bible lesson study, horseback riding, Starvish swimming classes, crafts, archery, canoeing, nature study, sports, ropes courses, zipline, musical theater, waterskiing, cable skiing and family camp. We strive to be able to make camp possible to anyone that needs financial aid. During summer 2025 56% of the campers needed financial aid totaling $655,101.

Activities or mission (Part I)

MISSION Our tax-exempt purpose is charitable and educational. We provide camp activities for Christian Scientists promoting character building, outdoor education and spiritual growth.

  • Salaries for program service go to summer college counselors, seasonal workers and 13 year-round employees that provide care for our heard of horses, activity upkeep and maintaining 1000 acres of property which includes facilities, grounds and equipment. We have a ratio of 1 counselor to every 3 campers. The summer program involves nine weeks of camping, and additional three weeks of pre-camp training for staff, plus fall events that are staffed with counselors. During pre-camp, staff become trained by and in some activity areas certified through the following: USA Archery certified instruction; certified instructors for high ropes and low ropes team building and ziplining; certified Horsemanship Association (CHA) for training staff as riding instructors at various levels; nature instructors; ski boat instruction for staff who are teaching water-skiing and boat driving; certified instruction on our cable ski system. Staff are also trained on cabin management, all facets of working with campers and they study our staff manual and handbook. As a member of the American Camp Association (ACA), we follow the guidelines they provide for staff training.

    Expenses $1,303,901

  • Cedars Camps has 9 weeks of summer camp activities (June-August) on 1000 acres of land near Lebanon, MO for Christian Scientists. In addition, there are several long weekend programs for adults or other organizations off season. Cedars Camps has 1 and 2 week camping sessions with a total of 410 individual campers and 1046 camper weeks. 132 people attended one week of Family Camp; 115 attended a Memorial Day Weekend Family Camp; 425 people from 3 other organizations came for 3 to 4 days in the fall and spring; 24 campers attended a virtual Cedars program; and 230 people attended a Bible study virtually. Cedars has small class and activity groups with a camper to counselor ratio of 3 to 1. Activities at Cedars include Bible lesson study; horseback riding; Starfish swimming classes; crafts; nature study; sports; ropes courses; zipline; climbing wall; musical theater; kayaking; paddle boarding; log rolling; cable skiing; water skiing; archery. Cedars has specialty programs in soccer; volleyball; horseback riding; waterskiing; aerial arts, as well as having many of these activities available to all campers as a choice of activities. We have a herd of 45 horses that we maintain year round. This includes growing hay and buying grain to feed the horses; maintaining tack; farrier and vet bills; and training the staff through camp-based clinics through the CHA. Trips go to Supe Splash USA, Silver Dollar City, Pomme de Terre where we have our ski school boats and canoe float trips on nearby rivers. Cedars has a Bible Lands Park for further Bible exploration, which is opened in the off season to other denominational church groups.

    Expenses $686,790

  • Maintenance includes upkeep for our program support buildings: 22 cabins with bathrooms, 4 individual residences/homes, 4 staff housing facilities, 3 lodges with kitchens and dining rooms, care facility, sports center and heavy and small equipment. There are 1000 acres of property to maintain including fencing to contain our herd of horses; aquatic center with a Jr. Olympic lap pool and diving well; waterslide; soccer fields; trails for horseback riding; 2 covered arenas (1 large); basketball court; and an outdoor covered chapel. Cedars has 3 maintenance buildings which includes a fire truck garage for camp safety. The facilities support the activities and Cedars purpose/mission. We also have a program for high school campers to work on the grounds crew and in food service, which trains them to see the bigger picture of what it takes to run camp and prepares them for counseling in future years.

    Expenses $618,763

  • LIST OF ALL OTHER ACCUMULATED EXPENSE

    Expenses $934,485

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • DR HOLLY BRULAND

    TRUSTEE & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $130,950
    From this org
    $130,950
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    52

  • WARREN HUFF

    TRUSTEE & EXECUTIVE DIR EMERIT

    Total calculated
    $52,500
    From this org
    $52,500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    52

  • MORGAN ANDERSON

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • BECKY CARTER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • KATHY FITZER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • LINDA HAMBRICK

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • WILLIARD HANZLIK

    TRUSTEE & VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • CHRISTY JOHNSON

    TRUSTEE & BOARD SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • LAUREL NEW

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • KEN PRATT

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • WILLIAM STEELE

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MARK WOHLFARTH

    TRUSTEE & TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • DEBI WORLEY

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $5,652,590
    Expenses
    $4,159,673
    Contributions
    $4,368,633
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $5,678,401
    Expenses
    $4,082,335
    Contributions
    $4,451,236
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $7,378,657
    Expenses
    $3,832,485
    Contributions
    $6,247,224
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,489,217
    Expenses
    $3,640,900
    Assets (EOY)
    $25,506,755

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,738,636
    Expenses
    $2,810,547
    Assets (EOY)
    $24,051,738

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,124,100
    Expenses
    $2,234,306
    Assets (EOY)
    $21,541,476

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.