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CAMPING & EDUCATION FOUNDATION

EIN 31-0650653 CINCINNATI, OH

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Revenue 2024
$5,737,586
Expenses 2024
$5,253,345

Program services were 62.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
2100
Street
3515 MICHIGAN AVE

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

AT THE CAMPING AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION, OUR MISSION IS TO DEVELOP YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN THROUGH TRANSFORMATIONAL WILDERNESS EXPERIENCES THAT CELEBRATE A LOVE OF THE OUTDOORS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

SUMMER WILDERNESS ADVENTURE CAMPS FOR BOYS AND GIRLS THAT OFFER CANOEING, KAYAKING, BACKPACKING, AND MOUNTAINEERING EXPERIENCES IN ADDITION TO A RICH IN-CAMP PROGRAM OF NATIVE AMERICAN DANCING, ARTS AND CRAFTS, WOODSMANSHIP, ARCHERY, ETC. ADDITIONALLY, THE ORGANIZATION HAS ESTABLISHED A REMOTE TRIPPING OUTPOST IN SOUTHERN ONTARIO AND AN URBAN WILDERNESS PROGRAM IN CINCINNATI, OHIO.

  • IN ADDITION TO THE LEADERSHIP THAT CAMPING & EDUCATION, LLC PROVIDES TO BOYH OF ITS SUMMER CAMPS, C&E HAS EXPANDED ITS EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES. WE PARTNER WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI, THE CINCINNATI PARKS DISTRICT AND CINCINNATI PUBLIC SCHOOLS TO CREATE EXPERIENTIAL OUTDOOR PROGRAMMING FOR URBAN YOUTH IN THE CINCINNATI AREA.

    Expenses $1,247,744 · Revenue $136,373

  • SUMMER CAMP FOR BOYS (CAMP KOOCHICHING): OPERATED OUTSIDE INTERNATIONAL FALLS, MN., THE PURPOSE IS TO TEACH YOUNG MEN TO LIVE IN HARMONY WITH NATURE, DEVELOP THEIR OUTDOOR SKILLS AND ABILITIES AND SENSE OF SERVICE TO OTHERS. THE HEART OF OUR SUMMER CAMP PROGRAM ARE OUR WILDERNESS TRIPS WHICH EXPLORE THE CANADIAN CANOEING WATERWAYS FROM SOUTHERN ONTARIO TO THE NORTHERN REGION OF HUDSON BAY.

    Expenses $1,207,590 · Revenue $1,359,594

  • SUMMER CAMP FOR GIRLS (CAMP OGICHI DAA KWE) OPERATED OUTSIDE INTERNAIONAL FALL, MN. THE PURPOSE IS TO TEACH YOUNG WOMEN TO LIVE IN HARMONY WITH NATURE, DEVELOP THEIR SKILLS AND ABILITIES AND SENSE OF SERVICE TO OTHERS. THE HEART OF OUR SUMMER CAMP PROGRAM IS OUR WILDERNESS TRIPS WHICH EXPLORE THE CANADIAN CANOEING WATERWAYS FROM SOUTHERN ONTARIO TO THE NORTHERN REGION OF HUDSON BAY.

    Expenses $837,840 · Revenue $1,040,549

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • James C Shook Jr

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Carrie L Alt

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Peter L Tester

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Kathy Dix

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Terry Jones

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Steve Luebkeman

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Dan Marshak

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • David Meek

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Hugh R Haller

    PRESIDENT/CEO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • John Grate

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • John Linderberg

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Tom Martella

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Jeff Patterson

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Janet Vanedenbark

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Patrick Bowen

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Edward Diller

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • John R Verkamp

    DIRECTOR - KIC

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

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
    $5,737,586
    Expenses
    $5,253,345
    Contributions
    $2,960,773
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $4,097,025
    Expenses
    $4,124,420
    Contributions
    $1,725,388
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $4,116,185
    Expenses
    $4,427,640
    Contributions
    $2,145,716
    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
    $4,569,986
    Expenses
    $3,720,928
    Assets (EOY)
    $16,356,762
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,274,535
    Expenses
    $2,252,635
    Assets (EOY)
    $15,105,985
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,769,289
    Expenses
    $3,666,413
    Assets (EOY)
    $13,968,448
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,610,110
    Expenses
    $3,455,899
    Assets (EOY)
    $12,940,173
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,990,602
    Expenses
    $3,314,440
    Assets (EOY)
    $13,519,285
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,824,735
    Expenses
    $2,987,012
    Assets (EOY)
    $12,638,117
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,913,398
    Expenses
    $2,892,940
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,608,123
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,828,789
    Expenses
    $2,957,369
    Assets (EOY)
    $12,177,660
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,865,343
    Expenses
    $2,721,738
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,612,346
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $2,491,847
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,357,585

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

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.

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Disregarded entities on its 2024 return

  • CAMPING & EDUCATION LLC

    SAME AS CAMPING & EDUCATION FOUNDATION · OH

  • CAMP KOOCH-I-CHING LLC

    (BOYS CAMP) SAME AS CAMPING & EDUCATION FOUNDATION · OH

  • CAMP OGICHI LLC

    (GIRLS CAMP) SAME AS CAMPING & EDUCATION FOUNDATION · OH

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 11 November 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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.