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CETA CANYON CAMP & RETREAT CENTER

EIN 75-0939943 HAPPY, TX

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Revenue 2024
$2,139,277
Expenses 2024
$2,313,166

Program services were 91.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
X20
Classification
1200
Street
37201 FM 1721

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

A SPECIAL PLACE WHERE GOD IS EXPERIENCED AND LIVES ARE CHANGED.

  • OUR PROGRAMS TOUCHED THE LIVES OF OVER 9,000 YOUTH AND ADULTS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR AT OUR CHRISTIAN CAMP AND RETREAT CENTER. WE OFFER A MULTITUDE OF PROGRAMS INCLUDING: 8 WEEKS OF SUMMER CAMP FOR YOUTH AND CHILDREN ENTERING 2ND GRADE THROUGH 12TH GRADE AND A SPECIAL WEEK OF CAMP FOR DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED ADULTS. WITH THESE SUMMER CAMP PROGRAMS ALONE, WE SERVED OVER 1,800 PEOPLE. WE ALSO OFFER SPECIAL WEEKEND RETREATS DURING THE SCHOOL YEAR INCLUDING: A WINTER TEEN RETREAT, A MOTHER/DAUGHTER RETREAT, A YOUNG MEN'S MENTORING RETREAT FOR AT-RISK YOUTH AND A FAMILY CAMP RETREAT. THROUGHOUT THE SUMMER WE SERVED OVER 1,600 CAMPERS FROM A VARIETY OF COMMUNITY YOUTH AGENCIES INCLUDING: DIABETIC CAMP, CAMP ALPHIE (CANCER CAMP) AND SKY CAMP (GRIEF CAMP). IN THE SUMMER, WE ALSO SERVE A MULTITUDE OF OTHER CHURCH CAMPS FROM OTHER DENOMINATIONS AND NON-DENOMINATIONAL CHURCHES, A FRESHMAN ORIENTATION CAMP FOR TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY STUDENTS AND OTHER GROUPS FROM TEXAS TECH, TEXAS TECH HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER, WEST TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY, AND AMARILLO COLLEGE. FROM SEPTEMBER THROUGH MAY, WE OFFER OUTDOOR EDUCATION CAMPS TO OVER 30 SCHOOLS AND SERVE A VARIETY OF OTHER GROUPS INCLUDING: CHURCH RETREATS, LEADERSHIP/TEAM-BUILDING RETREATS, OUTDOOR ADVENTURE RETREATS, FAMILY REUNIONS, SPORTS RETREATS, SERVICE PROJECTS AND VOLUNTEER WORK RETREATS. OUR LODGING, DINING FACILITIES AND MEETING SPACE CAN ACCOMMODATE UP TO 500 PEOPLE. WE HAVE A VARIETY OF ACTIVITIES FOR GROUPS OF ALL AGES SUCH AS: NEW ECO-FRIENDLY NATURE CENTER, SUMMER SWIMMING POOL, DOUBLE WATER SLIDE, FISHING POND, CHALLENGE COURSE (LOW AND HIGH), GIANT JUMPING PILLOW, A NEW ARCHERY SHELTER, 60' TUBE SLIDE, BASKETBALL COURTS, SAND VOLLEYBALL, GA-GA COURTS, HIKING TRAILS, BEAUTIFUL 30' WATERFALL AND POND, ATHLETIC FIELD SURROUNDED BY INCREDIBLE SCENERY, AND AN ABUNDANCE OF WILDLIFE IN A FORK OF THE PALO DURO CANYON. OUR LUSH, BEAUTIFUL CANYON IS GOD'S OASIS ON THE HIGH MESA AND IS ONLY 40 MINUTES FROM AMARILLO, TX AND 90 MINUTES FROM LUBBOCK, TX. OUR GREAT LOCATION WITH PREMIER FACILITIES IS A GREAT PLACE TO REST, RELAX, HOST A CAMP, LEADERSHIP RETREAT OR AN OUTDOOR ADVENTURE EXPERIENCE.

    Expenses $2,106,517 · Revenue $1,486,470

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.

  • Joe Alarcon

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $126,698
    From this org
    $110,068
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $16,630
    Hours/week
    40
  • Jim Judd

    COO

    Total calculated
    $94,064
    From this org
    $73,362
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $20,702
    Hours/week
    40
  • Brent Barker

    VICE-CHAIRPE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Jennifer Bobbitt

    SECRETARY/TR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • J Dale Butler

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Tim Crane

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Josh Damron

    CHAIRPERSON

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Macy Dawson

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jody Irwin

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • John Jacobs

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jacob Sanchez

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Steve Sims

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Brian R Smith

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Brice Stater

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Mark Welshimer

    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
    $2,139,277
    Expenses
    $2,313,166
    Contributions
    $590,975
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,057,242
    Expenses
    $2,084,469
    Contributions
    $647,510
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,936,618
    Expenses
    $1,971,256
    Contributions
    $609,633
    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
    $1,914,989
    Expenses
    $1,888,984
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,907,806
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,194,215
    Expenses
    $1,281,070
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,996,548
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,730,379
    Expenses
    $1,772,257
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,160,657
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,596,518
    Expenses
    $1,664,159
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,220,907
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,592,616
    Expenses
    $1,661,902
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,226,642
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,674,106
    Expenses
    $1,672,960
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,334,798
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,655,851
    Expenses
    $1,689,042
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,349,965
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,674,275
    Expenses
    $1,521,821
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,452,031
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,745,757
    Expenses
    $1,679,816
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,320,749
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,660,969
    Expenses
    $1,568,807
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,298,227

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

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

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.