2025-12-19T08:32:55-07:00 2025-08-31 990EZ 2024-09-01 270795039 CAMP SUNSHINE CAMP 3306060733 PO Box 48 Aurora OH 44202 Barbara Moner Treasurer of the Board 3306060733 2025-12-19 1 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X X https://www.campsunshineofaurora.org X X 111776 X 32170 42950 0 3163 0 0 0 3280 30213 21898 11595 0 0 0 0 89878 2369 0 0 78847 1939 188 18817 102160 -12282 135164 0 122882 135164 122882 0 0 0 0 135164 122882 0 0 135164 122882 X Charitable and Educational. Our mission statement reads "enriching the lives of children with special needs by providing a summer program that supports friendships, life skills, and personal goals." Provide a summer camp experience for 32 children with moderate to severe disabilities ages 4-20. This includes field trips and recreational activities. Children's school goals are reinforced across all settings with 8 typical peers and 18 volunteers who joined to help children practice skills in a natural way. Camp Sunshine was able to add a preschool classroom and expand to include younger children this past summer. Utilizing peers and volunteers not only provided peer role modeling and support but also help to control expenses. Camp Sunshine continues to run most organizational components of camp with volunteers. These volunteers do everything from organizing and running fundraising activities, to conducting PR activities, to completing all bookkeeping activities. 2369 91543 91543 Colleen Gelardi President of the Board 1 0 0 0 Cynthia DelSignore Vice President of the Board 1 0 0 0 Kathleen Bender Secretary of the Board 1 0 0 0 Barbara Moner Treasurer of the Board 2 0 0 0 Carol Denzinger Co-Treasurer 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 OH Barbara Moner 10186 Bissell Drive Twinsburg OH 44087 3306060733 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NONE NONE 1 X 58884 23431 26967 40621 32170 182073 40486 35160 40504 42050 42950 201150 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 99370 58591 67471 82671 75120 383223 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 383223 373 223 2125 3328 3163 9212 0 0 0 0 0 0 373 223 2125 3328 3163 9212 0 0 0 0 0 0 45133 36216 47338 31817 33493 193997 144876 95030 116934 117816 111776 586432 0.65348 0.65231 0.01571 0.01335 X Schedule A, Part I, Line 10 With the 2024 tax year, Camp Sunshine is changing from selecting Line 7 (section 170(b)(1)(A)(iv)) where Part II was completed, to selecting Line 10 (section 509(a)(2)) where Part III is completed. This change is due to the fact that option 10 better suites our business model as the gross receipts from related activities include tuition we charge for camp, and it should be considered public support. The tuition qualifies as gross receipts from a related activity since it is related to our tax-exempt purpose. In completing Part III, section C line 16, and section D line 18, the Public Support and Investment Income percentages from 2023 where manually calculated and entered from information from the 2023 Tax Forms that were filed last year. Schedule A, Part III, Line 12 This income is from our annual golf outing as explained on Schedule G. Annual Golf Outing - May 2025 49287 15794 33493 1724 5666 11440 6494 0 1370 0 0 49287 15794 33493 1724 5666 11440 6494 0 1370 26694 6799 Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 10 Camp Sunshine accepts donations that are earmarked for our Campership Fund (Tommy Scholarship Grant) which are given to families of children who cannot afford to pay the family portion of camp. This year camp funded 1 full tuition and 1 partial tuition for a total of $2,100. We purchased wagon's for another 501(c)(3) charity (Tru Community EIN 99-0596014) to help assist them with their startup. Total cost of wagons $119. We gave a monetary donation to a 501(c)(3), Hearts for Music Inc. (EIN 82-0805097) of $150.00. Total grants and gifts $2,369. Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16 Description;Amount^Social Media;391|Acknowledgement Expenses;1286|Camp Field Trip Expenses;3286|Field Trip Transportation Costs Bussing;2797|PayPal Venmo Stripe Fees;824|QuickBook Payment Fees;590|QuickBook Software;1234|In Kind Donation Awards;4795|Liability Insurance;2124|Camp Supplies and Purchases;1265|Tax Processing 1099 990 and Nonprofit Registration;225^Total;18817^ Form 990-EZ, Part III, Line (28-31) Camp Sunshine has no full-time staff. Business operations are run by an all-volunteer board and individuals who work independently that meet periodically throughout the year. Camp Sunshine runs a 4-week intensive summer program for children with disabilities, emphasizing social, educational (utilizing their Individual Education Plan), and communication skills practiced during real life experiences, so children have limited time to regress during the summer school break. Virtually all funds collected are used to provide high quality programming for the children who attend camp and provide camperships for needy families. Funds are used to pay qualified staff but also pay for meaningful camp activities such as field trips, in house music and art therapy. We provide programming emphasizing vocational skills for our older campers and provide them opportunities to explore job sites in the local community. This past summer we added a preschool classroom as our older kids have begun to age out and we had the room to be able to add the younger children at camp. While families pay for their children to attend camp, our goal is that they should pay no more than what they might pay for a typical child to attend similar programming, even though we must provide much more intensive supervision and adult support to meet the needs of a range of children with disabilities. Over the past 16 years, camp has grown from the original 6 campers to this year serving 34 children with more significant disabilities alongside 8 typical peers and 18 teen volunteers. Camp Sunshine trains typical peers and volunteers who model learning for the children with disabilities but also learn how to interact with other children whose communication and movement may be very different than their own. While spending time together, they learn that they all play and can enjoy the same things, a valuable lesson for everyone. Camp Sunshine is a place where a child with a disability can find consistency, reassurance, fun and meaningful interaction with other children. We are proud that we are able to give them this opportunity.