Chapel Hill Woodturners Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 473875569
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Chapel Hill, NC, USA
- Phone
- 9193027894
- Rating
- 38
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Management & Technical Assistance
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $47,815
- Expenses
- $20,371
- Assets
- $114,162
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- David Jones (President)
- Terry Lefebvre (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- David Jones (President)
- Terry Lefebvre (Vice President)
- Robert Vickery (Treasurer)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Chapel Hill Woodturners (CHWT) is a non-profit organization founded in 2011 whose purpose is to promote and share the craft and art of creative woodturning. CHWT offers hands-on workshops that range from basic to advanced instruction in woodturning. CHWT also provides weekly "open turning" sessions at a nominal charge to non-members. CHWT is committed to public service through a diverse array of activities including regularly offering demonstrations at farmers' markets and festivals, donations of turned artifacts for fund raising, and hands-on woodturning instruction and items offered at no cost to non-profit medical and charitable organizations.
What it reported doing in 2025
The outreach mission of our organization and our individual members. Items include those for sale to support the NC Botanical Gardens as well as items turned and donated to medical agencies. As participants in the "Beads of Courage" project, we have turned and donated lidded boxes to the UNC Children's Hospital (and the Beads of Courage national organization) for young patients who have been awarded beads marking procedures and milestones achieved during the course of their cancer treatments. Our most recent initiative is called "Wings for Healing," in which we turn and donate small wooden angels as tokens of support and possible inspiration for pediatric patients undergoing cancer treatment at Duke University Hospital.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 83
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0.4%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 1.1%; rating input score 1
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 57.4%; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.6; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -109.6% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -28.5% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 27.3% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0.4% of revenue deployed · 1.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $215 in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.