Community Engagement Lab Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 453868526
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2013
- Location
- Montpelier, VT, USA
- Phone
- 8025950087
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Music
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $99,337
- Expenses
- $91,713
- Assets
- $26,541
- Liabilities
- $252,328
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PAUL GAMBILL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- ROBERT HANNUM (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- PAUL GAMBILL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- ROBERT HANNUM (PRESIDENT)
- ROBERT HUBBARD (SECRETARYTREASURER)
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
See schedule o primary exempt purpose
What it reported doing in 2025
See schedule o exempt purpose achievements
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 89% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 75.5%; rating input score 76
- Program expense ratio: 81.8%; rating input score 82
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.7%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.29; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 9.51; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.1% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -7.3% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.8% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 75.5% of revenue deployed · 81.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $75K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 57/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.