Magicians Without Borders Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 753144325
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2007
- Location
- Bristol, VT, USA
- Phone
- 8024535425
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $176,743
- Expenses
- $127,898
- Assets
- $242,345
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- THOMAS G VERNER (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- THOMAS G VERNER (PRESIDENT)
- ALEXANDER POSNER (VICE-PRESIDE)
- JANE WOODHOUSE (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
We use the art of magic to entertain, educate, and empower some of the most forgotten children in the world - mostly orphans and refugees.
What it reported doing in 2025
Since 2002, magicians without borders has traveled to over 47 countries using magic to entertain, educate and empower. By united nation estimates we have entertained over 1,500,000 of the most forgotten people in the world - mostly refugees and orphans living in desperate, difficult and often war torn parts of the world. Detailed accounts of this work can be found on the our travels page. We are also educating children in santa ana, el salvador, mumbai, india, brazil, south africa, ukraine, france and bogota, colombia to become magicians. As they study magic, they develop self-confidence, self-esteem, discipline, focus and a sense of personal power. We have also established a scholarship fund to empower these children to finish high school and go on to college, nursing school, and culinary school.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 88% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72%; rating input score 72
- Program expense ratio: 99.4%; rating input score 99
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 27.6%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.89; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 27.4%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.3% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 72% of revenue deployed · 99.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $127K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.