North American Hand Papermakers Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
391522079
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2012–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2019
Location
Chicago, IL, USA
Rating
67
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$47,369
Expenses
$40,652
Assets
$90,965
Liabilities
$793

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CLAIRE REYNES (President)
  • NADIA A FRIERSON (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • ISABELLA MYERS (CoVP Communications)
  • SARAH SCHLOSSER (CoVP Communications)
  • MILLICENT KREBS (Secretary)

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

To educate and support the craft of hand papermaking.

What it reported doing in 2025

NAHP Conference & Annual Meeting, Sept 11-13, 2025 in Minneapolis: talks, demos, tours, workshops, vendor fair, receptions and keynote speakers were available to all attendees.

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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filed totals do not add up.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 60
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 55
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 56.3%; rating input score 56
  • Program expense ratio: 68.4%; rating input score 68

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 14.2%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.24; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 21.7%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -4.8% per year; rating input score 0; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -1.2% per year; rating input score 0; 45th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 9.1% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 56.3% of revenue deployed · 68.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $28K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 9 filing years from 2012 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 56/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.