Norwich Community Collaborative Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
921407836
IRS 990 coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Norwich, VT, USA
Phone
8022990282
Rating
59
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Historical Societies & Historic Preservation

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$640,306
Expenses
$14,921
Assets
$1,443,078
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

14 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Jess Phelps (President)
  • Emily Myers (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Jess Phelps (President)
  • Emily Myers (Vice President)
  • Sarah Rooker (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The mission of the Norwich Community Collaborative is to restore and care for Norwich's historic Grange Hall as a gathering place for activities that foster community spirit and serve the needs of our area. NCC is restoring and revitalizing Norwich's historic Grange Hall as a community center open to all. Activities in the revitalized Grange Hall will be designed to bring together groups who have not previously overlapped.

What it reported doing in 2025

NCC is restoring and revitalizing Norwich's historic Grange Hall as a community center open to all. Activities in the revitalized Grange Hall will be designed to bring together groups who have not previously overlapped. There will be intergenerational activities, events designed to welcome and orient newcomers (primarily young families), and opportunities for nonprofits to intersect and find new ways to collaborate and energize volunteers. NCC seeks to build community engagement. They offered four pancake breakfasts to the community in 2025, serving over 600 people of all ages. These breakfasts offered opportunities for youth volunteerism, senior meal support, and community engagement. The breakfasts also offered opportunities for discussions and petitions for town meeting and other business in the community. Other seasonal offerings included First and Last Day school celebrations reaching approximately 400 children and their parents as well as a March Sugaring Party, a spring Seed and Tool Swap, and Halloween events.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. 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: 20
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 76
  • Sustainability: 95
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0.7%; rating input score 1
  • Program expense ratio: 30.9%; rating input score 31
  • Fundraising efficiency: $102.37 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 97.7%; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 96.71; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -122.1% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 37.7% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 55.2% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0.7% of revenue deployed · 30.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $5K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
  • Consistency: 18 of 18 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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 1/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 31/100.
  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.