Timber Framers Guild Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 814201896
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Alstead, NH, USA
- Phone
- 6033137217
- Rating
- 65
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Support N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,240,554
- Expenses
- $1,319,687
- Assets
- $411,798
- Liabilities
- $259,081
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- AUTUMN PETERSON (PRESIDENT)
- JIM DESANTIS (VICE PRESIDENT)
- JACKSON DUBOIS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- JACKSON DUBOIS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $106,922 total reported compensation
- ARIEL SCHECTER (DIRECTOR): $22,546 total reported compensation
- MICHAEL CUBA (CLERK): $21,223 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Active since the 1980s, the guild advances timber framing and enriches our community through research, education, and industry. Through our programming, we support sustainable communities, jobs creation, effective infrastructure, and responsible consumption.
What it reported doing in 2024
The guild and its members design and build structures in partnership with public agencies and nonprofit organizations, with support from guild members, community volunteers, and other stakeholders. These projects are done to educate our members and the public, demonstratethe value of timber frame structures, and provide lasting benefits to the communities that underwrite them.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 61% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 55
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 67.9%; rating input score 68
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.76 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -6.4%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.31; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.63; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.6%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.3% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.1% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 73% of revenue deployed · 67.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $896K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $107K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 31 of 32 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 16/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 22/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 12/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 29/100.