Vermont Bearhound Association Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 832345838
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Benson, VT, USA
- Phone
- 8023537006
- Rating
- 35
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,613
- Expenses
- $15,510
- Assets
- $87,253
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Doug Devost (President)
People named in this filing
- Doug Devost (President)
- Lissa Chambers (Secretary)
- Jeff Disorda (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
Protect, restore, and help manage our wildlife and natural resources. Preserve our right to hunt, including hunting with hounds, fishing, trapping, and owning firearms. Promote sportsmanship, foster and encourage shooting sports, strengthen good land owner-sportsmen relationships and educate the public on issues affecting Vermont's fish and wildlife.
What it reported doing in 2025
Educate public on related issues
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 62% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -176.3%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.63; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.