Is it real?
Yes. Never revoked by the IRS. Latest filing on record: FY2025. IRS ruling in Mar 2017.
IRS Pub. 78 · IRS Auto-Revocation List · IRS Business Master File
Where the money goes
67 cents of each dollar spent went to programs.
Form 990 Part IX, line 25, columns B–D. Every line is in By the numbers.
Who runs it and what they're paid
13 people listed on the 990; $65K paid to officers and key staff.
Jackson Dubois’s $107K as Executive Director is at the 32nd percentile of top reported officer pay among 1245 $1–10M employment nonprofits. Peer set: organizations in the same NTEE major field of work and revenue-size band, compared on each org’s own highest-paid officer/key-employee, from Form 990 Part VII / 990-PF Part VIII. Descriptive placement, not a verdict on whether the pay is appropriate.
Compensation history total reportable pay by year · 8 named individuals · Part VII
| Name | FY2025 | FY2024 | FY2023 | FY2022 | FY2021 | FY2020 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| James Magee | — | — | — | $82,072 | $115,757 | $65,000 |
| Jackson Dubois | $106,922 | $33,726 | — | — | — | — |
| Neil Godden | — | — | $105,578 | — | — | — |
| Eric Howard | — | $77,538 | $96,923 | — | — | — |
| Ariel Schecter | $22,546 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Michael Cuba | $21,223 | $18,400 | $9,696 | — | — | — |
| Chris Koehn | $6,174 | $12,110 | — | — | — | — |
| Steve Lawrence | — | — | $10,650 | $10,929 | — | — |
Total reportable compensation (Form 990 Part VII column D / Schedule J column E) by filing year, matched by name within this organization. The Schedule J base / bonus / deferred breakdown is not parsed into this dataset.
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Questions the 990 asks
The form asks each of these directly. These are the filed answers.
- Family or business ties among officersPt VI · Ln 2No
- Top official's pay set by an independent reviewPt VI · Ln 15aYes
Programs and updates
Promotes timber framing through research, education, and industry to build sustainable communities and create jobs.
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Each year the guild and its members undertake projects with civic and non-profit organizations in the spirit of community. Timber frame buildings or pojects are built using community volunteers as well as members of the apprenticeship program to construct projects that might not otherwise be financially feasible for the community or…
The guild holds an annual conference which includes a trade show, lectures, demonstrations, and other special events.
The guild publishes "timber framing", a quarterly journal of timber framing history, technology, theory, practice, design and engineering. A monthly newsletter, "scantlings", is published about timber framing events, news, business and people.
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Funders
Who pays for it.
From grant filings on record. Receipts are incomplete: individual donors are never listed.
Grants
By the numbers
The FY2020 990, line by line.
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| Line | Start FY20 | End FY20 |
|---|---|---|
| Cash and savingsLn 1–2 | $236K | $76K |
| InvestmentsLn 11–13 | $0 | $90K |
| Total assetsLn 16 | $274K | $287K |
| LiabilitiesLn 26 | $105K | $137K |
| Net assetsLn 32 | $169K | $150K |
| Line | Total | Programs | Management | Fundraising |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pay of current officers, directors and key staffLn 5 | $95K | $34K | $40K | $21K |
| Other salaries and wagesLn 7 | $95K | $34K | $40K | $21K |
| Other employee benefitsLn 9 | $10K | $3K | $4K | $2K |
| Payroll taxesLn 10 | $16K | $6K | $7K | $3K |
| Management feesLn 11a | $31K | $31K | ||
| Legal feesLn 11b | $29K | $29K | ||
| Accounting feesLn 11c | $20K | $20K | ||
| Advertising and promotionLn 12 | $3K | $3K | ||
| Office expensesLn 13 | $10K | $10K | ||
| Information technologyLn 14 | $3K | $3K | ||
| OccupancyLn 16 | $23K | $23K | ||
| TravelLn 17 | $11K | $11K | ||
| Conferences, conventions and meetingsLn 19 | $146K | $146K | ||
| InsuranceLn 23 | $12K | $12K | ||
| Other expenses (24a–d)Ln 24 | $425K | $409K | $16K | |
| All other expensesLn 24e | $16K | $16K | ||
| Total functional expensesLn 25 | $944K | $632K | $264K | $47K |
Filing history
| Year | Money in | Money out | In minus out | Net assets | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 Latest | $1.2M | $1.3M | −$79K | $153K | 990 PDF |
| FY2024 | $1.1M | $1.3M | −$248K | $232K | 990 PDF |
| FY2023 | $1.0M | $927K | $100K | $476K | 990 PDF |
| FY2022 | $621K | $616K | $4K | $376K | 990 PDF |
| FY2021 | $707K | $486K | $222K | $372K | 990 PDF |
| FY2020 Viewing | $924K | $944K | −$19K | $150K | 990 PDF |
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Schedules filed Part IV
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Part VIII · Statement of revenue $924,325 across 5 lines filed
Part IX · Statement of functional expenses $943,573 across 16 lines filed
Part X · Balance sheet $286,610 assets, 15 lines filed
Part XI · Reconciliation of net assets $149,971 net assets at year end
Form 990 e-file (XML) FY2020 from the IRS · Classification, formation year and address from the IRS Business Master File
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