Chapel Hill Woodturners Inc
Public records show a registered, tax-exempt organization in good standing.
What it says it does
Chapel Hill Woodturners (CHWT) is a non-profit organization founded in 2011 whose purpose is to promote and share the craft and art of creative woodturning. CHWT offers hands-on workshops that range from basic to advanced instruction in woodturning. CHWT also provides weekly "open turning" sessions at a nominal charge to non-members. CHWT is committed to public service through a diverse array of activities including regularly offering demonstrations at farmers' markets and festivals, donations of turned artifacts for fund raising, and hands-on woodturning instruction and items offered at no cost to non-profit medical and charitable organizations.
- Income
- $47,815
- Spending
- $20,371
- Reserves
- 67.2 months of spending
- Largest source of income
- other income, 44%
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Financial health
We do not score finances when yearly spending is very small or the return has too little detail. The ratios stop meaning much at that size.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Governance
This organization files the short tax form, which does not ask about boards, policies or audits. That is normal for a small charity and is not a mark against it.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Impact evidence
Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.
Programs described in its return (3)
- Open Turnings - CHWT hosts learn to turn on most Fridays and Saturdays that is open to the public. CHWT provides skilled instructors that provide individual hands on instruction in our fully equipped shop. For the 2025 year CHWT had 418 participants in the open turning program.
- $215 spent. Workshops - CHWT offers woodturning workshops focusing on particular projects that are open to the public. CHWT provides skilled instructors that provide individual hands on instruction in our fully equipped shop. For the 2025 year CHWT had 54 participants in the workshops program.
- The outreach mission of our organization and our individual members. Items include those for sale to support the NC Botanical Gardens as well as items turned and donated to medical agencies. As participants in the "Beads of Courage" project, we have turned and donated lidded boxes to the UNC Children's Hospital (and the Beads of Courage national organization) for young patients who have been awarded beads marking procedures and milestones achieved during the course of their cancer treatments. Our most recent initiative is called "Wings for Healing," in which we turn and donate small wooden angels as tokens of support and possible inspiration for pediatric patients undergoing cancer treatment at Duke University Hospital.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Legitimacy checks
Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.
Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Passed.
Not on the IRS automatic revocation list.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Passed.
On the IRS list of organizations eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions.
Source: Publication 78 data: organizations eligible for tax-deductible contributions, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending December 2025.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since June 2015.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.
Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.
Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated October 21, 2026.
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