Vermont · Nonprofit
NOISE POLLUTION CLEARINGHOUSE INC
NOISE POLLUTION CLEARINGHOUSE INC (Vermont) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,000 to it, the largest being THE CREAM HILL FOUNDATION ($15,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $29k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $21k
- Net assets
- $1k
What Noise Pollution Clearinghouse Inc does
Mission
The Noise Pollution Clearinghouse is a national non-profit organization with extensive online noise related resources. The Noise Pollution Clearinghouse seeks to: Raise awareness about noise pollution Create, collect, and distribute information and resources regarding noise pollution Strengthen laws and governmental efforts to control noise pollution Establish networks among environmental, professional, medical, governmental, and activist groups working on noise pollution issues Assist activists working against noise pollution
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Noise pollution clearinghouse raises public awareness about noise pollution by creating, collecting, and distributing information.
$26,642 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $26,642.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $77k to $43k (−44%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
57% of NOISE POLLUTION CLEARINGHOUSE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (92% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Les Blomberg
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $3k → $5k.
From the IRS filings of NOISE POLLUTION CLEARINGHOUSE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
NOISE POLLUTION CLEARINGHOUSE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 50% · 2019 80% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 83% · 2023 56% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
NOISE POLLUTION CLEARINGHOUSE INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Vermont, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
NOISE POLLUTION CLEARINGHOUSE INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,152 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Government funding NOISE POLLUTION CLEARINGHOUSE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2k on record.
- Contr&3rd Pty-Educ & Training$2k
- Other Purchased Services$450
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like NOISE POLLUTION CLEARINGHOUSE INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NOISE POLLUTION CLEARINGHOUSE INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NOISE POLLUTION CLEARINGHOUSE INC?
- NOISE POLLUTION CLEARINGHOUSE INC (Vermont) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,000 to it, the largest being THE CREAM HILL FOUNDATION ($15,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NOISE POLLUTION CLEARINGHOUSE INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $21,000 in grants to NOISE POLLUTION CLEARINGHOUSE INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NOISE POLLUTION CLEARINGHOUSE INC?
- THE CREAM HILL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $15,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NOISE POLLUTION CLEARINGHOUSE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing