Vermont Nonprofit Navigator
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Regulatory Assistance Project
50 State St, Montpelier, VT | Tax-exempt since August 1992
- EIN
- 010471151
- Last filing
- 12/2016
- Organization type
- 501(c)(3)
- Mission category
- Environment
- Foundation type
- Organization which receives a substantial part of its support from a governmental unit or the general public
- Nonprofit since
- Aug. 1, 1992
- Revenue
- $9,267,699
- Assets
- $7,163,116
Last reported financials:
2017
Expenses
$7,853,018
Fundraising expenses
$149,293
Salary expenses
$4,205,393
Revenue
$9,267,699
Contributions and grants
$7,576,977
Assets
$7,163,116
Liabilities
$1,422,173
2016
Expenses
$8,368,522
Fundraising expenses
$140,828
Salary expenses
$4,027,013
Revenue
$8,980,208
Contributions and grants
$6,711,476
Assets
$6,056,760
Liabilities
$1,719,188
2015
Expenses
$8,169,469
Fundraising expenses
$158,719
Salary expenses
$4,118,152
Revenue
$7,763,705
Contributions and grants
$6,350,514
Assets
$4,991,586
Liabilities
$1,265,700
2014
Expenses
$8,231,533
Fundraising expenses
$119,586
Salary expenses
$3,730,267
Revenue
$8,329,476
Contributions and grants
$7,689,108
Assets
$5,333,733
Liabilities
$1,202,083
2013
Expenses
$10,098,260
Fundraising expenses
$23,687
Salary expenses
$4,043,832
Revenue
$10,070,998
Contributions and grants
$9,379,039
Assets
$5,041,223
Liabilities
$1,007,516
2012
2011
Organizations are required to list board members, key employees and anyone making over $100,000 from this or a related organization.
2017
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frederick W Weston | Principal | $240,665 | $17,736 |
| Richard Sedano | Principal/President & Ceo | $238,292 | $36,494 |
| Richard Cowart | Secretary/Principal | $236,593 | $15,571 |
| Christine Salembier | Chief Operating Officer | $195,989 | $12,681 |
| Carl B Linvill | Principal | $195,937 | $14,343 |
| Kenneth A Colburn | Principal | $185,110 | $23,331 |
| Edith Bayer | Senior Associate | $184,548 | $41,209 |
| Janine L Migden-Ostrander | Principal | $175,968 | $28,165 |
| Ranjit Bharvirkar | Senior Associate | $166,864 | $11,876 |
| David Littell | Principal | $156,005 | $20,072 |
| David Farnsworth | Senior Associate | $155,319 | $12,099 |
| Max Dupuy | Senior Associate | $133,056 | $25,435 |
| John Shenot | Senior Associate | $126,829 | $24,240 |
| Carl Weinberg | Vice Chair | $2,000 | $0 |
| Franklin Tugwell | Director | $2,000 | $0 |
| Amanda Ormond | Director | $2,000 | $0 |
| Cheryl Harrington | Treasurer | $2,000 | $0 |
| Catherine Mitchell | Chair | $2,000 | $0 |
| Douglas Ogden | Director (From Jun '17) | $0 | $0 |
2016
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Richard Cowart | Director/Principal | $236,499 | $16,160 |
| Frederick Weston | Director/Principal | $234,536 | $17,915 |
| Richard Sedano | Secretary/Principal | $211,773 | $35,279 |
| Carl B Linvill | Principal | $185,389 | $14,790 |
| Christine Salembier | Chief Operating Officer | $181,452 | $11,767 |
| Christopher James | Principal | $180,676 | $12,267 |
| Janine L Migden-Ostrander | Principal | $170,729 | $27,886 |
| Kenneth A Colburn | Principal | $168,329 | $24,552 |
| Dave Littell | Principal | $152,630 | $25,273 |
| Ranjit Bharvirkar | Senior Associate | $149,630 | $6,790 |
| David C Farnsworth | Senior Associate | $149,030 | $12,987 |
| Edith Bayer | Senior Associate | $147,448 | $27,266 |
| Max Dupuy | Senior Associate | $124,056 | $13,399 |
| John Shenot | Senior Associate | $118,092 | $22,378 |
| Catherine Mitchell | Chairman | $2,000 | $0 |
| Amanda Ormond | Director | $2,000 | $0 |
| Franklin Tugwell | Director | $2,000 | $0 |
| Cheryl Harrington | Treasurer | $2,000 | $0 |
| Carl Weinberg | Vice Chair | $2,000 | $0 |
2015
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frederick Weston | Director/Principal | $240,546 | $17,544 |
| Richard Cowart | Principal | $233,753 | $15,749 |
| Richard Sedano | Secretary/Principal | $214,608 | $34,686 |
| Robert F Lieberman | Principal | $214,466 | $34,227 |
| Christine Salembier | Chief Operating Officer | $183,175 | $11,915 |
| Carl B Linvill | Principal | $182,708 | $14,652 |
| Christopher James | Principal | $175,097 | $12,206 |
| Janine L Migden-Ostrander | Principal | $172,973 | $27,280 |
| Kenneth A Colburn | Principal | $171,049 | $17,193 |
| David C Farnsworth | Senior Associate | $152,647 | $13,869 |
| Max Dupuy | Senior Associate | $135,915 | $13,112 |
| James R Allen | Research Manager | $118,725 | $33,302 |
| Carol J Martin | Finance Director | $117,929 | $8,035 |
| John Shenot | Senior Associate | $114,867 | $21,243 |
| Roger Hamilton | Vice Chair/Interim Treas (To Jun '15) | $2,000 | $0 |
| Carl Weinberg | Vice Chair | $2,000 | $0 |
| Cheryl Harrington | Treasurer | $2,000 | $0 |
| Catherine Mitchell | Chairman | $2,000 | $0 |
| Amanda Ormond | Director (From Jun '15) | $1,500 | $0 |
| Franklin Tugwell | Director (From Jun '15) | $1,000 | $0 |
2014
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Richard Cowart | Principal | $218,683 | $15,069 |
| Frederick Weston | Director | $214,895 | $18,857 |
| Robert F Lieberman | Principal | $204,694 | $29,058 |
| Richard Sedano | Secretary | $200,602 | $33,150 |
| Christopher James | Principal | $174,242 | $11,958 |
| Carl B Linvill | Principal | $171,050 | $13,875 |
| Christine Salembier | Chief Operating Officer | $170,845 | $11,161 |
| Janine L Migden-Ostrander | Principal | $163,111 | $24,275 |
| Kenneth A Colburn | Senior Associate | $154,103 | $13,318 |
| David C Farnsworth | Senior Associate | $139,184 | $13,558 |
| Max Dupuy | Senior Associate | $130,145 | $12,419 |
| James R Allen | Research Manager | $110,552 | $32,034 |
| Carol J Martin | Finance Director | $110,062 | $7,988 |
| Catherine Murray | Regional Coordinator | $105,614 | $13,296 |
| Fuqiang Yang | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Roger Hamilton | Vice Chair/Interim Treasurer | $0 | $0 |
| Carl Weinberg | Chairman | $0 | $0 |
| Catherine Mitchell | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Cheryl Harrington | Director | $0 | $0 |
2013
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Richard Cowart | Principal | $221,351 | $15,646 |
| Frederick Weston | Director | $217,816 | $19,184 |
| Robert F Lieberman | Principal | $203,197 | $28,664 |
| Richard Sedano | Secretary | $198,655 | $33,206 |
| Christopher James | Principal | $172,421 | $11,418 |
| Meg S Gottstein | Principal | $163,918 | $11,679 |
| Janine L Migden-Ostrander | Principal | $160,393 | $25,132 |
| Christine Salembier | Chief Operating Officer | $155,025 | $10,183 |
| Carl B Linvill | Principal | $146,859 | $11,844 |
| Kenneth A Colburn | Senior Associate | $137,686 | $12,291 |
| David C Farnsworth | Senior Associate | $133,578 | $11,682 |
| Max Dupuy | Senior Associate | $121,711 | $12,738 |
| James R Allen | Research Manager | $112,119 | $28,637 |
| Carl Weinberg | Chairman | $0 | $0 |
| Yang Fuqiang | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Catherine Mitchell | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Cheryl Harrington | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Roger Hamilton | Vice Chair/Interim Treasurer | $0 | $0 |
About this tool
As of May 2018, Vermont’s 6,044 nonprofits reported $6.8 billion in revenue and $13.2 billion in assets in their latest Internal Revenue Service filings. The federal Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that nearly 18 percent of the state’s workers are employed by 501c3s.
Organizations like ProPublica and Guidestar both offer excellent tools that open up public access to the information contained in IRS 990s, the financial reports nonprofits file annually. But we wanted to be able to dive a little deeper — to see, search, sort and filter the organizations and people that make up Vermont’s nonprofit ecosystem.
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About the data
To build a list of Vermont nonprofit organizations, we pulled state listings from the Internal Revenue Service.
Some Vermont nonprofits — about one-third — file digitally. That includes all of the state’s largest nonprofit organizations, like hospitals and colleges, plus many smaller ones. The IRS makes those filings available as XML files for public download, and tools like IRSx make it possible to understand what’s in those data files.
In cases where electronic filings weren’t available, we pulled in PDF versions from ProPublica’s API, so that we could get a better idea of the organizations we were missing.
In all, you’ll find more than 13,500 filings from nonprofit organizations in this database. However, there are some caveats. Not all nonprofits file annual financial reports — those with limited annual revenue, as well as ones that fall into religious, governmental or other exempt categories, are not required to file. And even when organizations file 990s, they don’t always do them right.