Vermont Nonprofit Navigator

Explore the organizations and people that power Vermont's $6.8 billion nonprofit economy.

By Andrea Suozzo of Seven Days

This tool was last updated in 2019. It is no longer being updated with new filings. For more info, contact: nonprofits@sevendaysvt.com.

Carpenter-Carse Library

69 Ballards Corners, Hinesburg, VT | Tax-exempt since April 1990

EIN
030185083
Last filing
06/2017
Organization type
501(c)(3)
Mission category
Not reported
Foundation type
Organization which receives a substantial part of its support from a governmental unit or the general public
Nonprofit since
April 1, 1990

Last reported financials:

Revenue
$260,650
Assets
$576,949
Source: IRS

2017

Expenses

$259,640

Salary expenses

$172,929

Revenue

$260,650

Contributions and grants

$233,435

Assets

$576,949

Liabilities

$0

View 990 Submitted 11/28/2018

2016

Expenses

$236,616

Salary expenses

$161,000

Revenue

$256,166

Contributions and grants

$229,634

Assets

$570,391

Liabilities

$0

View 990 Submitted 10/27/2017

2015

Expenses

$226,528

Salary expenses

$155,007

Revenue

$237,161

Contributions and grants

$224,312

Assets

$542,525

Liabilities

$0

View 990 Submitted 01/10/2017

2014

Expenses

$228,817

Salary expenses

$158,804

Revenue

$236,013

Contributions and grants

$203,746

Assets

$531,892

Liabilities

$0

View 990 Submitted 10/13/2015

2013

Expenses

$215,637

Salary expenses

$150,658

Revenue

$213,229

Contributions and grants

$198,299

Assets

$526,952

Liabilities

$0

View 990 Submitted 10/17/2014

2012

View 990 Submitted 03/14/2014

2011

View 990 (PDF)

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
Sara Armstrong Donegan Director $33,827 $0
Heather Roberts Secretary $0 $0
Katherine Kjelleren President $0 $0
Darcelene Lewis Wedge Director $0 $0
Brian Dunlop Director $0 $0
Jim Jarvis Director $0 $0
Marianna Holzer Director $0 $0
Edward Sengle Director $0 $0
Harmony Cism Director $0 $0
Paul Lamberson Treasuer $0 $0

2016

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Brian Dunlop Trustee $0 $0
Harmony Cism Trustee $0 $0
Katherine Kjelleren President $0 $0
Heather Roberts Secretary $0 $0
Paul Lamberson Treasuer $0 $0
Edward Sengle Trustee $0 $0
Marianna Holzer Trustee $0 $0
Jim Jarvis Trustee $0 $0
Darcelene Lewis Wedge Trustee $0 $0

2015

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Marianna Holzer Trustee $0 $0
Heather Roberts Secretary $0 $0
Katherine Kjelleren President $0 $0
Paul Lamberson Treasuer $0 $0
Susan Abell Trustee $0 $0
Edward Sengle Trustee $0 $0
Darcelene Lewis Wedge Trustee $0 $0
Brian Dunlop Trustee $0 $0
Jim Jarvis Trustee $0 $0

2014

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Katherine Kjelleren Trustee - Chair $0 $0
Susan Abell Trustee $0 $0
Jim Jarvis Trustee $0 $0
Brian Dunlop Trustee $0 $0
Marianna Holzer Trustee $0 $0
Ed Sengle Trustee $0 $0
Heather Roberts Trustee - Secretary $0 $0
Paul Lamberson Trustee - Treasurer $0 $0
Darcelene Lewis-Wedge Trustee $0 $0

2013

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Susan Abell Trustee $0 $0
Darcelene Lewis-Wedge Trustee $0 $0
Katherine Kjelleren Trustee $0 $0
Heather Roberts Trustee $0 $0
Paul Lamberson Trustee $0 $0
Ed Sengle Trustee $0 $0
Marianna Holzer Trustee $0 $0
Brian Dunlop Trustee $0 $0
Jim Jarvis Trustee $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.