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Columbus Smith Estate Trust Inc
1177 Shard Villa Rd, Salisbury, VT | Tax-exempt since June 1940
- EIN
- 030186171
- Last filing
- 12/2016
- Organization type
- 501(c)(3)
- Mission category
- Not reported
- Foundation type
- Private operating foundation (other)
- Nonprofit since
- June 1, 1940
- Revenue
- $818,984
- Assets
- $1,352,260
Last reported financials:
2017
Expenses
$784,187
Salary expenses
$308,588
Revenue
$818,984
Contributions and grants
$2,250
Assets
$1,352,260
Liabilities
$7,073
2016
Expenses
$796,795
Salary expenses
$462,954
Revenue
$1,290,985
Contributions and grants
$1,385
Assets
$1,299,730
Liabilities
$11,732
2015
Expenses
$836,013
Salary expenses
$449,928
Revenue
$788,791
Contributions and grants
$2,760
Assets
$812,976
Liabilities
$19,169
2014
Expenses
$866,181
Salary expenses
$487,637
Revenue
$848,811
Contributions and grants
$2,208
Assets
$869,487
Liabilities
$28,457
2013
Expenses
$808,936
Salary expenses
$490,983
Revenue
$848,134
Contributions and grants
$1,175
Assets
$897,097
Liabilities
$38,697
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lee Ann Goodrich | Executive Director | $83,247 | $0 |
| Margaret Fox | Vice President | $0 | $0 |
| Tim Hollander | President | $0 | $0 |
| Harold Satch Nisun | Treasurer | $0 | $0 |
| Laurie Desautels | Secretary | $0 | $0 |
| Tom Beauregard | Member | $0 | $0 |
| Helmut Hietzker | Member | $0 | $0 |
| Neil Mackey | Member | $0 | $0 |
| Fran Fraga | Member | $0 | $0 |
| Davis Brakeley | Member | $0 | $0 |
2016
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debra Young | Secretary | $None | $None |
| Fran Fraga | Treasurer | $None | $None |
| Diane Benware | Chairman | $None | $None |
| Chuck Burdick | Director | $None | $None |
| Deborah Choma | Director | $None | $None |
2015
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deborah Choma | Director | $None | $None |
| Anne Thrailkill | Director | $None | $None |
| Debra Young | Secretary | $None | $None |
| Fran Fraga | Treasurer | $None | $None |
| Neil Mackey | Chairman | $None | $None |
| Chas Mraz | Director | $None | $None |
2014
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anne Thrailkill | Chairman | $None | $None |
| Deborah Choma | Director | $None | $None |
| Neil Mackey | Vp | $None | $None |
| Chas Mraz | Director | $None | $None |
| Fran Fraga | Treasurer | $None | $None |
| Debra Young | Secretary | $None | $None |
2013
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deborah Choma | Director | $None | $None |
| Chas Mraz | Director | $None | $None |
| Neil Mackey | Vp | $None | $None |
| Anne Thrailkill | Chairman | $None | $None |
| Craig Bingham | Treasurer | $None | $None |
| Debra Young | Secretary | $None | $None |
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.