Vermont Nonprofit Navigator
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Upper Valley Waldorf School
Po Box 709, Quechee, VT | Tax-exempt since May 1989
- EIN
- 030312346
- Last filing
- 06/2017
- Organization type
- 501(c)(3)
- Mission category
- Education
- Foundation type
- Organization that normally receives no more than one-third of its support from gross investment income and unrelated business income and at the same time more than one-third of its support from contributions, fees, and gross receipts related to exempt purposes.
- Nonprofit since
- May 1, 1989
- Revenue
- $2,306,660
- Assets
- $4,241,437
Last reported financials:
2017
Expenses
$2,283,775
Fundraising expenses
$25,454
Salary expenses
$1,323,049
Revenue
$2,306,660
Contributions and grants
$266,351
Assets
$4,241,437
Liabilities
$765,171
2016
Expenses
$2,317,392
Fundraising expenses
$49,999
Salary expenses
$1,306,403
Revenue
$4,900,842
Contributions and grants
$2,861,626
Assets
$4,596,949
Liabilities
$1,143,569
2015
Expenses
$2,224,968
Fundraising expenses
$40,406
Salary expenses
$1,284,126
Revenue
$2,277,559
Contributions and grants
$303,174
Assets
$1,909,487
Liabilities
$1,039,555
2014
Expenses
$2,113,146
Fundraising expenses
$42,796
Salary expenses
$1,205,673
Revenue
$2,184,552
Contributions and grants
$343,565
Assets
$1,887,094
Liabilities
$1,105,747
2013
Expenses
$1,954,733
Fundraising expenses
$20,948
Salary expenses
$1,114,642
Revenue
$2,056,663
Contributions and grants
$318,422
Assets
$1,770,614
Liabilities
$1,060,672
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christine Scherding | Administrative Director | $45,485 | $2,700 |
| June Albright | Faculty Representative | $41,709 | $17,865 |
| Carolyn Begley | Faculty Representative | $39,915 | $27,796 |
| Shifra Levine Term 5518 | Faculty Representative | $36,654 | $14,272 |
| Melanie Sheehan | Board Chair | $0 | $0 |
| Emily Maclaury | Board Member/Vice Chair | $0 | $0 |
| Jay Stroud | Board Member | $0 | $0 |
| Keith Milone | Treasurer | $0 | $0 |
| Lisa Cosentino | Secretary | $0 | $0 |
| David Jaacks | Board Member | $0 | $0 |
| Jon Huntington | Board Vice Chair | $0 | $0 |
| Andrew Mclaughlin | Board Member | $0 | $0 |
| Rob Korhonen Term 5518 | Board Member | $0 | $0 |
| Julie Thom | Board Member | $0 | $0 |
2016
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carolyn Begley | Faculty Representative | $39,160 | $26,188 |
| Christine Scherding | Administrative Director | $37,708 | $16,111 |
| Shifra Levine | Faculty Representative | $35,997 | $13,579 |
| Amy Morel | Board Vice Chair | $0 | $0 |
| Lisa Cosentino | Secretary | $0 | $0 |
| Keith Milone | Treasurer | $0 | $0 |
| Jay Stroud | Board Member | $0 | $0 |
| Emily Maclaury | Board Member | $0 | $0 |
| Andrew Mclaughlin | Board Member | $0 | $0 |
| Melanie Sheehan | Board Chair | $0 | $0 |
2015
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| June Albright | Faculty Representative | $43,870 | $16,000 |
| Julia Pellegrino 70115-112115 | Faculty Representative | $42,786 | $16,000 |
| Carolyn Begley | Faculty Representative | $39,636 | $25,734 |
| Christine Scherding | Administrative Director | $38,023 | $18,568 |
| Jay Stroud | Board Member | $0 | $0 |
| Keith Milone | Treasurer | $0 | $0 |
| Lisa Cosentino | Secretary | $0 | $0 |
| Amy Morel 7115-82615 | Board Vice Chair | $0 | $0 |
| Sarah Rooker82715-63016 | Board Vice Chair | $0 | $0 |
| Rachel Gross | Board Member | $0 | $0 |
| Laura Williams | Board Member | $0 | $0 |
| Melanie Sheehan | Board Chair | $0 | $0 |
2014
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Julia Pellegrino | Faculty Representative | $41,679 | $14,637 |
| Carolyn Begley | Faculty Representative | $36,596 | $10,505 |
| Christine Scherding | Administrative Director | $35,656 | $17,061 |
| Jenny Mckenna | Development Director | $25,359 | $300 |
| Keith Milone 82914-63015 | Treasurer | $0 | $0 |
| Rachel Gross | Board Member | $0 | $0 |
| Sarah Rooker82914-63015 | Board Chair | $0 | $0 |
| Melanie Sheehan | Secretary | $0 | $0 |
| Julie Geoghegan 7114-82814 | Board Chair | $0 | $0 |
| Sarah Pinneo 7114-82814 | Treasurer | $0 | $0 |
| Jane Soderquist | Board Member | $0 | $0 |
| Steve Silver | Board Member | $0 | $0 |
| Marcy Chong | Board Member | $0 | $0 |
| Amy Morel | Board Vice Chair | $0 | $0 |
2013
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Julia Pellegrino | Faculty Representative | $39,346 | $13,074 |
| Cory Waletzko | Faculty Representative | $35,393 | $4,807 |
| Christine Scherding | Administrative Director | $34,917 | $13,079 |
| John Brennan | Board Member | $0 | $0 |
| Sarah Rooker | Board Member | $0 | $0 |
| Julie Geoghegan | Board Chair | $0 | $0 |
| Amy Morel | Board Vice Chair | $0 | $0 |
| Melanie Sheehan | Secretary | $0 | $0 |
| Rachel Gross | Board Member | $0 | $0 |
| Jane Soderquist | Board Member | $0 | $0 |
| Jenny Mckenna | Development Director | $0 | $0 |
| Sarah Pinneo | 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.