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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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.

Carving Studio And Sculpture Center

Po Box 495, West Rutland, VT | Tax-exempt since June 1997

EIN
030325486
Last filing
12/2017
Organization type
501(c)(3)
Mission category
Arts, Culture & Humanities
Foundation type
Organization which receives a substantial part of its support from a governmental unit or the general public
Nonprofit since
June 1, 1997

Last reported financials:

Revenue
$444,835
Assets
$642,220
Source: IRS

2017

Expenses

$337,187

Fundraising expenses

$8,425

Salary expenses

$98,232

Revenue

$444,835

Contributions and grants

$292,085

Assets

$642,220

Liabilities

$6,612

View 990 Submitted 07/30/2018

2016

Expenses

$279,310

Fundraising expenses

$11,563

Salary expenses

$100,625

Revenue

$255,290

Contributions and grants

$118,030

Assets

$542,179

Liabilities

$14,219

View 990 Submitted 08/24/2017

2015

Expenses

$240,114

Fundraising expenses

$7,126

Salary expenses

$94,735

Revenue

$244,094

Contributions and grants

$101,459

Assets

$556,203

Liabilities

$4,223

View 990 Submitted 08/19/2016

2014

View 990 (PDF)

2013

View 990 (PDF)

2012

View 990 (PDF)

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
Tim Schneller Treasurer $0 $0
John Suddarth Director $0 $0
James Levins Secretary $0 $0
Pam Brown Director $0 $0
Robert Black President $0 $0
Christine Diekel Director $0 $0
Philip Gawet Director $0 $0
Scott Stoll Director $0 $0
Paula Walczyk Vice President $0 $0

2016

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Carol Driscoll Executive Director $41,390 $0
Tom Kearns Studio Manager $17,426 $0
Darby Gorham Bookkeeper/Office Assistant $15,161 $0
Johnathon Lafarge Studio Manager $8,929 $0
Robert Black President $0 $0
James Levins Director $0 $0
Tim Schneller Treasurer $0 $0
Pam Brown Director $0 $0
Christine Diekel Director $0 $0
Bill Nutt Director $0 $0
Philip Gawet Director $0 $0
Scott Stoll Director $0 $0
Westy Egmont Director $0 $0
Dina Torrans Director $0 $0
Paula Walczyk Vice President $0 $0
Michael Weinberger Director $0 $0

2015

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Carol Driscoll Executive Director $40,957 $0
Johnathon Lafarge Studio Manager $23,483 $0
Darby Gorham Bookkeeper/Office Assistant $14,031 $0
Dina Torrans Director $0 $0
Michael Weinberger Director $0 $0
Robert Black President $0 $0
Paula Walczyk Director $0 $0
Tim Schneller Treasurer $0 $0
James Levins Director $0 $0
Westy Egmont Vice President $0 $0
Pam Brown Director $0 $0
Bill Nutt Director $0 $0
Christine Diekel Director $0 $0
Philip Gawet Director $0 $0
Scott Stoll Director $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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Then, read Give and Take, our series of stories on Vermont's nonprofit economy.

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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.