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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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.

Compass School Inc

Po Box 177, Westmnstr Sta, VT | Tax-exempt since May 1999

EIN
030357755
Last filing
06/2015
Organization type
501(c)(3)
Mission category
Education
Foundation type
School
Nonprofit since
May 1, 1999

Last reported financials:

Revenue
$1,172,814
Assets
$1,394,707
Source: IRS

2014

Expenses

$1,150,746

Salary expenses

$670,761

Revenue

$1,172,814

Contributions and grants

$83,882

Assets

$1,394,707

Liabilities

$1,155,540

View 990 Submitted 08/04/2016

2013

Expenses

$1,178,789

Salary expenses

$727,170

Revenue

$1,264,682

Contributions and grants

$100,181

Assets

$852,300

Liabilities

$663,238

View 990 Submitted 08/21/2015

2012

View 990 Submitted 03/13/2014

2011

View 990 Submitted 11/05/2012

Organizations are required to list board members, key employees and anyone making over $100,000 from this or a related organization.

2014

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Eric Rhomberg Secretary $6,876 $0
Thomas Hennigan Board Member $0 $0
Wilson Schreiber Board Member $0 $0
William Donovan Board Member $0 $0
Jan Mcgonagle Board Member $0 $0
J Eric Anderson Board Member $0 $0
Laura Gianotti Board Member $0 $0
Rick Cowan Board Member $0 $0
Linda Quimby Vice Preside $0 $0
Eaddy Sutton Treasurer $0 $0
Dean Dorman President $0 $0
Matthew Peake Board Member $0 $0

2013

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Eric Rhomberg Secretary $58,997 $0
Matthew Peake Board Member $0 $0
Thomas Hennigan Board Member $0 $0
Wilson Schreiber Board Member $0 $0
William Donovan Board Member $0 $0
Jan Mcgonagle Board Member $0 $0
J Eric Anderson Board Member $0 $0
Laura Gianotti Board Member $0 $0
Linda Quimby Vice Preside $0 $0
Eaddy Sutton Treasurer $0 $0
Dean Dorman President $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.

So we created this tool. Like dairy? Try searching for the Vermont Cheese Council. How about horses? Check out American Morgan Horse Association or Spring Hill Horse Rescue. You’ll also find the University of Vermont Medical Center, the Committee on Temporary Shelter and Middlebury College.

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.