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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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.

Chittenden County Goverment Access Channel Trust

294 North Winooski Avenue, Burlington, VT | Tax-exempt since October 1992

EIN
036054166
Last filing
09/2017
Organization type
501(c)(3)
Mission category
Not reported
Foundation type
Organizations operated solely for the benefit of and in conjunction with organizations described in 10 through 16 above.
Nonprofit since
Oct. 1, 1992

Last reported financials:

Revenue
$671,447
Assets
$506,476
Source: IRS

2016

Expenses

$720,010

Revenue

$671,447

Assets

$506,476

Liabilities

$36,077

View 990 Submitted 03/07/2018

2015

Expenses

$710,630

Revenue

$636,298

Assets

$544,404

Liabilities

$34,500

View 990 Submitted 07/27/2017

2014

Expenses

$644,256

Revenue

$634,594

Assets

$587,275

Liabilities

$15,000

View 990 Submitted 08/09/2016

2013

Expenses

$592,548

Revenue

$612,187

Assets

$613,709

Liabilities

$16,531

View 990 Submitted 07/16/2015

2012

View 990 Submitted 06/26/2014

2011

View 990 Submitted 08/05/2013
View 990 Submitted 12/20/2013

2010

View 990 Submitted 06/29/2012
View 990 Submitted 01/06/2014

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

2016

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Helen Riehle Treasurer $0 $0
Ginny Lyons Secretary $0 $0
Howard Wooden Director $0 $0
Elaine Sopchak President $0 $0
Dave Hartnett Director $0 $0

2015

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Tom Ayers Director $0 $0
Helen Riehle Treasurer $0 $0
Ginny Lyons Secretary $0 $0
Howard Wooden Director $0 $0
Elaine Sopchak President $0 $0

2014

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Selene Colburn Director $0 $0
Meaghan Emery President $0 $0
Ginny Lyons Vice President $0 $0
Bruce Post Secretary Treasurer $0 $0
Elaine Sopchak Director $0 $0

2013

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Meaghan Emery President $0 $0
Ginny Lyons Vice President $0 $0
Bruce Post Secretary Treasurer $0 $0
Elaine Sopchak Director $0 $0
Selene Colburn 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.

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.