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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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.

Frank And Brinna Sands Foundation

319 Cadwell Rd, East Thetford, VT | Tax-exempt since May 1997

EIN
043342111
Last filing
11/2017
Organization type
501(c)(3)
Mission category
Philanthropy, Voluntarism & Grantmaking Foundations
Foundation type
Private non-operating foundation
Nonprofit since
May 1, 1997

Last reported financials:

Revenue
$641,908
Assets
$1,530,374
Source: IRS

2017

Expenses

$369,242

Salary expenses

$10,000

Revenue

$641,908

Assets

$1,530,374

Liabilities

$0

View 990PF Submitted 04/29/2019

2016

Expenses

$127,829

Salary expenses

$10,000

Revenue

$30,334

Assets

$1,686,235

Liabilities

$428,527

View 990PF Submitted 03/27/2018

2015

Expenses

$264,571

Salary expenses

$10,000

Revenue

$35,694

Assets

$1,177,517

Liabilities

$0

View 990PF Submitted 08/14/2017

2014

Expenses

$88,057

Salary expenses

$13,710

Revenue

$47,127

Assets

$1,353,182

Liabilities

$0

View 990PF Submitted 07/26/2016

2013

Expenses

$204,816

Salary expenses

$6,997

Revenue

$65,298

Assets

$1,394,036

Liabilities

$0

View 990PF Submitted 07/29/2015

2012

View 990PF Submitted 04/03/2014

2011

View 990PF (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
Conrad Reining Manager $10,000 $0
Jennifer B Kitchel Director $0 $0
Frank E Sands Ii V President/Secretary/Dire $0 $0
Brinna B Sands President & Director $0 $0

2016

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Brinna B Sands President & Director $None $None
Frank E Sands Ii V President/Secretary/Dire $None $None
Jennifer B Kitchel Director $None $None
Conrad Reining Manager $None $None

2015

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Jennifer B Kitchel Director $None $None
Conrad Reining Manager $None $None
Brinna B Sands President & Director $None $None
Frank E Sands Ii V President/Secretary/Director $None $None

2014

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Jennifer B Kitchel Director $None $None
Conrad Reining Manager $None $None
Brinna B Sands President & Director $None $None
Frank E Sands Ii V Pres/Secy/Director $None $None

2013

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Brinna B Sands President & Director $None $None
Jennifer B Kitchel Director $None $None
Frank E Sands Ii V Pres/Secy/Director $None $None
Conrad Reining Director $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.