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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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.

Copeland Center For Wellness And Recovery Incorporated

Po Box 6471, Brattleboro, VT | Tax-exempt since March 2007

EIN
203409257
Last filing
12/2016
Organization type
501(c)(3)
Mission category
Mental Health & Crisis Intervention
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
March 1, 2007

Last reported financials:

Revenue
$1,257,454
Assets
$307,130
Source: IRS

2017

Expenses

$1,095,435

Salary expenses

$593,069

Revenue

$1,257,454

Contributions and grants

$421,026

Assets

$307,130

Liabilities

$8,768

View 990 Submitted 03/06/2019

2016

Expenses

$1,046,153

Salary expenses

$587,509

Revenue

$1,021,125

Contributions and grants

$402,856

Assets

$174,726

Liabilities

$38,383

View 990 Submitted 01/08/2018

2015

Expenses

$982,054

Salary expenses

$385,782

Revenue

$979,580

Contributions and grants

$169,792

Assets

$190,890

Liabilities

$29,519

View 990 Submitted 04/12/2017

2014

Expenses

$742,873

Salary expenses

$307,685

Revenue

$826,108

Contributions and grants

$39,221

Assets

$218,844

Liabilities

$54,999

View 990 Submitted 01/28/2016

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
Matthew Federici Executive Director $99,291 $8,287
George Karabakakis Board Member $0 $0
Mae Stiles Board Member $0 $0
Yvonne Smith Board Member $0 $0
Dawn Heffernan Board Member $0 $0
Khatera Aslami-Tamplen President $0 $0
Aidan Altenor Vice President $0 $0
Peter Ashenden Treasurer $0 $0
Patti Bittney-Starke Secretary $0 $0

2016

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Matthew Federici Executive Director $95,000 $6,590
Mary Ellen Copeland Phd Board Member $18,000 $0
Peter Ashenden Treasurer $0 $0
Komala Pepin Board Member $0 $0
Patti Bittney-Starke Secretary $0 $0
Aidan Altenor Vice President $0 $0
George Karabakakis Board Member $0 $0
Khatera Aslami-Tamplen President $0 $0
Edward Anthes Board Member $0 $0

2015

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Matthew Federici Executive Director $85,000 $6,116
Mary Ellen Copeland Phd Board Member $24,000 $0
Edward Anthes Treasurer $0 $0
Peter Ashenden Board Member $0 $0
Khatera Aslami-Tamplen President $0 $0
Aidan Altenor Vice President $0 $0
Patti Bittney-Starke Secretary $0 $0
George Karabakakis Board Member $0 $0
Komala Pepin Board Member $0 $0

2014

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Matthew Federici Executive Director $87,550 $8,420
Mary Ellen Copeland Phd Board Member $24,000 $0
George Karabakakis Board Member $0 $0
Peter Ashenden Board Member $0 $0
Patti Bittney-Starke Board Member $0 $0
Sarah Bourne Secretary $0 $0
Edward Anthes Treasurer $0 $0
Khatera Aslami President $0 $0
Aidan Altenor Vice 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.

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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.