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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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.

Madsonian Corporation

2 Brook Road, Warren, VT | Tax-exempt since March 2011

EIN
272538667
Last filing
12/2016
Organization type
501(c)(3)
Mission category
Arts, Culture & Humanities
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, 2011

Last reported financials:

Revenue
$819,573
Assets
$2,123,089
Source: IRS

2017

Expenses

$20,540

Revenue

$819,573

Contributions and grants

$819,572

Assets

$2,123,089

Liabilities

$20,018

View 990 Submitted 02/04/2019

2016

Expenses

$54,616

Revenue

$482,687

Contributions and grants

$482,683

Assets

$1,308,878

Liabilities

$46,840

View 990 Submitted 12/29/2017

2015

Expenses

$24,590

Revenue

$190,774

Contributions and grants

$186,783

Assets

$960,494

Liabilities

$126,527

View 990 Submitted 09/14/2017

2014

Expenses

$23,956

Revenue

$697,591

Contributions and grants

$688,513

Assets

$677,383

Liabilities

$9,600

View 990 Submitted 01/26/2016

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
Elizabeth Stevenson Secretary $0 $0
David Sellers President/Ch $0 $0
Emery Olcott Member $0 $0
Fred Steele Vice Preside $0 $0

2016

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Fred Steele Vice Preside $0 $0
Emery Olcott Member $0 $0
David Sellers President/Ch $0 $0
Elizabeth Stevenson Secretary $0 $0

2015

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Elizabeth Stevenson Member $0 $0
David Sellers President/Ch $0 $0
James Sanford Member $0 $0

2014

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
David Sellers President/Ch $0 $0
Elizabeth Stevenson Member $0 $0
James Sanford Member $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.