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Stem Challenge Initiative
Po Box 1099, St Albans, VT | Tax-exempt since September 2014
- EIN
- 272781246
- Last filing
- 12/2017
- Organization type
- 501(c)(3)
- Mission category
- Education
- Foundation type
- Organization which receives a substantial part of its support from a governmental unit or the general public
- Nonprofit since
- Sept. 1, 2014
- Revenue
- $1,256
- Assets
- $128,654
Last reported financials:
2017
Expenses
$10,243
Revenue
$1,256
Contributions and grants
$1,000
Assets
$128,654
Liabilities
$0
2016
Expenses
$7,810
Revenue
$625
Contributions and grants
$350
Assets
$137,641
Liabilities
$0
2015
2014
Expenses
$16,783
Revenue
$28,834
Contributions and grants
$28,500
Assets
$207,086
Liabilities
$0
2013
Expenses
$10,146
Revenue
$55,225
Contributions and grants
$34,632
Assets
$195,035
Liabilities
$0
2012
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alayna Westcom | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Mike Sturm | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Tariq Quadir Phd | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Jim Naylor | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Lise Macdonald M Ed | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Jacqui Hood | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Gerald M Herrera Phd | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Marilyn Grunewald Med Cas | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Eric Buel | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Jeffrey Benay Ed D | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Stephen Mckenzie | Secretary/Tr | $0 | $0 |
| Cindy Bernier | Co-Chair | $0 | $0 |
| Tim Smith | Chair | $0 | $0 |
2016
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tim Smith | Chair | $0 | $0 |
| Cindy Bernier | Co-Chair | $0 | $0 |
| Stephen Mckenzie | Secretary/Tr | $0 | $0 |
| Jeffrey Benay Ed D | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Eric Buel | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Marilyn Grunewald Med Cas | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Gerald M Herrera Phd | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Jacqui Hood | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Lise Macdonald M Ed | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Jim Naylor | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Tariq Quadir Phd | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Mike Sturm | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Alayna Westcom | Director | $0 | $0 |
2014
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tariq Quadir Phd | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Eric Buel | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Marilyn Grunewald Med Cas | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Jacqui Hood | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Jeffrey Benay Ed D | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Lise Macdonald M Ed | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Stephen Mckenzie | Secretary/Tr | $0 | $0 |
| Cindy Bernier | Co-Chair | $0 | $0 |
| Tim Smith | Chair | $0 | $0 |
| David Thompson | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Richard Thompson | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Richard Mcvicker | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Brian Mccarthy | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Dena St Amour | Director | $0 | $0 |
| William Karstens Phd | Director | $0 | $0 |
2013
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eric Buel | Director | $0 | $0 |
| David Thompson | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Tim Smith | Chair | $0 | $0 |
| Cindy Bernier | Co-Chair | $0 | $0 |
| Stephen Mckenzie | Secretary/Tr | $0 | $0 |
| William Karstens Phd | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Dena St Amour | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Lise Macdonald M Ed | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Brian Mccarthy | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Jeffrey Benay Ed D | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Jacqui Hood | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Marilyn Grunewald Med Cas | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Tariq Quadir Phd | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Richard Mcvicker | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Richard Thompson | 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.
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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.