Vermont Nonprofit Navigator
Explore the organizations and people that power Vermont's $6.8 billion nonprofit economy.
The Center For Cartoon Studies Inc
Po Box 125, White River Junction, VT | Tax-exempt since May 2004
- EIN
- 412071791
- Last filing
- 06/2017
- Organization type
- 501(c)(3)
- Mission category
- Education
- Foundation type
- School
- Nonprofit since
- May 1, 2004
- Revenue
- $1,081,399
- Assets
- $2,012,515
Last reported financials:
2017
Expenses
$1,026,863
Fundraising expenses
$56,915
Salary expenses
$422,829
Revenue
$1,081,399
Contributions and grants
$175,867
Assets
$2,012,515
Liabilities
$209,609
2016
Expenses
$855,626
Fundraising expenses
$45,686
Salary expenses
$386,349
Revenue
$936,779
Contributions and grants
$295,605
Assets
$1,891,041
Liabilities
$142,741
2015
Expenses
$961,347
Fundraising expenses
$44,387
Salary expenses
$374,885
Revenue
$964,269
Contributions and grants
$207,868
Assets
$1,901,330
Liabilities
$234,181
2014
2013
2012
2011
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michelle Ollie | Ccs, President | $96,707 | $20,617 |
| James Sturm | Ccs, Director | $95,784 | $31,931 |
| Charles Lief | Secretary | $0 | $0 |
| Ann Hargraves | Treasurer | $0 | $0 |
| Peggy Kannenstine | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Bayle Drubel | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Warren Bingham | Chair | $0 | $0 |
| Matt Dunne | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Steve Karcher | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
2016
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michelle Ollie | Ccs, President | $95,271 | $10,578 |
| James Sturm | Ccs, Director | $94,347 | $21,101 |
| Charles Lief | Secretary | $0 | $0 |
| Peggy Kannestine | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Ann Hargraves | Treasurer | $0 | $0 |
| Matt Dunne | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Warren Bingham | Chair | $0 | $0 |
| Steve Karcher | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Bayle Drubel | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
2015
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michelle Ollie | Ccs, President | $97,647 | $19,745 |
| James Sturm | Ccs, Director | $96,688 | $29,858 |
| Warren Bingham | Chair | $0 | $0 |
| Charles Lief | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Matt Dunne | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Bayle Drubel | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Peggy Kannestine | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Ann Hargraves | Treasurer | $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.