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The Vermont Center For Ecostudies Inc
Po Box 420, Norwich, VT | Tax-exempt since November 2007
- EIN
- 510639429
- Last filing
- 12/2017
- Organization type
- 501(c)(3)
- Mission category
- Environment
- 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
- Nov. 1, 2007
- Revenue
- $1,003,814
- Assets
- $911,796
Last reported financials:
2017
Expenses
$998,225
Fundraising expenses
$88,448
Salary expenses
$754,074
Revenue
$1,003,814
Contributions and grants
$957,901
Assets
$911,796
Liabilities
$81,743
2016
Expenses
$1,154,972
Fundraising expenses
$88,853
Salary expenses
$841,602
Revenue
$1,417,846
Contributions and grants
$1,376,602
Assets
$908,782
Liabilities
$84,319
2015
Expenses
$1,293,206
Fundraising expenses
$114,921
Salary expenses
$861,072
Revenue
$1,307,120
Contributions and grants
$1,290,664
Assets
$680,558
Liabilities
$122,294
2014
Expenses
$1,014,339
Fundraising expenses
$143,872
Salary expenses
$677,248
Revenue
$1,117,843
Contributions and grants
$1,095,796
Assets
$669,170
Liabilities
$132,787
2013
Expenses
$831,704
Fundraising expenses
$148,362
Salary expenses
$603,523
Revenue
$837,468
Contributions and grants
$826,363
Assets
$517,510
Liabilities
$87,793
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christopher C Rimmer | Trustee, Executive Directo | $79,602 | $15,547 |
| Margaret Cheney | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Peter Brooke | Chair | $0 | $0 |
| Brian Dade | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| William Schmidt | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Robert Holley | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Elizabeth Ruml | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Jared Keyes | Vice-Chair, Treasurer | $0 | $0 |
2016
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christopher C Rimmer | Trustee, Executive Director | $77,065 | $17,074 |
| Peter Brooke | Chair | $0 | $0 |
| Margaret Cheney | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| William Brian Dade | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Jared Keyes | Vice-Chair, Treasurer | $0 | $0 |
| Elizabeth Ruml | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Bob Holley | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Will Schmidt | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
2015
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christopher C Rimmer | Executive Director | $72,642 | $0 |
| Margaret Cheney | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Peter Brooke | Chair | $0 | $0 |
| Jared Keyes | Vice-Chair, Treasurer | $0 | $0 |
| Elizabeth Ruml | Director | $0 | $0 |
| William Brian Dade | Director | $0 | $0 |
2014
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christopher C Rimmer | Executive Director | $66,398 | $0 |
| Elizabeth Ruml | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Jared Keyes | Vice-Chair, Treasurer | $0 | $0 |
| Peter Brooke | Chair | $0 | $0 |
| William Brian Dade | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Margaret Cheney | Director | $0 | $0 |
2013
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chris Rimmer | Executive Direc | $68,340 | $0 |
| Peter Brooke | Chair | $0 | $0 |
| Elizabeth Ruml | Director | $0 | $0 |
| David Evancich | Director | $0 | $0 |
| David Key | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Jared Keyes | V. Chair/Treas | $0 | $0 |
| Margaret Cheney | 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.