Vermont · Nonprofit
GREEN MOUNTAIN SELF ADVOCATES INC
GREEN MOUNTAIN SELF ADVOCATES INC (Vermont) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,806 to it, the largest being ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY CENTERS ON DISABILITIES ($21,776). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $487k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $32k
- Net assets
- $507k
What Green Mountain Self Advocates Inc does
Mission
The purpose of green mountain self-advocates (gmsa) is for people with developmental disabilities to educate their peers to take control over their own lives, make decisions, solve problems, and speak for themselves. Another purpose of gmsa is to educate and make the public aware of the strengths, rights, wants and needs of people with developmental disabilities. We are building a movement for self-advocacy in vermont through public education, peer mentoring and advocacy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Green mountain self-advocates (gmsa) organizes an annual conference, "voices and choices," in burlington, vt. Established in 1998, this event has grown to become the largest disability gathering in vermont, attracting participants from every county in the state and beyond. The april 2023 conference had 560 attendees, including vermonters with developmental disabilities, their families, dedicated service providers, and supportive allies. "voices and choices" serves as a unique platform for collective learning, emphasizing crucial aspects of decision-making, self-advocacy, and relationships. The conference had more than 25 workshops that aim to empower individuals with developmental disabilities and create a space for families, service providers, and allies to come together, share experiences, and enhance their understanding of self-advocacy.
$126,980 spent$114,657 earned by the program26% of program spendingSpecial projects includes payments for consultatons, trainings, partcipation on advisory committees and honorariums for presentations. Typically, these projects are contracts with organizations who pay a set fee for agreed upon deliverables. For example: $500 for a keynote. Most of these payments are for onetime events or projects. Green mountain self advocates employs and supports people with intellectual and developmental disabilities to prepare for and partcipate in these activities.
$58,972 spent12% of program spendingSelf-advocacy projectthe self-advocacy project enables gmsa to staff a statewide office to provide technical assistance to local groups, and training opportunities that help people with developmental disabilities to master self-determination skills. Here are examples of our accomplishments: - provide virtual technical assistance visits, peer mentoring and support for hundreds of self-advocates who belong to more than 20 local-self advocacy groups. - training for board members on board money management. - disability awareness training for schools, colleges, medical students, and government agencies. - supporting people with disabilities to participate on advisory boards. Technical assistance to peer leaders to train direct support professionals.- gmsa successfully worked with family organizations to virtually present leadership training.
$55,810 spent11% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$247,932 spent51% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $489,694.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $374k to $496k (+33%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 69% · 2018 58% · 2019 65% · 2020 97% · 2021 99% · 2022 98% · 2023 76% · 2024 68% · 2025 77%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of GREEN MOUNTAIN SELF ADVOCATES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $25.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of GREEN MOUNTAIN SELF ADVOCATES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
GREEN MOUNTAIN SELF ADVOCATES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund GREEN MOUNTAIN SELF ADVOCATES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
GREEN MOUNTAIN SELF ADVOCATES INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Vermont, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
GREEN MOUNTAIN SELF ADVOCATES INC is better cushioned than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding GREEN MOUNTAIN SELF ADVOCATES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.3M on record.
- Development Disabilities Counc$601k
- Other Contr and 3rd Pty Serv$206k
- Other Grants$205k
- Miscellaneous$100k
- DBVI Grants$91k
- Chronic Disease Programs$44k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like GREEN MOUNTAIN SELF ADVOCATES INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GREEN MOUNTAIN SELF ADVOCATES INC?
- GREEN MOUNTAIN SELF ADVOCATES INC (Vermont) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,806 to it, the largest being ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY CENTERS ON DISABILITIES ($21,776). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREEN MOUNTAIN SELF ADVOCATES INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $31,806 in grants to GREEN MOUNTAIN SELF ADVOCATES INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREEN MOUNTAIN SELF ADVOCATES INC?
- ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY CENTERS ON DISABILITIES is the largest funder on record, with $21,776 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREEN MOUNTAIN SELF ADVOCATES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing