Vermont · Nonprofit
NORTHEAST RECYCLING COUNCIL INC
NORTHEAST RECYCLING COUNCIL INC (Vermont) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,565 to it, the largest being INSTITUTE OF SCRAP RECYCLING INDUSTRIES INC ($7,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $645k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $8k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Northeast Recycling Council Inc does
Mission
Nerc's mission is to minimize waste, conserve natural resources, and advance a sustainable economy through facilitated collaboration and action.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
See schedule o1. Developed and presented one conferencerethinking resource use: regional perspectives keynote on reuse for businesses all things reuse research spotlight: methods for managing difficult to recycle fibers following the stream identifying opportunities to leverage and expand recycling markets behind the scenes: reworking ny's sustainable procurement guidelines collaborating for impact: building smm messages and strategies through partnership keynote: global learnings on plastic reduction systems the power of participation: successful engagement strategies from state recycling campaigns a dive into extended producer responsibility (epr) for products strategies for market development in states organics: leveraging the strengths of composting and anaerobic digestion the role of life cycle analysis in certification and green procurement roundtables: case studies to increase quality & quantity of recyclables building blocks for consumer recycling innovative approaches to reuse a dive into extended producer responsibility (epr) for packaging2. Developed and nerc held 15 webinars and forums with 1,888 unique individuals registering for multipleevents. Of those unique…
$501,675 spent$217,610 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $501,675.
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 $1.1M to $1.2M (+12%).
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 8% · 2018 5% · 2019 7% · 2020 7% · 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
62% of NORTHEAST RECYCLING COUNCIL INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
Meganschulz-Fontes
Executive director & secretary
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $8k → $23.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 NORTHEAST RECYCLING COUNCIL 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
NORTHEAST RECYCLING COUNCIL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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 NORTHEAST RECYCLING COUNCIL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 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
NORTHEAST RECYCLING COUNCIL 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. $65 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
NORTHEAST RECYCLING COUNCIL INC is better cushioned than half of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding NORTHEAST RECYCLING COUNCIL INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.2M on record — $326k federal, $851k state.
- Department of Agriculture$314k
- Environmental Protection Agency$12k
- NJ$371k
- VT$369k
- OR$62k
- MA$49k
- FL$75
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 NORTHEAST RECYCLING COUNCIL 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
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NORTHEAST RECYCLING COUNCIL INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NORTHEAST RECYCLING COUNCIL INC?
- NORTHEAST RECYCLING COUNCIL INC (Vermont) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,565 to it, the largest being INSTITUTE OF SCRAP RECYCLING INDUSTRIES INC ($7,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORTHEAST RECYCLING COUNCIL INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $7,565 in grants to NORTHEAST RECYCLING COUNCIL INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTHEAST RECYCLING COUNCIL INC?
- INSTITUTE OF SCRAP RECYCLING INDUSTRIES INC is the largest funder on record, with $7,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTHEAST RECYCLING COUNCIL 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.
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 2 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