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Bennington Free Library
101 Silver St, Bennington, VT | Tax-exempt since February 1966
- EIN
- 030181067
- Last filing
- 06/2017
- 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
- Feb. 1, 1966
- Revenue
- $657,423
- Assets
- $1,002,996
Last reported financials:
2017
Expenses
$522,300
Fundraising expenses
$6,331
Salary expenses
$379,035
Revenue
$657,423
Contributions and grants
$615,901
Assets
$1,002,996
Liabilities
$22,482
2016
Expenses
$613,911
Fundraising expenses
$5,425
Salary expenses
$348,861
Revenue
$586,570
Contributions and grants
$550,478
Assets
$845,066
Liabilities
$26,633
2015
Expenses
$517,531
Fundraising expenses
$4,919
Salary expenses
$339,461
Revenue
$592,583
Contributions and grants
$588,823
Assets
$826,644
Liabilities
$37,665
2014
Expenses
$546,889
Fundraising expenses
$6,817
Salary expenses
$325,399
Revenue
$501,202
Contributions and grants
$468,527
Assets
$761,766
Liabilities
$31,264
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lynne Fonteneau-Mccann | Library Direct. | $61,790 | $0 |
| Michael Munson | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Jon Goodrich | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Maureen Loy | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Kelley Legacy | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Patricia J Venti | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Barth Vander Els | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| David Newell | Chairman | $0 | $0 |
| Tricia Kowalchyk | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Michelle Wiegers | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Jackie Marro | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Leanne Conner | Director | $0 | $0 |
2016
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lynne Fonteneau-Mccann | Library Direct. | $59,361 | $10,243 |
| Barth Vander Els | Chairman | $0 | $0 |
| Michael Munson | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Jim Carroll | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Kate Canning | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Maureen Loy | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Christine Morrissey | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Tricia Bitteker | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Kelley Legacy | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Patricia J Venti | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Jon Goodrich | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| David Newell | Co-Chairman | $0 | $0 |
2015
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lynne Fonteneau-Mccann | Library Direct. | $57,075 | $9,990 |
| Barth Vander Els | Chairman | $0 | $0 |
| David Newell | Co-Chairman | $0 | $0 |
| Jon Goodrich | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Patricia J Venti | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Kelley Legacy | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Tricia Bitteker | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Melissa Morrison | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Christine Morrissey | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Maureen Loy | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Kate Canning | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Jim Carroll | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Michael Munson | Director | $0 | $0 |
2014
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lynne Fonteneau-Mccann | Library Direct. | $55,193 | $10,166 |
| Jim Carroll | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Kelley Legacy | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Kate Canning | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Maureen Loy | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Christine Morrissey | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Melissa Morrison | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Patricia J Venti | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Jon Goodrich | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| David Newell | Co-Chairman | $0 | $0 |
| Barth Vander Els | Chairman | $0 | $0 |
| Alicia Romac | Past Director | $0 | $0 |
| Kathy Murphy | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Michael Munson | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Jake Cormier | Past 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.