Vermont Nonprofit Navigator

Explore the organizations and people that power Vermont's $6.8 billion nonprofit economy.

By Andrea Suozzo of Seven Days

This tool was last updated in 2019. It is no longer being updated with new filings. For more info, contact: nonprofits@sevendaysvt.com.

Bennington Area Chamber Of Commerce

100 Veterans Memorial Dr, Bennington, VT | Tax-exempt since March 1960

EIN
030199419
Last filing
12/2016
Organization type
501(c)(6)
Mission category
Community Improvement & Capacity Building
Foundation type
All organizations except 501(c)(3)
Nonprofit since
March 1, 1960

Last reported financials:

Revenue
$428,135
Assets
$135,589
Source: IRS

2017

Expenses

$474,834

Salary expenses

$362,526

Revenue

$428,135

Assets

$135,589

Liabilities

$37,778

View 990 Submitted 12/18/2018

2016

Expenses

$411,445

Salary expenses

$334,076

Revenue

$411,458

Assets

$170,369

Liabilities

$25,859

View 990O Submitted 01/25/2018

2015

Expenses

$359,957

Salary expenses

$288,620

Revenue

$399,976

Assets

$168,411

Liabilities

$23,914

View 990O Submitted 04/05/2017

2014

View 990 (PDF)

2013

View 990 (PDF)

2012

View 990O Submitted 01/03/2014

2011

View 990O Submitted 12/21/2012

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
T R Paquin Director $0 $0
Carson Thurber Director $0 $0
Sandy Stevens Director $0 $0
Lindy Lynch Director $0 $0
Arthur Whitman Director $0 $0
Tom Dailey Treasurer $0 $0
Forest Weyen Director $0 $0
Susan Strano Director $0 $0
Maru Leon Director $0 $0
Pat Warner Director $0 $0
Shannon Mclenithan Director $0 $0
Brian Maggiotto Director $0 $0
Matt Wiley Director $0 $0
Michael Mckenna Vice President $0 $0
Matt Harrington Executive Director $0 $0
Mike Baker Director $0 $0
Lynn Green Director $0 $0
David Evans Vice President $0 $0
Jonah Spivak President $0 $0
Brenda Jones Director $0 $0
Dimitri Garder Director $0 $0
Mary Morrisey Director $0 $0

2016

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Matt Harrington Executive Director $50,385 $0
Carson Thurber Director $0 $0
Dimitri Garder Director $0 $0
Brenda Jones Director $0 $0
Jonah Spivak President $0 $0
David Evans Vice President $0 $0
Lynn Green Director $0 $0
Mike Baker Director $0 $0
John Redding Director $0 $0
Shannon Mclenithan Director $0 $0
Maru Leon Director $0 $0
Matt Wiley Vice President $0 $0
Tom Dailey Treasurer $0 $0
Arthur Whitman Director $0 $0
Lindy Lynch Director $0 $0
John Drzewiecki Director $0 $0
Michael Mckenna Director $0 $0
Mary Morrisey Director $0 $0
Pat Warner Director $0 $0
Susan Strano Director $0 $0
Forest Weyen Director $0 $0
T R Paquin Director $0 $0
Stuart Hurd Vice President $0 $0
Sandy Stevens Director $0 $0

2015

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Arthur Whitman Director $0 $0
Lindy Lynch Director $0 $0
John Drzewiecki Director $0 $0
Michael Mckenna Director $0 $0
Pat Warner Director $0 $0
Tom Dailey Treasurer $0 $0
Shannon Mclenithan Director $0 $0
John Redding Director $0 $0
Mike Baker Director $0 $0
Brenda Jones Director $0 $0
Dimitri Garder Director $0 $0
Mary Morrisey Director $0 $0
T R Paquin Director $0 $0
Edward Woods Vice President $0 $0
Susan Congdon Director $0 $0
Stuart Hurd Director $0 $0
Michelle Hogan Director $0 $0
Patty Surdam Director $0 $0
David Evans Director $0 $0
Lynn Frost Director $0 $0
Mike Barriere Director $0 $0
Chad Schmidt President $0 $0
Pj Venti 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.