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Volunteers For Peace Inc
131 Main Street, Burlington, VT | Tax-exempt since June 1982
- EIN
- 030282748
- Last filing
- 12/2017
- Organization type
- 501(c)(3)
- Mission category
- International, Foreign Affairs & National Security
- Foundation type
- Organization which receives a substantial part of its support from a governmental unit or the general public
- Nonprofit since
- June 1, 1982
- Revenue
- $176,267
- Assets
- $11,429
Last reported financials:
2016
Expenses
$170,177
Salary expenses
$39,470
Revenue
$176,267
Assets
$11,429
Liabilities
$452
2015
Expenses
$249,078
Fundraising expenses
$644
Salary expenses
$90,576
Revenue
$221,321
Assets
$0
Liabilities
$0
2014
Expenses
$252,746
Fundraising expenses
$1,402
Salary expenses
$70,039
Revenue
$275,370
Assets
$31,844
Liabilities
$2,665
2013
Expenses
$249,900
Fundraising expenses
$466
Salary expenses
$80,197
Revenue
$243,022
Assets
$11,449
Liabilities
$3,074
2012
2011
Organizations are required to list board members, key employees and anyone making over $100,000 from this or a related organization.
2016
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Megan Polyte | Executive Director | $17,583 | $0 |
| Patrick | Scheld | $16,453 | $0 |
| Matt Messier | Executive Director | $3,000 | $0 |
| Lila Hobbs | Secretary | $0 | $0 |
| Peter Coldwell | Tresurer | $0 | $0 |
| Cara Connors | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Michael Morris | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Paula Cantor | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Charles Rudd Mackenzie | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Tom Sherman | President | $0 | $0 |
| Judy Cohen | Director | $0 | $0 |
2015
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Megan Polyte | Executive Director | $44,217 | $0 |
| Madeline Craig | Us Program Coordinator | $12,921 | $0 |
| Elizabeth Ryder | International Placement Coordinator | $11,834 | $0 |
| Alexandra Smith | International Placement Coordinator | $10,851 | $0 |
| Charles Rudd Mackenzie | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Paula Cantor | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Gretchen Craig | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Tom Sherman | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Scott Simpson | President | $0 | $0 |
| Matt Messier | Treasurer/President | $0 | $0 |
| Peter Coldwell | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Jamena Grant | Secretary | $0 | $0 |
| Chelsea Frisbee | Treasurer | $0 | $0 |
| Lila Hobbs | Secretary | $0 | $0 |
| Cara Connors | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Judy Cohen | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Michael Morris | Director | $0 | $0 |
2014
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alexandra Smith | International Placement Coordinator | $24,764 | $0 |
| Megan Brook | Executive Director | $23,806 | $0 |
| Madeline Craig | Us Program Coordinator | $9,453 | $0 |
| Cara Connors | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Matt Messier | Treasurer | $0 | $0 |
| Paula Cantor | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Judy Cohen | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Gretchen Craig | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Charles Rudd Mackenzie | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Tom Sherman | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Scott Simpson | President | $0 | $0 |
| Peter Coldwell | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Jamena Grant | Secretary | $0 | $0 |
2013
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Megan Brook | Executive Director | $40,151 | $0 |
| Alexandra Smith | International Placement Coordinator | $21,280 | $0 |
| Chelsea Frisbee | International Placement Coordinator | $8,245 | $0 |
| Scott Simpson | President | $0 | $0 |
| Matt Messier | Treasurer | $0 | $0 |
| Peter Coldwell | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Jamena Grant | Secretary | $0 | $0 |
| Cara Connors | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Charles Rudd Mackenzie | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Judy Cohen | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Gretchen Craig | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Paula Cantor | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Tom Sherman | 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.