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His Independence Project Inc
Po Box 1837-A, Rutland, VT | Tax-exempt since August 1983
- EIN
- 030286964
- Last filing
- 12/2017
- Organization type
- 501(c)(3)
- Mission category
- Not reported
- Foundation type
- Organization which receives a substantial part of its support from a governmental unit or the general public
- Nonprofit since
- Aug. 1, 1983
- Revenue
- $1,058,056
- Assets
- $58,720
Last reported financials:
2017
Expenses
$1,046,125
Salary expenses
$66,033
Revenue
$1,058,056
Assets
$58,720
Liabilities
$31,221
2016
Expenses
$1,171,752
Salary expenses
$51,459
Revenue
$1,177,519
Assets
$63,488
Liabilities
$47,920
2015
Expenses
$1,352,562
Salary expenses
$81,810
Revenue
$1,392,520
Contributions and grants
$61,205
Assets
$89,002
Liabilities
$79,201
2013
Expenses
$1,787,580
Salary expenses
$167,137
Revenue
$1,762,626
Contributions and grants
$187,107
Assets
$155,064
Liabilities
$200,648
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kevin Burke | President | $3,650 | $0 |
| C Sue Sharp | Vice President | $0 | $0 |
| Kay Cavanaugh | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Ellen Marceau | Former Director | $0 | $0 |
| Jim Kelley | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Brian Cavanuugh | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Emma P Burke | Secretary/Trea | $0 | $0 |
2016
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kevin Burke | President | $2,700 | $0 |
| C Sue Sharp | Vice President | $0 | $0 |
| Emma P Burke | Secretary/Trea | $0 | $0 |
| Brian Cavanuugh | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Jim Kelley | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Ellen Marceau | Former Director | $0 | $0 |
| Kay Cavanaugh | Director | $0 | $0 |
2015
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emma P Burke | Secretary/Trea | $14,203 | $0 |
| C Sue Sharp | Vice President | $6,720 | $0 |
| Kevin Burke | President | $4,212 | $0 |
| Brian Cavanuugh | Director | $400 | $0 |
| Jim Kelley | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Ellen Marceau | Former Director | $0 | $0 |
| Kay Cavanaugh | Director | $0 | $0 |
2013
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emma Burke | Secretary | $33,007 | $0 |
| Kevin Burke | President | $2,851 | $0 |
| Ellen Marceau | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Jim Kelley | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Kay Cavanaugh | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Brian Cavanuugh | 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.