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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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.

Washington Central Friends Of Education Inc

Po Box 324, Montpelier, VT | Tax-exempt since October 1993

EIN
030335793
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
Oct. 1, 1993

Last reported financials:

Revenue
$185,660
Assets
$67,515
Source: IRS

2017

Expenses

$205,469

Salary expenses

$173,608

Revenue

$185,660

Contributions and grants

$162,773

Assets

$67,515

Liabilities

$3,396

View 990EZ Submitted 03/04/2019

2016

Expenses

$251,677

Salary expenses

$220,234

Revenue

$222,755

Contributions and grants

$197,730

Assets

$86,124

Liabilities

$2,196

View 990 Submitted 01/16/2018

2015

Expenses

$281,407

Salary expenses

$235,402

Revenue

$295,487

Contributions and grants

$245,364

Assets

$122,821

Liabilities

$9,971

View 990 Submitted 08/03/2017

2014

View 990 (PDF)

2013

View 990 (PDF)

2012

View 990 (PDF)

2011

View 990 (PDF)

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
Deb Wolf Executive Direc $41,224 $0
Sarah Kinter President $0 $0
Cort Richardson Treasurer $0 $0
Karen Liebermann Vice President $0 $0
Sue Clayton Board Member $0 $0

2016

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Deb Wolf Executive Direc $50,569 $0
Sue Clayton Secretary $0 $0
Bill Haines Board Member $0 $0
Karen Liebermann Vice President $0 $0
Cort Richardson Treasurer $0 $0
Sarah Kinter President $0 $0

2015

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Deb Wolf Executive Direc $48,612 $8,948
Karen Liebermann Vice President $0 $0
Cort Richardson Treasurer $0 $0
Sarah Kinter President $0 $0
Lisa Rubin Secretary $0 $0
Adam Rosen Board Member $0 $0
Bill Haines Board Member $0 $0
Sue Clayton Board Member $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.

So we created this tool. Like dairy? Try searching for the Vermont Cheese Council. How about horses? Check out American Morgan Horse Association or Spring Hill Horse Rescue. You’ll also find the University of Vermont Medical Center, the Committee on Temporary Shelter and Middlebury College.

Then, read Give and Take, our series of stories on Vermont's nonprofit economy.

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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.