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George W Mergens Foundation
Po Box 633, Milton, VT | Tax-exempt since May 1995
- EIN
- 030345055
- Last filing
- 08/2017
- Organization type
- 501(c)(3)
- Mission category
- Arts, Culture & Humanities
- Foundation type
- Private non-operating foundation
- Nonprofit since
- May 1, 1995
- Revenue
- $767,856
- Assets
- $18,949,314
Last reported financials:
2017
Expenses
$1,662,296
Salary expenses
$431,334
Revenue
$767,856
Contributions and grants
$10,000
Assets
$18,949,314
Liabilities
$0
2016
Expenses
$936,036
Salary expenses
$386,698
Revenue
$472,773
Contributions and grants
$29,334
Assets
$19,843,754
Liabilities
$0
2015
Expenses
$936,161
Salary expenses
$352,152
Revenue
$11,931,821
Contributions and grants
$11,574,659
Assets
$20,307,075
Liabilities
$58
2014
Expenses
$613,524
Salary expenses
$319,432
Revenue
$831,261
Assets
$9,311,357
Liabilities
$0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| William H Wiltshire | V-P; Director Of Ope | $150,000 | $18,233 |
| Paul G Mergens | President & Treasure | $150,000 | $31,478 |
| Rachel Mergens | V-P; Director Of Fin | $68,750 | $12,873 |
| Lenora Mergens | Secretary | $0 | $0 |
| Mary E Mergens-Loughran | Vice-President | $0 | $0 |
2016
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paul G Mergens | President & Treasure | $None | $None |
| Mary Mergens-Loughran | Vice-President | $None | $None |
| Lenora Mergens | Secretary | $None | $None |
| William H Wiltshire | V-P; Director Of Ope | $None | $None |
| Rachel Mergens | V-P; Director Of Fin | $None | $None |
2015
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paul Mergens | President | $None | $None |
| Cecilia Plum | Dir Of Finance | $None | $None |
| William H Wiltshire | Dir Of Operations | $None | $None |
| Lenora Mergens | Secretary | $None | $None |
| Mary Mergens-Loughran | Vice President | $None | $None |
2014
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paul Mergens | President | $None | $None |
| Mary Mergens-Loughran | Vice President | $None | $None |
| Lenora Mergens | Secretary | $None | $None |
| William H Wiltshire | Dir Of Operations | $None | $None |
| Cecilia Plum | Dir Of Finance | $None | $None |
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.