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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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.

Vermont Museum Of Natural History Inc

7599 Vermont Route 9, West Marlboro, VT | Tax-exempt since March 1997

EIN
030353083
Last filing
12/2016
Organization type
501(c)(3)
Mission category
Arts, Culture & Humanities
Foundation type
Organization which receives a substantial part of its support from a governmental unit or the general public
Nonprofit since
March 1, 1997

Last reported financials:

Revenue
$76,892
Assets
$289,225
Source: IRS

2017

Expenses

$80,529

Revenue

$76,892

Contributions and grants

$18,199

Assets

$289,225

Liabilities

$4,000

View 990EZ Submitted 02/15/2019

2016

Expenses

$72,995

Revenue

$59,024

Contributions and grants

$9,828

Assets

$291,831

Liabilities

$2,969

View 990EZ Submitted 12/27/2017

2015

Expenses

$67,286

Revenue

$59,651

Contributions and grants

$13,846

Assets

$302,833

Liabilities

$0

View 990EZ Submitted 02/02/2017

2014

Expenses

$61,586

Revenue

$52,504

Contributions and grants

$16,034

Assets

$310,468

Liabilities

$0

View 990EZ Submitted 01/28/2016

2013

Expenses

$52,131

Revenue

$40,208

Contributions and grants

$4,985

Assets

$319,550

Liabilities

$0

View 990EZ Submitted 12/30/2014

2012

View 990EZ Submitted 12/04/2013

2011

View 990EZ Submitted 12/10/2012

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
Ted Sisley Director $0 $0
Michael Clough Asst. Museum Director $0 $53,279
Marshal Case Director $0 $0
John North Director $0 $0
Edward C Metcalfe Jr President/Ex. Director $0 $0

2016

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Ted Sisley Director $0 $0
Michael Clough Asst. Museum Director $0 $40,761
Edward C Metcalfe Jr President/Ex. Director $0 $0
John North Director $0 $0
Marshal Case Director $0 $0

2015

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Marshal Case Director $0 $0
John North Director $0 $0
Michael Clough Asst. Museum Director $0 $29,565
Edward C Metcalfe Jr President/Ex. Director $0 $0
Ted Sisley Director $0 $0

2014

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Edward C Metcalfe Jr President/Ex. Director $0 $0
John North Director $0 $0
Marshal Case Director $0 $0
Ted Sisley Director $0 $0
Michael Clough Asst. Museum Director $0 $26,647

2013

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Michael Clough Asst. Museum Director $10,637 $0
George Leoniak Director $0 $0
Marshal Case Director $0 $0
Ted Sisley Director $0 $0
John North Director $0 $0
Edward C Metcalfe Jr President/Ex. 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.