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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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.

West Rutland High School Foundation Inc

Po Box 27, West Rutland, VT | Tax-exempt since November 1997

EIN
030356026
Last filing
06/2017
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
Nov. 1, 1997

Last reported financials:

Revenue
$98,111
Assets
$2,606,904
Source: IRS

2017

Expenses

$86,327

Fundraising expenses

$1,003

Revenue

$98,111

Contributions and grants

$9,810

Assets

$2,606,904

Liabilities

$0

View 990 Submitted 12/07/2018

2016

Expenses

$68,864

Fundraising expenses

$1,170

Revenue

$88,498

Contributions and grants

$11,703

Assets

$2,551,586

Liabilities

$0

View 990 Submitted 11/28/2017

2015

Expenses

$69,134

Fundraising expenses

$972

Revenue

$106,925

Contributions and grants

$10,676

Assets

$2,394,765

Liabilities

$0

View 990 Submitted 02/21/2017

2014

View 990 (PDF)

2013

View 990 (PDF)

2012

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
Patricia Johnson Treasurer & Co-Secretary $0 $0
Gary Kupferer President $0 $0
Marcia Pierce Co-Secretary $0 $0
Paul Kulig Vice President $0 $0

2016

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Marie Coombs Director $0 $0
Margaret Harvey Director $0 $0
Celia Kulig Director $0 $0
Marguerite Salengo Director $0 $0
Lorrane Wenta Director $0 $0
Julianna Abatiell Director $0 $0
William Kulig Director $0 $0
Mary Piontek Director $0 $0
Leona Razanouski Director $0 $0
Gary Kupferer President $0 $0
John Harvey Director $0 $0
Paul Kulig Vice President $0 $0
Marcia Pierce Co-Secretary $0 $0
Patricia Johnson Treasurer & Co-Secretary $0 $0

2015

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Gary Kupferer President $0 $0
Patricia Johnson Treasurer & Secretary $0 $0
Barbara Wiskoski Co-Secretary $0 $0
Kim Conway Vice President $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.