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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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.

Friends Of The Winooski River Incorporated

Po Box 777, Montpelier, VT | Tax-exempt since January 2001

EIN
030368386
Last filing
12/2016
Organization type
501(c)(3)
Mission category
Environment
Foundation type
Organization which receives a substantial part of its support from a governmental unit or the general public
Nonprofit since
Jan. 1, 2001

Last reported financials:

Revenue
$337,580
Assets
$108,526
Source: IRS

2017

Expenses

$333,723

Fundraising expenses

$7,527

Salary expenses

$55,724

Revenue

$337,580

Contributions and grants

$331,445

Assets

$108,526

Liabilities

$2,679

View 990 Submitted 11/27/2018

2016

Expenses

$178,234

Fundraising expenses

$6,264

Salary expenses

$56,419

Revenue

$228,616

Contributions and grants

$222,623

Assets

$102,057

Liabilities

$67

View 990 Submitted 11/16/2017

2015

Expenses

$254,550

Fundraising expenses

$4,003

Salary expenses

$34,306

Revenue

$254,117

Contributions and grants

$250,300

Assets

$51,543

Liabilities

$-65

View 990 Submitted 01/10/2017

2014

View 990EZ (PDF)

2013

View 990EZ (PDF)

2012

View 990EZ (PDF)

2011

View 990EZ (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
Ann Smith Former Exec.Dir. $25,198 $0
Michele Braun Executive Dir. $5,208 $0
Kris Hammer Board Member $0 $0
Tad Dippel Board Member $0 $0
Jeanne Keller Treasurer $0 $0
Linda Henzel Board Member $0 $0
Colin Mccaffrey President $0 $0
Jared Carpenter Vice President $0 $0
Noah Pollock Board Member $0 $0

2016

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Ann Smith Excutive Dir. $28,824 $864
Abbey Willard Board Member $0 $0
Allen Banbury Board Member $0 $0
Tad Dippel Board Member $0 $0
Kris Hammer Board Member $0 $0
Linda Henzel Board Member $0 $0
Jeanne Keller Treasurer $0 $0
Noah Pollock Board Member $0 $0
Jared Carpenter Vice President $0 $0
Colin Mccaffrey President $0 $0

2015

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Ann Smith Executive Dir. $14,862 $892
Noah Pollack Board $0 $0
Colin Mccaffrey President $0 $0
Jared Carpenter Vice President $0 $0
Abbey Willard Board $0 $0
Jeanne Keller Board $0 $0
Jeff Schuman Treasurer $0 $0
Allan Banbury Board $0 $0
Linda Henzel Board $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.