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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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 Agency Foundation Ltd

Po Box 909, Burlington, VT | Tax-exempt since April 2004

EIN
030370084
Last filing
12/2017
Organization type
501(c)(3)
Mission category
Philanthropy, Voluntarism & Grantmaking Foundations
Foundation type
Organization that normally receives no more than one-third of its support from gross investment income and unrelated business income and at the same time more than one-third of its support from contributions, fees, and gross receipts related to exempt purposes.
Nonprofit since
April 1, 2004

Last reported financials:

Revenue
$70,393
Source: IRS

2017

Expenses

$70,554

Revenue

$70,393

Contributions and grants

$36,380

Assets

$0

Liabilities

$105

View 990EZ Submitted 10/30/2018

2016

Expenses

$10,869

Revenue

$282

Contributions and grants

$14,475

Assets

$56

Liabilities

$0

View 990EZ Submitted 09/25/2017

2015

Expenses

$9,050

Revenue

$8,750

Contributions and grants

$12,501

Assets

$10,643

Liabilities

$0

View 990EZ Submitted 09/30/2016

2014

Expenses

$26,659

Revenue

$24,883

Contributions and grants

$24,944

Assets

$10,943

Liabilities

$0

View 990EZ Submitted 08/18/2015

2013

Expenses

$16,825

Revenue

$29,346

Contributions and grants

$19,225

Assets

$12,719

Liabilities

$0

View 990EZ Submitted 10/15/2014

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
Melissa Cushing Treasurer $0 $0
William Hinman Vice President $0 $0
Randall Raner President $0 $0

2016

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Randall Raner President $0 $0
William Hinman Vice President $0 $0
Melissa Cushing Treasurer $0 $0

2015

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Pamela Lambert Secretary $0 $0
William Hinman Vice President $0 $0
Randall Raner President $0 $0
Randall Raner Treasurer $0 $0

2014

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
William Hinman Vice President $0 $0
Randall Raner Treasurer $0 $0
Pamela Lambert Secretary $0 $0
Randall Raner President $0 $0

2013

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Randall Raner Treasurer $0 $0
Randall Raner President $0 $0
William Hinman Vice President $0 $0
Pamela Lambert Secretary $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.