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Cynosure Inc
Po Box 786, Burlington, VT | Tax-exempt since February 1957
- EIN
- 036005859
- Last filing
- 06/2017
- Organization type
- 501(c)(6)
- Mission category
- Not reported
- Foundation type
- All organizations except 501(c)(3)
- Nonprofit since
- Feb. 1, 1957
- Revenue
- $867,176
- Assets
- $4,328,974
Last reported financials:
2017
Expenses
$749,742
Revenue
$867,176
Assets
$4,328,974
Liabilities
$445,534
2016
Expenses
$723,280
Revenue
$812,773
Assets
$4,262,010
Liabilities
$496,004
2015
Expenses
$724,431
Revenue
$656,669
Assets
$4,240,707
Liabilities
$564,194
2014
Expenses
$801,918
Revenue
$559,174
Assets
$4,372,499
Liabilities
$628,224
2013
Expenses
$883,619
Revenue
$512,887
Assets
$4,425,857
Liabilities
$438,838
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chris D'Elia | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Brad Aldrich | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Rich Smith | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Ernest A Pomerleau | Treasurer | $0 | $0 |
| Lisa Ventriss | Vice Chairpe | $0 | $0 |
| Mary Sprayregen | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Dan Smith | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Paul Plunkett | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Frank Cioffi | President, S | $0 | $37,404 |
| David Bradbury | Chairperson | $0 | $0 |
| Ethan Bechtel | Director | $0 | $0 |
2016
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lisa Ventriss | Vice Chairpe | $0 | $0 |
| Steve Hackett | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Rich Smith | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Brad Aldrich | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Chris D'Elia | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Ethan Bechtel | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Mary Sprayregen | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Frank Cioffi | President, S | $0 | $40,465 |
| David Bradbury | Chairperson | $0 | $0 |
| Ernest A Pomerleau | Treasurer | $0 | $0 |
2015
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frank Cioffi | President, S | $27,500 | $20,453 |
| Rich Smith | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Brad Aldrich | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Chris D'Elia | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Ernest A Pomerleau | Treasurer | $0 | $0 |
| Steve Hackett | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Glen A Wright | Chairman | $0 | $0 |
| Lisa Ventriss | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Steve Terry | Director | $0 | $0 |
| David Bradbury | Vice Chair | $0 | $0 |
2014
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chris D'Elia | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Steve Terry | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Lisa Ventriss | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Frank Cioffi | President, S | $0 | $73,303 |
| David Bradbury | Vice Chair | $0 | $0 |
| Steve Hackett | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Ernest A Pomerleau | Treasurer | $0 | $0 |
| Rich Smith | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Glen A Wright | Chairman | $0 | $0 |
| Brad Aldrich | Director | $0 | $0 |
2013
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steve Terry | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Frank Cioffi | President, S | $0 | $76,973 |
| David Bradbury | Vice Chair | $0 | $0 |
| Steve Hackett | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Ernest A Pomerleau | Treasurer | $0 | $0 |
| Rich Smith | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Glen A Wright | Chairman | $0 | $0 |
| Brad Aldrich | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Chris D'Elia | 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.