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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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.

League Of Vermont Writers Inc

Po Box 5046, Burlington, VT | Tax-exempt since July 2006

EIN
036017069
Last filing
12/2016
Organization type
501(c)(3)
Mission category
Arts, Culture & Humanities
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
July 1, 2006

Last reported financials:

Revenue
$12,508
Assets
$6,048
Source: IRS

2017

Expenses

$11,635

Revenue

$12,508

Contributions and grants

$2,613

Assets

$6,048

Liabilities

$0

View 990EZ Submitted 02/22/2019

2016

Expenses

$24,453

Revenue

$21,203

Assets

$5,175

Liabilities

$0

View 990EZ Submitted 11/09/2017

2015

View 990EZ (PDF)

2014

Expenses

$18,309

Revenue

$18,897

Assets

$6,557

Liabilities

$0

View 990EZ Submitted 08/12/2015

2013

Expenses

$8,390

Revenue

$7,262

Assets

$5,969

Liabilities

$0

View 990EZ Submitted 10/15/2014

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
Julia Davis Secretary $0 $0
Shawn Anderson Vice President $0 $0
Bobbi Jo Davis President $0 $0
Elizia Meskill Assistant Treasurer $0 $0
Ron Jensen Treasurer $0 $0

2016

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Ron Jensen Treasurer $0 $0
Elizia Meskill Assistant Treasurer $0 $0
Bobbi Jo Davis President $0 $0
Shawn Anderson Vice President $0 $0
Julia Davis Secretary $0 $0

2014

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Amy Kolb Noyes Officer $0 $0
Kerry Skiffington Officer $0 $0
Wendy Heilig Officer $0 $0
Mary Muncil Officer $0 $0
Paula Diaco Vice President $0 $0
Deb Fennell Officer $0 $0
Pat Goudey O'Brien Secretary $0 $0
Elizia Meskill Treasurer $0 $0
Alyssa Bethiaume President $0 $0

2013

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Amy Kolb Noyes Officer $0 $0
Kerry Skiffington Officer $0 $0
Wendy Heilig Officer $0 $0
Mary Muncil Officer $0 $0
Alyssa Bethiaume President $0 $0
Elizia Meskill Treasurer $0 $0
Pat Goudey O'Brien Secretary $0 $0
Deb Fennell Officer $0 $0
Paula Diaco 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.