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The Wisdom Connection Inc
333 Atherton Way, Greensboro, VT | Tax-exempt since December 2003
- EIN
- 200288195
- Last filing
- 12/2017
- Organization type
- 501(c)(3)
- Mission category
- Philanthropy, Voluntarism & Grantmaking Foundations
- Foundation type
- Private non-operating foundation
- Nonprofit since
- Dec. 1, 2003
- Revenue
- $278,231
- Assets
- $2,607,596
Last reported financials:
2017
Expenses
$257,667
Salary expenses
$60,000
Revenue
$278,231
Assets
$2,607,596
Liabilities
$0
2016
Expenses
$238,255
Salary expenses
$60,000
Revenue
$134,137
Assets
$2,456,695
Liabilities
$0
2015
Expenses
$257,742
Salary expenses
$50,769
Revenue
$262,838
Assets
$2,572,107
Liabilities
$391
2014
Expenses
$240,749
Salary expenses
$66,903
Revenue
$312,834
Assets
$2,837,015
Liabilities
$1,141
2013
Expenses
$215,973
Salary expenses
$64,500
Revenue
$216,613
Assets
$2,886,332
Liabilities
$1,434
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tara Reynolds | Exec Director | $60,000 | $23,341 |
| Mary Parke Meyer | Secretary | $0 | $0 |
| Eric Erwin | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Patricia Heffernan | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Patricia Passmore Alley | President | $0 | $0 |
| F William Alley | Treasurer | $0 | $0 |
| Susan Coffey | Director | $0 | $0 |
2016
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Patricia Passmore Alley | President | $None | $None |
| Patricia Heffernan | Director | $None | $None |
| Mary Parke Meyer | Secretary | $None | $None |
| Susan Coffey | Director | $None | $None |
| Tara Reynolds | Exec Director | $None | $None |
| F William Alley | Treasurer | $None | $None |
2015
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| F William Alley | Treasurer | $None | $None |
| Patricia Passmore Alley | President | $None | $None |
| Patricia Heffernan | Director | $None | $None |
| Mary Parke Meyer | Secretary | $None | $None |
| Susan Coffey | Director | $None | $None |
| Tara Reynolds | Exec Director | $None | $None |
2014
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| F William Alley | Treasurer | $None | $None |
| Susan Coffey | Board Member | $None | $None |
| Mary Parke Meyer | Secretary | $None | $None |
| Patricia Heffernan | Board Member | $None | $None |
| Patricia Passmore Alley | President | $None | $None |
2013
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Patricia Heffernan | Board Member | $None | $None |
| Mary Parke Meyer | Secretary | $None | $None |
| Susan Coffey | Board Member | $None | $None |
| Patricia Passmore Alley | President | $None | $None |
| F William Alley | Treasurer | $None | $None |
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.