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The Vermont Quilt Festival Incorporated
11 Pearl Street, Essex Junction, VT | Tax-exempt since January 1985
- EIN
- 222506055
- Last filing
- 12/2016
- Organization type
- 501(c)(3)
- Mission category
- Not reported
- 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
- Jan. 1, 1985
- Revenue
- $271,053
- Assets
- $123,182
Last reported financials:
2017
Expenses
$311,429
Salary expenses
$48,643
Revenue
$271,053
Contributions and grants
$17,085
Assets
$123,182
Liabilities
$1,225
2016
Expenses
$322,432
Salary expenses
$38,518
Revenue
$295,353
Contributions and grants
$25,291
Assets
$160,548
Liabilities
$731
2015
Expenses
$321,207
Salary expenses
$54,898
Revenue
$323,139
Contributions and grants
$26,069
Assets
$188,004
Liabilities
$1,108
2014
Expenses
$342,165
Fundraising expenses
$13,537
Salary expenses
$44,574
Revenue
$347,291
Contributions and grants
$45,708
Assets
$184,878
Liabilities
$0
2013
Expenses
$369,213
Fundraising expenses
$18,131
Salary expenses
$44,666
Revenue
$373,903
Contributions and grants
$32,877
Assets
$180,350
Liabilities
$0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Patricia Nowlan | Chair/Director | $20,210 | $0 |
| Lori R Pinkowski | Advertising Coordinator | $8,595 | $0 |
| Bruce Harmon | Bookkeeper | $6,593 | $0 |
| Shawna Desrosiers | Show Coordinator | $3,425 | $0 |
| Teela Dufresne | Chair/Director | $1,200 | $0 |
| Trista Dufresne | Director | $1,150 | $0 |
| Marty Delnevo | Vice Chair/Director | $1,100 | $0 |
| Lynn Wheatley | Treasurer/Director | $1,100 | $0 |
| Deborah Jo Epler | Secretary/Events Programming | $1,000 | $0 |
| Mary Jane Palumbo | Vendor Chair | $950 | $0 |
| Nicole Laurencelle | Chair/Director | $200 | $0 |
| Kathie Cheney | Vendor Chair | $100 | $0 |
| Tracy Moloney | Chair/Director | $50 | $0 |
2016
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bruce Harmon | Bookkeeper | $6,436 | $0 |
| Patricia Nowlan | Show Coordinator | $3,998 | $0 |
| Teela Dufresne | Chair/Director | $1,250 | $0 |
| Lynn Wheatley | Treasurer/Director | $1,200 | $0 |
| Donna Johnson | Secretary/Director | $1,200 | $0 |
| Kathie Cheney | Vendor Chair | $1,000 | $0 |
| Trista Dufresne | Director | $850 | $0 |
2015
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Patricia Nowlan | Show Coordinator | $32,769 | $0 |
| Bruce Harmon | Bookkeeper | $6,920 | $0 |
| Teela Dufresne | Secretary/Director | $1,350 | $0 |
| Joanne Lattrell | Director | $1,300 | $0 |
| Richard Cleveland | Chairman/Director | $1,300 | $0 |
| Lynn Wheatley | Treasurer/Director | $1,300 | $0 |
| Donna Johnson | Director | $1,300 | $0 |
| Karen Abrahamovich | Director | $1,300 | $0 |
| Colleen O'Neill | Director | $1,200 | $0 |
| Bethe Ogle | Director | $1,150 | $0 |
| Mary Ellen Francis | Spec Exhibits Chair/Director | $1,100 | $0 |
| Anne Harmon | Director | $831 | $0 |
2014
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Patricia Nowlan | Show Coordinator | $32,513 | $0 |
| Penny Senesac | Bookkeeper | $8,521 | $0 |
| Karen Abrahamovich | Director | $1,200 | $0 |
| Joanne Latrell | Director | $1,200 | $0 |
| Teela Dufresne | Director | $1,200 | $0 |
| Anne Harmon | Director | $1,200 | $0 |
| Sharon Crowley | Vice-Chair/Director | $1,150 | $0 |
| Lynn Wheatley | Director | $1,150 | $0 |
| Mary Ellen Francis | Spec Exhibits Chair/Director | $1,150 | $0 |
| Richard Cleveland | Chairman/Director | $1,100 | $0 |
| Bruce Harmon | Bookkeeper | $371 | $0 |
| Bethe Ogle | Treasurer/Director | $50 | $0 |
| Colleen O'Neill | Secretary/Director | $0 | $0 |
2013
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Patricia Nowlan | Show Coordinator | $31,777 | $0 |
| Penny Senesac | Bookkeeper | $9,767 | $0 |
| Anne Harmon | Director | $1,200 | $0 |
| Teela Dufresne | Director | $1,200 | $0 |
| Richard Cleveland | Chairman/Director | $1,200 | $0 |
| Joanne Latrell | Director | $1,150 | $0 |
| Colleen O'Neill | Secretary/Director | $1,150 | $0 |
| Linda Buzzell | Treasurer/Director | $1,100 | $0 |
| Sharon Crowley | Vice-Chair/Director | $1,100 | $0 |
| Dee Lamberton | Director | $1,100 | $0 |
| Mary Ellen Francis | Spec Exhibits Chair | $0 | $0 |
| Lynn Wheatley | 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.