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Vermont Community Foundation
3 Court St, Middlebury, VT | Tax-exempt since August 1986
- EIN
- 222712160
- Last filing
- 12/2016
- Organization type
- 501(c)(3)
- Mission category
- Philanthropy, Voluntarism & Grantmaking Foundations
- Foundation type
- Organization which receives a substantial part of its support from a governmental unit or the general public
- Nonprofit since
- Aug. 1, 1986
- Revenue
- $57,646,141
- Assets
- $264,749,292
Last reported financials:
2017
Expenses
$18,844,416
Fundraising expenses
$712,560
Salary expenses
$2,553,678
Revenue
$57,646,141
Contributions and grants
$44,943,412
Assets
$264,749,292
Liabilities
$10,747,700
2016
Expenses
$17,211,395
Fundraising expenses
$675,424
Salary expenses
$2,155,720
Revenue
$34,299,123
Contributions and grants
$28,597,241
Assets
$207,309,114
Liabilities
$11,157,612
2015
2014
2013
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dan Smith | President & Ceo | $171,863 | $31,011 |
| Patrick Berry | Vp For Philanthropy | $129,731 | $7,625 |
| Felipe Rivera | Chief Of Staff & Vp For Strategy & Communications | $128,157 | $26,906 |
| Debra Dabrowski Rooney | Cfo And Vp For Finance & Operations | $120,136 | $28,601 |
| Elizabeth Gamache | Vp For Grants And Community Investment | $64,991 | $1,540 |
| Carolyn Dwyer | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Allyson Laackman | Treasurer | $0 | $0 |
| Deborah Brighton | Former Treasurer/Director | $0 | $0 |
| Sarah Waring | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Mark Foley Jr | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Will Stevens | Director | $0 | $0 |
| James G Wheeler Jr | Chair | $0 | $0 |
| Margaret Seely | Vice Chair | $0 | $0 |
| Spencer Knapp | Secretary | $0 | $0 |
| Peter Kinder | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Julie Peterson | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Lisa Cashdan | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Betsy Rathbun-Gunn | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Michael M Metz | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Jay Kenlan | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Tim Volk | Director | $0 | $0 |
2016
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Felipe Rivera | Vp For Strategy & Communic | $137,504 | $29,710 |
| Patrick Berry | Vp For Philanthropy | $128,575 | $4,486 |
| Debra Rooney | Vp For Finance & Cfo | $113,157 | $30,210 |
| Jennifer Peterson | Vp For Program & Grants | $103,915 | $12,939 |
| Dan Smith | President & Ceo | $55,330 | $8,283 |
| Stuart Comstock-Gay | Former President & Ceo | $24,343 | $2,908 |
| Betsy Rathbun-Gunn | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Michael M Metz | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Jay Kenlan | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Tim Volk | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Carolyn Dwyer | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Allyson Laackman | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Deborah Brighton | Treasurer | $0 | $0 |
| Spencer Knapp | Secretary | $0 | $0 |
| Margaret Seely | Vice Chair | $0 | $0 |
| James G Wheeler Jr | Chair | $0 | $0 |
| Peter Kinder | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Julie Peterson | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Lisa Cashdan | 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.