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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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.

West Weathersfield Volunteer Fire Dept Inc

Po Box 196, Perkinsville, VT | Tax-exempt since January 1970

EIN
237038836
Last filing
06/2017
Organization type
501(c)(4)
Mission category
Not reported
Foundation type
All organizations except 501(c)(3)
Nonprofit since
Jan. 1, 1970

Last reported financials:

Revenue
$99,476
Assets
$162,610
Source: IRS

2016

Expenses

$75,229

Revenue

$99,476

Contributions and grants

$73,245

Assets

$162,610

Liabilities

$0

View 990EZ Submitted 09/22/2018

2014

Expenses

$61,542

Revenue

$41,254

Contributions and grants

$21,852

Assets

$158,422

Liabilities

$0

View 990EO Submitted 08/04/2016

2013

Expenses

$57,196

Revenue

$95,350

Contributions and grants

$87,696

Assets

$178,710

Liabilities

$0

View 990EO Submitted 12/29/2014

2012

View 990EO Submitted 07/03/2014

2010

View 990EO Submitted 07/03/2012

Organizations are required to list board members, key employees and anyone making over $100,000 from this or a related organization.

2016

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Michael Barrup Lieutenant $0 $0
Cheryl Watson Secretary/Treas $0 $0
Michael Wiltshire Captain $0 $0
Eugene Adams Head Trustee $0 $0
Benjamin Waters Lieutenant $0 $0
Mychael Spaulding Deputy Chief $0 $0
Joshua Dauphin Chief $0 $0

2014

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Joshua Dauphin Chief $0 $0
Cheryl Watson Secretary/Treasurer $0 $0
Mychael Spaulding Deputy Chief $0 $0
Benjamin Waters Lieutenant $0 $0
Michael Barrup Lieutenant $0 $0
Eugene Adams Head Trustee $0 $0
Michael Wiltshire Captain $0 $0

2013

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Eugene Adams Head Trustee $0 $0
Benjamin Waters Lieutenant $0 $0
Mychael Spaulding Deputy Chief $0 $0
Cheryl Watson Secretary/Treasurer $0 $0
Joshua Dauphin Chief $0 $0
Michael Wileshire Captain $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.