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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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.

Bread & Puppet Theatre Inc

753 Heights Rd, Glover, VT | Tax-exempt since February 1970

EIN
237057230
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
Feb. 1, 1970

Last reported financials:

Revenue
$670,401
Assets
$848,226
Source: IRS

2017

Expenses

$299,089

Salary expenses

$199,217

Revenue

$670,401

Contributions and grants

$411,073

Assets

$848,226

Liabilities

$0

View 990 Submitted 02/01/2019

2016

Expenses

$231,706

Salary expenses

$151,273

Revenue

$322,609

Contributions and grants

$43,139

Assets

$476,915

Liabilities

$0

View 990 Submitted 01/09/2018

2015

Expenses

$224,477

Salary expenses

$129,784

Revenue

$304,900

Contributions and grants

$76,964

Assets

$386,012

Liabilities

$0

View 990 Submitted 04/06/2017

2014

Expenses

$252,592

Fundraising expenses

$4,685

Salary expenses

$158,557

Revenue

$272,357

Contributions and grants

$115,373

Assets

$305,609

Liabilities

$21

View 990 Submitted 01/26/2016

2013

Expenses

$274,657

Salary expenses

$149,308

Revenue

$249,094

Contributions and grants

$107,419

Assets

$285,821

Liabilities

$0

View 990 Submitted 12/30/2014

2012

View 990 (PDF)

2011

View 990 (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
Linda Elbow Treasurer $17,200 $0
Peter Schumann President $11,375 $0
Elka Schumann Secretary $10,508 $0

2016

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Linda Elbow Treasurer $17,200 $0
Peter Schumann President $10,400 $0
Elka Schumann Secretary $5,200 $0

2015

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Linda Elbow Treasurer $17,200 $0
Peter Schumann President $10,183 $0
Elka Schumann Secretary $7,746 $0

2014

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Linda Elbow Treasurer $16,287 $0
Peter Schumann President $10,119 $0
Elka Schumann Secretary $10,119 $0

2013

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Linda Elbow Treasurer $17,136 $0
Peter Schumann President $10,292 $0
Elka Schumann Secretary $10,292 $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.