Vermont Nonprofit Navigator
Explore the organizations and people that power Vermont's $6.8 billion nonprofit economy.
Public Domain Foundation
Po Box 409, Wilder, VT | Tax-exempt since January 1972
- EIN
- 237125049
- Last filing
- 12/2016
- Organization type
- 501(c)(3)
- Mission category
- Not reported
- Foundation type
- Private non-operating foundation
- Nonprofit since
- Jan. 1, 1972
- Revenue
- $31,580
- Assets
- $29,072
Last reported financials:
2017
Expenses
$62,199
Revenue
$31,580
Contributions and grants
$31,282
Assets
$29,072
Liabilities
$3,739
2016
Expenses
$81,446
Revenue
$106,525
Contributions and grants
$106,169
Assets
$58,037
Liabilities
$2,132
2015
Expenses
$34,276
Revenue
$24,559
Contributions and grants
$24,128
Assets
$32,912
Liabilities
$1,462
2014
Expenses
$43,756
Salary expenses
$13,800
Revenue
$50,993
Contributions and grants
$50,373
Assets
$42,341
Liabilities
$1,174
2013
Expenses
$62,102
Salary expenses
$29,600
Revenue
$55,806
Contributions and grants
$55,469
Assets
$37,654
Liabilities
$3,724
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elizabeth S Sunde | Executive Dir. | $0 | $0 |
| Noel Paul Stookey | President | $0 | $0 |
2016
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Niles Heron | Director | $None | $None |
| David Altscul | Director | $None | $None |
| Jen Chapin | Director | $None | $None |
| Steff Eiter | Director | $None | $None |
| Colleen Mcdonough | Director | $None | $None |
| Noel Paul Stookey | President | $None | $None |
| Kevin Merritt | Director | $None | $None |
| Elizabeth S Sunde | Executive Dir. | $None | $None |
| Jay Morgenstern | Director | $None | $None |
2015
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Noel Paul Stookey | President | $None | $None |
| Elizabeth S Sunde | Executive Dir. | $None | $None |
| Kevin Merritt | Director | $None | $None |
| Jay Morgenstern | Director | $None | $None |
| Niles Heron | Director | $None | $None |
| David Altscul | Director | $None | $None |
| Jen Chapin | Director | $None | $None |
| Steff Eiter | Director | $None | $None |
| Colleen Mcdonough | Director | $None | $None |
2014
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kevin Merritt | Director | $None | $None |
| Jay Morgenstern | Director | $None | $None |
| Niles Heron | Director | $None | $None |
| David Altscul | Director | $None | $None |
| Jen Chapin | Director | $None | $None |
| Steff Eiter | Director | $None | $None |
| Colleen Mcdonough | Director | $None | $None |
| Elizabeth S Sunde | Executive Dir. | $None | $None |
| Noel Paul Stookey | President | $None | $None |
2013
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kevin Merritt | Director | $None | $None |
| Jay Morgenstern | Director | $None | $None |
| Niles Heron | Director | $None | $None |
| David Altscul | Director | $None | $None |
| Jen Chapin | Director | $None | $None |
| Steff Eiter | Director | $None | $None |
| Colleen Mcdonough | Director | $None | $None |
| Noel Paul Stookey | President | $None | $None |
| Elizabeth S Sunde | Executive Dir. | $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.
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.
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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.