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Vermont Law School Inc
Po Box 96, South Royalton, VT | Tax-exempt since February 1974
- EIN
- 237251952
- Last filing
- 06/2017
- Organization type
- 501(c)(3)
- Mission category
- Education
- Foundation type
- School
- Nonprofit since
- Feb. 1, 1974
- Revenue
- $32,115,510
- Assets
- $42,546,018
Last reported financials:
2016
Expenses
$33,456,468
Fundraising expenses
$871,800
Salary expenses
$14,036,718
Revenue
$32,115,510
Contributions and grants
$5,260,800
Assets
$42,546,018
Liabilities
$19,417,963
2015
Expenses
$32,653,967
Fundraising expenses
$916,085
Salary expenses
$13,914,956
Revenue
$31,535,140
Contributions and grants
$4,711,036
Assets
$43,644,867
Liabilities
$17,712,847
2014
Expenses
$34,015,870
Fundraising expenses
$1,045,616
Salary expenses
$14,575,516
Revenue
$32,589,966
Contributions and grants
$4,113,140
Assets
$45,858,750
Liabilities
$18,416,670
2013
Expenses
$32,949,620
Fundraising expenses
$700,878
Salary expenses
$15,422,156
Revenue
$33,259,349
Contributions and grants
$3,727,322
Assets
$48,014,479
Liabilities
$18,960,278
2012
2011
2010
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mark Mihaly | President/Dean | $189,299 | $22,582 |
| David Firestone | Professor Of Law | $155,060 | $14,124 |
| Melissa Scanlan | Professor Of Law | $152,438 | $12 |
| Laurie Ristino | Professor Of Law | $149,941 | $9,868 |
| Stephanie Willbanks | Vice Dean For Administration & Student Affairs | $149,884 | $13,180 |
| John Echeverria | Professor Of Law | $142,843 | $13,041 |
| Lorraine Atwood | Vp Of Finance | $128,166 | $22,278 |
| Randolph Brock | Past Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| James Clemons | Past Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Mark Sciarrotta | Past Alumni Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Whitney Debevoise | Past Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Colleen Connor | Vice Chair | $0 | $0 |
| Patrick Marass | Past Student Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| James Hanson | Past Vice Chair | $0 | $0 |
| Richard Matasar | Past Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Matthew Matule | Past Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| George Mckann | Past Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| William Lytton | Past Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Anne Debevoise Ostby | Secretary | $0 | $0 |
| Karis North | Alumni Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Constance Neary | Treasurer | $0 | $0 |
| Byron Kalogerou | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Michael Hill | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Pamela Pescosolido | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Elizabeth Miller | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Jennifer Leech | Past Student Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Joanne Jordan | Alumni Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Amy Davenport | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Caryn Clayman | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
2015
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marc Mihaly | President/Dean & Professor | $216,195 | $28,172 |
| Margaret Barry | Associate Dean For Clinical & Experiential Program | $159,919 | $26,472 |
| Melissa Scanlan | Professor Of Law | $156,717 | $3,184 |
| Jackie Gardina | Vice Dean For Faculty | $153,615 | $20,509 |
| David Firestone | Professor Of Law | $151,975 | $20,627 |
| Stephanie Willbanks | Vice Dean For Admin & Student Affairs | $151,931 | $27,979 |
| Laurie Ristino | Professor Of Law | $151,056 | $28,106 |
| Michael Dworkin | Professor Of Law | $147,852 | $18,708 |
| Lorraine Atwood | Vp Of Finance | $132,756 | $26,273 |
| Scott Cullen | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| James Hanson | Vice Chair | $0 | $0 |
| Richard Matasar | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Gerard Jones | Past Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Matthew Matule | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| George Mckann | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Kevin Mendik | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Robert Taisey | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| William Lytton | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Anne Debevoise Ostby | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Richard Ayres | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Edna Baugh | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Randolph Brock | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| James Clemons | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Robert Fiske | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Sheppard Guryan | Past Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Peter Hall | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Mark Sciarrotta | Secretary | $0 | $0 |
| Whitney Debevoise | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Ashton Roberts | Past Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Glenn Berger | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Leslie Cadwell | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Brian Dunkiel | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Colleen Connor | Treasurer | $0 | $0 |
| Charles E Shafer | Past Secretary | $0 | $0 |
| Harold Jones | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Patrick Marass | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Constance Neary | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Karis North | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Christopher Dutton | Chair | $0 | $0 |
| Catherine Mackenzie | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
2014
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marc Mihaly | President/Dean & Professor | $218,656 | $24,319 |
| Margaret Barry | Assoc Dean Clinical & Experiential Programs | $163,432 | $21,138 |
| Stephanie Willbanks | Vice Dean For Admin & Student Affairs | $156,281 | $16,323 |
| Michael Dworkin | Professor Of Law | $154,646 | $14,973 |
| Melissa Scanlan | Professor Of Law | $154,027 | $21,134 |
| David Firestone | Professor Of Law | $151,971 | $17,970 |
| Mark Latham | Vice Dean For Academic Affairs | $150,550 | $2,644 |
| Jackie Gardina | Vice Dean For Faculty | $150,403 | $17,130 |
| Maryann Zavez | Professor Of Law | $145,577 | $8,593 |
| Lorraine Atwood | Vp Of Finance | $132,817 | $22,334 |
| Ashton Roberts | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Mark Sciarrotta | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Hon Peter Hall | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Sheppard Guryan | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Michele Gatto | Past Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Edward Mattes | Past Chair | $0 | $0 |
| Frances Yates | Past Treasurer | $0 | $0 |
| Ashlee Stetser | Past Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Jason Hutt | Past Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Gerard Jones | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Mary Wilson | Past Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Randy Hertz | Past Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Perez C Ehrich | Past Vice Chair | $0 | $0 |
| Charles E Shafer | Secretary | $0 | $0 |
2013
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carl Yirka | Professor Of Law | $299,238 | $8,951 |
| Marc Mihaly | President/Dean & Professor | $291,557 | $23,409 |
| Susan Apel | Professor Of Law | $279,669 | $17,093 |
| Gilbert Kujovich | Professor Of Law | $174,085 | $8,336 |
| Margaret Barry | Assoc Dean Clinical & Experiential Progs. | $167,312 | $19,760 |
| Mark Latham | Vice Dean For Academic Affairs | $163,249 | $3,455 |
| Stephanie Willbanks | Vice Dean For Admin. & Student Affairs | $160,133 | $14,274 |
| Jackie Gardina | Vice Dean For Faculty | $154,971 | $16,884 |
| David Firestone | Professor Of Law | $154,802 | $17,146 |
| Michael Dworkin | Professor Of Law | $153,060 | $14,366 |
| Lorraine Atwood | Vp Finance & Admin. | $137,731 | $20,158 |
| Michele Gatto | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Jason Hutt | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Richard Sala | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Karen White | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Jeff Fucci | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Perez C Ehrich | Vice Chair | $0 | $0 |
| Edward Mattes | Chair | $0 | $0 |
| Anne Ostby | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| James Hanson Iii | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Charles E Shafer | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Mathew Matule | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Mary Wilson | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Ashlee Stetser | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Frances Yates | Treasurer | $0 | $0 |
| Randy Hertz | Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Christopher Dutton | Secretary | $0 | $0 |
| Richard E Ayres | Past Trustee | $0 | $0 |
| Collen H Connor | Trustee | $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.