Vermont Nonprofit Navigator
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Will Miller Social Justice Lecture Series
C/O Ann Lipsitt 4 Park Avenue, Essex Junction, VT | Tax-exempt since July 2006
- EIN
- 251913059
- Last filing
- 12/2017
- Organization type
- 501(c)(3)
- Mission category
- Arts, Culture & Humanities
- Foundation type
- Organization which receives a substantial part of its support from a governmental unit or the general public
- Nonprofit since
- July 1, 2006
- Revenue
- $7,084
- Assets
- $18,688
Last reported financials:
2017
Expenses
$4,212
Revenue
$7,084
Contributions and grants
$7,084
Assets
$18,688
Liabilities
$0
2016
Expenses
$6,113
Revenue
$7,596
Contributions and grants
$7,596
Assets
$15,816
Liabilities
$0
2015
Expenses
$4,680
Revenue
$5,267
Contributions and grants
$5,265
Assets
$14,333
Liabilities
$0
2014
Expenses
$6,977
Revenue
$8,748
Contributions and grants
$8,740
Assets
$13,746
Liabilities
$0
2013
Expenses
$4,211
Revenue
$3,858
Contributions and grants
$3,839
Assets
$11,975
Liabilities
$0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anne Petermann | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Helen Scott | Secretary | $0 | $0 |
| Michael Cassidy | Treasurer | $0 | $0 |
| Ann Duchin Lipsitt | President | $0 | $0 |
2016
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ann Duchin Lipsitt | President | $0 | $0 |
| Michael Cassidy | Treasurer | $0 | $0 |
| Helen Scott | Secretary | $0 | $0 |
| Anne Petermann | Director | $0 | $0 |
2015
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ann Duchin Lipsitt | President | $0 | $0 |
| Michael Cassidy | Treasurer | $0 | $0 |
| Helen Scott | Secretary | $0 | $0 |
| Anne Petermann | Director | $0 | $0 |
2014
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ann Duchin Lipsitt | President | $0 | $0 |
| Michael Cassidy | Treasurer | $0 | $0 |
| Helen Scott | Secretary | $0 | $0 |
| Anne Petermann | Director | $0 | $0 |
2013
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anne Petermann | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Helen Scott | Secretary | $0 | $0 |
| Michael Cassidy | Treasurer | $0 | $0 |
| Ann Duchin Lipsitt | President | $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.