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Common Roots Inc
Po Box 9335, South Burlington, VT | Tax-exempt since August 2009
- EIN
- 264146964
- Last filing
- 12/2016
- Organization type
- 501(c)(3)
- Mission category
- Food, Agriculture & Nutrition
- Foundation type
- Organization which receives a substantial part of its support from a governmental unit or the general public
- Nonprofit since
- Aug. 1, 2009
- Revenue
- $208,108
- Assets
- $31,419
Last reported financials:
2017
Expenses
$238,325
Fundraising expenses
$4,883
Salary expenses
$136,546
Revenue
$208,108
Contributions and grants
$191,339
Assets
$31,419
Liabilities
$41,801
2016
Expenses
$172,077
Salary expenses
$74,103
Revenue
$184,697
Contributions and grants
$181,582
Assets
$22,052
Liabilities
$2,216
2015
Expenses
$232,511
Salary expenses
$75,401
Revenue
$167,568
Contributions and grants
$163,329
Assets
$9,151
Liabilities
$1,935
2014
Expenses
$153,004
Salary expenses
$64,176
Revenue
$188,482
Contributions and grants
$183,274
Assets
$74,388
Liabilities
$3,867
2013
Expenses
$148,507
Salary expenses
$19,555
Revenue
$146,020
Contributions and grants
$141,660
Assets
$37,090
Liabilities
$2,047
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peter Cole | Board Member | $0 | $0 |
| Eric Ayers | Treasurer | $0 | $0 |
| Carol Mcquillen | President | $0 | $0 |
| Emily Pendergraft | Board Member | $0 | $0 |
| Justin Cutroni | Board Member | $0 | $0 |
2016
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carol Mcquillen | President | $0 | $0 |
| Eric Ayers | Treasurer | $0 | $0 |
| Peter Cole | Board Member | $0 | $0 |
| Karen Paquin | Board Member | $0 | $0 |
| Chris Mahstoll | Board Member | $0 | $0 |
2015
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Teresa Donovan | Secretary | $0 | $0 |
| Carol Mcquillen | President | $0 | $0 |
| Eric Ayers | Treasurer | $0 | $0 |
| Whitney Calkins | Board Member | $0 | $0 |
| Deborah Schapiro | Board Member | $0 | $0 |
2014
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deborah Schapiro | Board Member | $0 | $0 |
| Whitney Calkins | Board Member | $0 | $0 |
| Carol Mcquillen | President | $0 | $0 |
| Teresa Donovan | Secretary | $0 | $0 |
| Eric Ayers | Treasurer | $0 | $0 |
2013
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Teresa Donovan | Secretary | $0 | $0 |
| Joyce Hendley | Board Member | $0 | $0 |
| Eric Ayers | Treasurer | $0 | $0 |
| Stephanie O'Brien | Board Member | $0 | $0 |
| Carol Mcquillen | 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.