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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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.

United Ways Of Vermont

64 Pearl St, Essex Junction, VT | Tax-exempt since October 2003

EIN
300192082
Last filing
03/2017
Organization type
501(c)(3)
Mission category
Philanthropy, Voluntarism & Grantmaking Foundations
Foundation type
Organization which receives a substantial part of its support from a governmental unit or the general public
Nonprofit since
Oct. 1, 2003

Last reported financials:

Revenue
$931,945
Assets
$73,682
Source: IRS

2017

Expenses

$957,545

Fundraising expenses

$28,800

Salary expenses

$687,693

Revenue

$931,945

Contributions and grants

$368,727

Assets

$73,682

Liabilities

$180,756

View 990 Submitted 04/12/2019

2016

Expenses

$1,030,209

Fundraising expenses

$23,693

Salary expenses

$713,435

Revenue

$941,341

Contributions and grants

$367,042

Assets

$74,921

Liabilities

$156,395

View 990 Submitted 03/12/2018

2015

Expenses

$995,580

Fundraising expenses

$15,628

Salary expenses

$647,159

Revenue

$922,893

Contributions and grants

$359,121

Assets

$175,104

Liabilities

$167,710

View 990 Submitted 07/21/2017

2014

Expenses

$831,412

Fundraising expenses

$6,330

Salary expenses

$532,399

Revenue

$735,763

Contributions and grants

$277,543

Assets

$148,778

Liabilities

$68,697

View 990 Submitted 07/13/2016

2013

Expenses

$760,402

Fundraising expenses

$2,178

Salary expenses

$489,746

Revenue

$719,025

Contributions and grants

$684,657

Assets

$266,396

Liabilities

$90,666

View 990 Submitted 03/10/2015

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
Maryellen Mendl Executive Di $48,029 $21,988
Nancy Luke Director $0 $0
Jesse Bridges Treasurer $0 $0
Carmen Derby President $0 $0
Tawnya Kristen Vice Preside $0 $0
Caprice Hover Secretary $0 $0
Rob Schultz Director $0 $0
Kate Mcgowan Until December 2017 Director $0 $0

2016

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Maryellen Mendl Executive Director $53,625 $20,698
Carmen Derby Secretary $0 $0
Jesse Bridges Director $0 $0
Caprice Hover Director $0 $0
Rob Schultz Vice President $0 $0
Tawnya Kristen Treasurer $0 $0
Kate Mcgowan President $0 $0

2015

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Maryellen Mendl Executive Director $54,151 $16,858
Martha Maksym President $0 $0
Suzanne Stofflet Secretary $0 $0
Tawnya Kristen Director $0 $0
Nanci Gordon Director $0 $0
Carmen Derby Director $0 $0
Kate Mcgowan Treasurer $0 $0

2014

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Maryellen Mendl Executive Director $50,994 $19,251
Nanci Gordon Director $0 $0
Sally Bortz President $0 $0
Martha Maksym Treasurer $0 $0
Dawn Archbold Secretary $0 $0
Kate Mcgowan Director $0 $0
Suzanne Stofflet Director $0 $0
Nancy Zorn Director $0 $0
Carmen Derby Director $0 $0

2013

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Maryellen Mendl Exec. Dir. (Beginning 9/1/13) $16,452 $4,995
Sally Bortz Secretary $0 $0
Traci Moore Vice-President $0 $0
Carmen J Derby President $0 $0
Nancy Zorn Director $0 $0
Martha Maksym Treasurer $0 $0
Kate Mcgowan Director $0 $0
Suzanne Stofflet Director $0 $0
Dawn Archbold Director $0 $0
Patrick Tufts Director $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.