Vermont Nonprofit Navigator
Explore the organizations and people that power Vermont's $6.8 billion nonprofit economy.
Inner Fire
Grace Brook Farm 26 Parker Road, Brookline, VT | Tax-exempt since September 2014
- EIN
- 461542395
- Last filing
- 12/2017
- Organization type
- 501(c)(3)
- Mission category
- Mental Health & Crisis Intervention
- Foundation type
- Organization which receives a substantial part of its support from a governmental unit or the general public
- Nonprofit since
- Sept. 1, 2014
- Revenue
- $729,732
- Assets
- $420,503
Last reported financials:
2017
Expenses
$766,042
Fundraising expenses
$3,494
Salary expenses
$377,009
Revenue
$729,732
Contributions and grants
$188,602
Assets
$420,503
Liabilities
$0
2016
Expenses
$438,415
Salary expenses
$33,480
Revenue
$510,765
Contributions and grants
$183,483
Assets
$437,128
Liabilities
$0
2015
Expenses
$113,565
Salary expenses
$75,411
Revenue
$393,487
Contributions and grants
$213,960
Assets
$364,778
Liabilities
$0
2014
Expenses
$40,247
Revenue
$114,733
Contributions and grants
$114,733
Assets
$79,636
Liabilities
$0
2013
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Laurie Brown | Chef-Nutritionist Guide | $41,408 | $0 |
| Michael Steinruek | Board Member | $40,749 | $0 |
| Zach Holmes | Guide | $34,400 | $0 |
| Beatrice Birch | Founder And President | $30,840 | $0 |
| Suzanne Ruse | Office Manager | $30,628 | $0 |
| Laurie Rabut | Secretary | $0 | $0 |
| James Pewtherer | Board Chair | $0 | $0 |
| Raphael Rosner | Board Vice Chair | $0 | $0 |
| Lynn Barrett | Board Member | $0 | $0 |
| Thomas Kavet | Treasurer | $0 | $0 |
2016
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beatrice Birch | President | $33,480 | $33,480 |
| Thomas Kavet | Treasurer | $0 | $0 |
| Julie Birns | Board Member | $0 | $0 |
| Elizabeth Rogers | Vice President | $0 | $0 |
| Laurie Rabut | Secretary | $0 | $0 |
2015
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beatrice Birch | President | $14,040 | $0 |
| Elizabeth Rogers | Vice President | $0 | $0 |
| Laurie Rabut | Secretary | $0 | $0 |
| Thomas Kavet | Treasurer | $0 | $0 |
| Marshall Hammond | Vice President | $0 | $0 |
| Julie Birns | Board Member | $0 | $0 |
2014
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas Kavet | Treasurer | $0 | $0 |
| Beatrice Birch | President | $0 | $0 |
| Marshall Hammond | Vice President | $0 | $0 |
| Laurie Rabut | Secretary | $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.
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.