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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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.

Brattleboro Sunrise Foundation Inc

Po Box 1995, Brattleboro, VT | Tax-exempt since October 2014

EIN
461770115
Last filing
06/2017
Organization type
501(c)(3)
Mission category
Community Improvement & Capacity Building
Foundation type
Organization that normally receives no more than one-third of its support from gross investment income and unrelated business income and at the same time more than one-third of its support from contributions, fees, and gross receipts related to exempt purposes.
Nonprofit since
Oct. 1, 2014

Last reported financials:

Revenue
$22,209
Assets
$32,262
Source: IRS

2016

Expenses

$19,663

Revenue

$22,209

Contributions and grants

$22,984

Assets

$32,262

Liabilities

$0

View 990EZ Submitted 12/28/2017

2015

Expenses

$27,525

Revenue

$22,773

Contributions and grants

$1,148

Assets

$29,716

Liabilities

$0

View 990EZ Submitted 02/07/2017

2014

Expenses

$15,813

Revenue

$17,570

Contributions and grants

$823

Assets

$34,468

Liabilities

$0

View 990EZ Submitted 02/26/2016

2013

View 990EZ (PDF)

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
Michelle Pong President Elect $0 $0
Damon Kindopp President $0 $0
Kris Johnson Director $0 $0
Ali Barry Director $0 $0
Sadie Fischesser Director $0 $0
Toni Ciampaglione Director $0 $0
Jim Verzino Director $0 $0
Jennifer Moyse Treasurer $0 $0
Amelia Farnum Director $0 $0
Marcy Caulkins Secretary $0 $0
Josh Traeger Director $0 $0
Edward Lewis Director $0 $0

2015

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Ali Barry President $0 $0
Jennifer Moyse Director $0 $0
Damon Kindopp President Elect $0 $0
Todd Murchison Director $0 $0
Jerry Goldberg Director $0 $0
Sadie Fischesser Treasurer $0 $0
Tristam Johnson Director $0 $0
Edward Lewis Director $0 $0
Daniel Deitz Director $0 $0
Kevin Yager Director $0 $0
Toni Ciampaglioni Director $0 $0
Kevin Yarger Director $0 $0
Josh Traeger Director $0 $0
Marcy Caulkins Secretary $0 $0
Amelia Farnum Director $0 $0

2014

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Ali Barry President Elect $0 $0
Jen Morse Director $0 $0
Marcy Caulkins Secretary $0 $0
William Shakespeare Director $0 $0
Jason Posternak Director $0 $0
Todd Murchison President $0 $0
Alexander Shriver Director $0 $0
Jerry Goldberg Director $0 $0
Tristam Johnson Director $0 $0
Toni Ciampaglioni Director $0 $0
Kevin Yarger Director $0 $0
Jill Terrell-Ouazzani Treasurer $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.