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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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.

Parks Foundation Of Burlington

645 Pine Street B, Burlington, VT | Tax-exempt since June 2016

EIN
462836897
Last filing
06/2017
Organization type
501(c)(3)
Mission category
Recreation & Sports
Foundation type
Organization which receives a substantial part of its support from a governmental unit or the general public
Nonprofit since
June 1, 2016

Last reported financials:

Revenue
$364,025
Assets
$764,420
Source: IRS

2017

Expenses

$129,335

Fundraising expenses

$1,412

Revenue

$364,025

Contributions and grants

$361,441

Assets

$764,420

Liabilities

$0

View 990 Submitted 12/07/2018

2016

Expenses

$690,174

Fundraising expenses

$262

Revenue

$666,104

Contributions and grants

$662,939

Assets

$529,727

Liabilities

$0

View 990 Submitted 10/24/2017

2015

Expenses

$12,512

Fundraising expenses

$846

Revenue

$256,246

Contributions and grants

$254,391

Assets

$553,797

Liabilities

$0

View 990 Submitted 01/20/2017

2014

View 990 (PDF)

2013

View 990EZ (PDF)

2012

View 990EZ (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
Brooke Gillman Secretary $0 $0
Sarah Muyskens Director $0 $0
Peter Delaney Director $0 $0
Rick Blount Director $0 $0
Scott Baldwin Director $0 $0
Susan Moses Treasurer $0 $0
John Bossange Chair $0 $0
Michele Everleth Term Ended Director $0 $0
Michele Asch Director $0 $0

2016

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
John Ewing Secretary $0 $0
John Bossange Chair $0 $0
Susan Moses Treasurer $0 $0
Scott Baldwin Director $0 $0
Rick Blount Director $0 $0
Brooke Gillman Director $0 $0
Peter Delaney Director $0 $0
Michelle Everleth Director $0 $0
Sarah Muyskens Director $0 $0

2015

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Rick Blount Director $0 $0
Scott Baldwin Director $0 $0
David Mount Resigned In 2015 Director $0 $0
Sarah Muyskens Director $0 $0
Michelle Everleth Director $0 $0
Susan Moses Treasurer $0 $0
John Bossange Chair $0 $0
John Ewing Secretary $0 $0
Peter Delaney Director $0 $0
Brooke Gillman 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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Then, read Give and Take, our series of stories on Vermont's nonprofit economy.

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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.