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Friends In Adoption Inc
Po Box 238, Poultney, VT | Tax-exempt since April 1994
- EIN
- 521571672
- Last filing
- 12/2016
- Organization type
- 501(c)(3)
- Mission category
- Human Services
- 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
- April 1, 1994
- Revenue
- $994,034
- Assets
- $1,566,465
Last reported financials:
2017
Expenses
$822,268
Salary expenses
$466,588
Revenue
$994,034
Contributions and grants
$26,126
Assets
$1,566,465
Liabilities
$373,007
2016
Expenses
$925,033
Salary expenses
$485,031
Revenue
$1,210,561
Contributions and grants
$94,177
Assets
$1,396,883
Liabilities
$390,941
2015
Expenses
$836,009
Salary expenses
$464,855
Revenue
$869,917
Contributions and grants
$37,371
Assets
$1,180,954
Liabilities
$407,504
2014
Expenses
$1,286,719
Salary expenses
$466,764
Revenue
$1,789,633
Contributions and grants
$838,417
Assets
$1,242,091
Liabilities
$502,550
2013
Expenses
$898,972
Salary expenses
$486,324
Revenue
$1,028,279
Contributions and grants
$50,817
Assets
$638,905
Liabilities
$402,278
2012
2011
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tara Saltis | Director Of Finance Operations | $85,000 | $2,550 |
| Dawn Smith Pliner | Executive Director | $85,000 | $2,550 |
| Marie Daly | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Gerard Cattie | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Bob Sheehan | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Rob Comerford | Secretary | $0 | $0 |
| Len Morris | Director | $0 | $0 |
| George Long | Director | $0 | $0 |
| David Haber | Director | $0 | $0 |
| George Zutell | Treasurer | $0 | $0 |
| Troy Williams | Vice President | $0 | $0 |
| Brink Hartman | President | $0 | $0 |
| Murray Haber | Director | $0 | $0 |
2016
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dawn Smith Pliner | Executive Director | $87,300 | $2,619 |
| Tara Saltis | Cfo | $85,000 | $2,550 |
| Brink Hartman | President | $0 | $0 |
| Troy Williams | Vice President | $0 | $0 |
| George Zutell | Treasurer | $0 | $0 |
| David Haber | Director | $0 | $0 |
| George Long | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Marie Daly | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Bob Sheehan | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Len Morris | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Gerard Cattie | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Rob Comerford | Secretary | $0 | $0 |
| Murray Haber | Director | $0 | $0 |
2015
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dawn Smith Pliner | Executive Director | $84,000 | $2,520 |
| Tara Saltis | Cfo | $82,000 | $2,460 |
| Gerard Cattie | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Bob Sheehan | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Len Morris | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Marie Daly | Director | $0 | $0 |
| George Long | Director | $0 | $0 |
| George Zutell | Treasurer | $0 | $0 |
| Troy Williams | Vice President | $0 | $0 |
| Brink Hartman | President | $0 | $0 |
| Rob Comerford | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Ann Scannell | Secretary | $0 | $0 |
2014
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dawn Smith Pliner | Executive Dir. | $82,000 | $2,460 |
| Tara Saltis | Cfo | $82,000 | $2,460 |
| Rob Comerford | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Brink Hartman | President | $0 | $0 |
| Troy Williams | Vice President | $0 | $0 |
| George Zutell | Treasurer | $0 | $0 |
| Ann Scannell | Secretary | $0 | $0 |
| George Long | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Marie Daly | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Bob Sheehan | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Len Morris | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Gerard Cattie | Director | $0 | $0 |
2013
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dawn Smith Pliner | Executive Dir. | $82,110 | $2,464 |
| Tara Saltis | Cfo | $82,000 | $2,460 |
| George Zutell | Treasurer | $0 | $0 |
| Ann Scannell | Secretary | $0 | $0 |
| Brink Hartman | President | $0 | $0 |
| Marie Daly | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Bob Sheehan | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Len Morris | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Gerard Cattie | Director | $0 | $0 |
| George Long | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Troy Williams | Vice 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.