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Sills Family Foundation
Po Box 425, Richmond, VT | Tax-exempt since January 1993
- EIN
- 521790278
- Last filing
- 12/2016
- Organization type
- 501(c)(3)
- Mission category
- Not reported
- Foundation type
- Private non-operating foundation
- Nonprofit since
- Jan. 1, 1993
- Revenue
- $2,426,074
- Assets
- $11,683,662
Last reported financials:
2017
Expenses
$2,144,151
Salary expenses
$95,604
Revenue
$2,426,074
Contributions and grants
$1,232,500
Assets
$11,683,662
Liabilities
$0
2016
Expenses
$2,291,364
Salary expenses
$95,783
Revenue
$2,250,532
Assets
$11,401,739
Liabilities
$0
2015
Expenses
$2,094,960
Salary expenses
$102,680
Revenue
$2,269,228
Assets
$11,442,571
Liabilities
$0
2014
Expenses
$2,004,875
Salary expenses
$99,517
Revenue
$1,032,517
Contributions and grants
$750
Assets
$11,268,303
Liabilities
$0
2013
Expenses
$1,442,090
Salary expenses
$91,388
Revenue
$1,170,053
Assets
$11,748,376
Liabilities
$0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deborah Sills Iarussi | Secretary | $60,000 | $14,016 |
| Peter Sills | Vice President | $10,000 | $848 |
| Arthur Sills | President | $10,000 | $740 |
| Larry Sills | Director | $0 | $0 |
2016
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deborah Sills Iarussi | Secretary | $None | $None |
| Arthur Sills | President | $None | $None |
| Peter Sills | Vice President | $None | $None |
| Larry Sills | Director | $None | $None |
2015
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deborah Sills Iarussi | Secretary | $None | $None |
| Arthur Sills | President | $None | $None |
| Peter Sills | Vice President | $None | $None |
| Larry Sills | Director | $None | $None |
2014
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deborah Sills Iarussi | Secretary | $None | $None |
| Arthur Sills | President | $None | $None |
| Peter Sills | Vice President | $None | $None |
| Larry Sills | Director | $None | $None |
2013
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Larry Sills | Director | $None | $None |
| Peter Sills | Vice President | $None | $None |
| Arthur Sills | President | $None | $None |
| Deborah Sills Iarussi | Secretary | $None | $None |
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.