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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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.

Burlington Chamber Orchestra Inc

Po Box 64983, Burlington, VT | Tax-exempt since October 2007

EIN
743225462
Last filing
06/2017
Organization type
501(c)(3)
Mission category
Arts, Culture & Humanities
Foundation type
Organization which receives a substantial part of its support from a governmental unit or the general public
Nonprofit since
Oct. 1, 2007

Last reported financials:

Revenue
$57,898
Assets
$1,546
Source: IRS

2016

Expenses

$64,105

Revenue

$57,898

Contributions and grants

$20,843

Assets

$1,546

Liabilities

$8,213

View 990EZ Submitted 01/03/2018

2015

Expenses

$60,272

Revenue

$58,444

Contributions and grants

$26,511

Assets

$8,326

Liabilities

$12,086

View 990EZ Submitted 08/01/2017

2014

Expenses

$55,456

Revenue

$52,776

Contributions and grants

$27,936

Assets

$8,368

Liabilities

$0

View 990EZ Submitted 02/03/2016

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
Sharon T Radtke Dbasharon Eventsllc Operations Manager $6,900 $0
Michael Tomas Trasurer $0 $0
Sarah Sherrill Secretary $0 $0
Barabara Barfield Director $0 $0
George Harwood Diretor $0 $0
Kimberlee Phelps Director $0 $0
Christina Brooker President $0 $0

2015

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Kimberlee Phelps Director $0 $0
Allan W Carpenter Trasurer $0 $0
Sharon T Radtke Dbasharon Eventsllc Operations Manager $0 $0
Sofia Hirsch Director $0 $0
Christina Brooker President $0 $0
Sarah Sherrill Secretary $0 $0
Barabara Barfield Director $0 $0
George Harwood Diretor $0 $0

2014

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Gerard Holmes Former Operations Manager $4,000 $0
Sharon Radtke Dbasharon T Eventsllc Operations Manager $2,875 $0
George Harwood Diretor $0 $0
Kimberlee Phelps Director $0 $0
Allan W Carpenter Treasurer $0 $0
Christina Brooker President $0 $0
Barabara Barfield Director $0 $0
Sarah Sherrill Secretary $0 $0
Sofia Hirsch 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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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.