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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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.

Sword & Spoon Workshop Inc

73 Central Street, Woodstock, VT | Tax-exempt since May 2016

EIN
810936224
Last filing
12/2016
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
May 1, 2016

Last reported financials:

Revenue
$593,340
Assets
$3,894,004
Source: IRS

2017

Expenses

$1,669,706

Salary expenses

$378,316

Revenue

$593,340

Contributions and grants

$13,515

Assets

$3,894,004

Liabilities

$3,872,227

View 990 Submitted 02/11/2019

2016

Expenses

$1,977,983

Salary expenses

$167,366

Revenue

$2,114,261

Contributions and grants

$1,964,468

Assets

$3,907,077

Liabilities

$2,792,703

View 990 Submitted 01/19/2018

2015

Expenses

$862,427

Salary expenses

$260,476

Revenue

$1,840,492

Contributions and grants

$1,814,489

Assets

$1,102,384

Liabilities

$124,319

View 990 Submitted 03/02/2017

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
Clare Cole Clerk/Director $14,075 $0
Lindsay Flood Treasurer $0 $0
John Kingston Iii President $0 $0

2016

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Clare Cole Clerk/Director $17,850 $0
Lindsay Flood Treasurer $0 $0
John Kingston Iii President $0 $0

2015

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Lindsay Flood Treasurer $0 $0
John Kingston Iii President $0 $0
William Wall Secretary $0 $0
Jean Kingston 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.

So we created this tool. Like dairy? Try searching for the Vermont Cheese Council. How about horses? Check out American Morgan Horse Association or Spring Hill Horse Rescue. You’ll also find the University of Vermont Medical Center, the Committee on Temporary Shelter and Middlebury College.

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.