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The Boma Project Inc
Po Box 1865, Manchestr Center, VT | Tax-exempt since January 2006
- EIN
- 841671995
- Last filing
- 09/2017
- Organization type
- 501(c)(3)
- Mission category
- International, Foreign Affairs & National Security
- Foundation type
- Organization which receives a substantial part of its support from a governmental unit or the general public
- Nonprofit since
- Jan. 1, 2006
- Revenue
- $3,163,127
- Assets
- $1,568,769
Last reported financials:
2017
Expenses
$3,052,408
Fundraising expenses
$208,568
Salary expenses
$813,752
Revenue
$3,163,127
Contributions and grants
$3,147,583
Assets
$1,568,769
Liabilities
$229,687
2016
Expenses
$2,058,322
Fundraising expenses
$239,295
Salary expenses
$555,288
Revenue
$2,253,892
Contributions and grants
$2,244,825
Assets
$1,247,181
Liabilities
$59,636
2015
Expenses
$1,435,907
Fundraising expenses
$159,425
Salary expenses
$296,978
Revenue
$1,978,743
Contributions and grants
$1,976,303
Assets
$1,598,791
Liabilities
$267,538
2014
2013
Expenses
$876,356
Fundraising expenses
$76,231
Salary expenses
$190,847
Revenue
$1,320,485
Contributions and grants
$1,315,881
Assets
$701,368
Liabilities
$56,049
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stephen J Kelly | Treasurer & Cfo | $101,331 | $11,292 |
| Kathleen Colson | President / Former Ceo | $90,503 | $3,620 |
| Susan G Bornstein | Vice-President | $79,285 | $10,260 |
| James Salsgiver | Former Director | $0 | $0 |
| Douglas Colson | Former Director | $0 | $0 |
| James P Young | Former Director | $0 | $0 |
| Patricia Campbell | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Katie Kelley | Director | $0 | $0 |
| William Ambrose | Chair | $0 | $0 |
| John T Stephens | Former Director / Interim E.D. April 2018 | $0 | $0 |
| Nancy Stroupe | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Katherine D Roome | Secretary | $0 | $0 |
| H Perry Boyle Jr | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Ham Zamberu | Director | $0 | $0 |
2016
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stephen J Kelly | Cfo | $96,509 | $8,810 |
| Kathleen Colson | Ceo | $58,333 | $1,167 |
| William Ambrose | Chair | $0 | $0 |
| James P Young | Vice-Chair | $0 | $0 |
| James Salsgiver | Treasurer | $0 | $0 |
| Katherine D Roome | Secretary | $0 | $0 |
| Douglas Colson | Assistant Treasurer | $0 | $0 |
| Katie Kelley | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Nancy Stroupe | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Ham Zamberu | Director | $0 | $0 |
| H Perry Boyle Jr | Director | $0 | $0 |
| John T Stephens | Director | $0 | $0 |
2015
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stephen Kelly | Cfo | $91,897 | $6,504 |
| Kathleen Colson | Ceo | $40,000 | $0 |
| James Salsgiver | Treasurer | $0 | $0 |
| Katie Kelley | Director | $0 | $0 |
| William Ambrose | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Douglas Colson | Asst. Treas / Secretary | $0 | $0 |
| Jim Young | Vice-Chair | $0 | $0 |
| David Chandler | Chair | $0 | $0 |
| Katherine D Roome | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Jane Wilner | Former Director | $0 | $0 |
2013
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Margaret Harris | Executive Director | $73,808 | $12,513 |
| Chris Vanderzyden | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Ken Himmelman | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Peter Hetz | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Jane Wilner | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Steven Dear | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Kathleen Colson | Ceo | $0 | $0 |
| Katherine Kelley | Treasurer | $0 | $0 |
| David Chandler | Chair | $0 | $0 |
| Jim Young | Vice-Chair | $0 | $0 |
| Douglas Colson | Asst. Treas / Secretary | $0 | $0 |
| John Lomurut | 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.