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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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.

American Legion

3650 Roosevelt Hwy, Colchester, VT | Tax-exempt since March 1946

EIN
030364573
Last filing
12/2016
Organization type
501(c)(19)
Mission category
Not reported
Foundation type
All organizations except 501(c)(3)
Nonprofit since
March 1, 1946

Last reported financials:

Revenue
$280,182
Assets
$851,924
Source: IRS

2017

Expenses

$283,747

Salary expenses

$136,572

Revenue

$280,182

Contributions and grants

$35,664

Assets

$851,924

Liabilities

$5,026

View 990 Submitted 11/27/2018

2016

Expenses

$295,803

Salary expenses

$137,374

Revenue

$310,365

Contributions and grants

$37,834

Assets

$855,713

Liabilities

$5,250

View 990O Submitted 11/02/2017

2015

View 990 (PDF)

2014

View 990 (PDF)

2013

View 990 (PDF)

2012

View 990 (PDF)

2011

View 990 (PDF)

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
Mike Goldstein Finance Officer $0 $0
Frank Fenton Comander $0 $0
Richard Studley 1St V President $0 $0
Barbara Bushaw Chaplain $0 $0
Barbara Bushaw 2Nd V President $0 $0
Mike Zudich Service Officer $0 $0
Ken Trombley Historian $0 $0
Tracy Provost Sgt At Arms $0 $0
William Schmidtt Adjutant $0 $0
William Schmidtt Judge Advocate $0 $0

2016

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Frank Fenton 1St V President $0 $0
Barbara Bushaw 2Nd V President $0 $0
Mike Zudich Service Officer $0 $0
Henry Lingo Chaplain $0 $0
Ken Trombley Historian $0 $0
Tracy Provost Sgt At Arms $0 $0
William Schmidtt Adjutant $0 $0
William Schmidtt Judge Advocate $0 $0
Mike Goldstein Finance Officer $0 $0
Richard Studley Comander $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.