Vermont Nonprofit Navigator
Explore the organizations and people that power Vermont's $6.8 billion nonprofit economy.
American Legion
Po Box 417, Waterbury, VT | Tax-exempt since March 1946
- EIN
- 036016572
- Last filing
- 12/2017
- Organization type
- 501(c)(19)
- Mission category
- Not reported
- Foundation type
- All organizations except 501(c)(3)
- Nonprofit since
- March 1, 1946
- Revenue
- $248,388
- Assets
- $404,887
Last reported financials:
2017
Expenses
$248,821
Salary expenses
$70,141
Revenue
$248,388
Contributions and grants
$18,020
Assets
$404,887
Liabilities
$48,043
2016
Expenses
$230,024
Fundraising expenses
$1,200
Salary expenses
$64,656
Revenue
$249,740
Contributions and grants
$23,948
Assets
$413,482
Liabilities
$56,943
2015
Expenses
$239,117
Fundraising expenses
$80
Salary expenses
$55,119
Revenue
$258,947
Contributions and grants
$20,576
Assets
$403,048
Liabilities
$68,665
2014
Expenses
$221,495
Salary expenses
$61,861
Revenue
$206,826
Contributions and grants
$6,835
Assets
$383,901
Liabilities
$69,348
2013
Expenses
$264,589
Salary expenses
$76,155
Revenue
$242,579
Contributions and grants
$6,810
Assets
$401,335
Liabilities
$72,113
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chris Wood | Adjutant | $0 | $0 |
| Michael Preedom | Commander | $0 | $0 |
| Ted Carninlly | Vice Preside | $0 | $0 |
| Scott Woodard | Board | $0 | $0 |
| Gary Cromie | Finance Offi | $0 | $0 |
2016
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Preedom | Commander | $0 | $0 |
| Gary Cromie | Finance Offi | $0 | $0 |
| Scott Woodard | Board | $0 | $0 |
| Chris Wood | Adjutant | $0 | $0 |
2015
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Richard Gray | Commander | $0 | $0 |
| Michael Preedom | 2Nd Vice Commander | $0 | $0 |
| Gary Cromie | Finance Officer | $0 | $0 |
| Gene Sweetser | 1St Vice Commander | $0 | $0 |
2014
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gene Sweetser | 1St Vice Commander | $0 | $0 |
| Michael Preedom | 2Nd Vice Commander | $0 | $0 |
| Richard Gray | Commander | $0 | $0 |
| Gary Cromie | Finance Officer | $0 | $0 |
2013
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charles Allen | Sgt At Arms | $0 | $0 |
| Gene Sweetser | 1 Stvice Commander | $0 | $0 |
| Richard Gray | Adjudant | $0 | $0 |
| Chris Wood | Executive Board Member | $0 | $0 |
| Scott Woodard | Executive Board Member | $0 | $0 |
| Gary Cromie | Finance Officer | $0 | $0 |
| Michael Preedom | Commander | $0 | $0 |
| David Dow | 2Nd Vice Commander | $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.
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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.