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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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.

Vermont Energy Partnership Inc

32 Main Street Suite 152, Montpelier, VT | Tax-exempt since July 2005

EIN
202319403
Last filing
12/2017
Organization type
501(c)(6)
Mission category
Community Improvement & Capacity Building
Foundation type
All organizations except 501(c)(3)
Nonprofit since
July 1, 2005

Last reported financials:

Revenue
$145,000
Assets
$4,402
Source: IRS

2017

Expenses

$159,581

Revenue

$145,000

Contributions and grants

$145,000

Assets

$4,402

Liabilities

$0

View 990EZ Submitted 10/23/2018

2016

Expenses

$134,245

Salary expenses

$26,883

Revenue

$140,040

Contributions and grants

$140,040

Assets

$18,983

Liabilities

$0

View 990EO Submitted 09/18/2017

2015

Expenses

$174,405

Salary expenses

$45,468

Revenue

$180,750

Contributions and grants

$180,750

Assets

$13,188

Liabilities

$0

View 990EO Submitted 09/30/2016

2014

Expenses

$186,732

Salary expenses

$45,785

Revenue

$180,140

Contributions and grants

$180,140

Assets

$6,843

Liabilities

$0

View 990EO Submitted 08/03/2015

2013

Expenses

$158,024

Salary expenses

$54,959

Revenue

$161,240

Contributions and grants

$161,240

Assets

$13,435

Liabilities

$0

View 990EO Submitted 10/09/2014

2012

View 990EO Submitted 07/25/2013

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
Brad Ferland President $48,000 $0
Shawn Shouldice Secretary/Treas $1,075 $0
Bob Lombard Director $0 $0

2016

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Brad Ferland President $0 $0
Shawn Shouldice Secretary/Treas $0 $0
Bob Lombard Director $0 $0

2015

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Brad Ferland President $6,000 $0
Shawn Shouldice Secretary/Treas $6,000 $0
Bob Lombard Director $0 $0
Jane Clifford Director $0 $0

2014

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Brad Ferland President $6,000 $0
Shawn Shouldice Secretary/Treas $6,000 $0
Jane Clifford Director $0 $0
Bob Lombard Director $0 $0

2013

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Stephanie Thomson Manager $39,000 $0
Brad Ferland President $6,000 $0
Shawn Shouldice Secretary/Treas $6,000 $0
Bob Lombard Director $0 $0
Jane Clifford 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.