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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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.

Organizations are required to list board members, key employees and anyone making over $100,000 from this or a related organization.

By default, this table shows results from all filings. Select a year to narrow your search.

Name Year Title Compensation Other Compensation Organization
Rich Wolfe 2017 Outgoing Board Chair "Past" $0 $0 HILLTOP MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC
Bruce Lierman 2015 Director $0 $0 LOCAL MOTION INC
James Holton 2017 Fire Chief $0 $0 WOLCOTT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC
Steve Perkins 2017 Assistant Ch $0 $0 WOLCOTT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC
Brett Eagan 2017 1St Captain/ $0 $0 WOLCOTT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC
Dana Camp 2017 2Nd Captain $0 $0 WOLCOTT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC
Jacob Jones 2017 Secretary $0 $0 WOLCOTT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC
Kaleb Wetherell 2017 Lieutenant $0 $0 WOLCOTT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC
Dan Noyes 2016 President $0 $0 VERMONT ANTIQUE AUTOMOBILE SOCIETY INC
William Barbarow 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 BELLOWS FALLS AREA SENIOR CENTER INC
David Ellenbogen 2015 Director $0 $0 LOCAL MOTION INC
Mary Bell 2013 Trustee (Resigned 6/2014) $0 $0 WINDSOR HOSPITAL CORPORATION
Brian Valley 2016 Vice President $0 $0 TURNING POINT CENTER OF ADDISONCOUNTY INC
Brian Searles 2017 Director $0 $0 CHAMP P3
John Kassel 2017 Director $0 $0 CHAMP P3
Allison Hope 2017 Co-Chair $0 $0 INTERVALE CENTER INC
Peter Ross 2015 Director $0 $0 LOCAL MOTION INC
Mr Jeffery Wolf 2017 President/Chair $0 $34,606 COLLEGE INSURANCE COMPANY
Mr Ed Precourt 2017 Secretary $0 $0 COLLEGE INSURANCE COMPANY
Ms Tijuana Hudson 2017 Director $0 $0 COLLEGE INSURANCE COMPANY
Dr Walter Kimbrough 2017 Director (To Feb '17) $0 $0 COLLEGE INSURANCE COMPANY
Mr Jay Lemons 2017 Director (To Jun '17) $0 $0 COLLEGE INSURANCE COMPANY
Dr Mark Wilhelm 2017 Director $0 $0 COLLEGE INSURANCE COMPANY
Ms Mary Ellen Moriarty 2017 Vp/Assistant Secretary $0 $50,061 COLLEGE INSURANCE COMPANY
Mr Stephen L Garwood 2017 Treasurer $0 $74,096 COLLEGE INSURANCE COMPANY

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.

See something interesting? Want access to this data? Let us know!

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.