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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Alan Kamman 2015 Secretary $0 $0 LINCOLN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC
Jeff Cousino 2015 Equipment Officer $0 $0 LINCOLN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC
Jake Orvis 2015 Training Officer $0 $0 LINCOLN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC
Diana Carminati 2015 Director $0 $0 SYNAGOGUE CORPORATION
Nancy Sugarman 2015 President $0 $0 SYNAGOGUE CORPORATION
Rev Stan Gale 2015 Director $0 $0 FELLOWSHIP OF AILBE
Thomas Crow 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT AUTOMOBILE DEALERS INC
Robert Foster 2015 President $0 $0 COMPOSTING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT INC
Robert Spencer 2015 Vice President $0 $0 COMPOSTING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT INC
Erica Spiegel 2015 Secretary $0 $0 COMPOSTING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT INC
Faith Ingulsrud 2015 Director $0 $0 COMPOSTING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT INC
Deane Wilson 2015 Director $0 $0 COMPOSTING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT INC
Wendy Sue Harper 2015 Director $0 $0 COMPOSTING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT INC
Victoria Young 2014 Chair $0 $0 VERMONT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
Francis Brooks 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
Yoine Goldstein 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
Harriet Grenier 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
Brian Harwood 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
Liisa Kissel 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
Lyn Lauffer 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
Neil Brown 2015 President $0 $0 WEST WINDSOR VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
Duncan Brettell 2015 V. President $0 $0 WEST WINDSOR VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
Pauline Ouelette 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 WEST WINDSOR VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
Mark Eisenburg 2015 Secretary $0 $0 WEST WINDSOR VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
Bill Young 2015 Trustee $0 $0 WEST WINDSOR VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC

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.