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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Carly Lagasse 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT COMMONS SCHOOL
Dinah Larsen 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT COMMONS SCHOOL
Martha Maksym 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT COMMONS SCHOOL
Suzanne Mantegna 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT COMMONS SCHOOL
Tina Mueller 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT COMMONS SCHOOL
Jason Beaulac 2016 Fire Captain $0 $0 ALBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
Kevin Creller 2016 1St Asst Chi $0 $0 ALBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
Charles Pease 2016 Executive Co $0 $0 ALBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
Tyler Gotshell 2016 Chief $0 $0 ALBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
Jeff Cobb 2016 Executive Co $0 $0 ALBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
Ron Kumetz 2016 2Nd Assistan $0 $0 ALBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
Skip Waters 2016 Executive Co $0 $0 ALBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
Joseph Krone 2016 Ems Captain $0 $0 ALBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
Terry Tarto 2016 President $0 $0 ALBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
Mark Kerndt 2016 Director $0 $0 HOLSTEIN FRIESIAN ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
Rhonda Calhoun 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
David Twombly 2016 Director $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Stan Nowakowski 2016 Director $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Carla Lineback 2016 Director $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Ted Kramer 2016 Director $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
William Cioffi 2013 Trustee $0 $0 SAINT ALBANS MUSEUM INC
Ronald Anstey 2013 Trustee $0 $0 SAINT ALBANS MUSEUM INC
James Murphy 2013 Trustee $0 $0 SAINT ALBANS MUSEUM INC
Patty Rainville 2013 Trustee $0 $0 SAINT ALBANS MUSEUM INC
David Chambers 2013 Trustee $0 $0 SAINT ALBANS MUSEUM 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.