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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Jan Bouch 2014 Director $0 $0 CENTER FOR HEALTH AND LEARNING LTD
Jeff Koonz 2013 President $0 $0 MIDDLESEX FIRE DEPARTMENT
Bill Smith 2013 Vice President $0 $0 MIDDLESEX FIRE DEPARTMENT
Shelly Hansen 2013 Secretary $0 $0 MIDDLESEX FIRE DEPARTMENT
Bob Bower 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 MIDDLESEX FIRE DEPARTMENT
Jeff Young 2014 Commander $0 $0 VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF VERMONT
Roy Ellam 2014 Sr Vice $0 $0 VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF VERMONT
Ben Cohen 2014 President/Treas $0 $0 PEOPLE POWER INITIATIVES INC
Dal Lamagna 2014 Secretary $0 $0 PEOPLE POWER INITIATIVES INC
Judith Wicks 2014 Director $0 $0 PEOPLE POWER INITIATIVES INC
Richard Foos 2014 Director $0 $0 PEOPLE POWER INITIATIVES INC
Daniel Goldberg 2014 Director $0 $0 PEOPLE POWER INITIATIVES INC
Lucie Fortier 2016 Vice President $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION AUXILLARY
Maureen Pinger 2016 Member At Large $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION AUXILLARY
Martha Chicaiza 2015 Member $0 $0 MEDLIFE
Richard Romagnoli 2014 Dir/President $0 $0 POTOMAC THEATRE PROJECT INC
Cheryl Faraone 2014 Sec/Treas $0 $0 POTOMAC THEATRE PROJECT INC
James A Petosa 2014 Vice President $0 $0 POTOMAC THEATRE PROJECT INC
Chiho Kaneko 2014 Director $0 $0 FAIREWINDS ENERGY EDUCATION CORP
Hannah Spector Phd 2014 Director $0 $0 FAIREWINDS ENERGY EDUCATION CORP
Jean Bristol 2014 Director $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO AREA HOSPICE
Cynthia Nims 2014 Director $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO AREA HOSPICE
Susan Parris 2014 Executive Di $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO AREA HOSPICE
Ann Fielder 2014 President $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO AREA HOSPICE
Theresa Masiello 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO AREA HOSPICE

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.