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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Kevin Blanchard 2017 1St Asst Vp $0 $0 SUTHERLAND FALLS HOSE CO
Josh Webb 2017 President $0 $0 SUTHERLAND FALLS HOSE CO
John Burns 2017 Sec/Treas $0 $0 SUTHERLAND FALLS HOSE CO
Paul Michel 2017 Member At La $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Serge P Mercure 2017 2Nd Vice Com $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Richard V Brodeur 2017 Finance Offi $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Robert Thompson Sons Of The Legion 2017 2Nd Vice Com $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Donald Couture Sons Of The Legion 2017 Chaplain $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Damian Blouin Sons Of The Legion 2017 Finance Offi $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Jim Foss Sons Of The Legion 2017 Adjutant $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Sarah Costa 2016 Executive Dir. $0 $8,894 ALDRICH PUBLIC LIBRARY
J Walter Corcoran 2015 Secretary $0 $0 CARLOS G OTIS HEALTH CARE CENTER INC
Joseph Halko 2015 Board Member $0 $0 NORTHWEST P E G TV INCORPORATED
Kathryn Fahnestock 2014 Board $0 $0 CRIME RESEARCH GROUP INC
David Mears 2016 Director $0 $0 HIGH MEADOWS FUND INC
Will Rapp 2017 Chairman Of The Board $0 $0 PLANET BLUEWATER CORPORATION
Nancy Heliotes 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 PLANET BLUEWATER CORPORATION
Pedro Francote 2017 Director $0 $0 PLANET BLUEWATER CORPORATION
Wayne Edwards 2017 Director $0 $0 PLANET BLUEWATER CORPORATION
Wesley Light 2017 Director $0 $0 PLANET BLUEWATER CORPORATION
Dana Alexander Kaleta 2017 Director $0 $0 PLANET BLUEWATER CORPORATION
Valerie Guthrie 2017 Director $0 $0 PLANET BLUEWATER CORPORATION
See Schedule 2017 See Schedule $0 $0 FRIENDS OF HARWOOD HOCKEY
Jamie Gage 2017 President $0 $0 GLOBAL CAMPUSES FOUNDATION
Richard Forbes 2017 Director $0 $0 GLOBAL CAMPUSES FOUNDATION

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.