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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Rob Young 2017 Director $0 $0 ESSEX AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC
Rick Villamil 2017 Director $0 $0 ESSEX AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC
Craig Benson 2017 Director $0 $0 ESSEX AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC
Tanya Rassel 2017 Director $0 $0 ESSEX AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC
David Keenan 2017 Vice Preside $0 $0 COMMUNITY CAPITAL OF VERMONT INC
Mary Niebling 2017 Secretary $0 $0 COMMUNITY CAPITAL OF VERMONT INC
Hope Crifo 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 COMMUNITY CAPITAL OF VERMONT INC
Peter Hood 2017 Board Member $0 $0 COMMUNITY CAPITAL OF VERMONT INC
Peggy Henry 2017 Board Member $0 $0 COMMUNITY CAPITAL OF VERMONT INC
David Harrison 2017 President And Treasurer $0 $0 LINCOLN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC
Dan Ober 2017 Chief $0 $0 LINCOLN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC
Scott Bernoudy 2017 Financial Secretary $0 $0 LINCOLN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC
Aaron Thomas 2017 Captain $0 $0 LINCOLN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC
Matt Brown 2017 Captain $0 $0 LINCOLN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC
Jesse Bashaw 2017 Captain $0 $0 LINCOLN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC
Alan Kamman 2017 Secretary $0 $0 LINCOLN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC
Jeff Cousino 2017 Truck Captain $0 $0 LINCOLN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC
Jake Orvis 2017 Training Officer $0 $0 LINCOLN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC
Ben Wyatt 2017 Director $0 $0 LINCOLN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC
Myles Mcgowan 2017 Auditor $0 $0 LINCOLN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC
Lea Calduron-Guthe 2017 Auditor $0 $0 LINCOLN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC
Mary Harrison 2017 Public Relations Officer $0 $0 LINCOLN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC
Colin Branon 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONTS CAMP TAKUMTA
Rosemary Souza-Botten 2017 Member $0 $0 VERMONTS CAMP TAKUMTA
Jon Brooks 2017 Member $0 $0 VERMONTS CAMP TAKUMTA

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.