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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
David Kimel 2017 Director $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Bill Wager 2017 Chief $0 $0 FERRISBURGH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
David Grippen 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 FERRISBURGH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
Les Fuller 2017 Secretary $0 $0 FERRISBURGH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
Mark Chaffee 2017 President $0 $0 FERRISBURGH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
Shane Coyle 2017 Captain $0 $0 FERRISBURGH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
Mike Coyle 2017 Asst. Captain $0 $0 FERRISBURGH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
Ken Lemner 2017 Captain $0 $0 FERRISBURGH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
C Patterson 2017 Lieutenant $0 $0 FERRISBURGH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
Todd Thomas 2017 Director $0 $0 MORRISTOWN HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
William Lizotte 2017 Director $0 $0 MORRISTOWN HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
Meredith Scott 2017 Director $0 $0 MORRISTOWN HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
Josh Goldstein 2017 Director $0 $0 MORRISTOWN HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
Mark Ducharme 2017 Director $0 $0 MORRISTOWN HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
Richard Sargent 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 MORRISTOWN HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
Jill Mudgett 2017 President $0 $0 MORRISTOWN HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
Linda Kristan 2017 Vice Preside $0 $0 MORRISTOWN HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
Darcie Abbene 2017 Secretary $0 $0 MORRISTOWN HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
Richard Labrecque 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
David W Ignat 2017 President $0 $0 ADDISON COMMUNITY ATHLETICS FOUNDATION INC
Eleanor P Ignat 2017 Vice President $0 $0 ADDISON COMMUNITY ATHLETICS FOUNDATION INC
Brian Mcdonough 2017 Director $0 $0 ADDISON COMMUNITY ATHLETICS FOUNDATION INC
Larry Mengedoht 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT COVERTS
Donald Abelson 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT COVERTS
Blair Brooks 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT COVERTS

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.