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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Bruce Parker 2016 Director $0 $0 YOUNG AT HEART SENIOR CENTER INC
Dennis Rheaume 2016 Chief $0 $0 CORNWELL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
Huzon Stewart 2016 Sr Vice Command $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Frank Killay 2016 Necman $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Brooke Cunningham 2016 Director $0 $0 ROZALIA PROJECT
David Berno 2016 2Nd Asst Chief $0 $0 CORNWELL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
John Heald 2016 Dept Commander $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Donald Tetrault 2016 Adjutant $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Ernie Dematties 2016 Vice President $0 $0 YOUNG AT HEART SENIOR CENTER INC
Sean Stearns 2016 3Rd Asst Chief $0 $0 CORNWELL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
Dave Woodward 2016 Southern Area $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Jason Hutt 2014 Past Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT LAW SCHOOL INC
Douglas Wolinsky 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 BURLINGTON AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC
Carol Dawes 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT ADULT BASIC EDUCATION INC
Roxanne Scully 2016 Director $0 $0 ROZALIA PROJECT
Andy Donaghy 2016 Director $0 $0 YOUNG AT HEART SENIOR CENTER INC
Keith Arlund 2016 Judge Advocate $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Norman Grenier 2016 Deputy Chief $0 $0 CORNWELL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
Lisa Northup 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 CORNWELL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
Paul Raymond 2016 Northern Area $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Maryls Lemnah 2016 Altnecman $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Geraldine Woodruff 2016 Director $0 $0 YOUNG AT HEART SENIOR CENTER INC
Ken Manchester 2016 1St Captain $0 $0 CORNWELL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
Michael Audy 2016 Vice President $0 $0 FOOTE OF THE MOUNTAIN SNO-TRAVELERS INC
Mary Wright 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 FOOTE OF THE MOUNTAIN SNO-TRAVELERS 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.