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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Larry Sweeney 2015 Chaplain $3,240 $0 VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF VERMONT
Ryan Donnelly 2013 Member $3,225 $0 VERGENNES AREA RESCUE SQUAD
Steve Jarrett 2015 Vice-President $3,218 $0 VT INFO TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING
Shelby Wyckoff 2015 Member At La $3,214 $0 CAMBRIDGE RESCUE SQUAD INC
Richard T Barnett 2017 Legislative Committee Chair $3,200 $0 VERMONT PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION INC
Raymond St John 2013 Adjutant $3,200 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Michael Gunn 2015 Recorder $3,200 $0 SHRINERS INTERNATIONAL
Christina Dillingham 2016 Treasurer $3,200 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Michael Luurtsema 2013 Treasurer $3,200 $0 SHRINERS INTERNATIONAL
Stephen Mengel 2014 Director $3,195 $0 UNITED CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
Charles Stone 2015 Director $3,185 $0 VERMONT ENERGY INVESTMENT CORP
R Paul Buhr 2013 Director $3,150 $0 HOLSTEIN FRIESIAN ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
Jesse Rocheleau 2015 Treasurer $3,150 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Mike Jones 2014 Director $3,150 $0 HOLSTEIN FRIESIAN ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
Patrick Keith 2013 Past Trustee/Med. Staff. Pres. $3,150 $0 COPLEY HOSPITAL INC
Michelle Davia 2017 Director - Through 7/2017 $3,130 $16 VERMONT ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC
Cynthia Huard 2017 Artistic Director/Vice Pre $3,125 $0 ROCHESTER CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY LTD
Ashley Howe 2015 Treasurer $3,107 $0 TLC HUMANITARIAN INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS INC
Daisy R Wojewoda 2015 Regional Director Of Military & Veterans $3,102 $2,384 EASTER SEALS VERMONT INC
Deborah Litchfield 2017 Secretary $3,100 $0 VERMONT EASTERN STAR HOME INC
Robert Brault 2013 Treasurer $3,100 $0 MUTUO INC
Jay Nichols 2014 Director/Instructor $3,100 $0 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY EDUCATOR DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC
Ashley Howe 2016 Treasurer $3,100 $0 TLC HUMANITARIAN INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS INC
Meg Power 2015 President $3,091 $0 VERMONT ENERGY INVESTMENT CORP
Parker Ripley 2015 Captain $3,084 $0 UNDERHILL JERICHO FIRE DEPARTMENT

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.