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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Roy Folsom 2016 Director $2,925 $0 WASHINGTON ELECTRIC CO-OPERATIVE INC
Serge Vachon 2017 Treasurer (F $2,919 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Christopher Dube 2016 Secretary/Tresurer $2,917 $0 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS
Kevin P Montminy Ii 2015 Trustee $2,917 $0 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS
Allyson Bolduc Md 2014 Director $2,888 $0 AMERICAN ACADEMY OF FAMILY PHYSICIANS
Carl Laberge 2017 Vice President $2,882 $442 INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS
Sharon Radtke Dbasharon T Eventsllc 2014 Operations Manager $2,875 $0 BURLINGTON CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC
Maureen Bothfeld 2015 Recording Secretary $2,866 $0 INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS
Marcel Cote 2015 Treasurer/Executive Commit $2,866 $0 INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS
Sean Mccann 2013 Lieutenant $2,864 $0 UNDERHILL JERICHO FIRE DEPARTMENT
Steve Knowlton 2016 Director $2,860 $0 WASHINGTON ELECTRIC CO-OPERATIVE INC
Michael Dworkin 2015 Director $2,859 $0 VERMONT ENERGY INVESTMENT CORP
Sue Coakley 2015 Vice Chair $2,856 $0 VERMONT ENERGY INVESTMENT CORP
Bruce Martel 2013 1St Vice $2,855 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Joseph Bump 2014 1St Vice $2,855 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Kevin Burke 2013 President $2,851 $0 HIS INDEPENDENCE PROJECT INC
Patrick D Maddox 2015 Director $2,850 $0 HOLSTEIN FRIESIAN ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
Jean Strong 2017 Treasurer $2,850 $0 BLACK RIVER VALLEY SENIOR CENTER
Parrish Shippee 2016 Vice President $2,848 $0 FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES
Tim Clark 2016 1St Asst Chief $2,838 $0 UNDERHILL JERICHO FIRE DEPARTMENT
Linda Williams 2017 Secretary/Tr $2,834 $0 MIDDLEBURY CEMETERY ASSOCIATION
Raymond Jepson 2015 Finance Officer $2,825 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Laurie Hurdle 2017 Director / Outreach Coordinator $2,813 $0 VERMONT LONG TERM DISASTER RECOVERY GROUP INC
Jennifer Gould 2013 Treasurer $2,813 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Calvin Caswell 2016 Lieutenant $2,805 $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.