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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Sheri Burgess 2014 Lecturing Knigh $2,500 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Jay Hoffman 2013 President $2,500 $0 REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION NETWORK INC
Meg Power 2014 President $2,500 $0 VERMONT ENERGY INVESTMENT CORP
Andrew Samara 2016 Director $2,500 $0 SOUTH BURLINGTON EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION
Carol Sylvia 2017 Secretary $2,500 $0 VERMONT ELKS CHARITIES INC
Timothy Christian 2017 Trustee-Chair $2,500 $0 NORTHEASTERN BAPTIST COLLEGE INC
Richard Isabelle 2015 Assistant Treasurer $2,500 $0 NORTHERN COMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORP
Ellen Thompson 2015 Director/Instructor $2,500 $0 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY EDUCATOR DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC
Devin St George 2017 Member At Large / Firefighter $2,498 $0 CHARLOTTE FIRE AND RESCUE SERVICES INC
Matt Podd 2013 Director $2,497 $0 MUSIC COMPOSITION ONLINE MENTORING PROGRAM INC
Loni Morse 2016 2Nd Asst Chief $2,493 $0 UNDERHILL JERICHO FIRE DEPARTMENT
Parker Ripley 2016 Captain $2,488 $0 UNDERHILL JERICHO FIRE DEPARTMENT
Michelle Mahin 2013 Treasurer $2,472 $0 KIDSPLAYCE A CHILDRENS CENTER FOR SOUTH VERMONT
Gregory Leech 2017 Captain $2,466 $0 UNDERHILL JERICHO FIRE DEPARTMENT
Leah Mccue 2016 Office Manager $2,464 $0 PB AND J INC
Randy H Clark 2017 Treasurer $2,460 $0 UNDERHILL JERICHO FIRE DEPARTMENT
Jessica Wilson 2016 Vice President $2,460 $0 VT INFO TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING
Aaron Waterman 2014 Board Member $2,459 $0 INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS
Tracy Cook 2016 Association Manager $2,450 $0 UNITED STATES BOWLING CONGRESS INC
Tracy L Cook 2014 Association Manager $2,450 $0 UNITED STATES BOWLING CONGRESS INC
Mathew Champlin 2014 1St Asst Chief $2,438 $0 UNDERHILL JERICHO FIRE DEPARTMENT
Robert Stone 2017 Lieutenant $2,435 $0 UNDERHILL JERICHO FIRE DEPARTMENT
Rich Maddaloni 2015 Board Member $2,432 $0 ARLINGTON RESCUE SQUAD INC
Mitzi Johnson 2015 Director - Through 5/2015 $2,420 $16 VERMONT ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC
Anthony Lockwood 2016 Vice President $2,420 $0 BRANDON AREA RESCUE SQUAD 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.