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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Barbara Bauman 2014 Trustee $2,415 $0 JEWISH COMMUNITY OF GREATER STOWE
Christine Viau 2016 Cook $2,409 $0 OUR COMMUNITY CARES CAMP
Todd Fischer 2014 Chief $2,405 $0 UNDERHILL JERICHO FIRE DEPARTMENT
Floyd Dickenson 2014 Fmr. Secretary $2,403 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Dwight Rokey 2017 Director $2,400 $0 HOLSTEIN FRIESIAN ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
Bart Lamb 2017 Adjutant $2,400 $0 VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF VERMONT
Carol Sylvia 2013 Secretary $2,400 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Winston Perron 2013 Secretary $2,400 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Corey A Geiger 2013 Director $2,400 $0 HOLSTEIN FRIESIAN ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
James R Burdette 2013 Director $2,400 $0 HOLSTEIN FRIESIAN ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
Rick Isabelle 2014 Director $2,400 $0 NORTHERN COMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORP
Tracy L Cook 2015 Association Manager $2,400 $0 UNITED STATES BOWLING CONGRESS INC
Liza Mcswain 2015 Treasurer $2,400 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Carol Sylvia 2015 Secretary $2,400 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Boyd Schaufelberger 2014 Director $2,400 $0 HOLSTEIN FRIESIAN ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
Joshua Sawyer 2013 Director $2,393 $0 ANOTHER WAY INC
Stephen Mengel 2015 Director $2,385 $0 UNITED CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
Roy Folsom 2014 Director $2,380 $0 WASHINGTON ELECTRIC CO-OPERATIVE INC
Stephen Mengel 2017 Director $2,370 $0 UNITED CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
Mary Just Skinner 2013 Director $2,360 $0 WASHINGTON ELECTRIC CO-OPERATIVE INC
Alan Cary 2014 President $2,344 $0 CAMBRIDGE FIRE COMPANY INC
Sean Mccann 2017 Captain $2,343 $0 UNDERHILL JERICHO FIRE DEPARTMENT
Steve Knowlton 2017 Director $2,340 $0 WASHINGTON ELECTRIC CO-OPERATIVE INC
Joshua Sawyer 2014 Director $2,332 $0 ANOTHER WAY INC
Daniel Wyckoff 2014 Director $2,329 $0 CAMBRIDGE FIRE COMPANY 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.