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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Lucy Gage Bogue 2013 Board Member $2,216 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CENTER FOR GIFTED EDUCATION INC
David Magida 2015 Director $2,210 $0 WASHINGTON ELECTRIC CO-OPERATIVE INC
Alan Cary 2017 President $2,209 $0 CAMBRIDGE FIRE COMPANY INC
Alan Cary 2016 President $2,209 $0 CAMBRIDGE FIRE COMPANY INC
Wendy Leeds 2017 Secretary $2,200 $0 JEFFERSON LEGACY FOUNDATION
Manuel Carcoba 2013 Secretary $2,200 $0 MUTUO INC
Devin Littlefield 2017 Marketing Director $2,200 $0 VERMONT HUTS ASSOCIATION LTD
John Mcclaughry 2014 Director $2,200 $0 NORTHERN COMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORP
Sandy Conti 2015 Director $2,195 $0 EAST MONTPELIER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC
Alyssa Todd 2017 Executive Director $2,192 $9,045 WINDHAM CO SAFE PLACE CAC- S E UNIT FOR SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS
Marty Illick 2017 Executive Director $2,188 $0 LEWIS CREEK WATER SHED ASSOCIATION
Todd Fischer 2017 2Nd Asst Chief $2,182 $0 UNDERHILL JERICHO FIRE DEPARTMENT
John Miller 2016 Director - Through 5/2016 $2,180 $11 VERMONT ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC
Thomas Bruso 2016 Youth Coordinator $2,178 $0 TURNING POINT CLUB OF BENNINGTON
Theresa Atwood 2016 Idrp Class $2,178 $0 TURNING POINT CLUB OF BENNINGTON
James Traverse 2013 Board Member $2,170 $240 INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS
Sean Mccann 2014 Lieutenant $2,166 $0 UNDERHILL JERICHO FIRE DEPARTMENT
Judy Laberge 2013 Treasurer $2,150 $0 VERMONT MOTORCROSS ASSOCIATION
Calvin Caswell 2014 Lieutenant $2,128 $0 UNDERHILL JERICHO FIRE DEPARTMENT
Cynthia Huard 2015 Artistic Director/Vice Pre $2,125 $0 ROCHESTER CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY LTD
Gus Seelig 2016 Chair And President $2,125 $0 VERMONT ENERGY INVESTMENT CORP
Parker Ripley 2013 2Nd Asst Chief $2,120 $0 UNDERHILL JERICHO FIRE DEPARTMENT
Joshua Deppman 2013 Training Officer $2,100 $0 VERGENNES AREA RESCUE SQUAD
Nate Houghton 2015 Chairman $2,100 $0 NORTHERN COMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORP
Kristian Pearson 2017 Treasurer $2,085 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA

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.