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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Jim Collins 2014 Vice President $1,785 $0 VERMONT CONGREGATIONAL HOME INC
James Traverse 2015 Board Member $1,782 $0 INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS
Chad Schmidt 2017 Secretary $1,771 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
William Reardon 2016 Executive Committee Chair $1,771 $0 INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS
Lisa Cummings 2016 Executive Committee Chair $1,771 $0 INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS
Kelly Frederick 2016 Executive Director $1,760 $0 TECHNOLOGY FOR TOMORROW INC
Tim Wasilewski 2014 Vice President $1,758 $0 FAIRFAX EMS INC
Euclid Farnham 2013 Treasurer $1,753 $0 UNION AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF TUNBRIDGE
Tim Clark 2014 2Nd Asst Chief $1,751 $0 UNDERHILL JERICHO FIRE DEPARTMENT
Sonya Horton 2017 Treasurer $1,750 $0 CHITTENDEN COUNTY MAPLE SUGAR MAKERS ASSOCIATION INC
Jamison Kimberely 2013 Treasurer $1,750 $0 MIDDLEBURY COMMUNITY HOUSE INC
Ron Graves 2014 Treasurer $1,750 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
William Reardon 2015 Executive Committee Chair $1,743 $0 INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS
Randy H Clark 2014 Treasurer $1,735 $0 UNDERHILL JERICHO FIRE DEPARTMENT
Donna Renaud 2014 Treasurer $1,735 $0 VERMONT COMMUNITY GARDEN NETWORK INC
Jean A Edwards 2016 Executive Dir. $1,731 $0 THE LITTLE SCHOOL INC
Dawn Lamson 2015 Recording Sec $1,727 $0 INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS
Dwight Decoster 2016 Captain $1,720 $0 UNDERHILL JERICHO FIRE DEPARTMENT
Andrew Peloquin 2015 Vice Chariman $1,720 $0 NORTHERN COMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORP
Lisa Cummings 2015 Executive Committee Chair $1,719 $0 INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS
Richard Isabelle 2017 Assistant Treasurer $1,700 $0 NORTHERN COMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORP
Sally Pratt 2014 Assistant Secretary $1,700 $0 NORTHERN COMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORP
Patricia Vana 2016 Secretary $1,700 $0 NEWPORT COUNTRY CLUB INC
Mary Webster 2013 Finance $1,695 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Ralph Leonard 2014 Finance $1,695 $0 AMERICAN LEGION

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.