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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Toby Talbot 2016 President $1,497 $0 EAST MONTPELIER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC
Richard Rubin 2016 Director $1,495 $0 WASHINGTON ELECTRIC CO-OPERATIVE INC
Julie Riddell 2016 Cook $1,483 $0 OUR COMMUNITY CARES CAMP
Pam Dawson 2014 Rescue Chief 3/1-4/30/15 $1,478 $0 CHARLOTTE FIRE AND RESCUE SERVICES INC
Rich Maddaloni 2013 Board Member $1,475 $0 ARLINGTON RESCUE SQUAD INC
Charles Bolesh 2013 Director $1,475 $0 HIGH FIVE ADVENTURE LEARNING CENTER INC
Chris Langlois 2014 Director $1,471 $0 CAMBRIDGE FIRE COMPANY INC
William Mapes 2016 Coo $1,464 $0 BRANDON AREA RESCUE SQUAD INC
Alain Therrien 2015 Adjuntant $1,460 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Erin Kilpeck 2013 President $1,460 $0 BRANDON AREA RESCUE SQUAD INC
Pernille Stage 2016 Secretary $1,455 $0 AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS
Brenda Mattison 2017 Vp $1,450 $0 ARLINGTON RESCUE SQUAD INC
Randy H Clark 2016 Treasurer $1,450 $0 UNDERHILL JERICHO FIRE DEPARTMENT
Darin Muzzy 2015 1St V. Commander $1,446 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Randy Reynolds 2013 President $1,440 $0 MUTUO INC
Roy Folsom 2017 Director $1,430 $0 WASHINGTON ELECTRIC CO-OPERATIVE INC
Adam Provost 2015 President $1,425 $0 VT INFO TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING
Christian Borgesen 2016 President $1,425 $0 AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS
Vikki Butynski 2016 Treasurer $1,425 $0 AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS
Louie Belfore 2013 President $1,420 $0 ITALIAN AMERICAN CLUB INC
Nate Houghton 2016 Chairman $1,420 $0 NORTHERN COMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORP
Boyd Schaufelberger 2015 Vice President $1,418 $0 HOLSTEIN FRIESIAN ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
Ron Waggoner 2017 Service Officer $1,417 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Benjamin Martin 2013 General Chai $1,409 $0 BROTHERHOOD OF LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS & TRAINMEN
Chris Langlois 2013 Director $1,405 $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.