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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Amy Hawley 2013 Trea/Secy $1,114 $0 ARLINGTON RESCUE SQUAD INC
Patricia Ladd 2016 Member $1,113 $0 UNION AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF TUNBRIDGE
Marty Delnevo 2017 Vice Chair/Director $1,100 $0 THE VERMONT QUILT FESTIVAL INCORPORATED
Lynn Wheatley 2017 Treasurer/Director $1,100 $0 THE VERMONT QUILT FESTIVAL INCORPORATED
Mary Ellen Francis 2015 Spec Exhibits Chair/Director $1,100 $0 THE VERMONT QUILT FESTIVAL INCORPORATED
Dee Lamberton 2013 Director $1,100 $0 THE VERMONT QUILT FESTIVAL INCORPORATED
Linda Buzzell 2013 Treasurer/Director $1,100 $0 THE VERMONT QUILT FESTIVAL INCORPORATED
Sharon Crowley 2013 Vice-Chair/Director $1,100 $0 THE VERMONT QUILT FESTIVAL INCORPORATED
Crystalee O'Dell 2014 Chief $1,100 $0 POWNAL RESCUE SQUAD INCORPORATED
Linda Potvin 2016 Director $1,100 $0 DRAGONHEART VERMONT INCORPORATED
Richard Cleveland 2014 Chairman/Director $1,100 $0 THE VERMONT QUILT FESTIVAL INCORPORATED
Margaret Sherlock 2014 Secretary $1,092 $0 UNION AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF TUNBRIDGE
Kristy Wyckoff 2015 Treasurer $1,090 $0 CAMBRIDGE FIRE COMPANY INC
Patricia Ladd 2015 Member $1,086 $0 UNION AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF TUNBRIDGE
Russell Comstock 2017 Co-Director $1,082 $0 METTA EARTH INSTITUTE INC
Gillian Comstock 2017 Co-Director $1,082 $0 METTA EARTH INSTITUTE INC
Darren Severance 2015 Director $1,081 $0 CAMBRIDGE FIRE COMPANY INC
Andrew Peloquin 2016 Vice Chariman $1,080 $0 NORTHERN COMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORP
Myriah Sheehan 2014 Secretary $1,080 $0 FAIRFAX EMS INC
Denise Paasche Md 2013 Past Board Member $1,080 $0 BRATTLEBORO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
Alain Therrien 2016 Adjuntant $1,080 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Lamont Barnett 2013 Trustee $1,077 $0 VERMONT HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY
Shawn Shouldice 2017 Secretary/Treas $1,075 $0 VERMONT ENERGY PARTNERSHIP INC
Nicki Hall 2013 Director $1,075 $0 HIGH FIVE ADVENTURE LEARNING CENTER INC
Christian Borgesen 2014 President $1,075 $0 AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS

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.