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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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 2017 President $937 $0 EAST MONTPELIER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC
Nancy Metivier 2015 Secretary $935 $0 WATERBURY AMBULANCE SERVICE INC
Greg Eastman 2014 Director $920 $0 NORTHERN COMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORP
Elizabeth Scatchard 2017 Director / Substitute Teacher $920 $0 VERMONT DAY SCHOOL
Dagyne Canney 2013 Trustee $916 $0 VERMONT HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY
Ashley Goss 2016 Inner Guard $914 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
John Moyant 2013 Board Member $904 $240 INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS
Bruce Bullock Md 2016 Chair $900 $0 VERMONT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LEADERS INC
Patricia Boyd 2013 Vice Preside $900 $0 AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS
Mikaela Simms 2016 Board Member $900 $0 EDUCATIONAL PRAXIS INC
Pernille Stage 2014 Secretary $900 $0 AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS
Jonathan Potter 2013 Mng Director $900 $0 LATCHIS ARTS INC
Dale Drendel 2014 Director $900 $0 HOLSTEIN FRIESIAN ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
Roena Whitehill 2015 Director $900 $0 NORTHERN COMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORP
Betty Rogers 2017 Member $888 $0 UNION AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF TUNBRIDGE
Kristy Wyckoff 2017 Treasurer $882 $0 CAMBRIDGE FIRE COMPANY INC
Gay Cox 2015 Secretary/Tr $880 $0 NATIONAL RURAL LETTER CARRIERS ASSOCIATION
Kristy Wyckoff 2016 Treasurer $877 $0 CAMBRIDGE FIRE COMPANY INC
Betty Rogers 2013 Member $875 $0 UNION AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF TUNBRIDGE
Seline Skoug 2015 President $875 $0 ARLINGTON RESCUE SQUAD INC
Christopher Howe 2015 Member $869 $0 UNION AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF TUNBRIDGE
Betty Rogers 2014 Member $864 $0 UNION AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF TUNBRIDGE
Pat Rahilly 2017 Past President $860 $0 STOWE YOUTH HOCKEY
Jesse Hanley 2013 Director $860 $0 CAMBRIDGE FIRE COMPANY INC
Greg Eastman 2013 Director $860 $0 NORTHERN COMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORP

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.