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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Joseph Kelly 2015 Vice President $729 $0 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS
Joseph Kelly 2016 Vice President $729 $0 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS
David Cioffi 2014 Vice President $726 $0 ITALIAN AMERICAN CLUB INC
Ricky Daniels 2017 Secretary $725 $0 ARLINGTON RESCUE SQUAD INC
Louise Calderwood 2016 Director $720 $0 NORTHERN COMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORP
Christopher Davis 2014 Fire Chief $720 $0 CHARLOTTE FIRE AND RESCUE SERVICES INC
Albert Petrella 2015 Director $711 $0 EAST MONTPELIER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC
Brad Spaulding 2013 Board Member $706 $240 INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS
Graham Mink 2017 Former Vice President/Current President $700 $0 STOWE YOUTH HOCKEY
Marty Irion 2013 Executive Of $700 $0 ARLINGTON RESCUE SQUAD INC
Bob Bishop 2013 Director $700 $0 NORTHERN COMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORP
Dennis Hiller 2014 Director $700 $0 NORTHERN COMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORP
Jesse Hanley 2014 Director $696 $0 CAMBRIDGE FIRE COMPANY INC
Patricia Stevens 2017 Secretary $695 $0 UNDERHILL JERICHO FIRE DEPARTMENT
Deb Charlea Baker 2013 Director $695 $0 DISABILITY RIGHTS VERMONT INC
Meg Gilbertson 2014 Rescue Chief 7/1/14-2/28/15 $692 $0 CHARLOTTE FIRE AND RESCUE SERVICES INC
Bryce Sammel 2016 Member $689 $0 UNION AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF TUNBRIDGE
Margaret Sherlock 2016 Secretary $686 $0 UNION AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF TUNBRIDGE
Kenneth Cargill 2016 Director $680 $0 NORTHERN COMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORP
Dj Dauphinee 2017 Director $675 $0 CAMBRIDGE FIRE COMPANY INC
Peter Cross 2017 Vice President $672 $0 FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES
Christopher Howe 2013 Member $667 $0 UNION AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF TUNBRIDGE
Meagan Gallagher 2016 Ceo $662 $46 PLANNED PARENTHOOD VERMONT ACTION FUND INC
Pamela Laflamme 2016 Director $660 $0 NORTHERN COMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORP
Elaina Noblet 2017 Trustee $646 $0 TOWN OF BENNINGTON RESCUE SQUAD 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.