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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Anne Hutchinson 2017 Trustee $645 $0 WATERBURY AMBULANCE SERVICE INC
Michael Muir 2015 President $643 $0 UNITED ASSOCIATION OF JOURNEYMEN & APPRENTICES OF THE PLUMBING & PIPE
Lisa Mitiguy Randall 2014 Trustee $640 $0 VERMONT HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY
Elizabeth Scatchard 2016 Director $633 $0 VERMONT DAY SCHOOL
John Guerard 2013 Assist. Chief $633 $0 POWNAL RESCUE SQUAD INCORPORATED
Todd Wilkins 2017 Former Treasurer $631 $0 VERMONT TROOPERS ASSOCIATION INC
Darren Annis 2017 Secretary $631 $0 VERMONT TROOPERS ASSOCIATION INC
Brenda Vermette 2017 2Nd Lt $627 $0 FIRST BRANCH AMBULANCE SERVICE INC
Ron Hubbard 2017 Vice President $625 $0 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS
Paul Guare 2017 Director $625 $0 EAST MONTPELIER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC
Elizabeth Mccarthy 2013 Director $625 $0 VT INFO TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING
Milan Lawson 2013 Former Recorder $625 $0 SHRINERS INTERNATIONAL
Ronny Sunderland 2014 President $618 $0 BRISTOL RESCUE SQUAD INC
Brian Goodyear 2017 Treasurer $614 $0 VERGENNES AREA RESCUE SQUAD
Mark Zwicker 2017 Trustee $613 $0 FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES
Dennis Frechette Pwp 2017 Past Wthy Pres $613 $0 FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES
Sean Hoar 2014 Treasurer $610 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Bryan Labarge 2017 Secretary / Firefighter $604 $0 CHARLOTTE FIRE AND RESCUE SERVICES INC
Kristen Greenia 2014 Director $602 $0 FAIRFAX EMS INC
Richard Marron 2015 President $600 $0 VERMONT LOW INCOME TRUST FOR ELECTRICITY INC
Gregory Noyes 2015 Director $600 $0 NORTHERN COMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORP
Dennis Hiller 2015 Director $600 $0 NORTHERN COMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORP
Roena Whitehill 2017 Director $600 $0 NORTHERN COMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORP
Richard Rubin 2017 Vice President $600 $0 VERMONT LOW INCOME TRUST FOR ELECTRICITY INC
Kristina Holden 2017 Officer $600 $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.