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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Richard Marron 2016 President $600 $0 VERMONT LOW INCOME TRUST FOR ELECTRICITY INC
Daniel Herlock 2013 Past Treasur $600 $0 AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS
Vikki Butynski 2013 Treasurer $600 $0 AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS
Dennis Hiller 2016 Director $600 $0 NORTHERN COMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORP
Gregory Noyes 2016 Director $600 $0 NORTHERN COMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORP
Mike Sirois Md 2014 Treasurer/Sec $600 $0 AMERICAN ACADEMY OF FAMILY PHYSICIANS
Joan Petrillo 2015 Secretary $600 $0 ROCHESTER CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY LTD
Lauren Alpert 2016 Secretary $600 $0 WATERBURY AMBULANCE SERVICE INC
Richard Marron 2017 President $600 $0 VERMONT LOW INCOME TRUST FOR ELECTRICITY INC
Margaret Machinist 2013 News Co-Editor $599 $0 SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FORESTERS
Wendy Weisiger 2015 Website Administrator $599 $0 SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FORESTERS
Deborah Boyer 2013 Website Administrator $599 $0 SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FORESTERS
Margaret Machinist 2014 News Co-Editor $599 $0 SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FORESTERS
Joseph Barsky 2015 News Quaerterly Editor $599 $0 SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FORESTERS
Joseph Barsky 2016 News Quarterly Editor $599 $0 SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FORESTERS
Wendy Weisiger 2016 Website Administrator $599 $0 SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FORESTERS
Jas Smith 2016 Policy Chair $599 $0 SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FORESTERS
Ashley Goss 2017 Lecturingknight $590 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Paul Guare 2016 Director $588 $0 EAST MONTPELIER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC
Linda Potvin 2015 Director $584 $0 DRAGONHEART VERMONT INCORPORATED
Jack Cummings 2017 Director $580 $0 NORTHERN COMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORP
Bruce Lemieux 2014 President $575 $0 POWNAL RESCUE SQUAD INCORPORATED
Greg Hayes 2015 Board Member $575 $0 IN-SIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY PROJECT INCORPORATED
Danielle Manahan 2015 Treasurer $575 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Brad Fleury 2015 Director $574 $0 EAST MONTPELIER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT 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.