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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Gary Webster 2017 President $570 $0 WATERBURY AMBULANCE SERVICE INC
Lauren Alpert 2017 Former Secrtry $570 $0 WATERBURY AMBULANCE SERVICE INC
Carol Blackwood Md 2017 Immed Past Pres $562 $0 AMERICAN ACADEMY OF FAMILY PHYSICIANS
Meg Gilbertson Rescue Volunteer 2017 Vice President $561 $0 CHARLOTTE FIRE AND RESCUE SERVICES INC
Anthony Lockwood 2017 Vice President $560 $0 BRANDON AREA RESCUE SQUAD INC
Gregory Noyes 2013 Director $560 $0 NORTHERN COMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORP
Donald Severy Jr 2015 Director $560 $0 BRANDON AREA RESCUE SQUAD INC
Steven Adams 2014 President $550 $0 DEERFIELD VALLEY FARMERS DAY ASSOCIATION INC
Ronnie Sunderland 2017 President $550 $0 BRISTOL RESCUE SQUAD INC
Seline Skoug 2013 Vp $550 $0 ARLINGTON RESCUE SQUAD INC
Amy Reynolds 2016 President $550 $0 DEERFIELD VALLEY FARMERS DAY ASSOCIATION INC
Amy Reynolds 2017 President $550 $0 DEERFIELD VALLEY FARMERS DAY ASSOCIATION INC
Meagan Gallagher 2017 Ceo $548 $25,426 PLANNED PARENTHOOD NEW HAMPSHIRE ACTION FUND INC
Jason Cote-Wong 2015 Director $545 $0 EAST MONTPELIER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC
Kenneth Cargill 2015 Director $540 $0 NORTHERN COMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORP
Kenneth Dwy 2015 Vice President $540 $0 BRANDON AREA RESCUE SQUAD INC
Frederick Gilbar 2013 Trustee $530 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Dennis Drown 2016 Key Employee $525 $0 KINGDOM RECOVERY CENTER INC
Seline Skoug 2017 President $525 $0 ARLINGTON RESCUE SQUAD INC
Margaret Sherlock 2015 Secretary $523 $0 UNION AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF TUNBRIDGE
Seth Bride 2017 Vice President $521 $0 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS
Louise Calderwood 2017 Director $520 $0 NORTHERN COMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORP
Kristen Hamel 2017 Secretary $519 $0 VERGENNES AREA RESCUE SQUAD
David Muzzy 2014 Board Member $515 $0 THE HOUSING FOUNDATION INCORPORATED
Lisa Lauziere 2017 Vice President $506 $0 VERGENNES AREA RESCUE SQUAD

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.