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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Lisa Lefebvre-Barr 2015 Board Member $506 $0 INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS
Ernst Schori 2013 Equipment Manager $500 $0 UPPER VALLEY COMMUNITY BAND
David Muzzy 2017 Board Member $500 $0 THE HOUSING FOUNDATION INCORPORATED
John Webber 2015 Treasurer $500 $0 EVERGREEN CEMETERY ASSOCIATION
Gregory Noyes 2017 Director $500 $0 NORTHERN COMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORP
John Webber 2013 Treasurer $500 $0 EVERGREEN CEMETERY ASSOCIATION
Doug Whitcomb 2017 Vice President $500 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Alan Decato 2017 Commander $500 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
John Webber 2016 Treasurer $500 $0 EVERGREEN CEMETERY ASSOCIATION
Donna Cusson 2013 Vice President $500 $0 VERMONT ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS INC
Renee Cruz 2013 Treasurer $500 $0 FIRST STEP RECOVERY HOUSE INC
Sue Tebbetts 2013 Volunteer Co $500 $0 THE CHAMPLAIN ADAPTIVE MOUNTED PROGRAM
Eric Thomas 2017 Treasurer $500 $0 CAMP EXCLAMATION POINT INC
Michael Chamberlain 2013 Sgt. At Arms $500 $0 VERMONT SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION INC C/O SHERRIFF GARY FORREST
Nancy Bradford 2014 President $500 $0 CHITTENDEN COUNTY MAPLE SUGAR MAKERS ASSOCIATION INC
Pinky Clark 2013 Board $500 $0 MONTPELIER DOWNTOWN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION
Ernst Schori 2014 Equipment Manager $500 $0 UPPER VALLEY COMMUNITY BAND
Anne Hamilton 2014 Director $500 $0 MUSIC COMPOSITION ONLINE MENTORING PROGRAM INC
Jack Cummings 2014 Director $500 $0 NORTHERN COMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORP
Gregory Noyes 2014 Director $500 $0 NORTHERN COMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORP
Carol Andrew 2014 Music Librarian $500 $0 UPPER VALLEY COMMUNITY BAND
Nancy Goodwin 2015 Director $500 $0 CALEDONIA COUNTY FAIR ASSN
Michael Barry 2016 Exec. V. P. $499 $0 UNITED NURSES AND ALLIED PROFESSIONALS
Dan St Cyr 2017 Secretary $498 $0 CAMBRIDGE FIRE COMPANY INC
Josh Kirtlink 2013 Vice President $490 $0 WATERBURY AMBULANCE SERVICE 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.