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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Cathy Kapitansky 2014 Executive Co $480 $0 NATIONAL RURAL LETTER CARRIERS ASSOCIATION
George Peters 2013 Trustee $476 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Michelle Lemieux 2014 Treasurer $475 $0 POWNAL RESCUE SQUAD INCORPORATED
Jesse Hanley 2016 Director $472 $0 CAMBRIDGE FIRE COMPANY INC
Tom Cosinuke 2016 Secretary / Firefighter $467 $0 CHARLOTTE FIRE AND RESCUE SERVICES INC
Deborah Corey 2013 Past Preside $467 $0 NATIONAL RURAL LETTER CARRIERS ASSOCIATION
Tom Cosinuke 2015 Secretary / Firefighter $466 $0 CHARLOTTE FIRE AND RESCUE SERVICES INC
Jesse Hanley 2015 Director $465 $0 CAMBRIDGE FIRE COMPANY INC
Dan St Cyr 2016 Secretary $465 $0 CAMBRIDGE FIRE COMPANY INC
Tom Cosinuke 2017 President / Fire & Rescue Volunteer $460 $0 CHARLOTTE FIRE AND RESCUE SERVICES INC
Kenneth Hammer 2013 Director $460 $0 NORTHERN COMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORP
Heidi Manahan 2014 Treasurer $460 $0 FAIRFAX EMS INC
Kenneth Cargill 2014 Director $460 $0 NORTHERN COMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORP
Cory Stephenson Secretary 2016 & Educator $455 $8 FOUR WINDS NATURE INSTITUTEINCORPORATED
Amy Reynolds 2015 President $450 $0 DEERFIELD VALLEY FARMERS DAY ASSOCIATION INC
David Cioffi 2015 President $450 $0 ITALIAN AMERICAN CLUB INC
Sheilagh Falcigno 2016 Director $450 $0 RETREAT PROJECT INC
Michael Lorraine 2015 Board Member $443 $0 THE HOUSING FOUNDATION INCORPORATED
Alex Potvin 2015 Exec. Board $442 $0 UNITED ASSOCIATION OF JOURNEYMEN & APPRENTICES OF THE PLUMBING & PIPE
Kevin P Montminy Ii 2013 Trustee $441 $0 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS
Mike Close 2014 Director $440 $0 MUSIC COMPOSITION ONLINE MENTORING PROGRAM INC
Michael Lorraine 2014 Board Member $439 $0 THE HOUSING FOUNDATION INCORPORATED
Andrew Haigney 2016 Member At Large / Firefighter $437 $0 CHARLOTTE FIRE AND RESCUE SERVICES INC
Andrew Haigney 2015 Member At Large / Firefighter $437 $0 CHARLOTTE FIRE AND RESCUE SERVICES INC
Michael Lorraine 2016 Board Member $437 $0 THE HOUSING FOUNDATION INCORPORATED

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.