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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Mallory Bussell 2016 Secretary $400 $0 SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FORESTERS
Donn Downey 2016 Treasurer $400 $0 SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FORESTERS
Mark Tinker 2015 President $398 $0 ORLEANS EMERGENCY UNIT INC
Michael Lorraine 2017 Board Member $393 $0 THE HOUSING FOUNDATION INCORPORATED
April Balley 2013 Executive Co $391 $0 NATIONAL RURAL LETTER CARRIERS ASSOCIATION
Charlie Crocker 2013 Director $391 $0 DISABILITY RIGHTS VERMONT INC
Stacey Coburn 2017 Secretary $390 $0 BRANDON AREA RESCUE SQUAD INC
Jason Cote-Wong 2013 Director $386 $0 EAST MONTPELIER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC
Reuben Adams 2013 Executive Co $386 $0 NATIONAL RURAL LETTER CARRIERS ASSOCIATION
Jesse Hanley 2017 Director $382 $0 CAMBRIDGE FIRE COMPANY INC
David French 2017 Chairman $380 $0 UNITED CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
Ingrid Burrows 2017 President $375 $0 VERMONT WILDERNESS SCHOOL INC
Bruce Harmon 2014 Bookkeeper $371 $0 THE VERMONT QUILT FESTIVAL INCORPORATED
Jason Luneau 2016 Director $369 $0 CAMBRIDGE FIRE COMPANY INC
Kenneth Cargill 2013 Director $360 $0 NORTHERN COMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORP
Kenneth Dwy 2014 Vice President $360 $0 BRANDON AREA RESCUE SQUAD INC
Gia Neswald 2017 Board Member $350 $0 VERMONT WILDERNESS SCHOOL INC
Jill Snapp 2014 Secretary $350 $0 NORTHWEST P E G TV INCORPORATED
Rebecca Levine 2014 Assistant Cheif $350 $0 POWNAL RESCUE SQUAD INCORPORATED
John Moyant 2015 Board Member $344 $0 INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS
Joanna Therrien-Conti 2013 Trustee $340 $0 WATERBURY AMBULANCE SERVICE INC
Edmund Sullivan 2015 Director $340 $0 BRANDON AREA RESCUE SQUAD INC
Jeffrey Charbonneau 2017 Executive Board $339 $0 UNITED ASSOCIATION OF JOURNEYMEN & APPRENTICES OF THE PLUMBING & PIPE
Merryn Rutledge 2017 Board Member $332 $0 THE HOUSING FOUNDATION INCORPORATED
Ron Gentile 2014 Trustee $332 $0 LOCAL 693 EDUCATION FUND

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.