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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Ron Gentile 2015 Trustee $332 $0 LOCAL 693 EDUCATION FUND
Tara Wright 2015 Vice President $330 $0 INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS
Laura Callahan 2015 Board Member $326 $0 INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS
Brad Spaulding 2015 Board Member $326 $0 INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS
Jade Cutler 2015 Rcrd Secretary $326 $0 INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS
Laura Devincentis 2016 Grievance Of $325 $0 AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS
Phil Rancourt 2017 Trustee $315 $0 FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES
David Lacroix 2013 Vice Preside $303 $0 DISABILITY RIGHTS VERMONT INC
Anne Hamilton 2015 Director $300 $0 MUSIC COMPOSITION ONLINE MENTORING PROGRAM INC
Nancy B Howe 2017 Member $300 $0 UNION AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF TUNBRIDGE
Albert Lafreniere 2017 President $300 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Steve Turbayne 2017 Director $300 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Patricia Boyd 2017 Vice Preside $300 $0 AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS
Frank Moody 2015 E-Board Member $300 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Kathy Whitney 2014 Past Bpresid $300 $0 AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS
Jack Cummings 2013 Director $300 $0 NORTHERN COMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORP
Tracie Higgins 2014 Director $300 $0 FAIRFAX EMS INC
Pamela Laflamme 2014 Director $300 $0 NORTHERN COMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORP
Dennis Frechette Pwp 2016 Jr Past Pres $298 $0 FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES
Mark Zwicker 2016 Trustee $298 $0 FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES
Gordon Barnaby 2016 Vice President $288 $0 UNION AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF TUNBRIDGE
Alison Bell 2013 President $287 $0 THE HOUSING FOUNDATION INCORPORATED
Meagan Gallagher 2017 Ceo $286 $18 PLANNED PARENTHOOD VERMONT ACTION FUND INC
Jim Collins 2016 Vice President $285 $0 VERMONT CONGREGATIONAL HOME INC
Mark Tinker 2016 President $284 $0 ORLEANS EMERGENCY UNIT 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.