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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Rhea Severance 2015 Secretary $280 $0 CAMBRIDGE FIRE COMPANY INC
Heather Mullen 2017 Squad Rep $276 $0 FIRST BRANCH AMBULANCE SERVICE INC
Fritz Tegatz 2014 Selectboard Liaison $276 $0 CHARLOTTE FIRE AND RESCUE SERVICES INC
Michael Muir 2017 President $275 $0 UNITED ASSOCIATION OF JOURNEYMEN & APPRENTICES OF THE PLUMBING & PIPE
Gary Ouellette 2016 Vice President $275 $0 EAST MONTPELIER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC
Katrina Suess 2014 Vice President $275 $0 POWNAL RESCUE SQUAD INCORPORATED
Robyn Lambert 2013 Director $270 $0 DISABILITY RIGHTS VERMONT INC
Tom Vanmeter 2013 Director $270 $0 DISABILITY RIGHTS VERMONT INC
Michael King 2017 Vice President $264 $0 UNITED ASSOCIATION OF JOURNEYMEN & APPRENTICES OF THE PLUMBING & PIPE
John Leonard 2017 Exec. Board $260 $0 UNITED ASSOCIATION OF JOURNEYMEN & APPRENTICES OF THE PLUMBING & PIPE
Kip Mesirow 2014 Member At Large / Firefighter $256 $0 CHARLOTTE FIRE AND RESCUE SERVICES INC
Peter Wolf 2013 Secretary $253 $0 MOUNT MANSFIELD COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC
Ginger Wilk 2015 Executive Co $252 $0 NATIONAL RURAL LETTER CARRIERS ASSOCIATION
Michael Egan 2015 Secretary $250 $0 ITALIAN AID SOCIETY INC
Lucas Hall 2017 Director - Trp C $250 $0 VERMONT TROOPERS ASSOCIATION INC
Joe Pregent 2017 Director - Trp D $250 $0 VERMONT TROOPERS ASSOCIATION INC
Michael Muir 2014 President $250 $0 UNITED ASSOCIATION OF JOURNEYMEN & APPRENTICES OF THE PLUMBING & PIPE
Jayna Guilford 2013 Treasurer $250 $0 WATERBURY AMBULANCE SERVICE INC
Anthony Damato 2016 Forest Science Coordinator $250 $0 SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FORESTERS
Michael Egan 2016 Secretary $250 $0 ITALIAN AID SOCIETY INC
Joanna Therrien-Conti 2015 Trustee $250 $0 WATERBURY AMBULANCE SERVICE INC
Merryn Rutledge 2016 Board Member $248 $0 THE HOUSING FOUNDATION INCORPORATED
Jeff Towne 2014 Trustee $240 $0 LOCAL 693 EDUCATION FUND
Jack Kulig 2015 Vice President $240 $0 ITALIAN AMERICAN CLUB INC
Carey White 2013 Secretary $240 $0 CAMBRIDGE FIRE COMPANY 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.