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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Gordon Barnaby 2013 Vice President $105 $0 UNION AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF TUNBRIDGE
Gordon Barnaby 2015 Vice President $105 $0 UNION AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF TUNBRIDGE
Allan Keyes 2015 Secretary $100 $0 EVERGREEN CEMETERY ASSOCIATION
Fred Terenzeni 2015 Trustee $100 $0 EVERGREEN CEMETERY ASSOCIATION
Fred Terenzeni 2013 Trustee $100 $0 EVERGREEN CEMETERY ASSOCIATION
Ken Hart 2013 Trustee $100 $0 EVERGREEN CEMETERY ASSOCIATION
Kathie Cheney 2017 Vendor Chair $100 $0 THE VERMONT QUILT FESTIVAL INCORPORATED
David Colburn 2016 Trustee $100 $0 EVERGREEN CEMETERY ASSOCIATION
Alvin Figel 2016 Trustee $100 $0 EVERGREEN CEMETERY ASSOCIATION
Fred Terenzeni 2016 Trustee $100 $0 EVERGREEN CEMETERY ASSOCIATION
Allan Keyes 2016 Secretary $100 $0 EVERGREEN CEMETERY ASSOCIATION
Sona Desai 2015 Former President $100 $0 NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT
Ken Hart 2015 Trustee $100 $0 EVERGREEN CEMETERY ASSOCIATION
Donald Wickman 2013 Secretary $100 $0 EVERGREEN CEMETERY ASSOCIATION
Robert Sekerak 2013 Bd Member $100 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN ACCESS TELEVISION INC
Michelle Duprey 2014 Treasurer $100 $0 ITALIAN AMERICAN CLUB INC
Jayna Guilford 2015 Treasurer $100 $0 WATERBURY AMBULANCE SERVICE INC
Amy Hawley 2017 Trea/Secy $96 $0 ARLINGTON RESCUE SQUAD INC
Peter Wolf 2015 Secretary $94 $0 MOUNT MANSFIELD COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC
Kevin P Montminy Ii 2017 Trustee $83 $0 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS
James Deuell 2014 Trustee $82 $0 PLUMBERS & PIPEFITTERS LOCAL 693 HEALTH & WELFARE FUND
Lisa Hess 2017 Treasurer $80 $0 HOME AWAY FROM HOME
Lois Austin 2013 Member $75 $0 UNION AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF TUNBRIDGE
Michael King 2015 Vice President $75 $0 UNITED ASSOCIATION OF JOURNEYMEN & APPRENTICES OF THE PLUMBING & PIPE
Chelsea Ross 2015 Secretary $75 $0 VERGENNES AREA RESCUE SQUAD

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.