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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Lisa Hill 2017 Chief $0 $0 CAMBRIDGE RESCUE SQUAD INC
Martha Edwards Manning 2017 Secretary $0 $0 CAMBRIDGE RESCUE SQUAD INC
Tiffany Barker Cook 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 CAMBRIDGE RESCUE SQUAD INC
Rob Holden 2017 Asst Chief $0 $0 CAMBRIDGE RESCUE SQUAD INC
Tracy Myers 2017 1St Lieutenant $0 $0 CAMBRIDGE RESCUE SQUAD INC
Rena Perkins 2017 2Nd Lieutenant $0 $0 CAMBRIDGE RESCUE SQUAD INC
Sarah Miller 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 SAFEART INC
Wynona Ward 2017 Secretary $0 $0 SAFEART INC
Sue Jacobs 2017 Board Member $0 $0 SAFEART INC
Sarah Lowry 2017 Board Member $0 $0 SAFEART INC
Sandy Lincoln 2016 Director $0 $0 PIERCE HALL COMMUNITY CENTER INC
Jonathan C Ingbar 2017 President/Director $0 $0 NARA FUND INC
Eric E Ingbar 2017 Director $0 $0 NARA FUND INC
David H Ingbar 2017 Director / Secretary $0 $0 NARA FUND INC
Joseph L Boutin 2017 President $0 $0 BOUTIN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Dale A Boutin 2017 Director $0 $0 BOUTIN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Pamela Rodriguez Cpa 2017 Director $0 $0 BOUTIN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Jason Boutin 2017 Director $0 $0 BOUTIN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Ilse Sigmund 2017 Director $0 $0 MAD RIVER VALLEY TELEVISION INC
Ian Sweet 2017 Director $0 $0 MAD RIVER VALLEY TELEVISION INC
Kate Mederios 2017 Director $0 $0 ZACK S PLACE ENRICHMENT CENTER INC
Dave Duval 2017 Director $0 $0 ZACK S PLACE ENRICHMENT CENTER INC
Annette West 2016 Director $0 $0 PIERCE HALL COMMUNITY CENTER INC
Larry Ruggles 2016 Director $0 $0 CALEDONIA COUNTY FAIR ASSN
Peter Sher Md 2015 Director $0 $0 AWARE 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.