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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Mathew Champlin 2013 1St Asst Chief $3,539 $0 UNDERHILL JERICHO FIRE DEPARTMENT
Tim Clark 2016 1St Asst Chief $2,838 $0 UNDERHILL JERICHO FIRE DEPARTMENT
Matt Atkins 2013 1St Asst. Chief $0 $0 LINCOLN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC
Kevin Blanchard 2016 1St Asst Vp $0 $0 SUTHERLAND FALLS HOSE CO
Kevin Blanchard 2017 1St Asst Vp $0 $0 SUTHERLAND FALLS HOSE CO
Kevin Blanchard 2015 1St Asst Vp $0 $0 SUTHERLAND FALLS HOSE CO
Ken Manchester 2016 1St Captain $0 $0 CORNWELL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
Ken Manchester 2017 1St Captain $0 $0 CORNWELL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
Brett Eagan 2017 1St Captain/ $0 $0 WOLCOTT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC
Gary Young 2015 1St Class Lineworker $162,843 $42,657 VERMONT ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC
Yvon Fortin 2015 1St Class Lineworker $138,659 $38,307 VERMONT ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC
Gary Young 2017 1St Class Lineworker $149,427 $51,151 VERMONT ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC
Chris Ingalls 2016 1St Class Lineworker $138,864 $24,199 VERMONT ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC
Steven Rossignol 2017 1St Class Lineworker $146,041 $51,650 VERMONT ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC
Gary Young 2016 1St Class Lineworker $138,603 $46,622 VERMONT ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC
Chris Ingalls 2017 1St Class Lineworker $147,951 $25,040 VERMONT ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC
Mark Hinton 2015 1St Class Lineworker-Group Leader $158,680 $41,909 VERMONT ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC
Mark Hinton 2016 1St Class Lineworker-Group Leader $148,561 $52,647 VERMONT ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC
Mark Hinton 2017 1St Class Lineworker-Group Leader $169,438 $58,517 VERMONT ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC
David Jarvis 2015 1St Lieutenant $0 $0 PHOENIX FIRE COMPANY 6 INC
Tracy Myers 2017 1St Lieutenant $0 $0 CAMBRIDGE RESCUE SQUAD INC
James Ameden Jr 2017 1St Lieutenant $0 $0 PHOENIX FIRE COMPANY 6 INC
Adrian Lakin 2016 1St Lt/ Empl $1,887 $0 FIRST BRANCH AMBULANCE SERVICE INC
Adrian Lakin 2017 1St Lt/ Empl $1,972 $0 FIRST BRANCH AMBULANCE SERVICE INC
William Bressette 2014 1St Trustee $0 $0 KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS

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.