Explore the organizations and people that power Vermont's $6.8 billion nonprofit economy.
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$1,237,622
$15,062
$634,073
$1,143,554
$210,353
$1,517,449
$763,315
$1,270,615
$52,892
$641,929
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$1,635,064
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$100,094
$619,540
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Organizations are required to list board members, key employees and anyone making over $100,000 from this or a related organization.
Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
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Michael Crowley | Executive Dir. | $45,000 | $0 |
Clair Gear | Executive Dir. | $25,577 | $0 |
Miriam Gee | Board Member | $0 | $0 |
John Norton | Vice Chair | $0 | $0 |
Lura Moss | Secretary | $0 | $0 |
Mac Rood | Treasurer | $0 | $0 |
Adam Cohen | Board Member | $0 | $0 |
Bill Reed | Board Member | $0 | $0 |
Ace Mcarleton | Board Member | $0 | $0 |
John Connell | Vice Chair | $0 | $0 |
Charles Shackleton | Board Member | $0 | $0 |
Hank Louis | Board Member | $0 | $0 |
Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
---|---|---|---|
Michael Crowley | Executive Dir. | $90,000 | $0 |
Adam Cohen | Board Member | $0 | $0 |
Mac Rood | Treasurer | $0 | $0 |
Jonathan Mingle | Secretary | $0 | $0 |
Hank Louis | Board Member | $0 | $0 |
Miriam Gee | Board Member | $0 | $0 |
Bill Reed | Board Member | $0 | $0 |
Ace Mcarleton | Board Member | $0 | $0 |
John Norton | President | $0 | $0 |
John Connell | Vice Chair | $0 | $0 |
Ben Weiss | Vice Chair | $0 | $0 |
Charles Shackleton | Board Member | $0 | $0 |
Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
---|---|---|---|
Kate Stephenson | Exec. Dir. | $54,870 | $0 |
Tom Timmel | Interim Ed | $15,231 | $0 |
Adam Cohen | Board Member | $0 | $0 |
Carey Clouse | Board Member | $0 | $0 |
K Benjamin Cheney | Board Member | $0 | $0 |
Elizabeth Courtney | Board Member | $0 | $0 |
Ben Weiss | Vice President | $0 | $0 |
Michael Crowley | Executive Dir. | $0 | $0 |
Hank Louis | Board Member | $0 | $0 |
John Norton | President | $0 | $0 |
Mac Rood | Treasurer | $0 | $0 |
Sibyl Harwood | Board Member | $0 | $0 |
Bill Reed | Board Member | $0 | $0 |
Jonathan Mingle | Secretary | $0 | $0 |
John Connell | Vice Chair | $0 | $0 |
Charles Shackleton | Board Member | $0 | $0 |
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.
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.