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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Tanner Parenteau 2017 Member $0 $0 BRADFORD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Marcia Jenkins-Davis 2016 Director $0 $0 CALEDONIA COUNTY FAIR ASSN
Crystal Hayling 2017 Former Director $0 $0 POPULATION MEDIA CENTER INC
Ron Hoge 2017 Director $0 $0 POPULATION MEDIA CENTER INC
Meg Kauffman 2015 Director $0 $0 T R I P DANCE COMPANY
Jolinda Laclair 2016 Board Member $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY EXPOSITION INC
Jeffrey B Carr 2016 Board Member $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY EXPOSITION INC
Olivia Strong 2017 Chair $0 $0 JERICHO UNDERHILL LAND TRUST
John Koier 2017 Vice Chair $0 $0 JERICHO UNDERHILL LAND TRUST
Phyl Newbeck 2017 Secretary $0 $0 JERICHO UNDERHILL LAND TRUST
Hilaire Thomas 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 JERICHO UNDERHILL LAND TRUST
Paul Plante 2017 President $0 $0 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBS
Judy Cookson 2017 1St Vice-President $0 $0 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBS
Robert Brault 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBS
Michael Babcroft 2017 Director $0 $0 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBS
Robert Norway 2017 Director $0 $0 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBS
Deb Russell 2017 Director $0 $0 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBS
Charles Livendale 2017 Director $0 $0 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBS
Lynn Herzog 2017 Secretary $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC
James Bixby 2017 Director $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC
Rev Paul Johnson 2017 Director $0 $0 ADVENT CHRISTIAN RETIREMENT COMMUNITIES INC
Rev David Alves 2017 Director $0 $0 ADVENT CHRISTIAN RETIREMENT COMMUNITIES INC
Rev William Monroe 2017 Director $0 $0 ADVENT CHRISTIAN RETIREMENT COMMUNITIES INC
Gregg Lemkau 2017 Chair $0 $0 GRASSROOT SOCCER INC
Lisa Stuart 2017 Board Member $0 $0 GRASSROOT SOCCER 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.