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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Toby Lussier 2016 Director $0 $0 CALEDONIA COUNTY FAIR ASSN
Joseph Bragdon 2016 Assistant Treasurer $0 $0 SUSTAINABILITY INSTITUTE INC
Donald Dockter 2015 Commander $0 $0 VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF VERMONT
Cilla Booney-Smith 2016 Director $0 $0 CRAFTSBURY COMMUNITY CARE CENTER
Geoffrey Contrad 2014 President Elect $0 $0 ROTARY CLUB OF MIDDLEBURY VERMONT INC
Eric Koch 2016 Secretary $0 $0 WAITSFIELD ELEMENTARY PTA
Steve Hackett 2016 Director $0 $0 CYNOSURE INC
Charles Camber 2016 Director $0 $0 CALEDONIA COUNTY FAIR ASSN
Rachel Glickman 2017 Secretary $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CAMP INC
Diana Lischer-Goodband 2017 Board Member $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CAMP INC
Michael Mcgillion 2017 Board Member $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CAMP INC
Barbara Brooke 2016 Director $0 $0 CRAFTSBURY COMMUNITY CARE CENTER
Sarah Stempek 2017 Director $0 $0 ESSEX AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC
Jess Figgie 2017 Vp-Memberships $0 $0 KAPPA DELTA SORORITY
Anne Cassidy 2016 Honorary Mem $0 $0 CRAFTSBURY COMMUNITY CARE CENTER
Mark Foley Jr 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE
Donna Fernandes 2017 Vice President $0 $0 FRIENDS OF THE WARDSBORO LIBRARY INC
Connie Montegmagni 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 FRIENDS OF THE WARDSBORO LIBRARY INC
Michael Cooney 2017 President $0 $0 FRIENDS OF THE WARDSBORO LIBRARY INC
Sally Wadsorth 2017 Director $0 $0 FRIENDS OF THE WARDSBORO LIBRARY INC
Cris Tarnay 2017 Director $0 $0 FRIENDS OF THE WARDSBORO LIBRARY INC
Peggy Matheson 2017 Director $0 $0 FRIENDS OF THE WARDSBORO LIBRARY INC
Rich Grogan 2017 E.D. (May 20 $0 $0 COMMUNITY CAPITAL OF VERMONT INC
Jenny Stoner 2016 Secretary $0 $0 CRAFTSBURY COMMUNITY CARE CENTER
Ela Chapin 2017 President $0 $0 COMMUNITY CAPITAL OF VERMONT 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.