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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Jennifer Boucher 2014 Director $0 $0 GRACE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL CORPORATION
Carol Hastings Trustee 2017 9 Gill Terrace - Apt 60, Ludlow, Vt 05149 $0 $0 BLACK RIVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
Cheryl Gurdak Trustee 2017 3 South Hill, Ludlow, Vt 05149 $0 $0 BLACK RIVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
Dorothy Pachaco 2017 Director $0 $0 BELLAS MENTORING INC
Courtney Debisschop 2017 Second Vp $0 $0 LAKE DUNMORE FERN LAKE ASSOCIATION
David Johnson 2017 Trustee $0 $0 LAKE DUNMORE FERN LAKE ASSOCIATION
Jim Meyersburg 2017 Vice President $0 $0 LAKE DUNMORE FERN LAKE ASSOCIATION
Jeff Garner 2017 Trustee $0 $0 LAKE DUNMORE FERN LAKE ASSOCIATION
Jim Foley 2017 President $0 $0 LAKE DUNMORE FERN LAKE ASSOCIATION
Katie Gellenbeck 2017 Trustee $0 $0 LAKE DUNMORE FERN LAKE ASSOCIATION
Nate Hausman 2017 Vice President $0 $0 MONTPELIER DOWNTOWN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION
Kaj Samson 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 MONTPELIER DOWNTOWN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION
Katie Budreski 2017 Board Member $0 $0 MONTPELIER DOWNTOWN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION
Justin Tease 2017 Board Member $0 $0 MONTPELIER DOWNTOWN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION
Amy Willis 2017 Board Member $0 $0 MONTPELIER DOWNTOWN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION
Liz Walsh 2017 Board Member $0 $0 MONTPELIER DOWNTOWN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION
Sarah Jarvis 2017 Board Member $0 $0 MONTPELIER DOWNTOWN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION
David Markow 2017 President $0 $0 MONTPELIER DOWNTOWN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION
Amy Mccaffrey 2016 Director $0 $0 CALEDONIA COUNTY FAIR ASSN
Carrie Mortensen 2017 Executive Director $0 $4,140 AMERICAN MORGAN HORSE EDUCATIONAL CHARITABLE TRUST
Darsey Moon 2017 Vice Preside $0 $0 LAMOILLE COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC
Caroline Ballard 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 LAMOILLE COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC
Trudy Trombley 2017 Director $0 $0 LAMOILLE COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC
Josh Zigler 2017 Director $0 $0 LAMOILLE COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC
Jane Marlin 2016 Vice Preside $0 $0 CRAFTSBURY COMMUNITY CARE CENTER

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.