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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Jeanne Joslin 2016 Director $0 $0 CRAFTSBURY COMMUNITY CARE CENTER
Leland Sloan Sr 2017 Exalted Rule $0 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Anna Sanville 2017 Leading Knig $0 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Laurie Eastman 2017 Loyal Knight $0 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
David Eastman 2017 Lecturing Kn $0 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Genelle Rankin 2016 Trustee (Rotated Off 6/2017) $0 $0 BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION
Rich Smith 2016 Director $0 $0 CYNOSURE INC
Manon Perrault 2017 Trustee - 5 $0 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Eric Barrup 2017 Trustee - 4 $0 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Thomas Maloney 2017 Trustee - 3 $0 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Leo Geoffrey 2017 Trustee - 2 $0 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Steven Edgerley 2017 Trustee - 1 $0 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Lisa Patridge 2016 Director $0 $0 CALEDONIA COUNTY FAIR ASSN
Christine Stiller 2017 President/Director $0 $0 STILLER FAMILY FOUNDATION
Robert Stiller 2017 Secretary/Director $0 $0 STILLER FAMILY FOUNDATION
Stephen Magowan 2017 Assistant Secretary $0 $0 STILLER FAMILY FOUNDATION
Martha A Davies 2017 President & $0 $0 AM FOUNDATION INC
Sage Cowles 2017 Vice Preside $0 $0 AM FOUNDATION INC
Richard Wise 2017 Secretary $0 $0 AM FOUNDATION INC
Annabel Lee 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 AM FOUNDATION INC
Jim Calchera 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT TRAPPERS ASSOCIATION INC
Peter Lossman 2017 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT TRAPPERS ASSOCIATION INC
Hilary Silver 2017 Director $0 $0 FRIENDS OF THE FLETCHER FREE LIBRARY INC
Ellen Maclellan 2017 Director $0 $0 FRIENDS OF THE FLETCHER FREE LIBRARY INC
Mark Twery 2017 Diretor $0 $0 FRIENDS OF THE FLETCHER FREE LIBRARY 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.