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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Stanley Adams 2017 Junior Warden $0 $0 FREE & ACCEPTED MASONS OF VERMONT
Benjamin Williams 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 FREE & ACCEPTED MASONS OF VERMONT
Stephanie Seguino 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CARIBBEAN INSTITIUTE INC
Janet Long 2016 Honorary Mem $0 $0 CRAFTSBURY COMMUNITY CARE CENTER
Anne Adler 2017 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS INC
Ben Eastman 2017 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS INC
Stephen Payne 2015 Director $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN LAND TRUST INC
Bob Twiss 2016 Honorary Mem $0 $0 CRAFTSBURY COMMUNITY CARE CENTER
Norm Hansen 2016 Director $0 $0 CRAFTSBURY COMMUNITY CARE CENTER
Linda Ely 2017 President $0 $0 NORWICH WOMENS CLUB
Sue Kaufman 2017 Director $0 $0 NORWICH WOMENS CLUB
Liz Swim 2014 Director $0 $0 SARA M HOLBROOK COMMUNITY CENTER
Geo Honigford 2014 1St Vp $0 $0 VERMONT SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION
Melissa Stevens 2017 President, Bod $0 $0 ARC RUTLAND AREA INC
Nikki Gahcik 2017 Board Of Director $0 $0 ARC RUTLAND AREA INC
Pam Reed 2017 Board Of Director $0 $0 ARC RUTLAND AREA INC
Brad Aldrich 2016 Director $0 $0 CYNOSURE INC
Kacey Boone 2017 Director $0 $0 VERY MERRY THEATRE
Brenda Tanner 2016 Director $0 $0 CALEDONIA COUNTY FAIR ASSN
Carole Parker 2017 Vice President $0 $0 THE CIRCUS BARN INCORPORATED
Kathryn Sarken 2017 Secretary $0 $0 THE CIRCUS BARN INCORPORATED
Neil Saunders 2017 President $0 $0 THE CIRCUS BARN INCORPORATED
Laura Brewer 2017 Director $0 $0 THE CIRCUS BARN INCORPORATED
Deborah Mckinley 2016 Director $0 $0 CRAFTSBURY COMMUNITY CARE CENTER
David Raphael 2015 Director $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN LAND TRUST 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.