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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Charles Webster 2017 President $0 $0 THE ARLINGTON COMMUNITY CLUB INC
Judy Bryan 2017 Vice President $0 $0 THE ARLINGTON COMMUNITY CLUB INC
Adam Comey 2017 Ditector $0 $0 FLYIN RYAN HAWKS FOUNDATION INC
Alicia Hawks 2017 Vice Preside $0 $0 FLYIN RYAN HAWKS FOUNDATION INC
Peter Hawks 2017 President/Tr $0 $0 FLYIN RYAN HAWKS FOUNDATION INC
Dee Carlin 2015 Director $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN LAND TRUST INC
Isabel Alfonso 2016 Director $0 $0 AMERICAS MEDIA INITIATIVE NFP
Miriam Jones 2017 President $0 $0 VINE-VEGANISM IS THE NEXT EVOLUTION INCORPORATED
Cathy Frank 2017 Chair $0 $0 WAKE ROBIN CORP
Eric Hanson 2017 Vice-Chair $0 $0 WAKE ROBIN CORP
Katie Hawley 2017 Board Member $0 $0 WAKE ROBIN CORP
Thersa Hyland 2017 Board Member $0 $0 WAKE ROBIN CORP
Rosalyn Graham 2017 Board Member $0 $0 WAKE ROBIN CORP
Katie Lampton 2017 Board Member Through 6/17 & Immediate Past Chair $0 $0 WAKE ROBIN CORP
Andrs Caballero 2016 Director $0 $0 AMERICAS MEDIA INITIATIVE NFP
Mrs Siri S Gadbois 2014 President/Director $0 $84,278 COLLEGE INSURANCE COMPANY
Beth Montuori Rowles 2015 Chair $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN LAND TRUST INC
Gail Wixon 2016 President $0 $0 ARROWHEAD SENIOR CITIZEN CENTER INC
Elizabeth Couture 2016 Secretary $0 $0 ARROWHEAD SENIOR CITIZEN CENTER INC
Niko Horster 2017 President $0 $0 VERMONT GRASS FARMERS ASSOCIATION
Gabe Zoerheide 2017 Vice President $0 $0 VERMONT GRASS FARMERS ASSOCIATION
Benneth Phelps 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT GRASS FARMERS ASSOCIATION
Ellen Fox 2017 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT GRASS FARMERS ASSOCIATION
Henry Cammack 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT GRASS FARMERS ASSOCIATION
Matt Choiniere 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT GRASS FARMERS ASSOCIATION

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.