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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Barbara Joachim 2016 Director $0 $0 ARROWHEAD SENIOR CITIZEN CENTER INC
Ted Pritchard 2017 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN ACADEMY FOR LIFE LONG LEARNING INC
Mark Szuchman 2017 Vice Preside $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN ACADEMY FOR LIFE LONG LEARNING INC
John Crowell 2017 Trustee $0 $0 ROBERT L CROWELL CHARITABLE TR
Timothy Crowell 2017 Trustee $0 $0 ROBERT L CROWELL CHARITABLE TR
Muriel Crowell 2017 Trustee $0 $0 ROBERT L CROWELL CHARITABLE TR
Matt Bucy 2017 President $0 $0 UPPER VALLEY FLYING CLUB
Bruce Prince 2017 Vice President $0 $0 UPPER VALLEY FLYING CLUB
Bruce Renfro 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 UPPER VALLEY FLYING CLUB
Peter Jackson 2017 Secretary $0 $0 UPPER VALLEY FLYING CLUB
David Kent 2017 Director $0 $0 UPPER VALLEY FLYING CLUB
Timothy Terry 2017 Director $0 $0 UPPER VALLEY FLYING CLUB
H James Wallace Md 2017 Executive Dir. $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN CANCER RESEARCH ORGANIZATION INC
Sandy Rouse 2017 Festival Director $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO LITERARY FESTIVAL INC
Bob Parks 2017 President $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO LITERARY FESTIVAL INC
Robert Szpila 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO LITERARY FESTIVAL INC
Rita Ramirez 2017 Secretary $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO LITERARY FESTIVAL INC
Deidra Razzaque 2017 Vice President $0 $0 VERMONT KIN AS PARENTS
Holly Simmons 2017 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT KIN AS PARENTS
F William Alley 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 THE WISDOM CONNECTION INC
Patricia Passmore Alley 2017 President $0 $0 THE WISDOM CONNECTION INC
Patricia Heffernan 2017 Director $0 $0 THE WISDOM CONNECTION INC
Eric Erwin 2017 Director $0 $0 THE WISDOM CONNECTION INC
Mary Parke Meyer 2017 Secretary $0 $0 THE WISDOM CONNECTION INC
Susan Coffey 2017 Director $0 $0 THE WISDOM CONNECTION 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.