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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
William Clements 2016 President $0 $0 CRIME RESEARCH GROUP INC
Edward Kaiser 2017 President $0 $0 DONALD MCMAHON POST 64 INC
Robert Picknell 2017 V. Pres. / S $0 $0 DONALD MCMAHON POST 64 INC
Robert Chase 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 DONALD MCMAHON POST 64 INC
Joyce Bennett 2017 Secretary $0 $0 NORTHEASTERN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOC NEAA
Anne Galvin 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 NORTHEASTERN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOC NEAA
Dr Curtiss Hoffman 2017 President $0 $0 NORTHEASTERN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOC NEAA
Alan L Hersker 2017 Past-Preside $0 $0 NORTHEASTERN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOC NEAA
Martha Stitelman 2017 Trustee $0 $0 FARM & WILDERNESS FOUNDATION INC
Clarence Williams 2017 Trustee $0 $0 FARM & WILDERNESS FOUNDATION INC
Scott Davis 2016 Director $0 $0 CALEDONIA COUNTY FAIR ASSN
Thomas Paulger 2016 Vice President $0 $0 CRIME RESEARCH GROUP INC
Sharon Scelzer 2017 Director $0 $0 ORLEANS EMERGENCY UNIT INC
Marilyn Prue 2017 Director $0 $0 ORLEANS EMERGENCY UNIT INC
Russell Ingalls 2017 Director $0 $0 ORLEANS EMERGENCY UNIT INC
Matt Tinker 2017 Director $0 $0 ORLEANS EMERGENCY UNIT INC
Penny Schtull 2016 Trustee $0 $0 CRIME RESEARCH GROUP INC
Dale Azaria 2014 Vice Chair $0 $0 VERMONT STAGE COMPANY INC
Scott Gilman 2016 Director $0 $0 CALEDONIA COUNTY FAIR ASSN
Francis Paco Aumand 2016 Trustee $0 $0 CRIME RESEARCH GROUP INC
Helen Morrison 2017 President $0 $0 KINGDOM ANIMAL SHELTER INC
Jennifer Smith 2017 Vice Preside $0 $0 KINGDOM ANIMAL SHELTER INC
Klari Emmons 2017 Secretary $0 $0 KINGDOM ANIMAL SHELTER INC
David Gile 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 KINGDOM ANIMAL SHELTER INC
Rodney Lauman 2017 Director $0 $0 KINGDOM ANIMAL SHELTER 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.