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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Nancy Rivet 2017 Director $0 $0 KINGDOM ANIMAL SHELTER INC
Deborah Moore 2017 Director $0 $0 KINGDOM ANIMAL SHELTER INC
Leslie Garziano 2015 Secretary $0 $0 MEETINGHOUSE SCHOOL INC
Jeanne Pizii 2016 Vice President $0 $0 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER AUXILIARY
Richard Prouty 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Tom Scanlon 2017 Secretary $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Bill Charron 2017 Director $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Gerald Degray 2017 Director $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Oscar Gardner 2017 Director $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Donald R Hollis 2017 Trustee $0 $0 THE HOLLIS FAMILY FOUNDATION DTD 12-28-1999
Walt Smith 2017 Trustee $0 $0 BELLOWS FALLS LODGE NO 527 LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE
George Kendall Iii 2017 Governor $0 $0 BELLOWS FALLS LODGE NO 527 LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE
John Targonski 2017 Prebate $0 $0 BELLOWS FALLS LODGE NO 527 LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE
Karl Smith 2017 Administrator $0 $0 BELLOWS FALLS LODGE NO 527 LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE
Gerald Rodgers 2017 Jr Governor $0 $0 BELLOWS FALLS LODGE NO 527 LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE
Gussie Bartlett 2015 Director $0 $0 MEETINGHOUSE SCHOOL INC
Wendell Shedd 2017 Quartermaste $0 $0 VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF VERMONT
Erica Brown 2016 Secretary $0 $0 BELVIDERE COMMUNITY CLUB INC
Clayton Cargill 2017 Trustee $0 $0 POPE MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Meghan Meszkat 2017 Trustee $0 $0 MOUNT LAUREL FOUNDATION INC
John Alexopoulos 2017 Trustee $0 $0 MOUNT LAUREL FOUNDATION INC
Sarah Fitz 2017 Sec'Y/Treas $0 $0 MOUNT LAUREL FOUNDATION INC
Suzanne Bessette 2017 Trustee $0 $0 MOUNT LAUREL FOUNDATION INC
Arthur Short 2017 President $0 $0 MOUNT LAUREL FOUNDATION INC
Edgar T Campbell 2017 Trustee $0 $0 MOUNT LAUREL FOUNDATION 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.