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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Charlie Ferreira 2017 Director $0 $0 REBUILDING TOGETHER GREATER BURLINGTON INC
Arlene Clokey 2017 Director $0 $0 REBUILDING TOGETHER GREATER BURLINGTON INC
Will Clavelle 2017 Director $0 $0 REBUILDING TOGETHER GREATER BURLINGTON INC
Tom Glynn 2017 Director $0 $0 REBUILDING TOGETHER GREATER BURLINGTON INC
Patricia Belknap 2016 Board Member $0 $0 GALLERY AT THE VAULT INCORPORATED
Charlotte Osterlund 2016 Board Member $0 $0 GALLERY AT THE VAULT INCORPORATED
Mary Sprayregen 2016 Director $0 $0 CYNOSURE INC
John Hughes 2016 Board Member $0 $0 GALLERY AT THE VAULT INCORPORATED
Diane Kemble 2016 Board Member $0 $0 GALLERY AT THE VAULT INCORPORATED
Christine Moore 2017 Adjutant $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Paul Trepanier 2017 Historian $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
John Zawistoski 2017 Judge Advocate $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Les Howe 2017 Sargent At Arms $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Dolf Van Den Brink 2016 Director $0 $0 SUSTAINABILITY INSTITUTE INC
David Schwartz 2015 Director $0 $0 THE INITIATIVE A VERMONT WALDORF HIGH SCHOOL
Donald Moyer 2017 2Nd Vice Pres. $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Karen Marini 2017 Secretary $0 $0 CAVENDISH GREEN MOUNTAIN SNOW FLEAS
Anne Hill 2017 Secretary $0 $0 UPPER VALLEY HAVEN INC
Anne Clemens 2017 Member $0 $0 UPPER VALLEY HAVEN INC
Ronald Paprocki 2017 Member $0 $0 UPPER VALLEY HAVEN INC
Christina Flanders 2016 Past President $0 $0 NEW HAMPSHIRE ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGISTS
Paige Lamthi 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF CENTRAL VERMONT INC
Wally Howard 2017 Finance Officer $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Ron Kandzior 2017 Chaplain $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
John Ball 2017 Historian $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION

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.