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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Laura Stillson 2017 Director $0 $0 MT ASCUTNEY OUTDOORS INC
Marty Hunt 2017 Director $0 $0 MT ASCUTNEY OUTDOORS INC
Chris Eggleton 2017 Director $0 $0 MT ASCUTNEY OUTDOORS INC
Alana Phinney 2016 Director $0 $0 MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF CENTRAL VERMONT INC
Fred Bay 2015 Director $0 $0 PRESERVATION TRUST OF VERMONT INC
Mark Beams 2015 Director $0 $0 PRESERVATION TRUST OF VERMONT INC
Ann Cummins 2014 President/Chair $0 $0 NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS OF VERMONT INC
Stanley Decosta 2017 Director $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Kate Moore 2017 Director $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Herbert Moore 2017 Director $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Bernie Shaban 2017 Director $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Alvan Bacon 2017 Director $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Tonya Guthrie 2014 Director $0 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT SKATING ASSOCIATION
Jason Raymond 2017 Director $0 $0 REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION NETWORK INC
Sue Bagley 2016 Director $0 $0 MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF CENTRAL VERMONT INC
Michele Bessett 2015 Director $0 $0 PRESERVATION TRUST OF VERMONT INC
Jeff Curtis 2017 Bod Member At Large $0 $0 VERMONT ATV SPORTSMANS ASSOCIATION INC
Adam Lane 2017 President $0 $0 VERMONT ATV SPORTSMANS ASSOCIATION INC
Lloyd Church 2017 Vice President $0 $0 VERMONT ATV SPORTSMANS ASSOCIATION INC
Timothy Mclaughlin 2017 President $0 $0 NEW ENGLAND DIVISION OF INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE
Kenneth W Richards 2017 1St Vice President $0 $0 NEW ENGLAND DIVISION OF INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE
Robert Spencer 2017 President $0 $0 COMPOSTING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT INC
Brian Jerose 2017 Vice President $0 $0 COMPOSTING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT INC
Robert Foster 2017 Director $0 $0 COMPOSTING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT INC
Ann Cousins 2015 Director $0 $0 PRESERVATION TRUST OF VERMONT 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.