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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
James Deuell 2016 Trustee $0 $0 PLUMBERS & PIPEFITTERS LOCAL 693 HEALTH & WELFARE FUND
Raymond Parker 2017 Oriental Gui $0 $0 SHRINERS INTERNATIONAL
Wayne Shepard 2017 Potentate $0 $0 SHRINERS INTERNATIONAL
Thomas Johnston Iv 2017 Chief Rabban $0 $0 SHRINERS INTERNATIONAL
James Burt 2017 Assistant Ra $0 $0 SHRINERS INTERNATIONAL
Thomas Ettori 2017 Recorder $0 $0 SHRINERS INTERNATIONAL
George Deblon 2017 High Priest $0 $0 SHRINERS INTERNATIONAL
Sheila Frazerley 2017 Worthy Trustee $0 $0 FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES
David Hojoboom 2017 Worthy Trustee $0 $0 FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES
Ann Hill 2017 Worthy Trustee $0 $0 FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES
Laurie Frenette 2017 Worthy Trustee $0 $0 FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES
Keith Deavitt 2017 Worthy President $0 $0 FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES
Mike Hill 2017 Worthy Vice-President $0 $0 FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES
Lyssa Papazian 2015 Director $0 $0 PRESERVATION TRUST OF VERMONT INC
Robert Klein Md 2017 Director $0 $0 SOUTH ROYALTON SCHOOL-BASE HEALTH CLINC INC
Larry Cohen 2017 Director $0 $0 SOUTH ROYALTON SCHOOL-BASE HEALTH CLINC INC
Travis Dudley 2017 1St Vice Pre $0 $0 ORLEANS COUNTRY CLUB INC
Darryl Davis 2017 2Nd Vice Pre $0 $0 ORLEANS COUNTRY CLUB INC
Carol Boucher 2017 Secretary $0 $0 ORLEANS COUNTRY CLUB INC
Ben Morley 2017 Clerk $0 $0 ORLEANS COUNTRY CLUB INC
Joe Torter 2017 Director $0 $0 ORLEANS COUNTRY CLUB INC
Steve Lewis 2017 Director $0 $0 ORLEANS COUNTRY CLUB INC
Jon Snyder 2017 Director $0 $0 ORLEANS COUNTRY CLUB INC
Steve Ferreira 2017 Director $0 $0 ORLEANS COUNTRY CLUB INC
Bob Granfors 2017 Director $0 $0 ORLEANS COUNTRY CLUB 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.