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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Jessica Walker 2017 Director $0 $0 VT LIFE & HEALTH INSURANCE GUARANTY ASSOCIATION
David Taplin 2015 Director $0 $0 PRESERVATION TRUST OF VERMONT INC
Karena Shippee 2017 Secretary $0 $0 NORTHERN COUNTIES HEALTH CARE INC
Thad Richardson 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 NORTHERN COUNTIES HEALTH CARE INC
Marie Waring 2017 Vice President $0 $0 NORTHERN COUNTIES HEALTH CARE INC
Cynthia Stuart 2017 Board Member $0 $0 NORTHERN COUNTIES HEALTH CARE INC
Al Cronauer 2017 Board Member $0 $0 NORTHERN COUNTIES HEALTH CARE INC
Emily Wadhams 2015 Director $0 $0 PRESERVATION TRUST OF VERMONT INC
Fritz Tegatz 2015 Selectboard Liaison $0 $0 CHARLOTTE FIRE AND RESCUE SERVICES INC
Jean Kingston 2015 Director $0 $0 SWORD & SPOON WORKSHOP INC
John Cassarino 2016 Board Member $0 $0 RUTLAND CITY RESCUE MISSION INC
Joanna Wright 2016 Committee Chair $0 $0 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER AUXILIARY
Dr James Wilentz 2016 Chairman $0 $0 HAITI CARDIAC ALLIANCE INC
William Wall 2015 Secretary $0 $0 SWORD & SPOON WORKSHOP INC
Joellen Calderera 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT LONG TERM DISASTER RECOVERY GROUP INC
Richard Tinney 2016 Board Chair $0 $0 RUTLAND CITY RESCUE MISSION INC
Albert Gawet 2016 Board Member $0 $0 RUTLAND CITY RESCUE MISSION INC
Beth Jones 2014 Secretary $0 $0 GRACE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL CORPORATION
Neale Lunderville 2017 Former Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT LONG TERM DISASTER RECOVERY GROUP INC
John Welch 2016 Board Member $0 $0 RUTLAND CITY RESCUE MISSION INC
Robert Lord 2017 Vice President $0 $0 BARRE AREA DEVELOPMENT INC
Tracy Quigley 2017 President $0 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Richard Blodgett 2017 Vice President $0 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Samuel Grice 2017 Esteemed Loyal Knight $0 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Emily Mason 2014 Vice Co-Chair $0 $0 VERMONT STUDIO CENTER 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.