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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Brendan Wiltse 2017 Board Member $0 $0 WATERMAN FUND INC
June Hammond 2017 Board Member $0 $0 WATERMAN FUND INC
Nancy Ritger 2017 Board Member $0 $0 WATERMAN FUND INC
Loune Viaud 2016 Director $0 $0 HAITI CARDIAC ALLIANCE INC
Carey Rose 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION
Michele Patton 2017 President Elect $0 $0 VERMONT TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION
Drew Palcsik 2017 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION
James Foley Jr 2017 President $0 $0 VERMONT TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION
Wayne R Ryan 2017 President,Tr $0 $0 ROCKINGHAM CHARITIES LIMITED
Heather Boulger 2017 Vice Preside $0 $0 ROCKINGHAM CHARITIES LIMITED
Scott Carr 2017 Vice President $0 $0 THE BELLOWS FALLS POLISH-AMERICAN CLUB 1 INC
Buff Lindau 2015 Secretary $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL
James Newell 2015 Trustee $0 $0 NORTHEASTERN VERMONT REGIONAL CORP
Sam Kempton 2015 Past Trustee $0 $0 NORTHEASTERN VERMONT REGIONAL CORP
Charles Dinklage 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL
Thomas Robinson 2015 Vice Chair 1 / Treasurer $0 $0 NORTHEASTERN VERMONT REGIONAL CORP
Jessica Bonath 2017 Director $0 $0 LAMOILLE REGION CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CORP
Keith Koehler 2017 Director $0 $0 LAMOILLE REGION CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CORP
John Mandeville 2017 Director $0 $0 LAMOILLE REGION CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CORP
Ron Carter 2017 Director $0 $0 LAMOILLE REGION CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CORP
Richard Smith 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 LAMOILLE REGION CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CORP
Rich Jacobs 2017 Director $0 $0 LAMOILLE REGION CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CORP
Thomas Paul Esq 2015 Trustee $0 $0 NORTHEASTERN VERMONT REGIONAL CORP
Gail G Dougherty 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT LITURGICAL & MUSIC ASSOCIATION INC
J Allen Dougherty 2017 President $0 $0 VERMONT LITURGICAL & MUSIC ASSOCIATION 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.