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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Andy Mark 2017 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND AREA FARM AND FOOD LINK
Larry Courcelle 2017 President $0 $0 RUTLAND AREA FARM AND FOOD LINK
Daniel P Cunningham 2017 Trustee $0 $0 THE@MARIER CUNNINGHAM FOUNDATION
Alicia M Cunningham 2017 Trustee $0 $0 THE@MARIER CUNNINGHAM FOUNDATION
Robert Patton 2017 President $0 $0 SPIRIT HOLLOW
Maggie Murphy 2017 Secretary $0 $0 SPIRIT HOLLOW
Kathy Sollien 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 SPIRIT HOLLOW
Tracey Forest 2017 Executive Director $0 $0 SPIRIT HOLLOW
Amanda Baer 2017 Director $0 $0 EKWANOK SCHOLARSHIP TRUST INC
Jeff Crowley 2017 Director $0 $0 EKWANOK SCHOLARSHIP TRUST INC
Jennifer Howard 2016 Chair $0 $0 THE VALLEY PLAYERS
Dr Evan Lyon 2016 Director $0 $0 HAITI CARDIAC ALLIANCE INC
Elizabeth Cho 2015 Director $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL
Catherine Boykin 2015 Trustee $0 $0 NORTHEASTERN VERMONT REGIONAL CORP
Maryann Cheveralls 2017 Director $0 $0 DEERFIELD VALLEY FOOD PANTRY INCORPORATED
Linda Brophy 2017 Director $0 $0 DEERFIELD VALLEY FOOD PANTRY INCORPORATED
Marykay Dreher 2017 Director $0 $0 CHANDLER CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC
Nancy Wuttke 2017 Director $0 $0 CHANDLER CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC
Victoria Smith 2017 President $0 $17,565 KING STREET CENTER FOUNDATION
Scott Carlson 2017 Secretary $0 $0 RUTLAND AREA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
Sam Shultis 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 RUTLAND AREA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
Aaron Frost 2017 Board Member $0 $0 RUTLAND AREA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
Robert Maguire 2017 Vice President $0 $0 SAFER SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC
George Leibowitz 2017 Member $0 $0 SAFER SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC
William K Sessions Iii 2017 Member $0 $0 SAFER SOCIETY FOUNDATION 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.