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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Michael Shank 2017 Member $0 $0 SAFER SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC
Carmelita Brown 2017 President $0 $0 SAFER SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC
Jennifer Barrett 2017 Chair $0 $0 ORLEANS COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER
Patrick Ryan 2017 Vice Chair $0 $0 ORLEANS COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER
Lisa Daigle-Farney 2017 Secretary $0 $0 ORLEANS COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER
Steve Marsh 2017 Board Member $0 $0 ORLEANS COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER
John Lotti 2017 Director $0 $0 EAST BURKE SCHOOL INC
Markus Vogt 2017 Director $0 $0 EAST BURKE SCHOOL INC
Hannah Pearce 2017 Vice President $0 $0 EAST BURKE SCHOOL INC
Linda Brinkerhoff 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 EAST BURKE SCHOOL INC
Vicki Scott 2017 Secretary $0 $0 EAST BURKE SCHOOL INC
Sean Dobbin 2017 President $0 $0 EAST BURKE SCHOOL INC
William Sargent Md 2015 Past Trustee $0 $0 NORTHEASTERN VERMONT REGIONAL CORP
Nancy De Tarnowsky 2015 Director $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL
Steve Nichols 2015 Chair $0 $0 NORTHEASTERN VERMONT REGIONAL CORP
Amber Mcdonald 2017 Board Member $0 $0 JUNEBUG MOTHER AND CHILD INC
Florence Feiereisen 2017 Board Member $0 $0 JUNEBUG MOTHER AND CHILD INC
Brandi Corbett 2017 Board Member $0 $0 JUNEBUG MOTHER AND CHILD INC
Durward Ellis 2017 President $0 $0 NORTHEAST EMPLOYMENT & TRAINING ORGAINZATION INC
Elaine Skinner 2017 Vice President $0 $0 NORTHEAST EMPLOYMENT & TRAINING ORGAINZATION INC
Blaine Perkins 2017 Secretary / Treasurer $0 $0 NORTHEAST EMPLOYMENT & TRAINING ORGAINZATION INC
Greg Bean 2017 Board Member $0 $0 NORTHEAST EMPLOYMENT & TRAINING ORGAINZATION INC
Charolotte Simpson 2017 Board Member $0 $0 NORTHEAST EMPLOYMENT & TRAINING ORGAINZATION INC
Mark Price Md 2015 Trustee $0 $30,900 NORTHEASTERN VERMONT REGIONAL CORP
John Achenback 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 THE ETHAN ALLEN HOMESTEAD MUSEUM 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.