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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Stephanie Bonin 2016 Board Member $0 $0 DOWNTOWN BRATTLEBORO ALLIANCE INC
Dawn Bugbee 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 NORTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER INC
Michelle P Lawrence 2016 Past Treasurer $0 $0 NORTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER INC
Jake Holzscheiter 2016 Member $0 $0 NORTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER INC
Brian Leffler 2015 President / Chair $0 $0 VERMONT COMMONS SCHOOL
Brian Kiniry 2016 President $0 $0 BARRE COMMUNITY BASEBALL INC
Kyler Robinson 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT COMMONS SCHOOL
Sara Johnson 2015 Director $0 $0 STERN CENTER FOR LANGUAGE & LEARNING
Sharon Bixby Vp 2016 Po Box 195, Ludlow, Vt 05149 $0 $0 BLACK RIVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
David Pistilli 2014 Vp & Treasurer $0 $0 MIDDLEBURY VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION INC
Craig Heindel 2015 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT COMMONS SCHOOL
Joan Willett Trustee 2016 513 West Hill Rd, Ludlow, Vt 05149 $0 $0 BLACK RIVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
Richard Dunseith Treasurer 2016 19 High St, Ludlow, Vt 05149 $0 $0 BLACK RIVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
Doug Webster 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT DAY SCHOOL
Caren Merson 2016 Director $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Jennifer Colin 2016 Vice President $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Robert Roper 2016 Secretary $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
David Siegel 2016 Director $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Philip Bongiorno 2016 Director $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Denise Gentsch Oct-Apr 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 AMERICAN AGRI WOMEN
Heather Hapton-Noodle 2016 First Vp Vital Issues $0 $0 AMERICAN AGRI WOMEN
Jane Marshall 2016 Vp Communications $0 $0 AMERICAN AGRI WOMEN
Jean Goslin 2016 Vp Education $0 $0 AMERICAN AGRI WOMEN
Kristi Sproul 2016 Secretary $0 $0 AMERICAN AGRI WOMEN
Katherine Yost 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 AMERICAN AGRI WOMEN

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.