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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Carly Lagasse 2015 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT COMMONS SCHOOL
Marcia Wemple Trustee 2016 Po Box 164, 99 S Hill Crossroads, Ludlow, Vt 05149 $0 $0 BLACK RIVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
Elizabeth Graves Trustee 2016 Po Box 444, Ludlow, Vt 05149 $0 $0 BLACK RIVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
Jay Lafayette 2016 Trustee $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
Dinah Larsen 2015 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT COMMONS SCHOOL
Kyle Noiva Trustee 2016 555 Keiffer Rd, Shrewsbury, Vt 05738 $0 $0 BLACK RIVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
Joseph Kraus 2016 Secretary $0 $0 RUTLAND HOSPITAL INC
Denise Clark 2016 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND HOSPITAL INC
Mike Solimano 2016 Vice Chair $0 $0 RUTLAND HOSPITAL INC
Newt Rose Trustee 2016 70 Orchard St, Ludlow, Vt 05149 $0 $0 BLACK RIVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
Paul Gallo 2016 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND HOSPITAL INC
John Casella 2016 Chair $0 $0 RUTLAND HOSPITAL INC
Jessica Anderson 2016 Director Ending 4/2017 $0 $0 RUTLAND HOSPITAL INC
Michele Nelson 2016 Director Beginning 4/2017 $0 $0 RUTLAND HOSPITAL INC
Megan Smith 2016 Director Ending 4/2017 $0 $0 RUTLAND HOSPITAL INC
Mark Foley Jr 2016 Director Beginning 4/2017 $0 $0 RUTLAND HOSPITAL INC
Michael Dick Dmd 2016 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND HOSPITAL INC
Eric Gilbertson 2016 Chair $0 $0 AMERICAN PRECISION MUSEUM ASSOCIATION
Martha Maksym 2015 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT COMMONS SCHOOL
Timothy Keefe 2015 Vice Preside $0 $0 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BURLINGTON INC
Helen Murdock 2016 Committee Chair $0 $0 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER AUXILIARY
William R Lynn 2016 Secretary/Treasurer $0 $0 AMERICAN PRECISION MUSEUM ASSOCIATION
Dana I Kittell Cpa 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 JOHN LECLAIR FOUNDATION
Suzanne Mantegna 2015 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT COMMONS SCHOOL
Eileen Casey 2015 Secretary $0 $0 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BURLINGTON 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.