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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Donald R Dion Jr Esq 2016 Trustee As Of 10/2016 $0 $0 SAINT MICHAELS COLLEGE
Barb Mchenry 2015 Director $0 $0 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BURLINGTON INC
Joseph Garrity 2016 Trustee $0 $0 SAINT MICHAELS COLLEGE
P Jonathan Heroux 2016 Trustee As Of 10/2016 $0 $0 SAINT MICHAELS COLLEGE
Very Rev Stephen W Hornat Sse 2016 Vice Chair Of The Board $0 $0 SAINT MICHAELS COLLEGE
Randy Schoonmaker 2016 Vice Chair $0 $0 VERMONT PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION INC
Elizabeth Miller 2015 Director $0 $0 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BURLINGTON INC
Beth Nolan 2015 Director $0 $0 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BURLINGTON INC
Steve Partilo 2015 Director $0 $0 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BURLINGTON INC
Josh Parker 2015 Director $0 $0 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BURLINGTON INC
Susan Cole Peters 2014 Trustee $0 $0 SHARON ACADEMY
David Nichols 2016 Secretary $0 $0 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC
Roger Preis 2015 Director $0 $0 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BURLINGTON INC
Aaron Roberts 2015 Director $0 $0 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BURLINGTON INC
Murray Benner 2016 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION INC
Michael Schirling 2015 Director $0 $0 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BURLINGTON INC
Jan Shanks 2015 Director $0 $0 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BURLINGTON INC
Trudi Brock 2014 Secretary $0 $0 SHARON ACADEMY
Kathryn Poston 2016 President $0 $0 SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT COMMUNITY ACTION INC
Timm Harris 2016 Secretary $0 $0 SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT COMMUNITY ACTION INC
Amanda Rundle 2016 Board Member $0 $0 SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT COMMUNITY ACTION INC
Thomas Dougherty 2016 Board Member $0 $0 SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT COMMUNITY ACTION INC
Tony Taylor 2016 Board Member $0 $0 SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT COMMUNITY ACTION INC
Tamara Richardson 2016 Board Member $0 $0 SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT COMMUNITY ACTION INC
Mark Sousa 2016 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION 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.