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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Karen Glitman 2016 Secretary $0 $0 ENERGY ACTION NETWORK
Ellen Kahler 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 ENERGY ACTION NETWORK
Darren Springer 2016 Board Member $0 $0 ENERGY ACTION NETWORK
Jim Merriam 2016 Board Member $0 $0 ENERGY ACTION NETWORK
Ron Shems Resigned 2016 Board Member $0 $0 ENERGY ACTION NETWORK
Bill Clark 2016 Director $0 $0 MAPLE LEAF FARM ASS INC
Brian L Maddy 2014 President & Director $0 $78,188 ACADEMIC PHYSICIANS INSURANCECOMPANY
Therese Johansson 2016 Former Cfo $0 $0 MAPLE LEAF FARM ASS INC
Emily Morrow 2014 Trustee $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INC
George Guile Jr 2014 1St Vice Comm. $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Dianne Guild 2016 Committee Chair $0 $0 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER AUXILIARY
Margaret Fox 2016 President $0 $0 HOME SHARE NOW
Jon Gailmor 2016 Vice President $0 $0 UNITED WAY OF LAMOILLE COUNTY INC
Vicki Rich 2016 Secretary $0 $0 UNITED WAY OF LAMOILLE COUNTY INC
Anne Renaud-Conway 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 UNITED WAY OF LAMOILLE COUNTY INC
Doug Boardman 2016 Board Member $0 $0 UNITED WAY OF LAMOILLE COUNTY INC
Amy Fitzgerald 2016 Board Member $0 $0 UNITED WAY OF LAMOILLE COUNTY INC
Ellen Gibs 2016 Board Member $0 $0 UNITED WAY OF LAMOILLE COUNTY INC
Cajsa Schumacher 2016 Board Member $0 $0 UNITED WAY OF LAMOILLE COUNTY INC
Jodi Tallman 2016 Ambassador $0 $0 UNITED WAY OF LAMOILLE COUNTY INC
Lauren Philie 2016 Ambassador $0 $0 UNITED WAY OF LAMOILLE COUNTY INC
Sean Woodroffe 2015 Director $0 $0 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BURLINGTON INC
John Gilbert 2016 Director $0 $0 HISTORIC WINDSOR INC
Todd Gregory Md 2016 Board Member (At Large) $0 $0 VERMONT ASSOCIATION OF HOSPITALS AND HEALTH SYSTEMS INC
John R Brumsted Md 2016 Board Member (At Large) $0 $0 VERMONT ASSOCIATION OF HOSPITALS AND HEALTH SYSTEMS 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.