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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Brian Leven 2016 Director $0 $0 COPLEY PROFESSIONAL SERVICES GROUP INC
Teresa Smith 2016 Director $0 $0 COPLEY PROFESSIONAL SERVICES GROUP INC
Maxine Neal 2016 Director (End 4/17) $0 $0 COPLEY PROFESSIONAL SERVICES GROUP INC
Richard Jacobs 2016 Chair $0 $0 COPLEY PROFESSIONAL SERVICES GROUP INC
Peter Anderson 2016 Vice Chair $0 $0 COPLEY PROFESSIONAL SERVICES GROUP INC
Jason Mcarthur 2016 Secretary $0 $0 COPLEY PROFESSIONAL SERVICES GROUP INC
Ashley Hartman 2017 Vp-Operations $0 $0 KAPPA DELTA SORORITY
Valerie Valcour 2016 Treasurer (End 5/17) $0 $0 COPLEY PROFESSIONAL SERVICES GROUP INC
Kevin Goddard 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 COPLEY PROFESSIONAL SERVICES GROUP INC
Adam Provost 2014 President $0 $0 VT INFO TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING
Ed Miller Resigned 2014 Board Member $0 $0 CATAMOUNT TRAIL ASSOCIATION
John Leclair 2014 President $0 $0 JOHN LECLAIR FOUNDATION
Julia Rivers 2016 Committee Member $0 $0 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER AUXILIARY
Van Chesnut 2016 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION INC
Lloyd Church 2016 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT ATV SPORTSMANS ASSOCIATION INC
Jeff Fritz 2016 Board Chair $0 $0 BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER VERGENNES INC
Rev Kathy Clark 2016 Director $0 $0 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC
Kathy Rossier 2016 Vice Chair $0 $0 BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER VERGENNES INC
Paula Moore 2016 Secretary $0 $0 BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER VERGENNES INC
John Sanchez 2016 Secretary $0 $0 SEVEN STARS ARTS CENTER INC
Deirdre Ellerson 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 SEVEN STARS ARTS CENTER INC
Lindsey Warren 2016 President $0 $0 SEVEN STARS ARTS CENTER INC
Dawna Neron 2016 Director $0 $0 SEVEN STARS ARTS CENTER INC
Jessica Peirpont 2016 Director $0 $0 SEVEN STARS ARTS CENTER INC
Deadra Aston - Former 2016 Director $0 $0 SEVEN STARS ARTS CENTER 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.