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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Laura Plude 2016 Trustee, Until 12/7/2016 $0 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
Sandy Rousse 2016 Trustee $0 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
Steven Shea 2016 Trustee, Until 12/7/16 $0 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
Beth Moore 2014 Member $0 $0 POKER HILL SCHOOL INC
Sandra Young 2014 Sr. Vice President $0 $0 DEPARTMENT OF VERMONT LADIES AUXILIARY TO THE VETERANS OF
Paulette Thabault 2016 Trustee, As Of 02/2017 $0 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
Greg Voorheis 2016 Trustee, Until 12/7/16 $0 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
Marilyn White 2016 Trustee $0 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
Denise Shekerjian 2016 Secretary $0 $0 GENERATOR INC
Tom Oliver 2015 Director $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC
Stephanie L Parker 2015 Director $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC
Curt Merrow 2016 Director $0 $0 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC
Ruth Wallman 2015 Director $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC
William W Higginbotham Ii 2015 Assistant Treasurer $0 $26,882 CRUDEN BAY RISK RETENTION GROUP INC
William Deveneau 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 TRI-STATE PREGNANCY CENTER
Chris Peterson 2015 Board Member $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CENTER FOR GIFTED EDUCATION INC
Peter Gedney 2016 Chairman $0 $0 VERNON ADVENT CHRISTIAN HOME INC
Scott Towle 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 VERNON ADVENT CHRISTIAN HOME INC
Ken Howell 2016 Director $0 $0 GENERATOR INC
Alfred Goodwin 2016 Board Member $0 $0 VERNON ADVENT CHRISTIAN HOME INC
Phillip Dubois 2016 Board Member $0 $0 VERNON ADVENT CHRISTIAN HOME INC
Kara Bradford 2014 Treas. $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL CIRCLE INC
Joan Wollrath 2016 Board Secretary $0 $0 KINGDOM RECOVERY CENTER INC
Steve Kline 2016 Board Member $0 $0 KINGDOM RECOVERY CENTER INC
Tracey Doore 2016 Board Treasurer $0 $0 KINGDOM RECOVERY 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.