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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Jon-Paul Venoit 2016 President $0 $38,402 KEYSTONE INDEMNITY COMPANY LTD
Robert F Polito Jr 2016 Director $0 $0 KEYSTONE INDEMNITY COMPANY LTD
Newton Buckner 2016 Director $0 $0 KEYSTONE INDEMNITY COMPANY LTD
Tracey Lemay 2016 Secretary/Treasurer $0 $44,529 KEYSTONE INDEMNITY COMPANY LTD
Stephen B Mcpherson 2016 Former Director/President $0 $31,100 KEYSTONE INDEMNITY COMPANY LTD
Sandy Mackillop 2015 Director $0 $0 LUNENBURG GILMAN AND EAST CONCORD SENIOR CITIZENS INC
Andrew Locke 2016 Director $0 $0 VEPP INC
George Hatch 2016 President $0 $0 MERCK FOREST & FARMLAND CENTER
Ann Jackson 2016 Vice President $0 $0 MERCK FOREST & FARMLAND CENTER
Kat Deely 2016 Secretary $0 $0 MERCK FOREST & FARMLAND CENTER
Mark Lourie 2016 Trustee $0 $0 MERCK FOREST & FARMLAND CENTER
Margaret Mertz 2016 Trustee $0 $0 MERCK FOREST & FARMLAND CENTER
John Clark 2016 Trustee (Eff. 11/2016) $0 $0 CARLOS G OTIS HEALTH CARE CENTER INC
Edward Druke 2016 Trustee $0 $0 CARLOS G OTIS HEALTH CARE CENTER INC
Ben Holleran 2016 Trustee $0 $0 AMERICAN PRECISION MUSEUM ASSOCIATION
Marie Lapenta 2015 Director $0 $0 GREATER BENNINGTON INTERFAITH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
Amy Dubrul 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT CHILDRENS TRUST FOUNDATION
Peter Jones 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT CHILDRENS TRUST FOUNDATION
Rev Bruce Lee-Clark 2015 Director $0 $0 GREATER BENNINGTON INTERFAITH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
Stephen Kiernan 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT CHILDRENS TRUST FOUNDATION
Joan Lenes 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT CHILDRENS TRUST FOUNDATION
Steve Mcconnell 2016 Trustee $0 $0 NORTHEASTERN VERMONT REGIONAL CORP
James Newell 2016 Past Trustee $0 $0 NORTHEASTERN VERMONT REGIONAL CORP
Joe Kasprzak 2016 Trustee $0 $0 NORTHEASTERN VERMONT REGIONAL CORP
Thomas Paul Esq 2016 Past Trustee $0 $0 NORTHEASTERN VERMONT REGIONAL CORP

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.