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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Sarah Field 2016 President $0 $0 BARRE AREA DEVELOPMENT INC
Robert Campo 2016 President $0 $0 VERMONT ELKS CHARITIES INC
Brian Guara 2016 President El $0 $0 VERMONT ELKS CHARITIES INC
Morris Putnam 2016 1St Vice Pre $0 $0 VERMONT ELKS CHARITIES INC
Henry Diemer 2016 2Nd Vice Pre $0 $0 VERMONT ELKS CHARITIES INC
Carol Sylvia 2016 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT ELKS CHARITIES INC
Stacey Holden 2016 Tiler $0 $0 VERMONT ELKS CHARITIES INC
Granville Paine 2016 Esquire $0 $0 VERMONT ELKS CHARITIES INC
Bill Codling 2016 Chaplain $0 $0 VERMONT ELKS CHARITIES INC
Sara Gregory 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT ELKS CHARITIES INC
Randy Corey 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT ELKS CHARITIES INC
Peter Squires 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT ELKS CHARITIES INC
Frederick Gilbar 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT ELKS CHARITIES INC
Patrick Corsney 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT ELKS CHARITIES INC
Andrew Cook 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT ELKS CHARITIES INC
Joseph Montcalm 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT ELKS CHARITIES INC
Mark Smith 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT ELKS CHARITIES INC
Kevin Major 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT ELKS CHARITIES INC
Thomas Maloney 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT ELKS CHARITIES INC
Gene Whitney 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT ELKS CHARITIES INC
Harley Bettis 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT ELKS CHARITIES INC
Karl Rinker 2016 Past President $0 $0 BARRE AREA DEVELOPMENT INC
Nick Rogerson 2016 Board Chairman $0 $0 BETASAB
Floride Carpenter 2016 President $0 $0 PEACEQUILTS INC
Dawn Barnard 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 PEACEQUILTS 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.