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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Jacob Stafford 2017 Board Member $0 $0 FIRST STEP PREGNANCY CENTER
Sarah Bagley 2017 Board Member $0 $0 FIRST STEP PREGNANCY CENTER
Jason Merril 2014 Director $0 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT SKATING ASSOCIATION
Ken Weston 2017 Secretary $0 $0 ELDERLY SERVICES INC
Tom Hanley 2017 Board Member $0 $0 ELDERLY SERVICES INC
Sonja Olson 2017 Board Member $0 $0 ELDERLY SERVICES INC
Kathy Starr 2017 Board Member $0 $0 ELDERLY SERVICES INC
Erinn Rolland-Forkey 2017 President $0 $0 VERMONT FOSTER-ADOPTIVE FAMILY ASSOCIATION
Anne Ward 2017 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT FOSTER-ADOPTIVE FAMILY ASSOCIATION
Linda Couture 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT FOSTER-ADOPTIVE FAMILY ASSOCIATION
Robyn Sweet 2017 Vice President $0 $0 VERMONT FOSTER-ADOPTIVE FAMILY ASSOCIATION
Dan Boyce 2017 Past President $0 $0 VERMONT FOSTER-ADOPTIVE FAMILY ASSOCIATION
Jim Bulger 2017 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT FOSTER-ADOPTIVE FAMILY ASSOCIATION
Lisa Steckler 2017 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT FOSTER-ADOPTIVE FAMILY ASSOCIATION
Michelle Feiner 2017 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT FOSTER-ADOPTIVE FAMILY ASSOCIATION
Heather Nelson 2017 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT FOSTER-ADOPTIVE FAMILY ASSOCIATION
Evelyn Grischbowsky 2017 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT FOSTER-ADOPTIVE FAMILY ASSOCIATION
Casie Cohn 2017 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT FOSTER-ADOPTIVE FAMILY ASSOCIATION
Heidi Pelletier 2015 Trustee, Until 12/9/15 $0 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
Margie Prevot 2017 Director $0 $0 THE CENTER FOR AN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY
Lynn Mitchell Md 2014 Director $0 $55,600 ACADEMIC PHYSICIANS INSURANCECOMPANY
Douglas M Mccracken 2016 Trustee $0 $0 NORWICH UNIVERSITY
Jennifer Archambault Msm Phr 2017 Board Chair $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INCORPORATED
Debbie Bedrin 2017 Vice Chair $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INCORPORATED
Rachel Doty 2014 Trustee $0 $0 FRIENDS OF THE BRATTLEBORO MUSIC 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.