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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Allie Stickney 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 LOCAL MOTION INC
Janette Bombardier 2014 Director $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Chris Anderson 2017 Treasurer/Se $0 $0 ADDISON COUNTY COMMUNITY TRUST
Robert Coffey 2017 Director $0 $0 ADDISON COUNTY COMMUNITY TRUST
Jon Crystal 2017 Director $0 $0 ADDISON COUNTY COMMUNITY TRUST
Keith Grier 2017 Director $0 $0 ADDISON COUNTY COMMUNITY TRUST
Blair Kloman Resigned 2017 Director $0 $0 ADDISON COUNTY COMMUNITY TRUST
Michelle Larson 2014 Vice President $0 $0 WINDSOR IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION
Stephen Russell 2017 Commander $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Eric Bleau 2017 Finance Officer $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Michael Patnode 2017 State Deputy $0 $0 KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS SCHOLASTIC ACHIEVEMENT FUND
Thomas Herbst 2017 State Secretary $0 $0 KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS SCHOLASTIC ACHIEVEMENT FUND
Bill Silva 2017 State Treasurer $0 $0 KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS SCHOLASTIC ACHIEVEMENT FUND
Jim Michael 2017 State Advocate $0 $0 KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS SCHOLASTIC ACHIEVEMENT FUND
Mirabai Verner-Lust 2017 Secretary $0 $0 MAGICIANS WITHOUT BORDERS
Ellen Bryant Voigt 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 FRIENDS OF WRITERS INC
Dean Bakopoulos 2017 Director $0 $0 FRIENDS OF WRITERS INC
Natalie Baszile 2017 Director $0 $0 FRIENDS OF WRITERS INC
Abigail Wender 2017 President $0 $0 FRIENDS OF WRITERS INC
Sharon Gelman 2017 Director $0 $0 FRIENDS OF WRITERS INC
George Higgins 2017 Director $0 $0 FRIENDS OF WRITERS INC
Annie Kim 2017 Director $0 $0 FRIENDS OF WRITERS INC
Peter Schireson 2017 Director $0 $0 FRIENDS OF WRITERS INC
Larissa T Vidal 2017 Director $0 $0 FRIENDS OF WRITERS INC
Marty Gallagher 2017 Vice Preside $0 $0 FALLS AREA COMMUNITY TELEVISION 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.