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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Jeff Taft-Dick 2017 Director $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD ON THE MOVE INC
Gregory Mccormick 2017 Trustee $0 $0 LYNDON INSTITUTE
Lawrence Cipollone 2017 Vice President $0 $0 LYNDON INSTITUTE
Charles Bucknam 2017 Trustee $0 $0 LYNDON INSTITUTE
James Gallagher 2017 President $0 $0 LYNDON INSTITUTE
Larissa Flynn 2017 Trustee $0 $0 LYNDON INSTITUTE
David R Hartwell 2017 Trustee $0 $0 LYNDON INSTITUTE
Ryan Noyes 2017 Trustee $0 $0 LYNDON INSTITUTE
Gary L Franklin Esq 2015 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT BAR ASSOCIATION
Russ Scully 2015 Director $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN COMMUNITY SAILING CENTER INC
Elizabeth Novotny Esq 2015 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT BAR ASSOCIATION
Richard Rubin 2017 President $0 $0 DRAGON DANCE
Catherine Gauthier 2017 Secretary $0 $0 DRAGON DANCE
Sam Kerson 2017 Executive Director/Treasurer $0 $0 DRAGON DANCE
Jim Christie 2017 Board Member $0 $0 DRAGON DANCE
Sophie B Kerson 2017 Board Member $0 $0 DRAGON DANCE
Lina Lachapelle 2017 Board Member $0 $0 DRAGON DANCE
Michel Faucherre 2017 Board Member $0 $0 DRAGON DANCE
Patricia Sears 2017 Secretary $0 $0 GROTON VILLAGE HOUSING INC
Seleem Choudhury 2017 Vice-President $0 $0 GROTON VILLAGE HOUSING INC
Patrick Flood 2017 Interim Chief Executive Officer $0 $0 GROTON VILLAGE HOUSING INC
Trisha Ingalls 2017 Outgoing Chief Executive Officer $0 $0 GROTON VILLAGE HOUSING INC
David Naaktgeboren 2017 President $0 $0 VERDMONT OUTING CLUB
Amy Kuzmicki 2017 Secretary $0 $0 VERDMONT OUTING CLUB
Dennis Mcgannon 2017 Vice President $0 $0 VERDMONT OUTING CLUB

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.