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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Selya Price 2017 Vice-Chair $0 $0 CLEAN ENERGY STATES ALLIANCE INC
Courtney Prideaux Smith 2017 Former Director $0 $0 CLEAN ENERGY STATES ALLIANCE INC
Natalie Lee 2017 Director $0 $0 CLEAN ENERGY STATES ALLIANCE INC
Doreen Harris 2017 Director $0 $0 CLEAN ENERGY STATES ALLIANCE INC
Janet Joseph 2017 Former Director $0 $0 CLEAN ENERGY STATES ALLIANCE INC
Nancy Livak 2017 President $0 $0 THE MENTOR CONNECTOR
Arnold Langbo 2016 Director $0 $0 GOOD STEWARD FOUNDATION OF MORRISVILLE VERMONT INC
Robert Sanders 2017 Former Director / Sr. Policy Dir. $0 $39,837 CLEAN ENERGY STATES ALLIANCE INC
Robert Dexter 2017 President $0 $0 BRIGHTON SNOWMOBILE CLUB
Chris Roese 2017 Vice President $0 $0 BRIGHTON SNOWMOBILE CLUB
Susan Purdell 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 BRIGHTON SNOWMOBILE CLUB
Susan Pedersen 2017 Secretary $0 $0 BRIGHTON SNOWMOBILE CLUB
Leandro Vasquez 2014 Vice-President $0 $0 COCHRANS SKI AREA INC
Eugene Adams 2014 Head Trustee $0 $0 WEST WEATHERSFIELD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC
Bradley Ferland 2016 President $0 $0 GOOD STEWARD FOUNDATION OF MORRISVILLE VERMONT INC
Greg Watson 2017 Director $0 $0 CLEAN ENERGY GROUP INC
Mary Ann Lauder 2015 President $0 $0 LINCOLN STREET INC
Jerry Greenfield 2017 Director $0 $0 JERRY GREENFIELD & ELIZABETH K SKARIE FOUNDATION
Elizabeth Skarie 2017 Director $0 $0 JERRY GREENFIELD & ELIZABETH K SKARIE FOUNDATION
Frederick K Thaler 2017 Director $0 $0 JERRY GREENFIELD & ELIZABETH K SKARIE FOUNDATION
Emo Chynoweth 2017 President $0 $0 UNION ARENA INC
Robert Wagner 2017 Director $0 $0 UNION ARENA INC
Valerie Lacroix 2017 Vice President $0 $0 UNION ARENA INC
Harold Mayhew 2017 Secretary $0 $0 UNION ARENA INC
Steve Dotson 2016 Vice President $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION

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.