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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Marianna Holzer 2017 Director $0 $0 CARPENTER-CARSE LIBRARY
Jim Jarvis 2017 Director $0 $0 CARPENTER-CARSE LIBRARY
Brian Dunlop 2017 Director $0 $0 CARPENTER-CARSE LIBRARY
Darcelene Lewis Wedge 2017 Director $0 $0 CARPENTER-CARSE LIBRARY
Connie Barton 2017 Director $0 $0 KIDS IN THE COUNTRY CHILD CARE AND PRESCHOOL INC
Kristy Crawford 2017 Asst. Director $0 $0 KIDS IN THE COUNTRY CHILD CARE AND PRESCHOOL INC
Alec Tuscany 2017 Trustee $0 $0 WATERBURY AMBULANCE SERVICE INC
John Desgroseilliers 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT ANTIQUE AUTOMOBILE SOCIETY INC
Brian Mccarthy 2014 Director $0 $0 STEM CHALLENGE INITIATIVE
Dennis Frechette 2016 Chairman $0 $0 FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES
Jim Hermanowski 2017 Chairman $0 $0 WATERBURY AMBULANCE SERVICE INC
Mike Spinelli 2017 Former Trustee $0 $0 WATERBURY AMBULANCE SERVICE INC
Joanna Therrien-Conti 2017 Former Trustee $0 $0 WATERBURY AMBULANCE SERVICE INC
Diane Andrews 2017 Secretary $0 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT DRESSAGE ASSOCIATION INC
Robert Gentle 2016 Vice President $0 $0 GOOD STEWARD FOUNDATION OF MORRISVILLE VERMONT INC
Heather Cutler 2017 Vice President $0 $0 WATERBURY AMBULANCE SERVICE INC
Mark Hamiltonmd 2015 Vice President $0 $0 LINCOLN STREET INC
Alex Beck 2016 Member $0 $0 WINDHAM & WINDSOR HOUSING TRUST INC
Jeri Wohlberg 2017 President $0 $0 GREENSBORO COMMUNITY CHILDCARE CENTER
Elizabeth Browning 2017 Vice Preside $0 $0 GREENSBORO COMMUNITY CHILDCARE CENTER
Katherine Desjardins 2017 Secretary $0 $0 GREENSBORO COMMUNITY CHILDCARE CENTER
Sophia Barsalow 2017 Director $0 $0 GREENSBORO COMMUNITY CHILDCARE CENTER
Lawerence N Kasser 2017 President $0 $0 STREAMWAY FOUNDATION TRUST
Karen O'Donnell 2017 Secretary/Ex $0 $0 JAY PEAK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC
Julie Marquis 2017 Asst. Exec. $0 $0 JAY PEAK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 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.