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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Luke Sussdorff 2017 Director $0 $0 JAY PEAK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC
Christine Chapman 2016 Member $0 $0 WINDHAM & WINDSOR HOUSING TRUST INC
Stacey Bleile 2017 Secretary $0 $0 WOODFORD SNOBUSTERS INC
Mary Beth Daniels 2017 Board Member $0 $0 WOODFORD SNOBUSTERS INC
Betty Roark 2017 Membership $0 $0 WOODFORD SNOBUSTERS INC
Scott Daniels 2017 Trail Master $0 $0 WOODFORD SNOBUSTERS INC
Gene Mckenna 2017 Past President $0 $0 WOODFORD SNOBUSTERS INC
Stephen Mengel 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 NORTHEAST KINGDOM LEARNING SERVICES
Jodi Woodward 2017 Director $0 $0 NORTHEAST KINGDOM LEARNING SERVICES
Chris Bertrand 2014 Officer Of The Day And Advocate $0 $0 VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF VERMONT
Catharine Hamilton 2017 President $0 $0 AMES HILL MARLBORO COMMUNITY CENTER INC
Paul Butler 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 AMES HILL MARLBORO COMMUNITY CENTER INC
Brian Mooney 2017 Assistant Se $0 $0 AMES HILL MARLBORO COMMUNITY CENTER INC
Rob Moore 2017 Vice-President $0 $0 RURAL COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION INC
Glenn Harter 2017 Director $0 $0 RURAL COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION INC
Linda Lyman 2017 Director $0 $0 RURAL COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION INC
Barry Lyden 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 GOOD STEWARD FOUNDATION OF MORRISVILLE VERMONT INC
Rick Blaisdell 2015 Secretary $0 $0 LINCOLN STREET INC
Karen Harris 2017 President $0 $0 NORWICH PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
Pam Miles 2017 Vice President $0 $0 NORWICH PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
Leslie Rimmer 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 NORWICH PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
Kathy Cadow Parsonnet 2017 Secretary $0 $0 NORWICH PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
Stephanie Mccaull Past Pres 2017 Trustee $0 $0 NORWICH PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
Jane Ackerman 2017 Trustee $0 $0 NORWICH PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
Terri Ashley 2017 Trustee $0 $0 NORWICH PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION

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.