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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Cindi Taylor 2017 Member (Thru 10/31/17) $0 $0 VITAL COMMUNITIES INC
Daniel Newmarket 2017 Non Voting Member (Effect. 6/1/18)) $0 $0 VITAL COMMUNITIES INC
Roger Burr 2016 Dep Gr Secretar $0 $0 MASONIC CHARITIES OF VERMONT INC
Richard Shasteen 2017 Vice Preside $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
Jess Phelps 2017 Board Member $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
Jacob Hinsdale 2017 Board Member $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
Katie Glover 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
Victor Stone 2016 Grand Master $0 $0 MASONIC CHARITIES OF VERMONT INC
Sarah Rooker82715-63016 2015 Board Vice Chair $0 $0 UPPER VALLEY WALDORF SCHOOL
Stuart Corcell 2016 Dep Gr Master $0 $0 MASONIC CHARITIES OF VERMONT INC
John Murphy Jr 2015 President $0 $0 SIDE HILL CRONCHERS INC
Gus Seelig 2017 Director From 10/2017 $0 $0 VERMONT ENERGY INVESTMENT CORP
Tiffany Bluemle 2017 Director Thru 10/2017 $0 $0 VERMONT ENERGY INVESTMENT CORP
Mark Saba 2014 Chair $0 $0 LEAHY CENTER FOR LAKE CHAMPLAIN INC
Louise Luring 2015 President $0 $0 GREATER FALLS WARMING SHELTER
Rachel Gross 2015 Board Member $0 $0 UPPER VALLEY WALDORF SCHOOL
Steve Kondraki 2015 Vice President $0 $0 SIDE HILL CRONCHERS INC
Douglas Peabody 2015 Secretary $0 $0 SIDE HILL CRONCHERS INC
Brink Hartman 2016 President $0 $0 FRIENDS IN ADOPTION INC
Ronald Bixby 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 SIDE HILL CRONCHERS INC
Bonnie Dasher-Andersen 2016 Board Member $0 $0 UMBRELLA OF ST JOHNSBURY INC
Philip Warren 2014 Trustee $0 $0 MERCK FOREST & FARMLAND CENTER
Amy Anderson 2016 Secretary $0 $0 FRANKLIN COUNTY CARING COMMUNITIES INC
Laura Williams 2015 Board Member $0 $0 UPPER VALLEY WALDORF SCHOOL
Rich Larsen 2014 Board Chair $0 $0 CATAMOUNT TRAIL 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.