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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Meg Cottam 2015 Ex-Officio $0 $0 HILAND HALL SCHOOL
Katherine Connolly 2015 Board Secret $0 $0 HOWARDCENTER INC
Meredith Roberts 2017 President $0 $0 ANA-VERMONT INC
Nik Znamenskis 2017 Treasurer (Former) $0 $0 ANA-VERMONT INC
Lori Poirier 2017 Vice President/Secretary $0 $0 ANA-VERMONT INC
Sharon Butler 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 ANA-VERMONT INC
Gillian Eaton 2015 Board Member $0 $0 HOWARDCENTER INC
Ann Sparrow 2016 Board Member $0 $0 UMBRELLA OF ST JOHNSBURY INC
Laura Maguire-Jones 2015 Secretary $0 $0 HILAND HALL SCHOOL
Diane Norris 2017 President $0 $0 ADDISON COUNTY FAIR AND FIELD DAYS INC
William Roleau 2017 Member $0 $0 ADDISON COUNTY FAIR AND FIELD DAYS INC
Benj Deppman 2017 Vice President $0 $0 ADDISON COUNTY FAIR AND FIELD DAYS INC
Lusenge Emmanuel Siriwayo 2015 Board Member $0 $0 HOWARDCENTER INC
Michael Simoneau 2015 Board Member $0 $0 HOWARDCENTER INC
Elizabeth Ganger 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 HILAND HALL SCHOOL
David Sobczak 2015 Board Member $0 $0 HOWARDCENTER INC
Jason Seroto-Winston 2017 Vice President $0 $0 AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS
Tracie Longto 2017 President $0 $0 WATCH THEM GROW CHILDCARE CENTER
Alyssa Longto 2017 Vice President $0 $0 WATCH THEM GROW CHILDCARE CENTER
Danielle Drown 2017 Secretary $0 $0 WATCH THEM GROW CHILDCARE CENTER
Kerri Gandin 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 WATCH THEM GROW CHILDCARE CENTER
Connie Stabler 2015 Board Vp $0 $0 HOWARDCENTER INC
Karen O'Neill 2014 Board Member $0 $0 HOWARDCENTER INC
Rain Flanagan 2017 Board Member $0 $0 THETFORD AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM INC
Ryan Kraman 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 WAITSFIELD ELEMENTARY PTA

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.