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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Jason Wyman 2017 Board Member $0 $0 CATAMOUNT TRAIL ASSOCIATION
Angus Mccusker Term Expired 2017 Board Member $0 $0 CATAMOUNT TRAIL ASSOCIATION
Rich Larsen Term Expired 2017 Board Member $0 $0 CATAMOUNT TRAIL ASSOCIATION
Tyler Miller Term Expired 2017 Board Member $0 $0 CATAMOUNT TRAIL ASSOCIATION
Brian Mohr Term Expired 2017 Board Member $0 $0 CATAMOUNT TRAIL ASSOCIATION
Jackie Folsom 2015 Director $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY EXPOSITION INC
Matt Williams 2017 Executive Di $0 $0 CATAMOUNT TRAIL ASSOCIATION
Martin Lucas 2017 Trustee $0 $0 AMERICAN SOCIETY OF DOWSERS INC
Magna Dodge 2017 Director $0 $0 TOWN HALL THEATER INC
Sarah Kearns 2017 Director $0 $0 TOWN HALL THEATER INC
Jane Kimball 2017 Director $0 $0 TOWN HALL THEATER INC
Rep Ann Pugh 2015 Board Member $0 $0 HOWARDCENTER INC
Rich Chalmers 2017 President $0 $0 VERMONT COVERTS
Dawn Andrews 2017 Vice Preside $0 $0 VERMONT COVERTS
Tina Barney 2017 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT COVERTS
Jon Bouton 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT COVERTS
Steve Crihfield 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT COVERTS
John Mcnerney 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT COVERTS
David Smith 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT COVERTS
Pieter Vanloon 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT COVERTS
Cyndee Sturtevant 2015 Board Member $0 $0 HOWARDCENTER INC
Norma Hathaway 2017 Trustee $0 $0 THE MARVIN L AND NORMA J HATHAWAY FOUNDATION
Lynn H Bortree 2017 Trustee $0 $0 THE MARVIN L AND NORMA J HATHAWAY FOUNDATION
Robert Sloan 2017 Trustee $0 $0 THE MARVIN L AND NORMA J HATHAWAY FOUNDATION
Elia Marquis 2017 President $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL

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.