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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Mallory Bussell 2017 Secretary $0 $0 SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FORESTERS
Joseph Barsky 2017 News Quarterly Editor $0 $0 SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FORESTERS
Robert Cousins 2017 Me State Rep $0 $0 SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FORESTERS
Wendy Weisiger 2017 Website Administrator $0 $0 SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FORESTERS
Ed Oleary 2017 Vt State Rep $0 $0 SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FORESTERS
Kevin Evans 2017 Chair $0 $0 SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FORESTERS
Tammy Richards 2017 Secretary $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO RETREAT
Justin Johnson 2017 Trustee $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO RETREAT
Michael Sarsynki Jr Cfp 2017 Trustee $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO RETREAT
Bette Abrams 2017 Past Trustee $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO RETREAT
David Dunn 2017 Past Trustee $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO RETREAT
Ronni Allard 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING VCIL
Craig Line 2014 Trustee $0 $0 KELLOGG HUBBARD LIBRARY
Zachary Hughes 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING VCIL
Raymond C Pecor Iii 2015 Vice Preside $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY EXPOSITION INC
Carol Freeman 2014 Director $0 $0 ENHANCED LIVING INC
Dean Haller 2015 Director $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY EXPOSITION INC
David Goodell 2016 Trustee $0 $0 KNIGHTS INC
Richard Baribeau 2016 Commander $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Lois Mcclure 2017 Director $0 $0 J WARREN & LOIS MCCLURE FOUNDATION INC
Barbara Benedict 2017 President $0 $0 J WARREN & LOIS MCCLURE FOUNDATION INC
Rebecca Henry 2017 Vice President $0 $0 J WARREN & LOIS MCCLURE FOUNDATION INC
Dan Smith 2017 Secretary $0 $31,011 J WARREN & LOIS MCCLURE FOUNDATION INC
Janet Mclaughlin 2017 Director $0 $31,783 J WARREN & LOIS MCCLURE FOUNDATION INC
Vicki Wells 2017 Director $0 $0 VT-HEC 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.