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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Victor Boardman 2015 Vice Treasurer $0 $0 ASSOCIATION OF AFRICANS LIVING IN VERMONT
Terence Breen 2014 Trustee 4/3/15 $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INC
Ken Swierad 2014 Benn Assoc Rep $0 $0 VERMONT SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION
Siriwayo Emmanuel 2015 Director $0 $0 ASSOCIATION OF AFRICANS LIVING IN VERMONT
John Vincenty Jr 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING VCIL
Kristin Bornholdt-Collins 2014 Parent Director $0 $0 THE CHILD CARE CENTER IN NORWICH INC
Arnie Malina 2017 President $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL
Valerie Graham 2017 Vice President $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL
David Adair 2017 Secretary $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL
Marc Law 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL
Starling Childs 2014 Director $0 $0 CENTER FOR WOODLANDS EDUCATION INC
Tim Jerman 2013 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Katherine Banks 2017 Director $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL
Boyd Schaufelberger 2016 Trustee $0 $0 HOLSTEIN FOUNDATION INC
Claude Schwesig 2017 Director $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL
Irving Payne 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING VCIL
Mary Ann Mcdermott 2014 Secretary $0 $0 HARD ACK INC
David Blittersdorf 2016 Past Trustee $0 $0 PLANNED PARENTHOOD VERMONT ACTION FUND INC
Ann O'Hara Hughes 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 THETFORD AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM INC
Krystal Mcgovern 2017 Board Member $0 $0 THETFORD AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM INC
Aileen Panitz 2017 Board Member $0 $0 THETFORD AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM INC
Sarah Bartos Smith 2017 Secretary $0 $0 THETFORD AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM INC
Murray Haber 2016 Director $0 $0 FRIENDS IN ADOPTION INC
Rachel Carter 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT BUSINESS ASSOCIATION FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Victoria Smith 2016 President $0 $16,337 KING STREET CENTER FOUNDATION

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.