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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Garin Frost 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT BREWERS ASSOCIATION INC
Avery Schwenk 2017 President $0 $0 VERMONT BREWERS ASSOCIATION INC
James Branagan 2017 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT BREWERS ASSOCIATION INC
Jody Brown 2015 Board Member $0 $0 STUDIO PLACE ARTS INCORPORATED
Kyle Hoover 2016 Director $0 $0 BENNINGTON COUNTY ASSOCIATION AGAINST CHILD ABUSE
Kit Gates 2015 Board Member $0 $0 STUDIO PLACE ARTS INCORPORATED
Colleen Popkin 2017 Trustee $0 $0 SUSTAINABLE FOOD LAB
Britt Lundgren 2017 Trustee $0 $0 SUSTAINABLE FOOD LAB
Cheryl Pinto 2017 Trustee $0 $0 SUSTAINABLE FOOD LAB
Jed Davis 2017 Trustee $0 $0 SUSTAINABLE FOOD LAB
Janet Van Fleet 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 STUDIO PLACE ARTS INCORPORATED
Angela Ardolic 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 THE WOODSTOCK FOUNDATION INC
Jeanette Rogowski Phd 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT OXFORD NETWORK INC
Tambra Johnson 2016 Director $0 $0 BENNINGTON COUNTY ASSOCIATION AGAINST CHILD ABUSE
Guil Kitchel 2016 Trustee $0 $0 POPE MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Judson Hescock 2017 President $0 $0 ROTARY CLUB OF MIDDLEBURY VERMONT INC
Betsy Mccarthy 2017 President Elect $0 $0 ROTARY CLUB OF MIDDLEBURY VERMONT INC
Mo Conrad 2017 Vice President $0 $0 ROTARY CLUB OF MIDDLEBURY VERMONT INC
Geoffrey Conrad 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 ROTARY CLUB OF MIDDLEBURY VERMONT INC
Pria Cambio 2017 Vice Chair $0 $0 STUDIO PLACE ARTS INCORPORATED
Nick Flanders 2016 Trustee $0 $0 POPE MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Ian Ewyatt 2017 Director/President $0 $0 WYATT FAMILY FOUNDATION
Carrie V Wyatt 2017 Director/Secretary $0 $0 WYATT FAMILY FOUNDATION
Bruce D Wyatt 2017 Director $0 $0 WYATT FAMILY FOUNDATION
Phil Zimmerman 2016 President $0 $0 MUSIC CAMPS NORTH 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.