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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Richard Pertz 2016 Vice President $0 $0 MUSIC CAMPS NORTH INC
Peter Kaufman 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 MUSIC CAMPS NORTH INC
Marcia Goodman 2016 Secretary $0 $0 MUSIC CAMPS NORTH INC
Kathie Ferraro 2016 Director $0 $0 MUSIC CAMPS NORTH INC
Pete Kelly 2016 Director $0 $0 MUSIC CAMPS NORTH INC
Michael Simpson 2016 Director $0 $0 MUSIC CAMPS NORTH INC
Kelly Stockwell 2016 Director $0 $0 MUSIC CAMPS NORTH INC
Linda Cormany 2016 President $0 $0 KINGDOM COUNTY PRODUCTIONS
Dennis O'Brien 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 KINGDOM COUNTY PRODUCTIONS
Nat Winthrop 2016 Vice Preside $0 $0 KINGDOM COUNTY PRODUCTIONS
Michael Casarico 2016 Director $0 $0 KINGDOM COUNTY PRODUCTIONS
Anne M Johnston Md 2016 Director $0 $0 KINGDOM COUNTY PRODUCTIONS
Faye Baker 2016 Director $0 $0 KINGDOM COUNTY PRODUCTIONS
Michelle Mcdonough 2016 Director $0 $0 KINGDOM COUNTY PRODUCTIONS
Viviana Ruiz 2015 President $0 $0 CIRENAS INC
Martin Bertolini 2016 Trustee $0 $0 POPE MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Kay Wisniewski 2016 President $0 $0 ROBERT AND ANN NEWBURGER FOUNDATION INC
Katherine Wisniewski 2016 Vice President $0 $0 ROBERT AND ANN NEWBURGER FOUNDATION INC
Michael Wisniewski 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 ROBERT AND ANN NEWBURGER FOUNDATION INC
Mary Ellen Griffin 2016 Trustee $0 $0 POPE MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Betsy Dunham 2016 Director $0 $0 BENNINGTON COUNTY ASSOCIATION AGAINST CHILD ABUSE
Catherine Murphy 2017 Director $0 $0 AMERICAS MEDIA INITIATIVE NFP
Gerrit Gosliga 2017 President $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC
Helena Van Voorst 2017 Vice President $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC
Jeffrey Gosliga 2017 Asst. Treasurer $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION 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.