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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Alyssa Todd 2017 Vice Pres $0 $0 VERMONT CHILDREN S ALLIANCE INC
Elaine Lolson 2015 Assistant Treasurer $0 $8,826 THE WOODSTOCK FOUNDATION INC
Monroe Whitaker 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 PARKS AND PLAZAS INC
Craig Miskovich 2016 Secretary $0 $0 PARKS AND PLAZAS INC
Timothy A Ordway 2017 President $0 $0 HALE MOUNTAIN FISH & GAME CLUB INC
Robert Akalinowski 2017 Vice President $0 $0 HALE MOUNTAIN FISH & GAME CLUB INC
James Santarcangelo 2017 Director $0 $0 HALE MOUNTAIN FISH & GAME CLUB INC
Todd Archambeault 2017 Director $0 $0 HALE MOUNTAIN FISH & GAME CLUB INC
Elizabeth Madigan 2014 Secretary $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC
Kathy Avellino 2017 Assistant Director $0 $0 WOODSTOCK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC
Cody Marshall 2017 Board Member $0 $0 WOODSTOCK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC
Sarit Werner 2017 Board Member $0 $0 WOODSTOCK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC
Jennifer Thomas 2017 Board Member $0 $0 ZIENZELE FOUNDATION
Amy Mailloux 2014 Trustee $0 $0 MERCY CONNECTIONS INC
Steve Hambsch 2017 President $0 $0 WOODSTOCK SKI RUNNERS EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM INC
Melissa Gebhart 2017 Secretary $0 $0 WOODSTOCK SKI RUNNERS EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM INC
Biria St John 2017 Trustee $0 $0 WOODSTOCK SKI RUNNERS EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM INC
Chris Wilson 2017 Trustee $0 $0 WOODSTOCK SKI RUNNERS EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM INC
Jason Merrill 2017 Trustee $0 $0 WOODSTOCK SKI RUNNERS EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM INC
Nicholas Mahood 2017 Trustee $0 $0 WOODSTOCK SKI RUNNERS EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM INC
Anne Koop 2017 Trustee $0 $0 WOODSTOCK SKI RUNNERS EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM INC
Trisha Husain 2017 Trustee $0 $0 WOODSTOCK SKI RUNNERS EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM INC
Robert D Bridges 2017 Treasurer And Director $0 $182,927 CRUDEN BAY RISK RETENTION GROUP INC
Rodney A Mckendree 2017 Director $0 $158,322 CRUDEN BAY RISK RETENTION GROUP INC
William W Higginbotham Ii 2017 Assistant Treasurer $0 $59,343 CRUDEN BAY RISK RETENTION GROUP 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.