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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Peter S Hubbard 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 JEFFERSON LEGACY FOUNDATION
Bahman Batmanghelidj 2017 Director $0 $0 JEFFERSON LEGACY FOUNDATION
Natalie S Bober 2017 Director $0 $0 JEFFERSON LEGACY FOUNDATION
Shayna Cavanaugh 2014 Board Member $0 $0 CIRCLE INC
Roberta F Somach 2017 Director $0 $0 JEFFERSON LEGACY FOUNDATION
Doug Racine 2017 Vice President $0 $0 PREVENT CHILD ABUSE-VERMONT
Leo Clark 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 PREVENT CHILD ABUSE-VERMONT
Heidi Tringe 2017 Director $0 $0 PREVENT CHILD ABUSE-VERMONT
Melody Shaw 2017 Director $0 $0 PREVENT CHILD ABUSE-VERMONT
Alex Derosa 2017 Director $0 $0 PREVENT CHILD ABUSE-VERMONT
Steve Dale 2017 President $0 $0 PREVENT CHILD ABUSE-VERMONT
Peter Hood 2016 President $0 $0 ELMHILL INC
Mark Floegel 2015 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH & EDUCATION FUND
Joshua Laughlin 2017 President $0 $0 PUTNEY SCHOOL INC
Paul Fearer 2017 Trustee $0 $0 PUTNEY SCHOOL INC
Stephen P Heyneman 2017 Trustee $0 $0 PUTNEY SCHOOL INC
William P Kellett 2017 Trustee $0 $0 PUTNEY SCHOOL INC
Buzz Kuhns 2016 Board Member $0 $0 BRISTOL FRIENDS OF THE ARTS INC
Emmanuel Keppel 2017 Trustee $0 $0 PUTNEY SCHOOL INC
Thao Matlock 2017 Trustee $0 $0 PUTNEY SCHOOL INC
Greta Wolfe 2017 Trustee $0 $0 PUTNEY SCHOOL INC
Mary Manley 2016 Board Member $0 $0 BRISTOL FRIENDS OF THE ARTS INC
Natasha Osborne Byus 2017 Trustee $0 $0 PUTNEY SCHOOL INC
Ira Wender 2017 Vice Chair $0 $0 PUTNEY SCHOOL INC
Jack Hanson 2015 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH & EDUCATION FUND

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.