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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Harley Sterling 2017 Worthy Treasurer $0 $0 FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES
Emmett Obrien Iii 2017 Worthy Chaplin $0 $0 FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES
Gary Estus Sr 2017 Worthy Conductor $0 $0 FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES
Rot Larrow 2017 Inside Guard $0 $0 FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES
Jane Campbell 2017 Vice-Chair $0 $0 GOVERNORS INSTITUTES OF VERMONT
Sara Coffey 2017 Trustee $0 $0 GOVERNORS INSTITUTES OF VERMONT
Rachel Fitch 2017 Trustee $0 $0 GOVERNORS INSTITUTES OF VERMONT
Tanya Sousa 2017 Trustee $0 $0 GOVERNORS INSTITUTES OF VERMONT
Andrea Diehl Deceased 2017 Trustee $0 $0 GOVERNORS INSTITUTES OF VERMONT
Don Collins Partial Year 2017 Trustee $0 $0 GOVERNORS INSTITUTES OF VERMONT
Megan Mayhew Bergman Partial Year 2017 Trustee $0 $0 GOVERNORS INSTITUTES OF VERMONT
Robert Turnau Partial Year 2017 Trustee $0 $0 GOVERNORS INSTITUTES OF VERMONT
William Edwards Md 2016 Vice President $0 $0 VERMONT OXFORD NETWORK INC
Nancy M Sluys 2017 President $0 $0 HARRIS & FRANCES BLOCK FOUNDATION
Ashley Orgain 2015 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH & EDUCATION FUND
Diane Maurer Schatz 2017 Secretary $0 $0 HARRIS & FRANCES BLOCK FOUNDATION
Pamela Bagley 2017 Secretary $0 $0 WINDSOR PUBLIC LIBRARY
Kathy Marsh 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 WINDSOR PUBLIC LIBRARY
Sharon Besso 2017 Trustee $0 $0 WINDSOR PUBLIC LIBRARY
Hamilton Gillett 2017 Trustee $0 $0 WINDSOR PUBLIC LIBRARY
Sara Norris 2017 Trustee $0 $0 WINDSOR PUBLIC LIBRARY
Annie Murray-Close Phd 2017 President $0 $0 CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY TRAINING & RESEARCH INC
Rex Forehand Phd 2017 Director $0 $0 CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY TRAINING & RESEARCH INC
Elizabeth Dall 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN ISLANDS PARENT CHILD CENTER
Benjamin Siracusa Hillman 2016 Trustee $0 $0 PLANNED PARENTHOOD NEW HAMPSHIRE ACTION FUND 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.