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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Lyndsay Deslauriers Term Ended 2017 Director $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN COMMUNITY SAILING CENTER INC
Pat Burns Term Ended 2017 Director $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN COMMUNITY SAILING CENTER INC
G Joseph Rogers 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 CAMBRIDGE REGIONAL HEALTH CENTER INC
Diancy Boyden 2016 Director $0 $0 CAMBRIDGE REGIONAL HEALTH CENTER INC
Calvin Benjanim 2017 President $0 $0 STRAFFORD FIREMAN ASSOCIATION
Shawn Harlow 2017 Director - Fire Chief $0 $0 STRAFFORD FIREMAN ASSOCIATION
Bj Miller 2017 Director $0 $0 STRAFFORD FIREMAN ASSOCIATION
Raif Southworth 2016 President & Treasurer $0 $0 MARLBORO VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC
Sheilagh Falcigno 2017 Director $0 $0 RETREAT PROJECT INC
Ducky Donath 2016 Director $0 $0 SARA M HOLBROOK COMMUNITY CENTER
Roderick Ames 2017 Board Vice-Chairman $0 $0 UNITED CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
Anne Rogers 2016 Director $0 $0 CAMBRIDGE REGIONAL HEALTH CENTER INC
Phil Rogers 2016 Director $0 $0 CAMBRIDGE REGIONAL HEALTH CENTER INC
Kristi Cross 2015 Board Member $0 $0 BENNINGTON COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS
Patrica White 2016 Director $0 $0 CAMBRIDGE REGIONAL HEALTH CENTER INC
Racheal Disanto 2017 Director $0 $0 UNITED CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
Peggy Kannenstine 2017 Trustee $0 $0 THE CENTER FOR CARTOON STUDIES INC
Neva Cunningham 2016 Director $0 $0 CAMBRIDGE REGIONAL HEALTH CENTER INC
Alex Harton 2014 Trustee $0 $0 GOOD NEIGHBOR HEALTH CLINIC INC
Debbie Larosa 2016 Secretary $0 $0 SARA M HOLBROOK COMMUNITY CENTER
Benjamin Esser-Calvi 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 OTTER CREEK CHILD CENTER INC
Caroline Damon 2017 Board Member $0 $0 OTTER CREEK CHILD CENTER INC
Jessi Farnsworth 2017 Board Member $0 $0 OTTER CREEK CHILD CENTER INC
Sara White 2015 Board Member $0 $0 BENNINGTON COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS
Lynn Austin 2016 Director $0 $0 CAMBRIDGE REGIONAL HEALTH CENTER 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.