Vermont Nonprofit Navigator
Explore the organizations and people that power Vermont's $6.8 billion nonprofit economy.
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 Harlow | 2017 | Commander | $0 | $0 | AMERICAN LEGION |
| Karen Bresnahan | 2016 | Director | $0 | $0 | SARA M HOLBROOK COMMUNITY CENTER |
| Richard Peabody | 2015 | Director | $0 | $0 | CENTER FOR MINDFUL LEARNING INC |
| Carrie Jewell | 2015 | Director | $0 | $0 | SPRINGFIELD HOSPITAL INC |
| C King | 2017 | 2Nd Vice | $0 | $0 | AMERICAN LEGION |
| F Killay | 2017 | Judge Advocate | $0 | $0 | AMERICAN LEGION |
| Lynn Perna | 2017 | Secretary | $0 | $0 | MARLBORO VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC |
| Anne Harper | 2017 | President | $0 | $0 | PHILIP S HARPER FOUNDATION |
| Kirk Williams | 2017 | Vice President | $0 | $0 | PHILIP S HARPER FOUNDATION |
| Chris Graff | 2015 | Chair | $0 | $0 | VERMONT LONG TERM DISASTER RECOVERY GROUP INC |
| Steven Palumbo | 2017 | Director | $0 | $0 | PHILIP S HARPER FOUNDATION |
| David Sandelman | 2015 | Director | $0 | $0 | SPRINGFIELD HOSPITAL INC |
| Gabriel St Pierre | 2015 | Director | $0 | $0 | SPRINGFIELD HOSPITAL INC |
| Heidi Lang | 2014 | Vice President | $0 | $0 | WOODSTOCK HISTORY CENTER INC |
| Jeff Baron | 2015 | Director | $0 | $0 | YOUNG WRITERS PROJECT INC |
| Michele Patton | 2016 | Director | $0 | $0 | SARA M HOLBROOK COMMUNITY CENTER |
| Doug Bishop | 2015 | Vice-Chair | $0 | $0 | VERMONT LONG TERM DISASTER RECOVERY GROUP INC |
| George Lamb | 2015 | Chairperson/Vice Chairperson | $0 | $0 | SPRINGFIELD HOSPITAL INC |
| Gerald Drabyn Md | 2015 | Director | $0 | $15,151 | SPRINGFIELD HOSPITAL INC |
| Bob St Armour | 2017 | Director | $0 | $0 | POULTNEY VALLEY SNOWMOBILE DEVILS INC |
| Denis Backus | 2017 | Adjutant And Service Officer | $0 | $0 | AMERICAN LEGION CLUB |
| Albert Clark | 2017 | Sargeant At Arms | $0 | $0 | AMERICAN LEGION CLUB |
| Tom Hunt | 2017 | Finance Officer & 2Nd Vice Pres | $0 | $0 | AMERICAN LEGION CLUB |
| Bob Piekarski | 2017 | President | $0 | $0 | AMERICAN LEGION |
| Randy Peace | 2017 | Vice Preside | $0 | $0 | AMERICAN LEGION |
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.
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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.