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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Tom Manion 2017 Director $0 $0 ADDISON COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Meaghan Mclaughlin 2017 Director $0 $0 ADDISON COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Renny Perry 2017 Director $0 $0 ADDISON COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Elizabeth Robinson 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CENTER FOR EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES INC
Jonathan Stearns 2016 Board Member $0 $0 ADVANCE TRANSIT INC
Sue Perreault 2017 President & Treasurer $0 $0 ORANGE COUNTY DIVERSION PROGRAM
Sanford Johnson 2017 Vice-President $0 $0 ORANGE COUNTY DIVERSION PROGRAM
Nancy Reid 2017 Secretary $0 $0 ORANGE COUNTY DIVERSION PROGRAM
Abbe Meiling 2017 Board Member $0 $0 ORANGE COUNTY DIVERSION PROGRAM
James Taylor 2016 Board Member $0 $0 ADVANCE TRANSIT INC
Mark Lembke 2017 Board Member $0 $0 ORANGE COUNTY DIVERSION PROGRAM
Drew Palcsik 2017 President $0 $0 FROST MOUNTAIN NORDIC INCORPORATED
Christopher Anderson 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 FROST MOUNTAIN NORDIC INCORPORATED
Matt Mancini 2017 Director $0 $0 FROST MOUNTAIN NORDIC INCORPORATED
Britta Pirrung 2017 Director $0 $0 FROST MOUNTAIN NORDIC INCORPORATED
Carolyn Marston 2017 Director $0 $0 FROST MOUNTAIN NORDIC INCORPORATED
Eben Punderson 2017 Former Board Member $0 $0 FROST MOUNTAIN NORDIC INCORPORATED
Christina Hodges 2017 Former Secretary $0 $0 FROST MOUNTAIN NORDIC INCORPORATED
Michael P Hussey 2017 Former Vice Presiden $0 $0 FROST MOUNTAIN NORDIC INCORPORATED
James Hodges 2017 Former President $0 $0 FROST MOUNTAIN NORDIC INCORPORATED
Kathryn Perkins 2014 President $0 $0 VERMONT COMMUNITY GARDEN NETWORK INC
Naomi Quenneville 2017 Chief Financial Officer $0 $0 FAMILIES FIRST IN SOUTHERN VERMONT INC
Paul Connett Phd 2017 Chair & Ex. Director $0 $0 AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH STUDIES PROJECT INC
Bill Hirzy 2017 Director $0 $0 AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH STUDIES PROJECT INC
Christopher Parker 2016 Director $0 $0 CHAMP P3

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.