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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Michael Connett 2017 Former Executive Director $0 $0 AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH STUDIES PROJECT INC
James H Douglas 2017 Vice Chair $0 $0 CALVIN COOLIDGE PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION INC
Catherine M Nelson 2017 Trustee $0 $0 CALVIN COOLIDGE PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION INC
John W Childs 2017 Vice Chair $0 $0 CALVIN COOLIDGE PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION INC
Robert Luddy 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 CALVIN COOLIDGE PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION INC
Dr Richard Schneider 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CENTER FOR EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES INC
Arthur E Crowley Jr 2017 Secretary $0 $0 CALVIN COOLIDGE PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION INC
Richard A Hough Iii 2017 Trustee $0 $0 CALVIN COOLIDGE PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION INC
Judge Edith Jones 2017 Trustee $0 $0 CALVIN COOLIDGE PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION INC
Thomas Lovett 2017 Trustee $0 $0 CALVIN COOLIDGE PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION INC
Patrick O'Neil 2016 Board Member $0 $0 ADVANCE TRANSIT INC
Staci Dsmith 2017 Chair $0 $0 FRIENDS OF DOG MOUNTAIN INC
Terry Buchmiller Md 2017 Vice Chair $0 $0 FRIENDS OF DOG MOUNTAIN INC
Karen Freeman 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 FRIENDS OF DOG MOUNTAIN INC
Tracy Zschau 2017 Secretary $0 $0 FRIENDS OF DOG MOUNTAIN INC
Anne Cambell 2017 Education Director $0 $0 FRIENDS OF DOG MOUNTAIN INC
Devon Craig 2016 Sec $0 $0 BARRE FISH & GAME CLUB INC
Alison Barkley 2017 Trustee $0 $0 ST JOHNSBURY ACADEMY
Gregory E Boardman 2017 Past Trustee $0 $0 ST JOHNSBURY ACADEMY
Bruce E Buxton 2017 Trustee $0 $0 ST JOHNSBURY ACADEMY
Martha Cavanaugh 2017 Trustee $0 $0 ST JOHNSBURY ACADEMY
Peter Crosby 2017 Trustee $0 $0 ST JOHNSBURY ACADEMY
Marcia Derosia 2017 Past Trustee $0 $0 ST JOHNSBURY ACADEMY
Susan O'Neil Grayson 2017 Trustee $0 $0 ST JOHNSBURY ACADEMY
Lee P Hackett 2017 Trustee $0 $0 ST JOHNSBURY ACADEMY

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.