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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Judy Morrison 2015 Director $0 $0 AUXILIARY OF PORTER MEDICAL CENTER,INC
Jesse D Bugbee Esq 2017 President $0 $0 VERMONT BAR FOUNDATION
Lila Shapero Esq 2017 President-El $0 $0 VERMONT BAR FOUNDATION
Hon Karen R Carroll 2017 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT BAR FOUNDATION
Gavin Boyles Esq 2017 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT BAR FOUNDATION
Trey Martin Esq 2017 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT BAR FOUNDATION
Elizabeth Novotny Esq 2017 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT BAR FOUNDATION
Harry C Parket Esq 2017 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT BAR FOUNDATION
Sarah E Wilson Esq 2017 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT BAR FOUNDATION
Kelly Coleman 2017 Chair $0 $0 VERMONT NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC
Scott Johnstone 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC
Richard Czaplinski 2017 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC
Maggie Galka 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC
Will Lintilhac 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC
Elizabeth Humstone 2017 Past Chair $0 $0 VERMONT NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC
Betsy Chodorkoff 2017 Former Director $0 $0 VERMONT NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC
Virginia Farley 2017 Former Director $0 $0 VERMONT NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC
Judy Geer 2017 Former Director $0 $0 VERMONT NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC
William Roper 2017 Former Director $0 $0 VERMONT NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC
Daniel C Cox 2015 Co-Founder & Chair Emeritus $0 $0 GROUNDS FOR HEALTH INC
Corbin Shattuc 2017 Vice Pres $0 $0 CLARENDON FIRE ASSN INC
Michael Pedone 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 CLARENDON FIRE ASSN INC
Matt Jakubowsk 2017 Chief $0 $0 CLARENDON FIRE ASSN INC
Roy Bixby 2017 Captain $0 $0 CLARENDON FIRE ASSN INC
Rob Flanders 2017 Asst Chief $0 $0 CLARENDON FIRE ASSN 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.