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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Nancy Luke 2017 Director $0 $0 UNITED WAYS OF VERMONT
Rob Schultz 2017 Director $0 $0 UNITED WAYS OF VERMONT
Kate Mcgowan Until December 2017 2017 Director $0 $0 UNITED WAYS OF VERMONT
Angela Earle Gray 2016 Director $0 $0 UNITED WAY OF WINDHAM COUNTY
Mary Moulton 2017 President $0 $20,462 WASHINGTON COUNTY COMMUNITY HOUSING PROJECT I
Zach Williams 2017 President $0 $0 LAMOILLE COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE
Stephen Terry 2015 Secretary $0 $0 GREATER BURLINGTON INDUS CORP
Jodi Woodard 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 NORTHEAST KINGDOM LEARNING SERVICES
Donna Austin- Hawley 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT ETV INC
Marguerite Dibble 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT ETV INC
Mark Burke 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT ETV INC
Hal Colston 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT ETV INC
John Evans 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT ETV INC
Robert Hofmann 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT ETV INC
Toby Knox 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT ETV INC
Peter Graham 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT ETV INC
Elizabeth Rattigan 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT ETV INC
Patricia Gabel 2017 Chair $0 $0 VERMONT ETV INC
Jim Clubb 2017 Vice Chair $0 $0 VERMONT ETV INC
Linda Michniewicz 2016 Director $0 $0 NORTHEAST KINGDOM LEARNING SERVICES
Ethan Bechtel 2015 Vice Chairma $0 $0 GREATER BURLINGTON INDUS CORP
Laura St Onge 2016 Director $0 $0 NORTHEAST KINGDOM LEARNING SERVICES
David Cannamela 2017 Ex Director $0 $17,721 FRANCIS HOME PROVIDERS SERVICES INC
William Colson 2017 President $0 $0 NORMAN WILLIAMS PUBLIC LIBRARY
Chris Lloyd 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 NORMAN WILLIAMS PUBLIC LIBRARY

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.