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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Laurie Chester 2017 Trustee $0 $0 NORMAN WILLIAMS PUBLIC LIBRARY
Ron Miller 2017 Trustee $0 $0 NORMAN WILLIAMS PUBLIC LIBRARY
Ronald Moore 2017 Trustee $0 $0 NORMAN WILLIAMS PUBLIC LIBRARY
Barbara Trippel Simmons 2017 Trustee $0 $0 NORMAN WILLIAMS PUBLIC LIBRARY
Stephen Mengel 2016 Director $0 $0 NORTHEAST KINGDOM LEARNING SERVICES
Peter Reed 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 RANDOLPH AREA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Ken Stevens 2017 Director $0 $0 RANDOLPH AREA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Roger Glovsky 2017 Director $0 $0 RANDOLPH AREA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Jenny Davis Term Ended 2017 Director $0 $0 RANDOLPH AREA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Sarah Isham Term Ended 2017 Director $0 $0 RANDOLPH AREA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
John Westbrook Term Ended 2017 Director $0 $0 RANDOLPH AREA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Erica Hare 2017 President And Secretary $0 $38,449 VERMONT COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION INC
Eric Zeno 2017 Vice President $0 $0 FOOTE OF THE MOUNTAIN SNO-TRAVELERS INC
Rhonda Ziter 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO TENNIS CLUB INC
Betsy Judson 2017 Secretary $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO TENNIS CLUB INC
Peter Fisher 2017 Director $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO TENNIS CLUB INC
Babara Charkey 2017 Director $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO TENNIS CLUB INC
Michael Schoob 2015 Trustee $0 $0 HUBBARD BROOK RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
Stuart V Smith Jr 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 HUBBARD BROOK RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
David Sleeper 2015 Executive Director $0 $4,094 HUBBARD BROOK RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
Brenda Mccartney 2015 Director Of Finance $0 $0 HUBBARD BROOK RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
Anthea Lavallee 2015 Executive Director $0 $0 HUBBARD BROOK RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
Melinda Moulton 2015 Chair $0 $0 STEPS PROGRAM INC
Paul Young 2015 Director $0 $0 STEPS PROGRAM INC
Maurice Ouimet 2015 Director $0 $0 STEPS PROGRAM 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.