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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Angela Neill 2016 Director $0 $0 VALLEY ARTS FOUNDATION INC
Helen Ellsworth 2016 Director $0 $0 KINGS DAUGHTERS HOME INC
George Daly 2015 Vice Chairman $0 $0 STEPS PROGRAM INC
Patricia Shane 2015 Director $0 $0 STEPS PROGRAM INC
Anne Barnes 2015 Director- Chair/Treasurer $0 $0 THE F B STEARNS SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION
Joshua Burns 2016 President $0 $0 NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOLHOUSE OF BRATTLEBORO INC
Peter Mclaughlin 2015 Chairman/Business Mgr. $0 $4,800 INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS
Glenn Brackett 2015 Secretary/Treasurer $0 $0 INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS
Michael Spillane 2015 Vice Chair/Business Mgr $0 $0 INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS
Wayne Fisk 2015 Co-Chair $0 $0 FRIENDS OF NORTHERN LAKE CHAMPLAIN INC
Kristen Coats 2016 Director $0 $0 TWIN STATE CHRISTIAN COUNSELING INC
Jeremy Faust 2015 President $0 $0 ROOMFUL OF TEETH VOCAL ARTS PROJECT INC
Arthur Turton 2015 Treasurer/As $0 $0 ROOMFUL OF TEETH VOCAL ARTS PROJECT INC
Noah Crane 2016 Director $0 $0 TWIN STATE CHRISTIAN COUNSELING INC
Ross Gibson 2016 Director $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC
George Daly 2013 Director $0 $0 STEPS PROGRAM INC
Dr John Aber 2014 Trustee $0 $0 HUBBARD BROOK RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
Dr Christopher C Barton 2014 Trustee $0 $0 HUBBARD BROOK RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
Dr Timothy J Fahey 2014 Trustee $0 $0 HUBBARD BROOK RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
Dr Steven Hamburg 2014 Chair $0 $0 HUBBARD BROOK RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
Dr Peter Martin 2014 Vice Chair $0 $0 HUBBARD BROOK RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
Dr Gene E Likens 2014 Trustee $0 $0 HUBBARD BROOK RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
Mr Thomas F Gross 2014 Trustee $0 $0 HUBBARD BROOK RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
Ms Jane E S Sokolow 2014 Trustee $0 $0 HUBBARD BROOK RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
Mr Stuart V Smith Jr 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 HUBBARD BROOK RESEARCH FOUNDATION 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.