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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Pam Marsh 2017 Director $0 $0 AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION
Jim Morse 2017 Director $0 $0 AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION
Brad Myerson 2017 Director $0 $0 AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION
Susie Posner-Jones 2017 Director $0 $0 AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION
David Putter 2017 Director $0 $0 AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION
Tony Pyle 2017 Vice President $0 $0 AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION
Barbara Rachelson 2017 Director $0 $0 AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION
William Sayre 2017 Director $0 $0 AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION
Abe Sender 2017 Director $0 $0 AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION
Rosalynn Whitaker-Heck 2017 Secretary $0 $0 AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION
Mark Blanchard 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD AREA PUBLIC ACCESS TELEVISION
David Goodman 2017 Director $0 $0 AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION
Dr Sara White 2017 President $0 $0 VERMONT VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
Kaitlin Wells 2015 Director $0 $0 UNLEASHING THE POWER OF PARTNERSHIP FOR LEARNING INC
Brian Carroll 2017 Director $0 $0 NORTHEAST SLOPES INC
Jonathan Pierson 2017 Director $0 $0 NORTHEAST SLOPES INC
Betsy Kauffman 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 CLEAN ENERGY STATES ALLIANCE INC
Hal Parker 2017 Director $0 $0 CRAFTSBURY CHAMBER PLAYERS INC
Connell Gallagher 2017 Director $0 $0 CRAFTSBURY CHAMBER PLAYERS INC
Patricia Nagy 2017 President $0 $0 VERMONT CHILD CARE INDUSTRY AND CAREER COUNCIL INC
Judy Bourbeau 2017 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT CHILD CARE INDUSTRY AND CAREER COUNCIL INC
Janet Walker 2017 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT CHILD CARE INDUSTRY AND CAREER COUNCIL INC
Maegen Huffstutlar 2017 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT CHILD CARE INDUSTRY AND CAREER COUNCIL INC
Molly Davies 2017 President $0 $0 JAMES E ROBISON FOUNDATION
Annabel Davies Moynihan 2017 Vice Preside $0 $0 JAMES E ROBISON FOUNDATION

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.