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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Jane Lemasurier 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 THE CHILD CARE CENTER IN NORWICH INC
Julia Rabig 2017 Scretary/Co-President $0 $0 THE CHILD CARE CENTER IN NORWICH INC
Marisa Donovan 2017 Co-President $0 $0 THE CHILD CARE CENTER IN NORWICH INC
Maryfrances Mccourt 2015 Former Director & Vp $0 $108,946 OLD CRESCENT INSURANCE COMPANY
Chaunce Benedict 2017 Former Director $0 $0 VERMONT YOUTH ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC
Amy Caldwell 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT YOUTH ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC
Magdalena Naylor 2017 Former Director $0 $0 VERMONT YOUTH ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC
Neil Schumacher 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT YOUTH ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC
Liz Gregorek 2015 Board Member $0 $0 RUTLAND REGION EDUCATION CORPORATION
Michael Chater 2017 Chairman $0 $0 INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Christopher Bond 2017 Director $0 $0 INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Heather Higdon 2017 Director $0 $0 INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Steven Karcher 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Elaine J Lussier 2017 Director $0 $1,000 INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Krista Digregorio 2017 Director $0 $0 INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Robert Shiel 2017 Director $0 $0 INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Deborah Dunlap Shenk 2017 Vice Chair $0 $0 INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Michael Hartman 2017 Secretary $0 $0 INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Donna Curtin 2017 Director $0 $0 INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Christie Harris 2015 Board Member $0 $0 RUTLAND REGION EDUCATION CORPORATION
Heidi Stumpff 2016 Trustee $0 $0 MERCY CONNECTIONS INC
Anne Marinello 2015 Vice President $0 $0 NORMAN WILLIAMS PUBLIC LIBRARY
Lyle Jepson 2015 Board Member $0 $0 RUTLAND REGION EDUCATION CORPORATION
Michael Keogh 2015 Board Member $0 $0 RUTLAND REGION EDUCATION CORPORATION
Sarah Roberts 2015 Secretary $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.