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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
William H Wiltshire 2017 Secretary $0 $0 ANN A MERGENS FOUNDATION INC
Jim Reardon 2017 Vice Chair $0 $0 PROJECT HARMONY INC
Claudia Eisinger Candido 2017 Secretary $0 $0 PROJECT HARMONY INC
Julie Todd 2015 Board Member $0 $0 RUTLAND REGION EDUCATION CORPORATION
Mark Mayer 2016 Member $0 $0 VERMONTS CAMP TAKUMTA
Leslie Mccrorey Wells 2016 Trustee $0 $0 MERCY CONNECTIONS INC
Pam Vandeursen 2017 Chair $0 $0 THE INITIATIVE A VERMONT WALDORF HIGH SCHOOL
Deb Matthews 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT COUNCIL OF SPECIAL EDUCATION ADMINISTRATORS INC
Gary Horsman 2015 Trustee $0 $0 NORMAN WILLIAMS PUBLIC LIBRARY
Cathy Jamieson 2016 Director $0 $0 NORTHEAST RECYCLING COUNCIL
Julie Regimbal Term Ended 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT COUNCIL OF SPECIAL EDUCATION ADMINISTRATORS INC
Edith Phyfe Walsh 2014 Trustee $0 $0 WOODSTOCK HISTORY CENTER INC
Ryan Torres 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 THE BELLWETHER SCHOOL AND FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC
Paul Sackevich 2017 Director $0 $0 OUR PLACE DROP-IN CENTER
Brenda Farkas 2017 Director $0 $0 OUR PLACE DROP-IN CENTER
Larry Clark 2017 Vice President $0 $0 OUR PLACE DROP-IN CENTER
Sarah Campbell 2017 President $0 $0 OUR PLACE DROP-IN CENTER
Chris Llyod 2015 Trustee $0 $0 NORMAN WILLIAMS PUBLIC LIBRARY
Todd Moore 2016 Director $0 $0 NORTHEAST RECYCLING COUNCIL
Mike Oconnell 2016 Director (Past) $0 $0 NORTHEAST RECYCLING COUNCIL
Amy Stewart 2017 Director $0 $0 STOWE LAND TRUST
Beth Bradford 2017 Director $0 $0 STOWE LAND TRUST
Walter Looney 2017 Director $0 $0 STOWE LAND TRUST
Courtney Lowe 2015 Trustee $0 $0 NORMAN WILLIAMS PUBLIC LIBRARY
Aj Horvath 2017 President $0 $0 OUR COURT

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.