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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Jill Lord 2015 Director $0 $0 WINDSOR IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION
Gina Wenz 2015 Director $0 $0 WINDSOR IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION
Cindy Landeryou 2015 Director $0 $0 WINDSOR IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION
Jeffrey White 2015 Director $0 $0 WINDSOR IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION
Robert Manning 2015 Chairman $0 $0 FAIREWINDS ENERGY EDUCATION CORP
Chiho Kaneko 2015 Director $0 $0 FAIREWINDS ENERGY EDUCATION CORP
Arnie Gundersen 2015 Director $0 $0 FAIREWINDS ENERGY EDUCATION CORP
Thomas Pound 2015 Finance Dir $0 $0 FAIREWINDS ENERGY EDUCATION CORP
Elisabeth Degraaf 2015 Treas. $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL CIRCLE INC
Cindy Seligmann 2015 Board Vp $0 $0 NORTH BRANCH SCHOOL
Michael Seligmann 2015 Board Secretary $0 $0 NORTH BRANCH SCHOOL
Mike Hussey 2015 Board Member $0 $0 NORTH BRANCH SCHOOL
Kim Callahan 2015 Board Member $0 $0 NORTH BRANCH SCHOOL
Tim Stetson 2015 President $0 $0 LUC GATES FOUNDATION INC
Jay Nichols 2015 Vice-Preside $0 $0 LUC GATES FOUNDATION INC
Jason Bapp 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 LUC GATES FOUNDATION INC
Gabriel Desautels 2015 Secretary $0 $0 LUC GATES FOUNDATION INC
Marie Kilbride 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 GRAND ISLE RESCUE INC
Deborah Benson 2015 Chief Of Service $0 $0 GRAND ISLE RESCUE INC
Eileen Blow 2015 Vice-President $0 $0 GRAND ISLE RESCUE INC
Donald Cota 2015 Secretary $0 $0 GRAND ISLE RESCUE INC
Kori Cladwell 2014 Director $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN ISLANDS PARENT CHILD CENTER
Stephanie Luce 2015 Secretary $0 $0 KOPKIND COLONY
Peter Meyer 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 KOPKIND COLONY
Dottie Morris 2015 Director $0 $0 KOPKIND COLONY

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.