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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Will Halby 2015 President $0 $0 CHESHIRE PROJECT
Roberta Posada 2015 Board Member $0 $0 CHESHIRE PROJECT
Kent Henderson 2015 Chair $0 $0 FRIENDS OF NORTHERN LAKE CHAMPLAIN INC
Pat Howrigan 2015 Director $0 $0 FRIENDS OF NORTHERN LAKE CHAMPLAIN INC
Shannon Lennox 2015 Director $0 $0 FRIENDS OF NORTHERN LAKE CHAMPLAIN INC
David Leslie-Borthwick 2015 Director $0 $0 FRIENDS OF NORTHERN LAKE CHAMPLAIN INC
Bill Maguns 2015 Director $0 $0 FRIENDS OF NORTHERN LAKE CHAMPLAIN INC
Patty Rainville 2015 Director $0 $0 FRIENDS OF NORTHERN LAKE CHAMPLAIN INC
Vanessa Kittell 2015 Director $0 $0 FRIENDS OF NORTHERN LAKE CHAMPLAIN INC
Richard Romagnoli 2015 Dir/President $0 $0 POTOMAC THEATRE PROJECT INC
Cheryl Faraone 2015 Sec/Treas $0 $0 POTOMAC THEATRE PROJECT INC
James A Petosa 2015 Vice President $0 $0 POTOMAC THEATRE PROJECT INC
Stephen J Knerly Jr Esq 2015 Director $0 $0 THE F B STEARNS SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION
Anthony C Ambrose 2015 Director $0 $0 THE F B STEARNS SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION
Lang Durfee 2015 Director $0 $0 THE F B STEARNS SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION
Timothy Dixon 2015 Director $0 $0 THE F B STEARNS SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION
B Patterson Barnes 2015 Director $0 $0 THE F B STEARNS SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION
Chris Miller 2015 Chair $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CARSHARE
David Gurtman 2015 Co-Vice Chair $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CARSHARE
Bryan Davis 2015 Co-Vice Chair $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CARSHARE
Andrea Todd 2015 Secretary $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CARSHARE
Bob Wannop 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CARSHARE
Andrew Savage 2015 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CARSHARE
Mary Sullivan 2015 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CARSHARE
Jessica Oski 2015 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CARSHARE

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.