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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Victoria St John 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT COMMUNITY ACCESS MEDIA
Ashley Michelle Fowler 2015 Board Chair $0 $0 VERMONT COMMUNITY ACCESS MEDIA
Orly Yadin 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT COMMUNITY ACCESS MEDIA
Dylan Kelley 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT COMMUNITY ACCESS MEDIA
Matt Bushlow 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT COMMUNITY ACCESS MEDIA
Matthew Cropp 2015 Vice Chair $0 $0 VERMONT COMMUNITY ACCESS MEDIA
Ruthann Sullivan 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 RIVER ROCK SCHOOL INC
Jen Pia-Needleman 2015 Board $0 $0 RIVER ROCK SCHOOL INC
Leslie Roth 2015 Board $0 $0 RIVER ROCK SCHOOL INC
John Medose 2015 Board $0 $0 RIVER ROCK SCHOOL INC
Elly Wood 2015 Board Chair $0 $0 RIVER ROCK SCHOOL INC
Julie Robichaux 2015 Secretary $0 $0 RIVER ROCK SCHOOL INC
Polly Wheeler 2015 Board $0 $0 RIVER ROCK SCHOOL INC
Dustin Byerly 2015 Board $0 $0 RIVER ROCK SCHOOL INC
Samara Mays 2015 Board $0 $0 RIVER ROCK SCHOOL INC
Theodore Lane Phd 2015 Director $0 $0 CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY TRAINING & RESEARCH INC
Harold Leitenberg Phd 2015 Director $0 $0 CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY TRAINING & RESEARCH INC
Karen Fondacaro Phd 2015 Director $0 $0 CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY TRAINING & RESEARCH INC
Annie Murray-Close Phd 2015 Director $0 $0 CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY TRAINING & RESEARCH INC
Thayer Tomlinson 2015 Chair Person $0 $0 FAMILY GARDEN
Sara Donahue 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 FAMILY GARDEN
Sara Shine 2015 Secretary $0 $0 FAMILY GARDEN
Steve Luke 2015 2Nd Vice Comm. $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Tom Stone 2015 Historian $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Roger Livingston 2015 1St Vice Comm. $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION

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.