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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Cathy Laclair 2015 Member $0 $0 MILTON COMMUNITY YOUTH COALITION INC
David Woodward 2015 Finance Officer $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Robert Reynolds Sr 2015 Service Officer $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Leonard Cross 2015 Sergeant At Arm $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Kenneth Coonradt 2015 Chaplain $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Rick Davis 2015 President $0 $0 THE PERMANENT FUND FOR VERMONTS CHILDREN INC
Tom Macleay 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 THE PERMANENT FUND FOR VERMONTS CHILDREN INC
Tom Johnson 2015 Vice President $0 $0 THE PERMANENT FUND FOR VERMONTS CHILDREN INC
Cheryl Mitchell 2015 Director $0 $0 THE PERMANENT FUND FOR VERMONTS CHILDREN INC
Cornelius Hogan 2015 Director $0 $0 THE PERMANENT FUND FOR VERMONTS CHILDREN INC
Arthur Schmidt 2015 Director $0 $0 THE PERMANENT FUND FOR VERMONTS CHILDREN INC
Jennifer Williams 2015 Director $0 $0 THE PERMANENT FUND FOR VERMONTS CHILDREN INC
Breena Holmes 2015 Director $0 $0 THE PERMANENT FUND FOR VERMONTS CHILDREN INC
Jon Cheney 2015 Vice Preside $0 $0 LAMOILLE COUNTY SNO PACKERS INC
Ray Lamare 2015 Trail Master $0 $0 LAMOILLE COUNTY SNO PACKERS INC
Dale Allen 2015 Member Chair $0 $0 LAMOILLE COUNTY SNO PACKERS INC
Thomas Mccormick 2015 President $0 $0 FRANCIS FOUNDATION INC
Maureen Garofano 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 FRANCIS FOUNDATION INC
C Kirk Clarke 2015 Director $0 $0 FRANCIS FOUNDATION INC
Beth Jones 2015 President $0 $0 GRACE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL CORPORATION
Andrew Strickland 2015 Director $0 $0 GRACE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL CORPORATION
Brian Degen 2015 President/Treasurer $0 $0 OPEN HEARTH COMMUNITY CENTER
Annemarie Furey 2015 Secretary $0 $0 OPEN HEARTH COMMUNITY CENTER
Tim Jones 2015 Director $0 $0 OPEN HEARTH COMMUNITY CENTER
Annmarie Harmon 2015 Waitsfield Skateboard Park $0 $0 OPEN HEARTH COMMUNITY CENTER

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.