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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Paul Smith 2015 Sec. & Treas. $0 $0 VERMONT LEARNING COLLABORATIVE INC
Dexter Rowe 2015 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN UNITED WAY
Dawne Smith 2015 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN UNITED WAY
Margaret Pinello-White 2015 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN UNITED WAY
Annette Young 2015 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN UNITED WAY
Carol Ellison 2015 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN UNITED WAY
Karen Geraghty 2015 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN UNITED WAY
Stacy Pinardi 2015 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN UNITED WAY
Richard Theken 2015 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN UNITED WAY
Linda Winters 2015 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN UNITED WAY
Jessalyn Gustin 2015 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN UNITED WAY
Lauren Mcelroy Merrit 2015 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN UNITED WAY
William Badger 2015 Trustee $0 $0 DOWNTOWN SCHOOL
Sunny Breen 2015 Trustee $0 $0 DOWNTOWN SCHOOL
Kate Hesser 2015 Vice President $0 $0 THETFORD ACADEMY
Cameron Cudhea 2015 President $0 $0 THETFORD ACADEMY
Jonathan Stableford 2015 Trustee $0 $0 THETFORD ACADEMY
Giovanni Bosco 2015 Trustee $0 $0 THETFORD ACADEMY
Zoe Hack Keller 2015 Trustee $0 $0 THETFORD ACADEMY
Robert Christensen 2015 Trustee $0 $0 THETFORD ACADEMY
Shannon Darrah 2015 Thetford Representative $0 $0 THETFORD ACADEMY
Jim Wilson 2015 Trustee $0 $0 THETFORD ACADEMY
Andy Welch 2015 Trustee $0 $0 THETFORD ACADEMY
Carrie Wells 2015 Trustee $0 $0 THETFORD ACADEMY
Therese Linehan 2015 Trustee $0 $0 THETFORD ACADEMY

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.