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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Donna Steinberg 2015 Trustee $0 $0 THETFORD ACADEMY
Rebecca Lovejoy 2015 Secretary $0 $0 SECOND WIND FOUNDATION
Sherry Calkins 2015 Trustee $0 $0 SECOND WIND FOUNDATION
Kate Merritt 2015 Chair $0 $0 SECOND WIND FOUNDATION
Sally Thursby 2015 Trustee $0 $0 SECOND WIND FOUNDATION
Ed Van Dorn 2015 Trustee $0 $0 SECOND WIND FOUNDATION
Cheri Allen 2015 President $0 $0 MT SNOW REGION CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Eric Trites 2015 Vice Pres $0 $0 MT SNOW REGION CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Richard Caplan 2015 Immediate Pa $0 $0 MT SNOW REGION CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Mike Chase 2015 Director $0 $0 MT SNOW REGION CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Jesse Boyd 2015 Director $0 $0 MT SNOW REGION CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Renee Galle 2015 Director $0 $0 MT SNOW REGION CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Brendan Mcgrail 2015 Director $0 $0 MT SNOW REGION CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Edward R Houston 2015 President $0 $0 CRAFTSBURY CHAMBER PLAYERS INC
Winston W Hart 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 CRAFTSBURY CHAMBER PLAYERS INC
John Mccormack 2015 Vice-President $0 $0 CRAFTSBURY CHAMBER PLAYERS INC
Sarah Dopp 2015 Director $0 $0 CRAFTSBURY CHAMBER PLAYERS INC
Natalie Pat Hall 2015 Director $0 $0 CRAFTSBURY CHAMBER PLAYERS INC
Hailey Gentile 2015 Director $0 $0 CRAFTSBURY CHAMBER PLAYERS INC
Matthew Derr 2015 Director $0 $0 CRAFTSBURY CHAMBER PLAYERS INC
Ed Demulder 2015 Prsident $0 $0 VERMONT YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION
John Stokes 2015 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION
Giles Willey 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION
Brenda Christie 2015 Secretary $0 $0 LAMOILLE FAMILY CENTER INC
Janelle Germaine 2015 Director $0 $0 LAMOILLE FAMILY CENTER INC

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.