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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Amy Crank 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT FARM-TO-SCHOOL INC
Colleen Moore De Ortiz 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT FARM-TO-SCHOOL INC
Mary Parent 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT FARM-TO-SCHOOL INC
Merlin Backus 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT FARM-TO-SCHOOL INC
Steve Wright 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT FARM-TO-SCHOOL INC
Steve Breault 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT FARM-TO-SCHOOL INC
Dan Delabruere 2015 Chairman $0 $0 VERMONT BEEF INDUSTRY COUNCIL INC
Charles Mason 2015 Vice Chairman $0 $0 VERMONT BEEF INDUSTRY COUNCIL INC
Bryan White 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT BEEF INDUSTRY COUNCIL INC
Larry Allen 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT BEEF INDUSTRY COUNCIL INC
Joe Amenheiser 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT BEEF INDUSTRY COUNCIL INC
Jenn Colby 2015 Ex Officer $0 $0 VERMONT BEEF INDUSTRY COUNCIL INC
Nelson Lamson 2015 Secretary/Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT BEEF INDUSTRY COUNCIL INC
W Dean Merrill 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT BEEF INDUSTRY COUNCIL INC
Jack Parent 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT BEEF INDUSTRY COUNCIL INC
Jackie Folsom 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT BEEF INDUSTRY COUNCIL INC
Jane Clifford 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT BEEF INDUSTRY COUNCIL INC
Mike Mcnamara 2015 President $0 $0 CHITTENDEN COMMUNITY TELEVISION
Jane Knodell 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 CHITTENDEN COMMUNITY TELEVISION
Erin Malone 2015 Director $0 $0 CHITTENDEN COMMUNITY TELEVISION
Jason Pelletier 2015 Director $0 $0 CHITTENDEN COMMUNITY TELEVISION
Tess Gauthier 2015 Director $0 $0 CHITTENDEN COMMUNITY TELEVISION
Theodore Zdeblick 2016 Secretary $0 $0 NEW ENGLAND MASTERS STUDY CLUB
Frank D'Auria 2016 President $0 $0 NEW ENGLAND MASTERS STUDY CLUB
Stephen H Root 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 NEW ENGLAND MASTERS STUDY CLUB

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.