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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
John Stokes 2015 Hon Trustee $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL INC
Tj Kingsbury 2015 Trustee $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL INC
Leslie Reynolds 2015 Secretary $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL INC
Ashley Cadwell 2015 Hon Trustee $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL INC
Bud Canaday 2015 Hon Trustee $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL INC
Warrin Meyers 2015 Hon Trustee $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL INC
Bill Moore 2015 Hon Trustee $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL INC
George Olmsted 2015 Hon Trustee $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL INC
Larry Parker 2015 Ex Hon Trustee $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL INC
Lu Putnam 2015 Hon Trustee $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL INC
Dave Schneider 2015 Hon Trustee $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL INC
John Schultz 2015 Hon Trustee $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL INC
Donna Stout 2015 Hon Trustee $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL INC
Vivi Valentine 2015 Hon Trustee $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL INC
Al Holbart 2015 Trustee $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL INC
Fredric Leopold 2015 Trustee $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL INC
Peter Rapelye 2015 Trustee $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL INC
Beverly Ricker 2015 Chair $0 $0 WHITE RIVER COUNCIL ON AGING
Phyllis Bettis 2015 Board Member $0 $0 WHITE RIVER COUNCIL ON AGING
Judy Winam 2015 Vice-Chair $0 $0 WHITE RIVER COUNCIL ON AGING
Kathy Reynolds 2015 Secretary $0 $0 WHITE RIVER COUNCIL ON AGING
Rev Margaret Stoddard 2015 Board Member $0 $0 WHITE RIVER COUNCIL ON AGING
Diane Romano 2015 Board Member $0 $0 WHITE RIVER COUNCIL ON AGING
Marieke Sperry 2015 Board Member $0 $0 WHITE RIVER COUNCIL ON AGING
Mary Booth-Benton 2015 Board Member $0 $0 WHITE RIVER COUNCIL ON AGING

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.