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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Joseph Goodrich 2015 Overseer/Vp $0 $0 VERMONT STATE GRANGE INC
Lyle Poirier 2016 Director $0 $0 CAREPARTNERS ADULT DAY CENTER INC
Rev Lynn A Burgess Mdiv Bcc 2014 Board $0 $0 VERMONT ETHICS NETWORK INC
Kendall Holden 2015 Exec Committee $0 $0 VERMONT STATE GRANGE INC
Deborah Ploof 2015 Exec Committee $0 $0 VERMONT STATE GRANGE INC
Errol Briggs 2015 Exec Committee $0 $0 VERMONT STATE GRANGE INC
Elizabeth Lowry 2015 Exec Committee $0 $0 VERMONT STATE GRANGE INC
Dawn Andrews 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT PUBLIC RADIO
Marsha Fonteyn 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT PUBLIC RADIO
Elizabeth Glenshaw 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT PUBLIC RADIO
Nicole Ravlin 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT PUBLIC RADIO
Ted Adler 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT PUBLIC RADIO
Scott Mcardle 2015 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT PUBLIC RADIO
Bob Young 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT PUBLIC RADIO
Andrea Rogers 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT PUBLIC RADIO
Stan Fishkin 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT PUBLIC RADIO
Wayne Granquist 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT PUBLIC RADIO
Steven Swayne 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT PUBLIC RADIO
Michael Metz 2015 Director $0 $0 GENERATOR INC
Denise Shekerjian 2015 Secretary $0 $0 GENERATOR INC
Ken Howell 2015 Director $0 $0 GENERATOR INC
Dan Harvey 2015 President $0 $0 GENERATOR INC
Doug Webster 2015 Director $0 $0 GENERATOR INC
Doreen Kraft 2015 Director $0 $0 GENERATOR INC
John Cohn 2015 Director $0 $0 GENERATOR 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.