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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Steve Conant 2015 Director $0 $0 GENERATOR INC
Owen Milne 2015 Director $0 $0 GENERATOR INC
Dawn Grenn 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 GENERATOR INC
James Lawler 2016 President $0 $0 DISABLED SPORTS USA
Ms Mary Ellen Moriarty 2014 Vice President $0 $45,535 COLLEGE INSURANCE COMPANY
Betsy Hurley 2016 Director $0 $0 DISABLED SPORTS USA
Pamela Tetreault 2015 Treasurer; F $0 $0 ORLEANS COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION
Bob Montminy 2015 Director $0 $0 ORLEANS COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION
Doug Conley 2015 Director $0 $0 ORLEANS COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION
George Churchill 2015 Director $0 $0 ORLEANS COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION
Leo Shatney 2015 Director $0 $0 ORLEANS COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION
Lori Before 2015 Director $0 $0 ORLEANS COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION
Lori Royer 2015 Director $0 $0 ORLEANS COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION
Mark Hinton 2015 Director $0 $0 ORLEANS COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION
Pete May 2015 Director $0 $0 ORLEANS COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION
Rene Patenaude 2015 Director $0 $0 ORLEANS COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION
Dan Perron 2015 Farm Bureau $0 $0 ORLEANS COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION
Lindy Birch 2015 Farm Bureau $0 $0 ORLEANS COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION
Donna Thomas 2016 President $0 $0 VERMONT HAITI PROJECT
Kimball Butler 2016 Vice President $0 $0 VERMONT HAITI PROJECT
Augusta Wilson 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT HAITI PROJECT
Tim Singer 2016 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT HAITI PROJECT
Bonnie Rubenstein 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT HAITI PROJECT
Susan M Fortier Rsm 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT HAITI PROJECT
Mary Gyori 2015 Board Member $0 $0 BLACK MOUNTAIN ASSISTED FAMILY LIVING 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.