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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Peter Chehayl 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 STERLING COLLEGE
Catherine Donnelly 2015 Vice Chair $0 $0 STERLING COLLEGE
Thaddeus Guldbrandsen 2015 Trustee $0 $0 STERLING COLLEGE
Marion Burros 2015 Trustee $0 $0 STERLING COLLEGE
Wendy Koenig 2015 Secretary $0 $0 STERLING COLLEGE
Robert Shelton Jd 2015 Trustee $0 $0 STERLING COLLEGE
Jon Larsen 2015 Chair $0 $0 STERLING COLLEGE
Kenneth Gibbons 2015 Trustee $0 $0 STERLING COLLEGE
Richard Detweilder 2015 Trustee $0 $0 STERLING COLLEGE
Eric Becker 2015 Trustee $0 $0 STERLING COLLEGE
Judy Geer 2015 Trustee $0 $0 STERLING COLLEGE
Allison Hooper 2015 Trustee $0 $0 STERLING COLLEGE
Julie Wormser 2015 Trustee $0 $0 STERLING COLLEGE
Deborah Alfond 2015 Trustee $0 $0 STERLING COLLEGE
Margo Baldwin 2015 Trustee $0 $0 STERLING COLLEGE
Quint Eastman 2016 President $0 $0 LORDS WAY CHURCH OF CHRIST INC
William Eastman 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 LORDS WAY CHURCH OF CHRIST INC
Marion Harlow 2016 Secretary $0 $0 LORDS WAY CHURCH OF CHRIST INC
Loren Peck Dds 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT STATE DENTAL SOCIETY
Nick Richardson 2015 Chair $0 $0 VERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND INC
Will Stevens 2015 Vice Chair $0 $0 VERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND INC
Cairn Cross 2015 Secretary/Tr $0 $0 VERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND INC
Andrea Cohen 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND INC
Sara Gilbert 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND INC
Nate Hausman 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND 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.