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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Jesus Hernandez 2016 Director $0 $0 AMERICAS MEDIA INITIATIVE NFP
Catherine Murphy 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 AMERICAS MEDIA INITIATIVE NFP
Deb Ellis 2016 Director $0 $0 AMERICAS MEDIA INITIATIVE NFP
John Draper 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 HOMESHARE VERMONT INC
Zachary Manchester 2016 Secretary $0 $0 HOMESHARE VERMONT INC
Kate Baldwin 2016 Director $0 $0 HOMESHARE VERMONT INC
Peter Cameron 2016 Director $0 $0 HOMESHARE VERMONT INC
Cathie Merrihew 2016 Director $0 $0 HOMESHARE VERMONT INC
Carol Miller 2016 Director $0 $0 HOMESHARE VERMONT INC
Radetta Nemscosky 2016 Director $0 $0 HOMESHARE VERMONT INC
Adam Tesler 2016 President $0 $0 INDEPENDENT TELEVISION FESTIVALINCORPORATED
Steve Basilone 2016 Cfo $0 $0 INDEPENDENT TELEVISION FESTIVALINCORPORATED
Philip Gilpin Jr 2016 Executive Director $0 $0 INDEPENDENT TELEVISION FESTIVALINCORPORATED
Jennifer Starnes Tesler 2016 Secretary $0 $0 INDEPENDENT TELEVISION FESTIVALINCORPORATED
Harold I Pratt 2016 Clerk $0 $0 WATERFORD SPRINGS CORP
Roy Kohnke 2016 Assistant Clerk $0 $0 WATERFORD SPRINGS CORP
Douglas C Borchard 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 WATERFORD SPRINGS CORP
Robin Ishak 2016 Trustee $0 $0 WATERFORD SPRINGS CORP
Melody Maurer 2016 Trustee $0 $0 WATERFORD SPRINGS CORP
Deed Mccollum 2016 Trustee $0 $0 WATERFORD SPRINGS CORP
Steve Smith 2016 President $0 $0 WATERFORD SPRINGS CORP
Lynn Troy 2016 Trustee $0 $0 WATERFORD SPRINGS CORP
James Meigs 2016 Trustee $0 $0 WATERFORD SPRINGS CORP
Don Wallace 2016 Trustee $0 $0 WATERFORD SPRINGS CORP
Frederick Brown 2016 Trustee $0 $0 WATERFORD SPRINGS CORP

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.