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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Richard Walker 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Ken Hance 2016 Inner Guard $0 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Nancy Weaver Jones 2016 Director $0 $0 BROWN LEDGE FOUNDATION INC
Tom Pastore 2016 Director $0 $0 BROWN LEDGE FOUNDATION INC
Dr Mary Barton 2016 Director $0 $0 BROWN LEDGE FOUNDATION INC
Carol Blanton 2016 Director $0 $0 BROWN LEDGE FOUNDATION INC
Tara Francis 2016 Director $0 $0 BROWN LEDGE FOUNDATION INC
Katy Robbins Ritz 2016 Director $0 $0 BROWN LEDGE FOUNDATION INC
Kris Stone 2016 Director $0 $0 BROWN LEDGE FOUNDATION INC
Robyn Sonis 2016 President $0 $0 BROWN LEDGE FOUNDATION INC
Ginny Sharp 2016 Secretary $0 $0 BROWN LEDGE FOUNDATION INC
Denise Main 2016 Member $0 $0 HILAND HALL SCHOOL
Amy Reichardt 2016 Member $0 $0 HILAND HALL SCHOOL
Meg Cottam 2016 Ex-Officio $0 $0 HILAND HALL SCHOOL
Laura Maguire-Jones 2016 Secretary $0 $0 HILAND HALL SCHOOL
Elizabeth Ganger 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 HILAND HALL SCHOOL
Andrew Knafel 2016 Chairman $0 $0 HILAND HALL SCHOOL
Jane Sobel 2016 Vice Chair $0 $0 HILAND HALL SCHOOL
Chip Evans 2016 Director $0 $0 RESOURCE A NONPROFIT COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE INC
Charles Ginsburg 2016 Director $0 $0 RESOURCE A NONPROFIT COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE INC
Thomas Melloni 2016 Director $0 $0 RESOURCE A NONPROFIT COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE INC
Brent Lisai 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BELLOWS FALLS LODGE NO 527 LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE
Keith Tyrrell 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BELLOWS FALLS LODGE NO 527 LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE
Karl Smith 2016 Governor $0 $0 BELLOWS FALLS LODGE NO 527 LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE
Paul Collins 2016 Jr Past Govnr $0 $0 BELLOWS FALLS LODGE NO 527 LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE

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.