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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Mark Brooks 2016 Director $0 $0 HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY
Barbara Cory 2016 Director $0 $0 HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY
Whitney Durivage 2016 Director $0 $0 HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY
Kim Kropf 2016 Director $0 $0 HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY
Lisa Quinlan 2016 Director $0 $0 HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY
Kyla Sternlieb 2016 Director $0 $0 HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY
Alice Waxler 2016 Director $0 $0 HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY
Phil Schuman 2016 Director $0 $0 HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY
Leslie Sullivan 2016 Director $0 $0 HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY
Loretta Walters 2016 Director $0 $0 HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY
Paula Howes 2016 President $0 $0 NORWICH HOUSING CORP
Creigh Moffatt 2016 Vice President $0 $0 NORWICH HOUSING CORP
Penny Mcconnel 2016 Director $0 $0 NORWICH HOUSING CORP
Onita Connington 2016 Director $0 $0 NORWICH HOUSING CORP
Elizabeth Aldrich 2016 Director $0 $0 NORWICH HOUSING CORP
Susan Spademan 2016 Secretary $0 $0 NORWICH HOUSING CORP
Patricia Greene 2016 Director $0 $0 NORWICH HOUSING CORP
Amanda Long 2014 Vp Public Re $0 $0 KAPPA DELTA SORORITY
Cathy White 2016 Director $0 $0 LIPPITT CLUB INC
Tom Robertson 2016 Director $0 $0 LIPPITT CLUB INC
Lorelei Wyman 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 LIPPITT CLUB INC
Claire Wagner 2016 President $0 $0 LIPPITT CLUB INC
Gail Robertson 2016 Secretary $0 $0 LIPPITT CLUB INC
Ellen Bryant Voigt 2016 President/Treasuer $0 $0 FRIENDS OF WRITERS INC
Martha Rhodes 2016 Vice President $0 $0 FRIENDS OF WRITERS 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.