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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Eleanor Wilner 2016 Vice President $0 $0 FRIENDS OF WRITERS INC
Daniel Tobin 2016 Vice President $0 $0 FRIENDS OF WRITERS INC
Elizabeth T Gray Jr 2016 Secretary $0 $0 FRIENDS OF WRITERS INC
Abigail Wender 2016 Vice President $0 $0 FRIENDS OF WRITERS INC
William Doyle 2016 Board Member $0 $0 ONION RIVER COMMUNITY ACCESS MEDIA INC
John Bloch 2016 President $0 $0 ONION RIVER COMMUNITY ACCESS MEDIA INC
Rachel Feldman 2016 Board Member $0 $0 ONION RIVER COMMUNITY ACCESS MEDIA INC
Michael Doyle 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 ONION RIVER COMMUNITY ACCESS MEDIA INC
Winston Sadoo 2016 Board Member $0 $0 ONION RIVER COMMUNITY ACCESS MEDIA INC
Micki Lisman 2014 Vice President $0 $0 COMMUNITY FOOD CUPBOARD INC
Jim West 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 COMMUNITY FOOD CUPBOARD INC
Dave Creighton 2014 Board Member $0 $0 FAITH IN ACTION NORTHERNCOMMUNITIES PARTNERSHIP
Erma Perry 2014 Board Member $0 $0 FAITH IN ACTION NORTHERNCOMMUNITIES PARTNERSHIP
Gus Hagman 2014 Board Member $0 $0 FAITH IN ACTION NORTHERNCOMMUNITIES PARTNERSHIP
Jeff Thompson 2014 Board Member $0 $0 FAITH IN ACTION NORTHERNCOMMUNITIES PARTNERSHIP
Sandra Noyes 2014 Secretary $0 $0 FAITH IN ACTION NORTHERNCOMMUNITIES PARTNERSHIP
Frank Rothe 2016 Executive Director $0 $0 CONNECT WITH KIDS INC
Rick Knight 2016 President $0 $0 CONNECT WITH KIDS INC
Curt Geiger 2016 Vice Pres./Treasurer $0 $0 CONNECT WITH KIDS INC
Chuck Perkins 2016 Secretary $0 $0 CONNECT WITH KIDS INC
David Dence 2014 President $0 $0 VERDMONT OUTING CLUB
David Naaktgeboren 2014 Vice President $0 $0 VERDMONT OUTING CLUB
Dan Zwynenburg 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 VERDMONT OUTING CLUB
Elizabeth Schwartz 2014 President $0 $0 WAITSFIELD ELEMENTARY PTA
David Riegel 2016 Executive Dir. $0 $0 VERMONT FOUNDATION OF RECOVERY 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.