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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Gerald A Shanker 2014 Director $0 $0 WELLS MOUNTAIN INITIATIVE INC
Christopher Lutz 2014 Director $0 $0 WELLS MOUNTAIN INITIATIVE INC
Kenneth Forester 2014 Director $0 $0 WELLS MOUNTAIN INITIATIVE INC
Brent Edmonds 2014 Director $0 $0 WELLS MOUNTAIN INITIATIVE INC
Denis Salamone 2014 Director $0 $0 WELLS MOUNTAIN INITIATIVE INC
Thomas M Wells 2014 Director/President & Treas $0 $0 WELLS MOUNTAIN INITIATIVE INC
Jordyn Wells 2014 Director/Vice President $0 $0 WELLS MOUNTAIN INITIATIVE INC
Carol Wells 2014 Director/Secretary $0 $0 WELLS MOUNTAIN INITIATIVE INC
Patrick Standen 2014 President $0 $0 NORTHEAST DISABLED ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC
Katherine Barwin 2014 Secretary $0 $0 NORTHEAST DISABLED ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC
Nathan Besio 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 NORTHEAST DISABLED ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC
Paul Hansen 2014 Board Member $0 $0 NORTHEAST DISABLED ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC
Brad Stephenson 2014 Board Member $0 $0 NORTHEAST DISABLED ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC
Gretchen Besio 2014 Board Member $0 $0 NORTHEAST DISABLED ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC
Charles Pitts 2014 Board Member $0 $0 NORTHEAST DISABLED ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC
Allen Chip Evans 2014 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT ADULT LEARNING INC
George Brisson 2014 Board Chair $0 $0 VERMONT ADULT LEARNING INC
Nancy Burzon 2014 Board Vice Chair $0 $0 VERMONT ADULT LEARNING INC
Jim Coutts 2014 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT ADULT LEARNING INC
Richard Lloyd 2014 Director $0 $0 ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT INDEPENDENT COLLEGES
David Rees Evans 2014 Director $0 $0 ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT INDEPENDENT COLLEGES
Donald Laackman 2014 Exec Committee $0 $0 ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT INDEPENDENT COLLEGES
Laurie Patton 2014 Director $0 $0 ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT INDEPENDENT COLLEGES
Richard Schneider 2014 Exec Committee $0 $0 ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT INDEPENDENT COLLEGES
T Gregory Dewey 2014 Director $0 $0 ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT INDEPENDENT COLLEGES

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.