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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
John James 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 SHELBURNE NURSERY SCHOOL
Jennifer Cairns 2014 Secretary $0 $0 SHELBURNE NURSERY SCHOOL
Jorden Blucher 2014 Fundraiser $0 $0 SHELBURNE NURSERY SCHOOL
Judy Douglas 2014 Vice President $0 $0 GREEN MTN PUG RESCUE
Heather Smith 2014 Trustee $0 $0 GREEN MTN PUG RESCUE
Philip Douglas 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 GREEN MTN PUG RESCUE
Jennifer Sugai 2014 Trustee $0 $0 GREEN MTN PUG RESCUE
Lorraine Paine 2014 Secretary $0 $0 GREEN MTN PUG RESCUE
Gloria Lamorey 2014 Trustee $0 $0 GREEN MTN PUG RESCUE
Deb Heleba 2014 Board Member $0 $0 NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT
Andrew Knafel 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT
Ross Thurber 2014 Board Member $0 $0 NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT
Kate Turcotte 2014 Board Member $0 $0 NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT
Mara Hearst 2014 Board Member $0 $0 NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT
Seth Gardner 2014 Board Member $0 $0 NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT
David Marchant 2014 Board Member $0 $0 NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT
Steve Paddock 2014 Board Member $0 $0 NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT
Tom Stone 2014 Historian $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Shelly Forest 2014 Director $0 $0 FAR POST SOCCER CLUB INC
David Woodward 2014 Finance Officer $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Robert Reynolds Sr 2014 Service Officer $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Leonard Cross 2014 Sergeant At Arm $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Sindi Parker 2014 President/Treas $0 $0 ALMOST HOME DOG RESCUE AND REHAB INC
Donald Blanchette 2014 Vice President $0 $0 ALMOST HOME DOG RESCUE AND REHAB INC
Melanie Slocum 2014 Secretary $0 $0 ALMOST HOME DOG RESCUE AND REHAB 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.